Actor Quotes
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I'm essentially a jobbing actor. If I'm out of work, I'll be the back end of a donkey.
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Failure is always present as an actor. I make my living by taking chances. If I'm not risking something, then I'm not doing my job, so I'm constantly failing. In fact, I'm trying to fail bigger. I try to focus on the positive, the moment, and try to realize where I'm at in an attempt to understand the failure.
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You couldn't escape the literary atmosphere in our home. I grew up as a Britisher. I played a protagonist of every nationality in stage adaptations of Shakespeare and Brecht. I graduated from Yale. When I moved to the U.S., I realized with some amount of surprise that I was seen as an ethnic actor.
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An actor is part illusionist, part artist, part ham.
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I want to become actor not because I want money and become more famous. No I don't want that. It is not that l want stardom, I want to contribute to good cinema.
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You learn early as an actor that creating your own material is the only way to have any control.
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I'm sure one reason I became an actor is my basic unwillingness to live one life.
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The first thing you should do with an actor is not sign a contract with him. Take him to dinner. And take him for a walk afterwards.
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An actor without an audience is rehearsing.
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As an actor, I look at scenes much differently than I would look at them as a director, and I never realized that until it actually happened.
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It's very difficult for me to speak about being an actor.
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I always hated the world "acting" - to say, "I'm an actor." It should be more like a believer.
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I always wanted to be an actor, even as a little kid. So I went to drama school in the late '60s at Carnegie Mellon.
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Remain true to yourself while practicing this business of being an actor. And it is a business.
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Shakespeare is one of the reasons I've stayed an actor. Sometimes I spend full days doing Shakespeare by myself, just for the joy of reading it, saying those words... I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
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Don Knotts won five Emmy Awards for Outstanding Performance in a Supporting Role by an Actor or Actress in a Series in Andy Griffith Show in 1961, 1962, 1963, 1966 and 1967.
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Any actor or actress that tells you that they don't watch their stuff is lying.
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For the longest time I have had so much belief and confidence in myself, which as an actor you need, because the entertainment industry is incredible competitive, brutal, and unpredictable just when you start to think you know what's going on.
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I consider myself as a director's actor, so I'm open to work with filmmakers from across the country and even abroad.
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I'm not interested in using my father's death as some touch point for why I've become an actor - it's grossly opportunistic.
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My acting experience has been a benefit. What I learned from directors is how to listen to and talk with actors. I know how they think and what they need.
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The lens is the actor's best critic... showing his mind more clearly than on the stage. You can get wonderful cooperation out of the lens if you are true, but God help you if you are not.
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I always set out to just work, as an actor, and try to do as many different things as I possibly could, and not be too selective or too careful. I think just working is fun.
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I think you get the most honest performances when an actor shows up to set with their lines memorized. That's a very important thing that a lot of people seem to forget.
