Actor Quotes
-
I can't imagine myself not being an actor.
-
Bogart was like Henry Fonda - proud and happy to be an actor.
-
As an actor, you're always playing different people, so you yourself are always kind of going through an identity crisis.
-
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.
-
The most complex challenge for an actor is the ability to give dimension to the story from the time that it happened, not from the present.
-
The heartbreak that it might not happen wasn't something that I wanted to face with any more weight. Then, when I got the call to go ahead I never thought for a second as I was approaching it who I would get - that would come later. Again, I think the idea was that I now had the rights to make the movie and I can start writing it but if I have to wait another 10 years before I find an actor that's right for it, I'd be very happy to do that.
-
In the story, I think as an actor you're just trying to fit into the world.
-
New York is a great place to be as an unrepresented actor because there are so many 'open auditions' that you can show up for without being submitted by an agent.
-
Confidence is the greatest gift for an actor.
-
For an actor, its great fun to play one of these hungry white sharks. Audiences love to hate them.
-
He's such a good actor and he loves the Groucho character so much he made a study of him.
-
As an actor, you always find your way. You have whatever preparation techniques you use, and you just go with the scene when you're on set. You can only plan so much when you're working, because things have to come naturally in the scene.
-
I'm a physical actor in that I start with a physical sketch of the character. I find it easier to find inspiration from the outside in. If I find the character's tensions and the way he carries himself or looks, that's going to affect how I talk. So that's how I start to create that person.
-
I am an extremely selfless but, at the same time, supremely confident actor.
-
I think being able to juggle time and mind space comes with the trajectory of being an actor.
-
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.
-
A really great actor, in a lucky performance, can transform himself or herself. I've seen actors do that. But often it's a mechanical transformation, which isn't as interesting, and you've got to be careful how you go about something like that, I think.
-
There's a great charm in theatre; I enjoyed doing it for twelve years and did lots of plays. At this chapter of my life, I am a cinema actor, and I would like to continue to be so, and at some point I would return to the theatre.
-
To be a good actor, you need to be able to emote with your body.
-
Theater really is an actor's medium: you're on stage with no director anymore, whereas in film very rarely do you get much rehearsal other than running through the scene very quickly. Then everyone comes in and shoots it.
-
I think the more you do as an actor, the more facility you have to switch on and off.
-
As a young actor, it's important to see how the greatest in the industry work... diva behavior is never it.
-
I think it's important for me as an actor that I say these are the issues I'm going to be committed to. One of them for me is women and children's health around the world and their rights;the other is ovarian cancer.
-
It wasn't my childhood fantasy to work with Truffaut or be in obscure films. I like Midnight Run better than I like The Bicycle Thief. It was films like Die Hard and Bladerunner that made me want to be an actor.
