Actor Quotes
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Take it from a director: if you get an actor that Sandy Meisner has trained, you've been blessed.
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If anything, as a general rule, the cheaper the movie the more creative the experience, generally speaking. Its not to denigrate expensive movies. I dont want to seem biting the hands that feed me, but with big movies, especially with a lot of effects, the role of the actor is somewhat diminished.
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Well, I do lie for a living. I'm an actor.
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Uta Hagen is our greatest living actor; she is, moreover, interested and mystified by the presence of talent and its workings; her third gift is a passion to communicate the mysteries of the craft to which she has given her life. There are almost no American actors uninfluenced by her.
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A fool cannot be an actor, though an actor may act a fool's part.
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I like being able to marry the actor and the technician inside of me. It's really fulfilling. It exercises all of my creative muscles.
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I'm an actor - it's not brain surgery. If I do my job right, people won't ask for their money back.
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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.
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I always go back and do theater. I love it. It keeps an actor improving in a way, it sort of keeps your craft alive, if that makes sense.
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One of the great things about my job is I get to do all of these things that I may not experience had I not been an actor.
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If I have to wear a hat as a producer to do that, then I'm willing to do that. An actor's, producer's and director's point-of-view is all the same to me, as long as the story's being told.
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I consider myself a method singer, not a method actor. I applied method acting to singing.
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I think the more you do as an actor, the more facility you have to switch on and off.
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I would like, in the long term, to be recognized as a writer-director-actor.
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I do the same thing for myself (as an actor) that I do for others.
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I became an actor because I love solving problems. I'm a big crossword puzzle person. I love doing research. One of the reasons I became Jewish is because I love text study.
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The challenge of a revival is how to bring something fresh. The reward is the opportunity to add different flourishes. You're dealing with different actors, designers and a different time.
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Changing writing styles is like an actor taking on a different part.
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It's funny, when you become an actor and you're successful, they don't want to talk about acting any more. 'Hey let's talk about that stuff you were fired from.'
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The only ambition I ever had going into and committing to wanting to be an actor was to live my life.
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I am an extremely selfless but, at the same time, supremely confident actor.
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I was an anguished little girl with just one wish: to become an actor. I debuted in live theater at 14 with Dario Niccodemi's 'La Nemica.'
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One of the most empowering things about being a self-employed actor is also one of the hardest things; I get to set my own goals.
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I'm not an actor; I'm a judge.
