Actor Quotes
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I think every actor wants to be an FBI or cop at one point.
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I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.
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Whatever you want to do in the industry, do it on the smallest level at first. If you want to be a writer, write a screenplay in your house. If you want to be an actor, put on a one-man show. If you want to be a stand-up comedian, go to an open mic.
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I have realized that intensity is my unique point. I don't have to attempt it; it's innate. So, when every actor is seeking his individuality, I guess I have already found mine.
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They call David O. Russell the actor whisperer because he can get stuff out of actors that maybe some other directors can't.
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I love to sing. I also had a band during my college days in Saudi Arabia called Thousand Decibels. If not an actor, I would have become a singer. I am very passionate about work. I am a fitness freak: I go to gym before doing my shoot. I also do yoga.
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My favorite thing about being an actor is that I get to be so many different people in one lifetime. You sort of get to be all of these different characters.
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I consider myself a blue-collar actor, just chugging away.
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An actor can change himself to fit a part, whereas a personality has to change the part to fit himself. The personality has to say it his own way.
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The human condition is all about us pretending to be something sometimes that we're not. When you get into the core of people kind of stripping all of that away, that's for me, as an actor, always the most fun stuff to do.
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I started as an actor. I started directing because Steppenwolf needed another strong director.
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You can always tell an actor by the bored look in their eye whenever someone else is talking.
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We know the history of Hussein, and we know he is a bad actor, ... We know he's had weapons of mass destruction and used them against Iranians and used them against the Kurds in his own country, and he would use them against anybody else, too.
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The most fundamental important thing for me as an actor is maintaining a sense of play. It's so important.
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I am just an actor, but there are these other people who are really selfless. I come from a long line of nurses in my family, and they really do a thankless job.
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'Girls' feels very active and stirring a conversation and controversial, and you can't really ask for more as an actor.
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An Actor is an interpreter of other men's words, often a soul which wishes to reveal itself to the world but dare not, a craftsman, a bag of tricks, a vanity bag, a cool observer of mankind, a child and at his best a kind of unfrocked priest who, for an hour or two, can call on heaven and hell to mesmerize a group of innocents.
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I am not a method actor, though I studied for a year with Lee Strasburg.
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Theatre gives you wings as an actor.
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You won't hear me talk about my politics, you won't hear me talk about my vegetarianism, you won't hear me comment on the Iraq war. You'll only hear me talk about being gay and being an actor. I am just public on those two issues.
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I can't think of anything worse than trying to schmooze someone with the idea that you're an actor.
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I am an actor who doesn't believe in carrying an 'image' in the industry. I don't want to get trapped in an image.
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As an actor, I still don't really know exactly what I am doing most of the time.
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I used to be the best comic actor in my batch. Everyone knew that my comic timing was impeccable.