Actor Quotes
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I think acting can be very frustrating, and there's no experience that doesn't make you a better actor.
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On being an actor ....nothing more than a worker in a service occupation . It's like being a waiter or a gas station attendant, but I'm waiting on 6 million people in a week if I'm lucky.
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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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Well, with each character that I play in my life as an actor, I try to figure out how to find the challenge.
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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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I think I'm still trying to find my feet as an actor. And I know it ain't brain surgery, but it confuses me and it comes between me and my sleep a lot.
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In theatre, you learn the story is more important than the actor.
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Supporting characters add depth to a story, and great actors leave their imprint with the audience.
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The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner.
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Yes, I can play younger than my age. But I can play characters older than I am, too. I'm not an actor who can just play the kid.
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I have to tell you, you can't have an ego when you're an actor. A lot of actors have them, but in reality most of those people are just sensitive artists dying for a hug and a compliment.
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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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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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Do you believe that the actor on the stage is really a villain? Let me ask you something else. If he isn't a villain, then is he a liar?
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I can make a better living as an actor than I can as a director. Though I certainly would prefer to be directing movies.
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An actor is like a piece of clay: you just keep moulding me. Even people who work with you every day want to put you in a little box.
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Confidence is the greatest gift for an actor.
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I guess I've always wanted to create my own stories, but writing was one of those things where I thought that I would never actually do it. I respected writers too much, and what they do, to think that I was one of them - and I still feel that way a lot of the time. I still feel uncomfortable calling myself a writer. I'm like, "No, I'm an actor who writes sometimes."
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The audience's reaction is the most rewarding thing for an actor, especially me.
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I am an extremely selfless but, at the same time, supremely confident actor.
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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.
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You're always having to live more to fuel something new. It's an obligation to yourself and to the audience. The personal baggage that comes with being a known actor just adds to that struggle.
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As an actor, you're never really in control of the product. I think the goal is to create what you want. And if you can get as close as you can get to the creation of something, it starts with development.
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I do the same thing for myself (as an actor) that I do for others.
