Actor Quotes
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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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I have been very lucky for most of my adult life to be working as an actor.
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It takes a lot of courage as an actor to take time off for family. But family is everything.
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"A good director is one that lets you improv," that's ridiculous. There's some actors who should not be improving and there are some scripts that should not be touched. I think it's just a case by case basis.
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Being an actor is about having the courage to follow your instincts, and also having the discipline and dedication to sacrifice the things in your life that you need to sacrifice to get the best out of yourself artistically.
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It's all about whatever enriches you. If you decide to go the domestic route and get married and all those things, it makes you a better actor.
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The lead actor, along with the director, plays a big role in what the vibe will be on set, and that's a huge responsibility.
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I lived with this tremendous fear of failure because my father was a playwright and a director, and I think he did a couple of things as a child as an actor as well, and he... he failed, basically.
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Oh, I like going down the rabbit hole. You know, that's kind of my job. When you play Macbeth, you gotta dive down that one. The trick is figuring out how to do it with love and a sense of humor so you can pop back out again. But, kind of the actor's job is to go down the rabbit hole.
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Any passionate actor, if he is spoon-fed, will deliver.
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If you play a gay role, it sticks more than it does if an actor were to play a murderer or a psychopath.
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I think that an actor is more likely to be forgiven in the public's eye than an actress.
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When you're an actor and you walk into a theatre where your movie is playing, you're kinda proud. "Look at my skill!"
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I don't know if I have any real aspirations to be an actor. It was just something I was asked to do in sort of a friend way. And I thought, Why not?
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My ideal would be to hop both sides of the Atlantic to work, as I'm sure every actor would.
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Whatever it is that you are doing as an actor, if it frightens you, if you're scared of it, you need to do it.
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The function of the actor is to make the audience imagine for the moment that real things are happening to real people.
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It is very essential as an actor to be a perfectionist and have a knack for doing different roles over a period of time to keep their fans entertained.
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I've been very lucky to have had the opportunity to play a diverse cast of characters in the short time I've been a voice actor.
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I was very conscious of the actor; watched what he did.
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Seriously, I would go in a second. I'd be the first actor in space and I'd love to do it.
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When you're an actor or any kind of artist, you use your life as something to draw from in every experience.
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Being an actor helps me direct a little bit, when I do that, which I haven't been able to do that much, but I plan to in the future. There are a lot of reasons for that, but certainly because I feel like you know how to talk to actors, and you know what they need from you if you've been one yourself.
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Never equate yourself with whatever success may be and how fleeting that is. The only thing you can do every day is become a better actor. That's the only thing I have control over.
