Actor Quotes
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The basic skill of an actor is, in fact, empathy, and that's maybe not a skill, it's a disposition. I am an assistant storyteller. I enjoy feeling useful to a team effort. It's my way of finding a use for myself, a utility in this world.
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"You are the actor, and I understand we already had our sit down, you explained your concept, your view," so I said, "Okay, I'm in your hands." That means that if you've got to nudge me a little bit to the right I move to the right, just from the pressure, weight, but you won't have to touch me at all. You can come and go "Okay, you want me over here a little bit more," so no pressure on us at all that's easy to do.
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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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I like every single actor or actress in the world, because we never know what the conditions are like when they are working. I give everyone the benefit of the doubt and root for them like a psychotic sports fan.
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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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I still don't think I'm a good actor. The only reason I'm doing it is because I've got a lot of support behind me.
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To be a good actor you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules to strive for something new.
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I don't really view myself as an actor.
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In theatre, you learn the story is more important than the actor.
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As an actor, you're pretty much a hired gun. You are reading other people's words off of a page and doing what they want you to do.
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After a while, the person who knows the character best is you, the actor.
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You can be more creative in acting by bringing your character to life and bringing a piece of you that wasn't there before. You could have five different actors play one role, and all five of them would be so different because each person brings a different piece of them into it.
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I always wanted to be a character actor. I love watching movies where you don't recognize someone because they're so lost in the part.
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Often you see a famous actor who says they produced something, when all they did was claim to have an idea at a dinner party and make three phone calls.
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I think that of musicals - especially the big, splashy ones - require an actor that's also part cheerleader, too, and that's really tough to do if it's not something that really grabs you and your heart's not in it.
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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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As an actor, I never go back and look at my work, anyway. The satisfaction comes in the doing.
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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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You can't be an actor in a small town-you have to go to New York or L.A.
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One of the great bonuses of being a film actor is that I get to go to different places, meet inspiring people and learn different things. So all those details add up.
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I am a greedy, selfish actor, and for me, my role is important.
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The actor is not quite a human being-but then, who is?
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You can't plan your character arc - you have a vague idea, maybe, but I'm constantly surprised. Sometimes actors in films will play the ending of the movie, or even the middle, and you know where it's going - as an audience member you can read the actor.
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There is a need for aloneness... for an actor.
