Actor Quotes
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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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My advice to any actor who's playing, quote, unquote, "extra" to think of it more like Stanislavski did. It's not a small part. You are the lead in the movie, in your own movie.
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If you're an actor, go out and act.
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As an actor, doing animation is definitely on the list of most actors because it is such a freeing, fun, different experience than being on camera. There's just something different about it that's not more fun, but a different sort of fun.
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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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My husband, Steve Hamilton - an actor/producer and co-Director of the Southampton Playwriting Conference - and I had been working in the theatre in New York for many years.
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I was very conscious of the actor; watched what he did.
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The actor is too prone to exaggerate his powers; he wants to play Hamlet when his appearance is more suitable to King Lear.
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I don't think I'm that much different from any other working actor that's trying to make a living.
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My biggest fantasy as an actor is to be in situations that make me uncomfortable and force me out of my comfort zone.
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I thought I could never be the actor Dad was, so I avoided it for a while.
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For the actor, The Lee Strasberg Notes are an indispensable companion.
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As an actor, it's very interesting to make the audience love you while you are doing horrendous things.
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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 think that I've still not been successful at playing the role of the retired actor, and I'd like to work on that.
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As an actor, you don't want to know the beginning and end to your character's arc. It makes it more fun. You're not playing the end. You're playing it realistically. You don't know where this character is going to go and what's going to happen to him, which just makes it more interesting for the viewers to watch.
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Any actor who's onstage... at least this is what I do... I'm always using 120% on whatever the heck I'm doing. I have to make an impression with all the bursts of things I do in this show... taking the picture, shutting the door, opening the door... as long as I'm making people laugh at those moments, I feel like I'm accomplishing something.
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After a while, the person who knows the character best is you, the actor.
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My attitude as an actor, because I'm a stage actor, is whatever the director tells you to do, you try it. You don't resist what a director is giving you.
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As an actor, it's good to try to do new things, I think.
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As an actor playing the role, I am so happy with the stuff I am getting to do and the place I am getting to go.
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I've been working steadily as an actor since around 1998. I wasn't well known in the public, but I was a dependable working journeyman.
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I love the idea of longevity in this career. But producing is not about, "Let me do this because this might happen 20 years down the line." Sleepwalking wasn't a vehicle for me, it was a film that pushed the envelope. I want to produce good stories, versus creating a niche where I can look after myself as an actor.
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The worst thing for an actor is a director that gets on your nerves and says things that actually confuse you.
