Actor Quotes
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In between, I go broke because I seem to do movies where you're not paid a lot as an actor.
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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'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'm a people's actor, not a critics' actor, and I always have been.
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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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As an actor, my No. 1 focus was to be on the same page with the writer, director, and producers.
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If you were a kid actor, if you had any plans of being an actor as an adult, you were really barking up the wrong tree.
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I still act. It's in my blood. I'll always be an actor.
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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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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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It was very natural for me to want to disappear into dark theater, I am really very shy. That is something that people never seem to fully grasp because, when you are an actor, you are meant to be an exhibitionist.
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I'm not a director that's about precision and control and perfection, I'm about creating an atmosphere that's organic and interesting and then letting people loose, and for that there's no greater actor or performer than children. Animals are maybe a close runner-up.
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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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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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There is something pleasurable for an actor to produce something and not be in it.
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...as an actor there`s nothing better than a great moody moment to play with nothing to say. It`s so much easier to do because you can really get inside your head.
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I've played some gangster roles, but that's obviously not me. When you're an Italian-American New York actor, it's just an easy way to get cast.
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An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument.
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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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For some time, I thought being a producer would be a more fulfilling career than being an actor. But then I went to a conference in Cannes with 300 other producers, all desperately chasing finance for their projects... and realized being an actor wasn't so bad after all!
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As an actor, the thing I want to do to an audience is always be ahead of them and always be surprising in the work without deviating from the writer's intention.
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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 think that Mos Def is the best actor, but when you talk about rappers in films, I don't really think the quality of the acting is most important because most rappers are put in movies because of the personality and people want to see that.
