Actor Quotes
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A worldly actor is a better actor. It sounds pretentious, but I think having these experiences can translate back into your work.
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That's your job as the actor, to understand the human part of the character, to make it real.
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Being a film actor is very different from a theatre actor.
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There is something pleasurable for an actor to produce something and not be in it.
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I think... as an actor, you never want to overspeak about something because, frankly, you want people to be excited about it but still have relatively low expectations so that people will feel better about it.
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I'm an actor in that I just want to create roles and characters and play parts that people remember and like or dislike or hate.
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I've always been an actor. I've always approached all my comedy as an actor.
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The real actor - like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.
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I have Janicza solely to thank for my growth as an actor because she saw in me something that other people just weren't seeing, and she knew that I could go beyond the normal, funny 'make-em-ups' that I was doing on an improv stage.
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How many times, in any actor's life, do you get to be a part of something that has a legacy like Buffy? I think that's only fortunate. I don't see the negative.
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When I choose a role, I look for that spark that tells me it's going to work. Is the role fresh? What does it have for the actor in me? Those are the only things any actor should be concerned about, really.
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I didn't believe that I'd ever be lucky enough to be able to make a living as an actor.
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It is so interesting when you meet an actor in real life and they look completely different.
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An actor is most vulnerable at the lowest point of his career.
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I am an actor and this is holding the mirror up to nature, as it were.
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An actor can grow stale in a bad part. Actors grow stale, generally, because there's no demand on them.
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Some of the things I've been in are comedic, but I don't get considered for true comedies because I'm a 'dramatic' actor.
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Every director is always directing around the play. If you have an actor who really doesn't get the character well enough, you have to direct the play around that character. You have to make choices with that actor. If you have an actor that really doesn't get the role and has certain visions of the role, sometimes you have to direct around that actor.
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I'm pretty captivated by reality TV and I know that as an actor I probably shouldn't be saying that, but it's what I like to watch.
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When I work, I'm the actor. I'm going to do my job. I'm not going to direct the movie. If I wanted to direct it, I would direct it. I wanted J.J. Abrams to direct Mission: Impossible. I work with people that I respect. I expect them to do their jobs, and I will do mine. And I am there as a producer to help in any way, but no one makes a movie by themselves. It's a collaboration.
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Its such a process to get a show off the ground initially. And then, to already have a second season announced is a dream come true for any actor.
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I mean, the great thing about being an actor is you can investigate parts of your brain that might have otherwise gone dormant.
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There are the obstacles of your position as an actor, not being a commodity enough to be hired by the big directors for projects that have some kind of integrity, because the successful actors who've been in the game for a while want those roles. So there's more competition, so you have to work harder and be right for it.
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What I typically look for is something I haven’t done before; a new opportunity and a new actor muscle to flex. That’s always a huge attractive thing to me when I’m reading a script or a potential project.
