Actor Quotes
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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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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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Hardly any actor objects to press. It's a question of it being done in the way they like to see it done, meaning to get down to the serious interview what the profession is so we can reach out to the people to help them get along.
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It is not a question of who is the better actor.
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I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.
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As an actor you don't control the end result. Because you're a director, you get to control the end result. I think for us, we really have to show up and participate and give. And then let go.
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I'm identified as a New York actor, I sound like I'm from New York, and I couldn't be more proud of it.
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The real actor - like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.
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It's a very odd thing with Hollywood, where you do stand-up, you're good at it, then they go, "How would you like to be a horrible actor?" Then you say, "All right, that sounds good. I'll do that."
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I don't know one actor that became an actor for healthy reasons.
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Really I'm just an actor. The only difference between me and those cats in Hollywood is that I write my own script.
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An actor only has his own understanding and experience to work with.
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I always thought the leading actor should be the best supporting actor, because you're the only person that can help every other actor on the set.
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An actor needs to be not remotely anywhere close to in control, and a filmmaker has to be totally in control.
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As a character actor, I've learned that you have to watch yourself because nobody else is watching. Nobody is concerned with you.
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I think if you're an actor you kind of have to be willing to look stupid.
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There is a lot of struggle in being an actor; you need so much emotional strength, no matter what level of stardom you have, that it's nice to have something steady.
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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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I'm an actor, and I want to play flawed characters, and I'm a writer that wants to write flawed characters, trying to let something out and hoping people relate through that or have fun experiencing the story.
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I never did improv professionally, but that was certainly in my training as an actor. I like it. Actually, when I did theater, I used to have a partner, and that was the way we used to write a lot of our sketches, through improvisation. So it's something I feel comfortable with.
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A lot of really good actors are able to go straight from life to their work. They don't treat it as something that's an unattainable, weird thing that they have to aspire to and reach for in a scene.
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I probably became an actor because of my vivid imagination, and doing voice-over really sort of takes me back to that.
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I think it helps, as an actor, to never know when you're going to get that next script and you're done.
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I have a really dry sense of humor. I don't think it's funny when people wink at the camera. That's more of an actor thing, just committing to whatever the thing is.
