Actors Quotes
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Michael Bates was a very funny actor; he'd served in India, could speak Urdu, and had great comic timing.
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I think actors make the mistake of finding their little niche in the business and once they try to do something a little darker, boom, they get slapped across the face for it, so they go back to what they did before.
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Becoming an actor? If it's not a calling, don't do it. It's too hard.
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I love stage actors. The pool of world class actors that have done theater [is big], there's a higher opportunity of grabbing somebody from that pool.
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There is some sadness for me now about acting because it used to be that there was a reverence for actors.
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You have a lot of stages as an actor.
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Mostly I've just worked with actors and actresses that are fun and easy to talk to and had nothing but great experiences.
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With any actor, rather than tips, I think when you enjoy working with somebody and you enjoy what they do, I think your reaction is partly to be doing what they're doing, so you're learning all the time, whether it be sub-consciously or whether it be just through the person you enjoy working with.
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About actors' lives... I'm not the person to ask. I don't live an actor's life and I really don't know. I probably read less about actors' lives than you all do. So, I'm in the dark about all of that, sorry.
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What's funny is that there's a lot of great Australian actors in American movies but you don't often hear them do their Australian, original accent.
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One of the reasons that the African American actors wanted to be a part of the show was because these people are talking to each other the way that African American people talk to each other, and they said that they didn't see that on TV.
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I think a movie is a media that is evoking feelings.
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That's why there's so much bad acting out there, because you could see actors watching themselves.
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As an actor, I like as much time with the material as possible and given the opportunity, time spent with the other actors in the scene. But that is a rare luxury in working in any TV series.
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When actresses play actresses, or actors play actors, they have to find another level.
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That's how I digest it, 'cause I can press the fast-forward button and I know that I'm gonna have to continue to be an actor, continue to make choices, continue to perform in a show every week.
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C'mon, we're actors. We love the attention. We love the applause. We sure don't like to be rejected.
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You risk working with this director, you risk making this movie, you risk working with another actor you don't know. It makes your heart beat faster. And it keeps you interested.
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There is this thing called Actors Access, which is run by the breakdown services. What they do is they put up casting notices that are available to everyone. Because there's thousands and thousands of actors and there are student films and grad student films and, sometimes, some small independent projects that are on there.
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An actor gives voice to the many multitudes that we all contain. That's why we love the movies, why we love TV shows: we watch different people portray an aspect of ourselves, maybe even one we don't like.
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As an actor, it's your job to find the way to play a character. I think you can latch on to some things that might have happened.
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Actors are superstitious about beggars, perhaps because we're largely in the same line.
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The actor side of me loves to get dressed up and I feel like Cinderella when I'm in diamonds.
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Actors are the only honest hypocrites.
