Actors Quotes
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I would always slip away to the cinema. I always found something absolutely extraordinary about the fact that these actors were always kind of kicking hard at some new dimension they were doing on film.
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To see great actors bring it all to life us exhilerating.
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As a young actor, I worked with Kevin McNally and have always thought him brilliant.
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There are two different kinds of actors. There are people who take it just so damn seriously. Then there are guys like me that just get up and love doing it.
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When I was in New York, I was making a living. We had a summer house and a car that I could put in a garage. That's something for a stage actor.
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I try to always be open to what the actors want to try. I don't storyboard and try to be intuitive and open on the day of filming.
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Every single time when you act in a film, and there's a different director, which of course as actors we're used to experiencing that's what we do, it's a different experience.
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Inhibition is something I notice in hamstrung actors all the time. They can be wonderful up to a point and then become very self-conscious.
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I was able to capture on film things the actors didn't even know they were doing.
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I'm not the writer who says, "You have to say it exactly as I wrote it," because you don't get good work. You want somebody who's going to bring something interesting to it and really create a character with you. You see that with certain actors.
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I started acting when I was 13 years old and I feel like I really admire actors who are these kind of amazing shape-changing people, that they almost can turn themselves into other people.
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Many actors want to play Hamlet and Macbeth. Ever since I became an actor, from the very beginning I just wanted to play a Shetland pony. I cannot explain why...
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All actors have their own unique path when it comes to the development of their training and careers.
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I'm a perfectionist, so doing a high quality, high caliber television show with great actors makes me feel like there's this whole world of television that I've never experienced.
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I didn't know the odds were so stacked against me. I went for TV shows and never got them. But I kept glued to the pursuit. I was the biggest fool in town, but ultimately I was the biggest fool in town with a job.
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I've laid out my economic plans. I want to grow the economy. That's why I have plans for jobs and raising incomes. I do want to go after bad actors on and off Wall Street, because I think companies that take money from federal, state, and local governments and then pick up and move should have to pay that back.
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Ideally I'd like to be working steadily as an actor: movies, a TV series, that sort of thing. I've been through a few different TV development cycles, and they didn't work out. When the time and project are right, it'll come together. Like I tell a lot of guys, it's not a race; there's no finish line.
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There are a lot of things that dancers can do that actors cannot and actors can do that dancers cannot.
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When you look at something that's so extraordinary, like a man who is traveling back in time to prevent JFK's assassination, for me as an actor, you're still trying to seed it in some sort of reality.
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Each of the actors is quite different, but they're all living in the same world.
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As an actor, you hope to find roles that are challenging to you as an artist. Then if you are truly blessed, you will find that it also carries a message that you can impart to your audience.
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Tom Cruise is one of the most successful actors of all time.
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My husband, who's the greatest actor in the world, can do anything. Look at what he did in The Critic and Oedipus. In every role he gets-he did this in Richard the Third-there's nothing he can't do, nothing. Just nothing.
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I have always wanted to do a book about actors because I think that the death of a character is a tremendously emotional experience.
