Actors Quotes
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Unfortunately, I feel as actors we have to fight for the right to really go in as many directions as possible.
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I like Edward G. Robinson - he started as a character actor and became a lead, which is probably why I like him.
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We use improv in all kinds of fun ways. Sometimes it's to invent or discover new things, sometimes it's to weird out the other actors, and sometimes it's to create a sense of fun, to find new things inside the scripted lines.
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We actors, we're a fragile bunch, and yet we need to be strong because 90% of our lives is rejection.
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You get better as an actor over time if you're growing. Like singers.
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The father-son thing, that's a separate thing. This film [Forsaken] was not about that. This was a film about two actors wanting to try and tell a story... and taking advantage of the fact that we looked like a father and son.
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To see great actors bring it all to life us exhilerating.
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To save the Theatre, the Theatre must be destroyed, and actors and actresses all die of the Plague ... they make art impossible.
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I've been working as an actress since I was very young, and I know a lot of people who are actors who don't have to deal with having a persona... You know, if you look up the word persona, it isn't even real. The whole meaning of the word is that it's made up, and it's like I didn't even get to make up my own. It can be annoying.
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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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There are actors who make no decisions about how to play something until they're in the moment, looking into their scene partner's eyes. So they're completely available for whatever happens. And those are actors who tend to avoid getting into patterns.
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The idea of being a professional actor never occurred to anybody, including myself, for a long time.
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You know what I would like to do: make a film with actors standing in empty space so that the spectator would have to imagine the background of the characters.
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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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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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People assume actors are born liars, but I'd argue the actor's job is to tell the truth. And I've realised I'm not a good liar.
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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 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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I don't watch rushes. My whole thing is to try to stay in the moment with the other actor, and to let it all hang. I'm not sure I'm right on that, though.
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One of the great things about the 'Iron Man' franchise is that they employ fascinating actors who don't necessarily do action movies. Before 'Iron Man' you didn't associate Robert Downey, Jr. and Gwyneth Paltrow with those kinds of films. There's an emphasis on repartee and wit.
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I love working with actors. That's what the set really is, for me. It's my time with the actors.
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The first actor I ever saw was The Lone Ranger. I thought: "That's what I want to do."
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I think what my hope is is that the only downside of having a steady job on television is, I think for all actors, there's a piece, there's some adrenaline, and part of the love of the job is not knowing what's coming next, and the variety.
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When actors give their input, it can be very ego-driven, and directors are scared of that.
