Actors Quotes
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Those familiar with our Musical Theatre Workshops productions will notice this is a very large cast. With only 10 days of rehearsal, these 20 actors will have their work cut out for them. It's definitely a labor of love.
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All you have to do to be a camera actor is tell the truth.
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If you want to protect yourself as an actor, always work with good people
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Giving yourself over to the fine line of a human-like droid means that sometimes you make choices that don't make you feel good, as an actor, and you have to learn to embrace that. No actor will tell you that that's a good place to be.
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An actors most important responsibility is to know lines well.
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Every actor will tell you it's so much more fun to play the bad guy because usually those characters are more complex and more broad and more interesting, and have more sides to them.
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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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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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The play is done; the curtain drops, Slow falling to the prompter's bell A moment yet the actor stops And looks around to say farewell.
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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 went to Queen's University Belfast and stayed nine months, then I ran away to be an actor.
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I put steam on the table by being an actor. That is how I live. The longer I live, the more expensive it becomes. So I do my work. And I can't be immensely picky. How many beautiful scripts come in one's lifetime? I have had more than anybody, practically.
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Honestly, I look at the project and I look at the people attached and I look at the director. If it's a role that I feel will help me, as an actor, then I'll definitely take it.
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It's hard to find actors that don't feel contemporary when you put them in a period piece.
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I think that all actors find they go down and then they come back up if you work on your craft. They come back up to the top and then they go back down and they come back up and they go back down.
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What impresses me is the young actors with terrific talent arriving on the scene. They'd have blown us all away in the old days. Guys like Brad Pitt.
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I'm like this mercenary actor going from show to show - people love to hire me, but then don't want me around much.
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People order clothes out of a catalogue, put it on an actor and everything is generic.
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When you start out as an actor, you read a script thinking of it at its best. But that's not usually the case in general, and usually what you have to do is you have to read a script and think of it at its worst. You read it going, "OK, how bad could this be?" first and foremost. You cannot make a good film out of a bad script. You can make a bad film out of a good script, but you can't make a good film out of a bad script.
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The shooting of the movie is the truth part and the editing of the movie is the lying part, the deceit part
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I try to do the same thing when I'm with young actors who are new and unsure. I try to do the same thing for them that I saw Laurence Fishburne and Angela Dasset do for all of us on Boyz n the Hood.
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The costume the actors wear and if they're in stylized makeup and wigs in a live-action movie let's say, in a big costume drama, even though it does give them a sense of great ambience and environment and they kind of feel like they're in a great court, or if they feel like they're in the old west, or if they feel like they're being chased by hobbits or dinosaurs, it all comes down to the actors looking each other in the eye.
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I'm a journeyman actor, and I don't ever want to forget that. With romantic-lead dreams.
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I think it's very hard to direct foreign language actors, but Carl Rinsch found a great way. A special super visional way.
