Actors Quotes
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A stage actor has to be 10% aware of the audience as he's performing.
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I don't think Indian actors are good. A couple of them are, like Anupam Kher, but not many are there like him in the industry. There are thousand of actors and actresses in the industry, but you can count on hand how many of them are really good; the rest of them are just pretty faces.
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As far as a job, actors get treated a lot better than writers so I definitely prefer acting. A writer has to make his own coffee and an actor has somebody bring them coffee.
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I get on with actors, and when I'm doing a theatre show, it's great being with them all the time. But we're all alike, and it's much nicer being with people who are different.
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Movie actors earn their living and learn their craft through listening and reacting.
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As in a theatre, the eyes of men, after a well-graced actor leaves the stage, are idly bent on him that enters next.
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My approach to the work is the same, whether I had the lead or a supporting role. I consider myself a character actor in the true sense of the word. Unless I'm doing my autobiography, I'm playing a character.
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When you're an actor, seeing yourself for the first time, you spend all your time just watching yourself and hating yourself and picking your performance apart. You say, "I look horrible. I should quit."
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I do hear about these actors who go on vacations to Bali for three months, and their agents are banging their heads against a wall trying to find their clients - but that's not me. I'm working hard every day. Enjoy your vacation.
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I live in New York, where people don't tend to go up to actors as much.
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Any actor who tells you that he makes choices, absolutely, is wrong. You find work and work finds you.
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I love the work, I love being in front of the camera and working with actors and directors and creating something. For me, it's like learning everyday.
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If you're lucky enough to work with great actors and creative people, they're always just going to be who they are, so I don't think there's a difference between the Brits and the Americans.
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People would be surprised to know that I've gone to regular school my whole life and I don't have one friend who is an actor!
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How many impressionist painters painted the same damned thing? How many actors have played the same part in renditions of a play or dancers do the same dances.
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As an actor to watch an audience of people howl together in a single mind as a result of work you've done together with friends is a privilege.
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I'm scared of actors with a scheme.
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God is not a supporting actor in our life movie. We exist for his purposes, not the other way around.
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One thing about being a stand-up is it's a one-man show. You gotta do everything. You're the producer, writer, director, and the actor. You just gotta be out there and perform and give your all. It's such an honest form of art that it just taught me so much, and it kind of prepared me for manhood at an early age.
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You cannot assume that somebody can define you. You cannot assume that the other person is right. No matter how they say it to you, no matter with how much force they say, ‘Oh my god, you’ll never make it; oh my god, you’re not bright; you could never do this’—that’s one person. I can’t tell you how many people told me I would never be an actor.
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When you're doing the same scene over and over, all day long, you need to keep your levels up for your own performance and for the other actors.
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When you're on set and you professionally listen to what the other actors have to say, then the emotion is naturally evoked.
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It is very important for an actor or actress to look around at everything and everyone and never forget about real life.
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I was lucky, life provided a chance to work with great directors and actors.
