Actors Quotes
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I think the unemployment rate for actors is pretty much the same in Sydney, London and New York. In all three cities, there are more actors than there are jobs. But I do think that there are far more acting opportunities in London and New York than in Sydney, where there are approximately seven actors that you see over and over again in every play.
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I'll tell you what I probably would prefer to happen less and less: actors that I know and respect in shampoo ads. Or modeling.
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Movie actors earn their living and learn their craft through listening and reacting.
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The director's job is to know what emotional statement he wants a character to convey in his scene or his line, and to exercise taste and judgment in helping the actor give his best possible performance.
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I don’t like writing for comedians. I like writing for actors. The best comedians are the best actors.
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I know as an actor there is a certain liberation auditioning for a role that has no beauty requirements.
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As a director, my job is to protect. I protect scripts, actors, cameramen, designers.
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When most actors finally get to L.A., I think they expect to be the next Will Smith or Denzel Washington and that's not the case.
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I also want the chance to work with some of the best actors in the business, because that's where you can learn so much by just being on a set and getting a feel for how they approach their role and how they work with you
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As an actor, I'll play anything.
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I have a passion for words. I love words. And I'm just learning and developing my skills for words. I do books and I do journalism and plays. I have a broad palette. I don't have a great eye for direction. I love working with actors and I work very well with them because I appreciate what they bring to the table. I'd never say never, of course, but I look at it and don't really fancy it. I want to try and master the word side of it first.
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It's no fun for an actor to keep repeating what you did before. It's always changing. I'm changing. The target keeps moving. That's the beauty of it.
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I'd like to think I'm an actor who leaves things at work.
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Work is good when people are responsible, and in low-budget movies a lot of the actors don't want to be there. They're there to build a resume.
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I feel that I have grown so much as an actor being on 'Homeland'.
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Everybody works in a different way, and I've worked with actors that have no training whatsoever who are phenomenal.
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There was no actually stock footage in Medium Cool. I wrote the script. I wrote the riots. And I integrated the actors in the film in the park during the demonstrations. But nowhere was it like we had stock footage and then later, in editing, integrated it into the film. It was all done at the time.
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It takes great skill to tell a compelling story in under 60 seconds. These five directors have mastered the format, using their talent, craft and imagination to provide us with some of the most innovative filmmaking out there today.
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It made me proud to know I'd join a long gallery of actors covered in blood in movies.
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As an actor, you try to put a little bit of yourself in everything you do.
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It was always my intention to direct. I went to film school. And then I wanted to know how to work with actors, so I went to acting school. And then by the end of that, I caught the bug.
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I'm a Method actor. I spent years training for the drinking and carousing I had to do in this film.
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Don't watch people's individual performances. Watch the energy that's being passed between them, and then you'll see if the scene is really working or if the actors are really doing their job. If they're playing with the energy that's between them, they're not just acting in their own little bubble.
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I don't know if child actors are necessarily more screwed up than most people.
