Actors Quotes
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It's rare that you get to work with actors, female or not, where you all get along. Just because of the nature of humanity.
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I realized that being an actor was something I never owned up to, in a weird way. I would be a hostess or a waitress or a house restorer before I would consider myself an actor, because I never thought I was good enough.
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The beautiful thing about it is that no two directors or actors work the same way. You also learn not to be afraid of discussion and conflict.
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I never thought I actually could be an actor. I was always pretty shy and quiet.
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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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Being a working actor, you're going to do a Spelling show. It's hard not to.
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As an actor, I would call it a role where you get to stretch out a bit.
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Women still, when they have breast cancer, go to work; they still lead their lives. They have to. I just did what I was supposed to do. I didn't want to exploit it or be too "actory" about it, if that makes any sense. That's also why I didn't shave my head; I feel like you have to earn that. I applaud other actors who do that and I am not ripping on them, but to me, that's a badge of honor if you're fighting this disease.
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There's no such thing as good voices. Because there's no such thing as bad voices. There are only good actors and bad actors.
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At the end of the day, what actors really want to do is act a lot and not wait around in the trailer.
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The way an actor is trained doesn't ultimately have much bearing on my work. I'm interested in the actor as artist.
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Of course, when you work with actors and when you work on a script everything that you know about the human experience can't possibly go in.
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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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I was never a struggling actor, for which I feel very blessed.
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Actually I want to scare away method actors because it's a pain. It's like, 'Come on, what are you doing? It's not real. What are you doing? Oh, you're really brooding. Okay, good. Go to your trailer. I'll see you in an hour.'
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The truth is James Cameron can do every other job. I'm talking about every single department, from art direction to props to wardrobe to cameras, he knows more than everyone doing the job. But he can't act. And therefore he is in thrall of actors.
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My parents didn't want me to be an actor. They didn't think I could take the rejection, and I have to say they were probably right.
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I think a lot of actors, especially actors with a theater background, have a musical ear. A lot of actors just want to be musicians anyway, and a lot of musicians want to be actors.
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You're basically on set to help the production. You're helping the actors make it make sense, or maybe you wrote something that doesn't work in the production sense. Most of it is coming up with jokes.
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Dog movies nowadays are not what dog movies were 50 or even 10 years ago. For one thing, the dogs have become better actors.
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Condemn the fault and not the actor of it?
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I wouldn't say I'm a method actor. I do research when I feel I don't have enough experience for the part I'm playing.
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I'm a very physical actor. I use everything - toes, teeth, ears, everything. I don't simply mean physical in the sense of movement and vigour. I find myself remembering the shape of a scene by how I'm standing, what I'm doing.
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Actors have to stay optimistic. The moment we start thinking otherwise, we're dead.
