Actors Quotes
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I believe in the time when we shall be able to create works of art in the Theatre without the use of the written play, without the use of actors.
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Maybe that's my lot in life as an actor, to be the guy who gets crapped on everywhere he goes. Oh God...
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What I find sometimes that is tricky is if actors are using too much of their own life in a picture, in a scene, they get locked into a particular way to play the scene, and it lacks an immediacy.
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The actor has the advantage - or the liability - of knowing, "It's going to be my face up there on the frickin' screen, so I better keep my wits about me. Nobody's going to care that I was bad because I was not happy. They're only going to know I'm bad."
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I love acting, truly my favorite people are actors.
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I don't even think of myself as particularly good looking, and not at all a typical kind of Hollywood leading man sort of actor.
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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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John Hughes had such a huge impact on filmmaking.
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If you do a film with a studio, agents step in, they start saying, 'My actor has to get this amount of money', and it becomes about deals.
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Actors cannot work against each other. It's totally impossible.
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I think a lot of actors are overly concerned about being well liked in the parts they play.
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In discussing the process with the actors, I made it clear to them that they could improvise but that the sum total of their improvisation needed to impart certain plot points, and schematic material.
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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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I started a production company out of necessity, the need for great narratives for actors of color.
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My goal was never to be famous, but to be a consistently working actor.
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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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I never understood actors who could just wait around.
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I'd like to think I'm an actor who leaves things at work.
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I'm not one of those actors who's very good at having a list of roles that I want to play someday - which is bad, because I really need to do it. I have people in theaters ask me what I want to do and I don't have an answer!
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The notion that acting is simply about intuitively responding to situations the way you feel couldn't be farther away from how I ask actors to work.
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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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There is a strange pecking order among actors. Theatre actors look down on film actors, who look down on TV actors. Thank God for reality shows, or we wouldn't have anybody to look down on.
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It is joyous for any actor to enter other grounds of consciousness and thought. At the end of the day, we just all like dressing up and playing around.
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I've found a lot of the thinking in America is that a lot of people become actors to become famous. At least from my experience, I have a dozen or so British friends who are actors, and if you look at their body of work, and they'll go do theatre, and they'll go do this and this. They work, and they're always honing and trying to be better.
