Actors Quotes
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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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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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It made me proud to know I'd join a long gallery of actors covered in blood in movies.
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There's a lot of actors that I admire because they can just switch one second into the character. Then, they go back to jokes, and then they're doing something really dramatic. I can't do that. I have to really focus.
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As much as Id love to be a successful actor, the thought of being recognised in the street is petrifying.
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I'm happiest when I'm acting, and I've dedicated my life to it. Still, as much as I love acting, at the end of the day, I want to be remembered as a great person, first, and as a great actor, second.
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Of course, people told me, 'Mikey, you will never be an actor. You don't have the look. You're ugly.'
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We have so many male superstars, but there are just a few female actors who have attained that status. It is not only because of the industry; it's in the society.
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In the meantime, I just have to create those realistic goals about the fact that I don't have a ton of options as an actor who's been on a science fiction show for 8 years.
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As an actor, doing animation is definitely on the list of most actors because it is such a freeing, fun, different experience than being on camera. There's just something different about it that's not more fun, but a different sort of fun.
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My work requires acting at its most committed - it demands actors of enormous resilience, but also intelligence and wit. It doesn't work for narcissistic or selfish actors.
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One of my favourite actors of all time, although he doesn't necessarily play villains, is Peter Lorre.
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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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I was trained as a dramatic actor. Im really excited to do some more dramatic stuff.
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Sometimes people come in as a director, and they just want the result, and they barely want that to tell you the truth. Sometimes directors barely talk to the actors; they are so focused on the cinematic elements of the movie, getting the shot and getting the lighting right or getting the CGI effects right and all of that, and they just trust that you are just going to do what you do.
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As actors, we have to be able to keep ourselves open to feel, and that's a life lesson I think many people don't get a chance to learn. In my personal life, I've learned to carry this lesson with me.
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You have no idea how fragile an actor's self-worth is.
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I did everything pretty cliche as an actor in New York. I read the trades, I sent out 'head shots.'
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Know what it is the emotional statement to convey, and use taste and judgement to help the actors give their best possible performance.
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Psychoanalysis. Almost went three times - almost. Then I decided what was peculiar about me was probably what made me successful. I've seen some very talented actors go into analysis and really lose it.
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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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The problem with television isn't the number of horizontal scanning lines. It's the lines of dialogue spoken by the actors.
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I think that the process of trying to become somebody else, and obviously the director/actor relationship in trying to do that, is such a weird, undefinable thing.
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You know, it's a wonderful thing. I have to say that some of the greatest actors I've ever worked with have been doing anime for years. It's not just because of the popularity, either.
