Actors Quotes
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I enjoy being an actor largely; in part at least, because you get to walk a mile in another person's shoes, you get to see what their skin is like. The other good thing is you get to leave it.
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Actors do these really gross, gun-'em-down movies, and I always wonder why. They're not good movies. And it's like, "Why are you doing them? Aren't you rich enough?"
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I always say YCDA: you can do anything. If you want to be a successful actor, you have to believe in yourself more than anything else, and dont let anybody tell you that you cannot do it because you can.
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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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I would encourage you as a screenwriter to trust your story and don't make notes for the actors or don't make notes for the reader.
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I think if you're a competent actor with a good imagination, and if it's on the page, it makes your job a lot easier.
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The kind of acting that's wholly literary or cerebral is wrong. It's useless for me to have actors so much in their heads that they can't be organic.
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I was born a character actor.
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I never wanted to be an actor.
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I mean, I hate when actors talk about how hard their job is. It's ridiculous, because we have the best job in the world.
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I think the hardest thing about being an actor is between jobs when you don't know and wondering if you'll ever work again. It's kind of a crazy business.
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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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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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In my movies, there has been little to do in the way of animal rights. I have never worked in a movie with animals. No horse-riding, no trained dogs, lions, bears. A few actors, but what could I do? We had to have them.
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I like getting carried away by what is happening and then decide each scene based on the actors, the set and the light.
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There's an inherent responsibility actors feel when portraying something that actually exists in the world. It's arguably something that not all actors would agree on because this is a craft, but for me, it's the emotion of what a character is going through that makes the performance what it is. We have a responsibility to bring those emotions to light.
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I never thought I actually could be an actor. I was always pretty shy and quiet.
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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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I like some of the early silent films because I love to watch how actors had to play then. What would interest me today is to do a silent film.
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I love working with great actors.
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I resisted being an actor for some time.
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Very occasionally I hire an actor and get it wrong. The actor just doesn't trust the process or me as fully as I thought they would. In this case, you can be quite sure that if an actor is untrusting, it's got nothing to do with me or the process.
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Actors don't like to read what they're supposed to do.
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It's a phenomenon that I see with young actors - a lot of American speaking parts going to British actors.
