Actors Quotes
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For aspiring actors out there, I would say stay focused and don't let anyone pull you away from your goals. Shoot for the stars so that if you ever fall short you can land on the clouds.
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I feel like I've finally made it as an actor. I've been doing this for years and you don't always make a movie that everybody likes.
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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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What it is is that comedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write. Anyone can write, and then you leave it to special effects to make it look good. But comedy, you've got to do some writing.
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Hitchcock said he viewed actors as cattle.. but some were free range.
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You can meet lots of actors who are in their own world and do their own thing, and they have no idea what's going on and they don't know anyone's name around them.
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I'm very interested in directing actors - many directors direct cameras.
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Actors must practice restraint, else think what might happen in a love scene.
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You have no idea how fragile an actor's self-worth is.
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I think actors become jacks-of-all-trades and masters of none.
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Actors are a really funny bunch of people, especially the X-Men cast. They're super funny and super nice, and they like to go out and get drinks and dinner and hang out. It's an experience. It's a summer. It's like camp. Everybody gets together and hangs out.
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You're out there on a high wire without a net, and that's the way actors operate. They have to be fearless about how they work and they have to create a life for the audience in 90 minutes and make them believe.
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As an actor, you try to put a little bit of yourself in everything you do.
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Awards are meaningless for actors, unless they all play the same part.
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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've been on movies where I literally couldn't hear what the other actor was saying. It's very awkward.
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Let me be honest - I might do a franchise film like 'Golmaal' if it comes my way. Eventually, we are all in Mumbai to become bigger stars, not better actors.
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As an actor, I'll play anything.
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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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As an actor, you usually live your life with faith.
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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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The '80s were a time of technical wonder in filmmaking; unfortunately, some colleges didn't integrate their film and theater departments - so you had actors who were afraid of the camera, and directors who couldn't talk to the actors.
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I worked in script development, many years ago, and read a lot of scripts. Between that and the scripts I've read as an actor, and I'm a writer as well, I think I have a pretty good sense about whether the bones of a story are there and whether the structure is intact.
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The best thing for an actor to do is take your attention off of how you feel about it, and put it on striving to obtain a particular objective. The happy result is that it brings out all this unexpected stuff in yourself.
