Actors Quotes
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If you're a movie actor, you're on your own - you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.
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If you're lucky, and not a lot of actors are these days, you get the chance to create a character
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I love working with great actors.
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I'm always curious about how actors cry on film.
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As an actor, I love working with directors. As much as I love working with other actors.
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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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Because of my background in theater and radio acting, I knew that I could make a living as an actor.
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I grew up in a family of strong women and I owe any capacity I have to understand women to my mother and big sister. They taught me to respect women in a way where I've always felt a strong emotional connection to women, which has also helped me in the way I approach my work as an actor.
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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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Let's be honest, any show will live or die based on how good the characters are, how good the actors are, how complicated the relationships are, how grounded they are and how much heart they have.
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The great actors, like Cary Grant, and the gentlemanliness that they portray in the movies is something that I try to keep in mind.
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There are a lot of actors that are more talented than me at Second City who quit it before they even got to a paying status. Weird luck. I had no other option.
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Big actors want to work in television because they see it as being new and different.
Nick Willing -
I've come to this conclusion: What makes a great actor is great need. A huge need of acting.
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I think actors' careers have highs and lows, and ups and downs. It just really all depends.
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I get a headache when films are too filled up with people. And I don't understand what's going on if there are too many extras walking around. This film was very comfortable for me, I want to see just the actors. This is how I can concentrate.
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If I wasn't an actor and I watched my films, I could easily be like 'This guy's a clown,' you know?
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Not write, maybe develop. Direct, sure. As an actor, you work on so many films, you sort of start to see who directs well and who doesn't.
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The excitement for me lies not so much in interviewing the hard-to-get famous person, but the person whom you are about to discover. You know, like maybe the character actors who are just coming into their own and you're realizing how great they are.
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I never wanted to be an actor.
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Because of the tax on being different, individual actors in the labour market from different backgrounds can rationally value the same opportunities differently.
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You couldn't hope to make a drama and have people rewriting on the day and having the actors making suggestions, "Wouldn't it be funny if my character did this?" "No. You're the actor. I'll tell you what to do."
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Actors are, in a sense, like athletes. They've got to stretch once in a while.
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In L.A. everyone is an actor. In Texas, everyone's a musician.
