Actors Quotes
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In the first place, I'm pretty thorough about whom I choose. I instinctively look for the kind of actor who is going to be trusting. There are all kinds of insecure people out there called actors.
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For an actor working in television or film, I think it's important to understand how the medium works - how the camera and lenses work and how the sound and the editing works.
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The only way to find the best actor would be to let everybody play Hamlet and let the best man win.
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Marriage is hard, and it can be tough when you're both actors.
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I like to give my actors a lot of room.
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My experience over the years with working with people who are not actors or not trained actors is that you have to get to know them well enough to see what they have that's translatable onto the screen.
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I think it's my job to risk looking foolish. One of the things I've learned from the actors I've worked with is you don't get something for nothing. If you don't risk looking foolish, you'll never do anything special.
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I am a bit of a gourmet chef. I love cooking mostly Thai food. And a lot of times on movies, you have these trailers that have these little ovens and kitchenettes. A lot of actors never use them, but I would cook lunch just about every day.
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I might have a guitar or a piano on set to play something for the actors.
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Everybody in L.A. wants to be an actor. I just wish I could meet somebody who doesn't act or sing.
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I don't think you can discriminate against budgets, you know? I'm an actor, I guess, so I'm just trying to play as many characters as I can. If there's a character I think I can play, and they're going to let me do it, I'll do it whether it's $10 or $1 million or more.
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Well, it was interesting because when I was going to do it the first time in my head was Leonardo DiCaprio for Chris and Marlon Brando was going to play the character that Hal Holbrook eventually played. But then when it wasn't to be and there was no promise that it ever would be I think some part of me didn't want to attach specifics to it anymore - actors or anything else - because I wanted to see it made that much more badly.
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I certainly never expected to be a professional actor. I never expected to be in movies. I thought I would probably become a teacher.
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In some way, the relationship between a director and an actor is personal.
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I'm always excited to work with actors.
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Comedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write.
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If the character is true, the movie will fall into place. Or at least that's what you hope.
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I just work in order to improve myself as an actor which is what I've always done.
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I'm afraid of being too sure, to just deliver. I think that's the biggest danger for actors - after a certain time, when you're known and recognised, people expect you to do what you're supposed to do, and there's almost no more criticism and that's very dangerous.
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An actor needs something to stabilize his personality, something to nail down what he really is, not what he is currently pretending to be.
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When we approach history, we are dealing with a conglomeration of irrational continua. Those who deal with history by nonrational processes are the ones who make history, the actors in it.
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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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You know, I really wish now I'd had the nerve to become an actor. Because I'd have been Robert Redford, no question.
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Living in somebody else's pain for an actor man, it's actually nice when you get to feel that kind of emotion. That's what I like.
