Actors Quotes
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In some way, the relationship between a director and an actor is personal.
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I'm always curious about how actors cry on film.
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I love working with actors. If you cast the right person in the right part at the right time, they make you look like a better writer and director than you really are.
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I'm not really attracted to action sequences, because my experience is that it's quite a slow process to shoot them, and often we're not involved as actors.
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I admired Marlon Brando as I grew up. I though he was one of the finest screen actors around.
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My goal is to work. That's the goal of most actors or performers: to work and keep working, and do the best you can, and keep growing and changing, trying to improve your craft.
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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 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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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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I think it's very dangerous for an actor to take shooting too seriously because I think it could really damage you if you do that.
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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'm just not one of those naturally funny, relaxed actors who enjoy the spotlight and are so good at it.
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Lord Chatham and Napoleon were ns much actors as Garrick or Talma. Now, an imposing air should always be taken as evidence of imposition. Dignity is often a veil between us and the real truth of things.
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I would love to play an unexpected character. Really raw and simple and not a cliche - something rugged. People like to put actors in boxes.
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I had been nine years in the theatre and hadn't had massive success. My only thing was I wanted to be an actor and I didn't care when, where, or how much for.
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I have been in situations where actors are treated like robots: say the lines, say it like this, we don't have time for conversations. That is a terrible position to be in as an artist. You feel used.
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Whenever I'm looking for actors, I'm always looking for actors who are intelligent and who feel fresh and who feel authentic to the world.
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Any actor should be grateful if he's remembered for one movie in their lifetime.
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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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As an actor, you can show up on a set and be on a TV show for three or four years, or whatever it is and, by the end of it, you just want to do something else.
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I think actors are getting so much more power these days, but I'm not. I stay very much away from the decisions, the way in which things are orchestrated, what's been changed. I just try to stay completely in the role as the actor and as the character.
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It's the way the business works, you're not just an actor, you're a diplomat and a publicist and a politician, and there are certain expectations.
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Actors have to be there and do the work, and that's enough.
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I want to aspire to something like what Denzel Washington does, which is try to find scripts written for white actors - or Jodie Foster, who reads scripts for male actors.
