Actors Quotes
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I think that's all you can hope for as an actor when you read a script; that after the first thirty pages it has some meaning to it.
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When you're a young actor you ring your agent every evening. It's not like when you're in Hollywood where you do one picture a year. You just hope you get a day on television.
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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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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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If you say "I'm going to be an actor, but I'll get a teaching degree just in case," when things get hard, you'll just be a teacher and that's how you get stuck.
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I like actors who don't have to think too hard about what they have to do to achieve their performance.
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Comedians... they're different from actors. There's more ego there. They create the whole thing, I guess, so they're more precious.
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I think basically an actor is a salesman.
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A good actor makes clear the meaning of the words. A better actor gives also the emotion of the part. The best actor adds emotion of which the character is unconscious.
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Well, the nice thing about animation, you don't even really have to account for yourself. All of the physical stuff that you work on as an actor, you just throw away.
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When we were young people, all we ever wanted was to be good working actors. We didn't think of fame or money because, honestly, money was never part of the dream.
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The real joy is in constructing a sentence. But I see myself as an actor first because writing is what you do when you are ready and acting is what you do when someone else is ready.
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And to Tom Cruise, for if you had won this, your asking price would have gone down so fast. Do you have any idea what supporting actors get paid? We get only one trailer, a small one, in the back.
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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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A real explosion is not only much more fun to shoot, it also helps the actors and creates an energy on set and ultimately in the scene.
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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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The writing is really hard. You're alone. It really pulls it out of you. You pull it out of your head. But when you're a director, you're shopping - you're picking this actor, you're picking this scene. It's like the most intense kinetic high-speed shopping of all time. You sit in a chair and it will all come rushing at you like a wind tunnel.
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There's no such thing as a small part. There are just small actors.
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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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I just work in order to improve myself as an actor which is what I've always done.
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Some directors hardly talk to the actors at all.
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Any actor should be grateful if he's remembered for one movie in their lifetime.
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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.
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I don't think that writers or painters or filmmakers function because they have something they particularly want to say. They have something that they feel. And they like the art form; they like words, or the smell of paint, or celluloid and photographic images and working with actors. I don't think that any genuine artist has ever been oriented by some didactic point of view, even if he thought he was.
