Actors Quotes
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What I hope is that I don't just become 'Peter from The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe.' I want to try and do something else to be a good actor and a respected actor.
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The Old Vic has always been first and foremost an actors theatre, a home for great talent and memorable performances.
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That's one of the fun parts of becoming an actor: You can become whoever you want to be.
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I think as an actor you can feel when something's right and when something's resonating. I don't think that there's necessarily a right and a wrong. I think it's just a matter of being honest and telling a story.
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In nighttime series, the actor gets billing up front on every episode.
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Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.
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When I was very young, biology, the diversity of life, was one of my main interests. I know there's this image people have that I'm this spoiled, cocky punk of an actor. Honestly, that's not who I am. I really care that so many species have been wiped out, like genocide of entire races. I believe in the divine right of all species to survive on this planet. So I decided I want to be active as an environmentalist. I learned. I asked experts. I got active.
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As an actor, all you want to do is to work and do good work.
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I do feel fortunate in that I am probably allowed more often to be a character actor then most actors are allowed to be, and I don't take that lightly or superficially at all. I mean, I really do appreciate it.
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I've done interviews with actors who I've worked with who I really like, and I'm like, "Wow, look at you. You're just going on . . . You don't even know what you're saying!"
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Actors are as anxious about the state of audiences as aviators are over weather conditions.
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That is a gift to have four weeks to rehearse something. But remember, when you're doing a play half of that time you're getting to know the play and the other actors and then finally in the third week you have it pretty much on its feet. So it's all relative in different ways.
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As an actor, it's your job to find the way to play a character. I think you can latch on to some things that might have happened.
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That mental grind is the same, and this show has to be approached with the same mentality. Rest is paramount. Taking care of my voice and making sure I have the right foods in my body is paramount. Making sure I'm doing my technique work and staying in the script is all substantial. Continually pushing myself to find different nuances in the character on a nightly basis. This is definitely boot camp for me all over again, and Broadway in general is a boot camp for all actors.
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First we pre-visualized it [the flying fish scene in 'Life of Pi'] so the actors could act. It took a long time to get that to come to life and to design those coming out of the screen. We had great fun with that. It takes a long time, a year maybe.
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Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
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I think as an actor, it's very exciting when you have a really fully realized, complex, multifaceted character already established.
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I allowed the actors to have freedom and sometimes change words if they needed to or thought that another word was more current.
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It's much less interesting as an actor playing someone who's purely good or purely evil.
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I was an activist long before I even entertained the possibility of being an actor.
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The journey that we go on as actors is an interesting one and sometimes a revealing one.
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My mom always wanted me to be an actor. And I started going to theater and going on auditions young. I only realized about five years ago that I actually didn’t want to be an actor.
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It's been reinforced to me, and it's a little cliche, but I've learned that you can't make a movie that even works, much less that's good, without really good writing and really good acting. That lesson has led me to not be distracted, so much, by the other stuff going on in filmmaking and to focus on the essence of a story, and the words and the events and the way that those are interpreted by the actors. That philosophy has taken me to a place that I really like.
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'Ides of March' I did for scale - scale as a director, scale as an actor, scale as a writer.
