Actors Quotes - Page 100

I do like taking on responsibility, sometimes too much. But I was aware of that early on and it's something that came up in the previous set of interviews, and that is the actor‛s contribution.

Generally a wise actor will be very careful about the person to whom he gives that power.

If you think about filmmaking as an entire spectrum, starting with the writer and ending with maybe the marketing department, the actor's contribution is a rather slender band.

I guess every actor has certain emotions they can access easier than others.

I mean, if President Reagan could be an actor and become a President, if Michael Douglas is your next choice, maybe I could become an actor. And I've got a good pension; I can work cheap, which is unusual around here.

The actor has the advantage - or the liability - of knowing, "It's going to be my face up there on the frickin' screen, so I better keep my wits about me. Nobody's going to care that I was bad because I was not happy. They're only going to know I'm bad."

The best thing for an actor to do is take your attention off of how you feel about it, and put it on striving to obtain a particular objective. The happy result is that it brings out all this unexpected stuff in yourself.

A good actor's director, first of all, is prepared, so there's not an exorbitant amount of wasted footage.

I don't watch rushes. My whole thing is to try to stay in the moment with the other actor, and to let it all hang. I'm not sure I'm right on that, though.

At the end of the day, what actors really want to do is act a lot and not wait around in the trailer.

I feel like a lot of the young actors that are just coming up are really good. I think directors are directing better.

What actors are good at doing is walking into a situation that should make you incredibly self-conscious and frightened and doing it anyway. That's the gig, pretending that you are comfortable.

It's hard on an actor when you have to do a scene 45 times and you know damn well that three of the angles a director is shooting will never make it into the movie.

As far as the filmmaking process is concerned, stars are essentially worthless - and absolutely essential.

You don't need great actors to do a 3D picture. All of this condescending stuff that they put out? "Oh, we will always need actors." Bullshit! They are able to take anybody and put some markers on them, and have them walk through an empty room. Then they paint in the background.

Writers are not always right however, but then again, I've been on shows where the actors have complete control and change everything and it's terrible.

I was an activist long before I even entertained the possibility of being an actor.

Each of the actors is quite different, but they're all living in the same world.

Sometimes I say I feel more like a dancer than an actor, because there are things implied about being an actor that I don't really like. I feel more comfortable with the word 'performer'. I like being the thing. I like being the doer. There's a factualness to it. And then certain resonances happen out of how you apply yourself physically.

Central to being an actor is pretending, and the adventure of it all. That's why you become a junkie for different kinds of situations.

The first time that I performed as an actor was the first day on the set of 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.'

The fictional work is a kind of actor that wears a satirical garb but can put on other costumes as well.

I think most great actors have their own life trajectory, the character motion doesn't have anything to do with their life motion.

Everybody that's an actor leaves it for a while 'cause they ain't got a job.

It becomes a lot better for the actors when we're 'shooting, shooting, shooting,' instead of waiting around in a trailer for something to happen.