Actors Quotes - Page 101

I'm a physical type of actor and love projects in which I can get physical. The more action, the better.

There's a lot of great stuff on television and that's very appealing to actors who want to work, who do good quality and high quality work. But you're always concerned that the time demands on television will interrupt or interfere with your film work.

Lot of the scripts I've been in with other non-white actors haven't been great. Lot of non-white actors ain't all that great.

One of the things I enjoyed the most is just working as an actor.

With actors, normally I don't like to have any conversation about background and about motivations and all this.

My crew [on "Fitzcarraldo" filming] actually said, "We have filmed it from outside on the rocks of the shore. We should be on board [the ship]," and I said it's dangerous, I only do it if you cinematographer Thomas Mauch and you actor [Klaus] Kinski decide on your own.

What I do not like, the kind of high-resolution cameras, 4K, 6K, for shooting dialogue, for having faces and close-ups of actors, and you see every single pore in the skin.

Everything that I've done was prudent and never has anyone gotten hurt in my films - not a single actor, not a single extra, ever.

If an actor knows how to milk a cow, I always know it will not be difficult to be in business with him.

As the Hindu gods are 'immortal' only in a very particular sense - for they had born and they die - they experience most of the great human dilemmas and often seem to differ from mortals in a few trivial details... and from demons even less. Yet they are regarded by the Hindus as a class of beigns by definition totally different from any other; they are symbols in a way that no human beign, however 'archetypal' his life story, can ever be. They are actors playing parts that are real only for us; they are masks behind which we see our own faces.

Whenever an actor was going to die, I tried to help them understand not to take it personally. It wasn't about them. It's the story.

There's no greater honor, as an actor, to be a part of a project that changes lives, and awakens and enlightens and entertains.

I love to be in the position of not knowing what I'm gonna do, but having rehearsed all of those so when something happens with the others actors I go with whatever that is I'm getting.

I'm one of those actors who likes to do it wrong nine ways before I come to the tenth way, which is the way I think it should be.

One good thing about TV Land is you're always surrounded by people who know what they're doing, in terms of your fellow actors.

I'm an actor, and when I close the door at home I'm kind of off-duty.

I don't want to be just somebody short who happens to act. I hope my legacy will be Warwick Davis, Actor.

As a film actor, you don't often get that opportunity to meet with your audience and take your applause on stage.

I've never been one to shortchange the importance of actors.

Ok so there's no TV shows, no movies going on fine, but I love going on stage and performing stand up so my situation is a little better than someone who's strictly just an actor or actress.

I'm convinced that theatre is a horrible business. Make this the headline. You have to be on the spot every night as an actor. You are damn lonesome standing out there.

Sometimes actors come in, you record them, and they do their role.

Since we've done that type of work [ voiceover], we know how isolating it can be, and we wanted to make the actors more comfortable.

I know that I am one and I've made a living as an actor and I enjoy being an actor, but when I'm not actually doing it, I forget that I do it.

I never planned to be an actor. It turned out I could make a living doing it.