Actors Quotes - Page 108

Being a TV comedian, actor, writer, columnist, and all that is quite helpful to me in acquiring wide varieties of knowledge, which is crucial for filmmaking.

I don't have any room in my heart for that character [Kevin McCallister ]. I like the actor [Macaulay Culkin], but the character, no.

We actors have it pretty easy and pretty hard. Easy cause we have a meal provided to us every 6 hours every day and craft services. The hard part is staying fit under those circumstances.

If I'd made it right away as an actor, I would've stopped at a certain level and stayed there, probably as a character actor.

I've had a lot of operations. I'm kind of like Franken-actor.

I never started out to be an action actor. I was an ensemble actor. "Rocky" was an ensemble film. "F.I.S.T." was an ensemble. "Paradise Alley" was an ensemble.

I think I'm a much better painter than an actor.

I didn't believe that I'd ever be lucky enough to be able to make a living as an actor.

And, my God, the actors. The cast, led by the extraordinary Jennifer Lawrence, is absolutely wonderful across the board. It’s such a pleasure to see how they’ve embodied the characters and brought them to life.

As actors, you meet people that you are working with and it's tricky. It's blurry... how do you decipher things? I have definitely dated [a co-star], oh yeah, multiple times. It's easy.

Authenticity is what I've always gone after in my work, and I understand what feels emotionally right, instinctively. Working with actors has just come with experience.

I always knew I wanted to be an actor. I was talented in college but not the most talented. But I knew I wanted to do it, and that intention got me there and kept me there.

Result of self-consciousness: audience and actor are the same. I live my life as a spectacle for myself, for my own edification. I live my life but I don't live in it. The hoarding instinct in human relations.

You create this situation where you are so dependent on each other. That's especially true for film. In theater, the actor has much more say, much more control, for better or worse.

Sometimes what happens is that, when you micromanage actors and moments, it just doesn't quite live.

Actors want to be told what to do - they really do. But they also want to have an input and be recognized for that.

There is an established tradition of actors directing films that have a particular, personal meaning for them - Warren Beatty, Clint Eastwood, Kevin Costner, and most recently George Clooney to name a few. Remarkably, their films share an unusually high percentage of being very good.

Actors just need each other to act together.

My dad took me to my first movie.

Whether in success or in failure, I'm proud of every single movie I've ever directed.

Money to me is not a factor in my life.

You hear this said about actors sometimes, that they're fearless, but she [ Maggie Gyllenhaal] really is.

Like all independent movies, the first thing you're looking for is a name actor who will justify your financing.

It's such a gift when you know who you're writing for and you know that that actor is capable of so much that you can relax a bit.

There's something about the evolution of television where it evolved from to the things that we're now watching and loving. It evolved from film writers, film actors, and I think gradually people are easing themselves into the amount of time they have.