Actors Quotes - Page 109

I am someone who thinks that if you've got an actor like that who wants to perform your work, then you should do it, and hopefully Tom [Hardey] likes to do the work that I do, so long may it continue.

You have to make something good. Just because all the hot actors show up and the money is there and the explosives are ready, it doesn't matter.

I look at it like, I'm just a character actor. If I get cast as the stoned sidekick, fine. But I just want to act.

When I was 16 and wanted to be an actor, people told me to go work at the supermarket.

Ill never be as good an actor as I want to be....but I'll be good.

What is a movie star? A movie star is many things. They can be tall, short, thin, or skinny. They can be Democrats... or skinny.

The thing is that I'm an actor first, and in 'Once,' I was able to be a musician and a singer as well as an actor.

I've only had good experiences with actors. Starring next to them and directing them, for the most part they're all inspiring, special people.

I'm not going to say, I'm an actor and I'm changing the world. Who cares?

When you're starting out as an actor, there isn't much food around. I was lucky to have a hit pretty early on. I didn't starve too long.

Wanting to work is a luxury; having to work is not. If you're an artist, an actor, and you don't have to work, then you do work that you wanna do.

I was never an actor. I had done one or two random projects in my advertising career.

I was never able to analyze my own performance that way I can now. I've realized why certain actors work. I think I'm very in control of what I do in there now. I know how to listen, how to make it real and how not to go to jokes, but to go for a sense of reality.

If I was ever to ask advice, it could be from any actor or showrunner or writer. I wouldn't necessarily ask an animate. I don't want to say that the wrong way, but animation's not really my world.

You project a version of yourself to the public to protect and insulate yourself a little bit. Actors come up with a version of themselves in order to protect the real person.

I always find that it's when a script is not detailed, then I have to do more work as an actor.

I don't blame any director for wanting to do something more commercial. That's all part of the business. I certainly have done it, as an actor.

I never did improv professionally, but that was certainly in my training as an actor. I like it.

In a huge way, everything that I've done in my life has helped inform my ability to communicate with actors and direct them.

I love actors. I love working with actors. I really enjoy the process. I love having those in-depth discussions about the interior of their character, and actors really love to discuss that too.

Kristen Bell is rare as an actress, because she's the type of actor who jumps out of a plane without a parachute - from a totally fearless place, which is really refreshing and inspiring.

I definitely get star-struck over - not so much actors and celebrities because I see them around and I work with some of them - but it's more things I'm not involved in that I get star-struck about.

With 'Twilight,' I felt the actors needed to be up-and-coming artists that haven't been recognized yet.

When you know your cast well and their strengths and weaknesses, you can start writing for them, just the way Shakespeare wrote for his actors.

I don't aspire to direct like many actors. I would aspire most likely to do some writing, but I haven't had a chance to do that.