Actors Quotes - Page 11

Daniel Day-Lewis is my favorite actor walking the planet right now. He never ceases to amaze me.

Every single Pixar film, at one time or another, has been the worst movie ever put on film. But we know. We trust our process. We don't get scared and say, 'Oh, no, this film isn't working.'

I was never a very dependable employee for anything. Perfect for the actor's life!

As an actor, you have to have trust and believe that somebody is taking care of you or watching your back. With a part like this, especially with where we're going with it, I can't pull any punches. I can't do it halfway, especially when you're dealing with madness and this descent into madness.

I can remember when a good politician had to be 75 percent ability and 25 percent actor, but I can well see the day when the reverse could be true.

An animator is an actor with a pencil.

If you want to be an actor, my advice is to learn your lines and don't bump into the other actors.

When you're an actor, you're a slave to other people's visions.

Life is boring. The weather is boring. Actors must not be boring.

Now, when I started my theater, the modus operandi was having the actors stare right into the audience.

It's destiny that pushed me towards showbiz. I wanted to start off as a technician, but out of compulsion, I became an actor.

Actors take risks all the time. We put ourselves on the line. It is creative to be able to interpret someone's words and breathe life into them.

I've been terrified of the water, and yet it seems I'm forced to go into in on every movie that I make.

I think I may have become an actor to hide from myself. You can escape into a character.

When I was a child, I wanted to be an actor, but I had really bad buck teeth. I didn't want to get braces, but my mom said I couldn't be an actor if I didn't get the braces. So, I got the braces.

The lesson of history is rarely learned by the actors themselves.

If Chevy Chase had not been an actor, he might have been a very popular guy in advertising or whatever field he would have gone into, because of his charisma.

In a theater you can fool everyone past the tenth row if you're good, but on the screen you can't really fool anyone for a second.

Directing has only increased my admiration and respect for what it is that actors do.

Many actors want to play Hamlet and Macbeth. Ever since I became an actor, from the very beginning I just wanted to play a Shetland pony. I cannot explain why

I wanted to be a doctor when I was young. I also wanted to be a paramedic, but I always wanted to be an actor as well. I didn't have kids or something that I needed to provide for.

I know how to be strong. I know how to be ruthless. It's part of my nature. I wouldn't be an actor if I wasn't.

I don't know what else I could do but pretend to be an actor.

I always call myself a stuntman first and then an actor.

For acting, darlings, is the world's most perilous trade. Compared with actors, steeple jacks and deep-sea divers lead snug and placid lives.