Actors Quotes - Page 111

I love all the voiceovers I do. I can't remember them all, but I seem to do them all of the time. And there's nothing easier because you just stand and read the script, and you don't have to act the way actors do. You don't have to be made up and put costumes on.

I wanted to be Laurence Olivier, basically, to be a great classical actor, and also be able to do modern things.

Actors make choices for different reasons.

My strength as an actor is in the theater - I know that about myself. Some actors get onstage and vanish, but I'm much better there than I am on screen.

To have the freedom to be able to make choices is something I guess every actor aspires to. Most actors don't have those kind of choices. If the part comes along, they take it.

I wrote 'Actor' all on the computer. I didn't touch any instruments until I was in the studio. So while I had all these ornate arrangements, I didn't have any songs.

'Do the Right Thing' was like the first film where I really felt comfortable working with actors.

Martin Sheen is my pinup! And Allison Janney, oh my God. They're brilliant actors.

I realized that there was something internal that I could gain from pursuing this career as an actor. However, once I got into the business I just really abhorred what this career can drum up inside of a person.

Today we find many actors, they are Latin, they are Hispanic, they are living in the Unites States, they are American, but very rarely you find them in a lead role.

You can keep yourself alive. That's the magic of being an actor.

More actors in action movies should be gangly because that way it's believable when they move through tight spaces.

Not all shabby is chic, just like not every porn actor is a star.

A lot of times, actors and directors don't want to repeat something. I don't think we're repeating something, but I think there's certainly a genre that we're in, and we're happy to embrace it.

I've just done a movie - Albino Alligator - with Viggo Mortensen, who's an actor I idolize. He influenced me in a way that has helped me move toward getting lead parts instead of supporting parts, merely through his presence. So now I tell everyone, as a joke, that I'm entering my Viggo Mortensen phase.

I'm a fool for a good role in a creative piece where there are really such talented writers and wonderful actors.

I suspect there isn't an actor alive who was able to truthfully answer his family's questions after his first day's activity in his future profession.

I want only dead actors. That way there'll be no jealousy.

It's not really about confidence. It's just something that isn't really in the vocabulary of what goes on at work. The writers write and the actors act.

As an actor, I really like Philip Seymour Hoffman. I think he's a genius.

I went to Queen's University Belfast and stayed nine months, then I ran away to be an actor.

I actually wanted to be a writer long before I wanted to be an actor.

I really enjoy working with younger actors. I just feel like we're all peers together.

Even if you have a gift, it's nearly impossible to become a good actor in just a few weeks of training.

I no longer believe that William Shakespeare the actor from Stratford was the author of the works that have been ascribed to him.