Actors Quotes - Page 114

I always try to keep the confidence of the actors, and try my best to make them feel comfortable or confident.

When I hire actors I believe in their abilities.

A big fear of working with an actor that's never been a lead in a film before is that you're going to have to work really hard to pull a performance out of her.

Every actor wants to find a piece of work that's innovative and powerful and moving.

I had no intention of being an actor. I was quite good at it. I was pretty capable at other things but never any good at anything.

I wanted to shoot the sex scenes unadorned so that the actors could really live in the moment.

And once you cease to be a real person, you stop being a good actor.

I can't imagine myself not being an actor.

I'm not the writer who says, "You have to say it exactly as I wrote it," because you don't get good work. You want somebody who's going to bring something interesting to it and really create a character with you. You see that with certain actors.

I never understood actors who could just wait around.

I'm just looking to be in the best movies possible and do the best work possible and try to become a better actor and make better movies.

Not write, maybe develop. Direct, sure. As an actor, you work on so many films, you sort of start to see who directs well and who doesn't.

As an actor, you're never really in control of the product. I think the goal is to create what you want. And if you can get as close as you can get to the creation of something, it starts with development.

I'm good with dialect. Some actors do it immediately; other actors never quite get it. It's something I've always really enjoyed and something I've always been pretty fast with.

As an actor, anything that you have to help get you into character is helpful.

You want the actors to disappear into roles and stay under the radar, and that gets harder when someone is known for their actual personality, or who they seem to be.

Honestly, as an actor, all I need to know, the way I kind of look at a scene, is like a puzzle. There are certain puzzle pieces that are bigger than others, and all I need to know is if this is going to fit here to make this part of the puzzle work.

I've always been an actor. That's my job — I can be anything you want me to be.

My chosen occupation isn’t necessarily movie star; I see my chosen occupation as actor.

Raving mad is quite easy. You just chew up the scenery or something. It's quiet mad that's hard.

Each action of the actor on the stage should be the visible concomitant of his thoughts.

As an actor, you want to push yourself.

I had spent my entire career not wanting to talk about weight, not wanting to deal with it, wanting to be an actor first.

My family has always supported me completely and kept me grounded. I never got lost in child Hollywood actor weirdness.

Michael Bates was a very funny actor; he'd served in India, could speak Urdu, and had great comic timing.