Actors Quotes - Page 117

I think the only thing I've got going for me as an actor specifically is the fact that I can change.

I'm an infant with Shakespeare; I'm kind of learning how to walk. I am trying to decipher the code, you know? I do my research. And I get a clear understanding of what the language is. It is a tremendous process I have to go through as I am sure all actors do, finding the gems hidden in his language.

I'm not a method actor, but I'm a big research kind of actor.

I love both [Johnny English and James Bond] actually. The action sequences are really exciting because you're getting to work with some brilliant crew and do some great stuff but you always get some magic when you're working with actors.

When I was an actor, I was part of a team, which I loved. You are a part inside something which is larger.

You should be able to tell your child, "This is an actor. And she's older than Mommy!"

I know that every actor that I know, when Daniel Day-Lewis does a film, and he doesn't work that often, but we run to the theater to see what he's up to, and with such delicious excitement. The same goes for Meryl Streep.

I feel lucky to be an actor because you always learn something from each part you play.

For me, there are a lot of things you can imagine as an actor, and then there are things that you know in your bones and in your cells once they happen to you.

There are the jobs you get that do something for your confidence, like "I can do this with my life" kind of thing. And then, there are the jobs that maybe bring a certain level of awareness about you as an actor where other people feel like they can hire you.

I don't know what another actor is going to give me, on the day, and I don't want to be so hard and fast in my technique that I'm not open to what's coming.

I never started out trying to be an actor. That was not my passion, this was not my thing.

I seldom meet actors, they are to me bright strange fishes swimming in an element alien to me; I feel that to meet them is to See Life.

Being an actor is mostly about rejection and being out of work. It was a fast lesson in all of that stuff.

As an artist I just think comedic actors are really underrated.

I didn't really know exactly the point where I wanted to be an actor. But I know at this point, because I never went to college, I don't really have anything to fall back on.

What does an actor know about politics?

You'd be surprised how much being a good actor pays off.

You know, it was only a generation ago that actors couldn't be buried in the churchyard.

How could an actor become president?

Frankie [Avalon] ... was interested in eating everything so it didn't eat him first.

I've seen people with a tremendous amount of educational background in the field not turn out to be terribly good actors, and I've seen people with no education in the field turn out to be people that I admire quite a bit

I do believe all actors are smart.

I've been a professional actor for almost 40 years.

I'd wanted to be an actor from the age of five.