Actors Quotes - Page 118

Everybody thinks that actors would be really good at bluffing, but I think it's a little backward.

I think with the best actors, emotion is something that has no kind of check in them.

I've worked with actors who tell everyone what to do in the scene - that makes me go pretty atomic.

When you're on stage, you build strong relationships with the actors, but it's a story you tell with the audience - you have to include them, you have to respond to them, they have to understand the narrative.

I wasn't sure I wanted to be an actor.

I've had the pleasure to work with a lot of very great actors. And they're too different to say who's the best.

If you put anger in the writing, then it's like an actor crying on stage. The audience will not cry with the actor and in some way inure itself against the emotion.

It's always fun to do action and explosion, but I really enjoyed directing the emotion of the actors.

I started to study, because I knew I had to learn a lot about myself as an actor; you can't act the same as you did as a child.

I can't say I was unhappy as a child actor in films. I had a particularly wonderful time.

When I said I no longer wanted to be a painter, that I wanted to be an actor, the first thing I did was get a stinking job in an insurance building.

So I went and did an audition and became the biggest radio actor in Sydney, and that's how it all started.

I pray and try every day to be a better actor.

Most actors love to get to the point where they're not auditioning.

every actor knows that tragedy, being linear and inevitable, is taxing - but comedy, which depends on the element of surprise, is the hardest act of all.

The critic is the duenna in the passionate affair between playwrights, actors and audiences - a figure dreaded, and occasionally comic, but never welcome, never loved.

There is a saying that every single person in the world has something to teach you. So the more people I get to work with, the more I can learn and the better actor I will become.

I think voiceover is an adjunct that actors have picked up that have given us some security.

I love working with great actors.

If you do a film with a studio, agents step in, they start saying, 'My actor has to get this amount of money', and it becomes about deals.

I started as an actor in the theater playing a lot of character parts, and suddenly, I found myself in this place where it felt like I was getting locked into a kind of a stereotype, and it did bother me.

Like all actors, I was open to taking on new challenges, including those outside my comfort zone.

I like being meticulous and it's quite difficult as an actor to have that much control.

Thats the worst thing, I don't really care if people say I'm a bad actor, I can like work on that, but if they just say that he's ugly thats just like “oh.. really?

Most actors have been fired during their career.