Actors Quotes - Page 122

Theres just a big group of actors in London. There are new ones coming in all the time, who are looking for work, and established actors who are interested in working and like to work. To be a working actor in England is a life.

I always wanted to be an actress. I always wanted to be a movie star.

In terms of directors, great actors make directors - Gary Oldman was great to work with, for me; Tim Roth, too. You work with Scorsese and Spielberg and they were wonderful directors, but for me, working with actor/directors is special.

I think I became an actor because I couldn't sing.

As an actor, I love working with directors. As much as I love working with other actors.

As an actor, that's nerve-wracking enough [drunk and doing coke] because you have to do it at the right level.

Reading have got the good factor.

I do certain things that, maybe, nobody else knows why I'm doing. But it's all - it all has to do with - to grow as an actor.

I never, ever wanted to be an actor.

There's a personal side to me of challenges as an actor that I like to take on myself.

It's such a fortunate life, if you can work as an actor.

What I wish more than anything is that I could start getting press about my work as an actor. That is what I do. I'm not a criminal.

The actors come and you start seeing things happen for real.

I like to give the actors the freedom, and they know they have the freedom, to change anything they want at any time.

Each philosopher, each bard, each actor has only done for me, as by a delegate, what one day I can do for myself.

If they don't close these [nuclear] reactors down, we'll have civil war in five years.

The actor shouldn't edit themselves or be anxious. And the actors that I admire are always the ones who are inventive and their imaginative life in free-willing. It's a director's job to go, "No here, don't do that, go there."

Awards are like applause, and every actor likes to hear applause.

When it comes to deciding between your love and your truth, truth has to be the decisive factor.

A lot of actors are just like la la la - they're never really connected and then they're in the scene and then boom. They're looking you in the eyes and they're just really focused.

I want to be an actor who always tries the best regardless of roles.

Doing Prometheus was what you imagine being an actor is like when you're five. In a spacesuit, on another planet, getting killed by an alien. It was a real treat, it felt like being a part of movie history.

As an actor, you try and be cool, but one of the reasons you become an actor is because you're a film fan. And then you're like, 'Oh my god, Ridley Scott just spoke to me!'

But I'm also a vegetarian so there's another factor I guess.

I never wanted to be a movie star.