Actors Quotes - Page 124

A lot of actors aren't particularly good directors. And they're not particularly good with other actors. That's kind of a fallacy.

Nine out of ten delinquents are frustrated actors.

A script is utterly useless in and of itself; it's only of any worth the minute your actors, your designers, your directors come into being.

Richard Marquand, on Jedi, was very much an actor's director.

I went whole hog at the actor's lifestyle - really embraced it. I had by then known how much I loved acting already, because I discovered acting from a teacher in the seminary - that's the first place I ever did it, in the seminary.

Why things get canceled or not is so unbelievably out of actors' hands that it's one of those things where you've just got to ride with it.

I think if I learned anything in graduate school, it was to not drool around other actors who would normally make you drool.

I guess actors don't like to direct each other.

Every actor wants to do more, because you always think you can improve it.

I don't know anything about directing, but if you love actors, know your story and hire a great company, then anyone can direct a film.

I've always written for actors, and if you want to write for good actors, you have to write parts that are surprising, that are human, and that allow them to go to a wide range of places.

I spent so many years trying to become an actor, trying to be a person that I wasn't.

Glass is a thing in disguise, an actor, is not solid at all, but a liquid?an old sheet of glass will not only take on a royal and purplish tinge but will reveal its true liquid nature by having grown fatter at the bottom and thinner at thetop, and? It isinvisible, solid, in short a joyous and paradoxical thing, asgood a material as any tobuild a life from.

Whence are we, and why are we? Of what scene The actors or spectators?

As an actor, being in a relationship you have this opportunity to have something really exceptional, because you don't have a regimented schedule or lifestyle.

Hollywood people don't want to be embarrassed by being involved with someone who isn't happening and cool at the time. But I never made the movies for the critics; I've done the best I could with the material and the directors and the actors I had. But the thing that's really exciting is that once I do that one project that's different, that stands out, everyone's gonna be watching.

I miss working with great actors, working with great directors.

Theater is an engagement between the actor and the audience. Film is a different sort of medium. It's not immediate, but in some ways it's more involving.

As actors, we're a little faster than other people, with breaking down the walls.

Usually I like to make my movies from start to finish in chronological order. As a filmmaker it lets me be able to direct my actors and tell them where exactly they are and go with progression.

Sightseeing was ... based on imaginative invention, like rehearsing your own play in stage sets from which all the actors had fled.

I never thought of myself as a comedic actor. I didn't go to Second City, that's not my background, I'm not a comic, I studied theater and my career when I started was a lot of dramatic stuff.

How many impressionist painters painted the same damned thing? How many actors have played the same part in renditions of a play or dancers do the same dances.

I was terrorized by the emotional requirements of being an actor. Acting is like letting your pants down; you're exposed.

Almost everything I learned about being an actor came from those early years at the Actor's Studio.