Actors Quotes - Page 128

Actors have to protect each other in a way. The idea of humiliating another actor or being humiliated myself is devastating.

Sometimes as an actor you're struggling to make things work. That was never the case for me with [Big Little Lies script]. It just kind of flowed out.

You have to love, without judgment, every actor that you're working with to make beauty.

You look at somebody's work as an actor and you can see their emotional life being fed into it and you can kind of feel them through it.

I did everything pretty cliche as an actor in New York. I read the trades, I sent out 'head shots.'

Any actor will tell you that you go where the work is, especially when you have children.

The thing with Ryan, you can look at him for hours. Very few actors have that. It's a gift.

If an actor or actress is recognizable, that changes our perception of them.

[Reanu Reeves] is a very imaginative actor. He can have this wonderful balance of humor and fear. He's got these skills to be entertaining but also quite terrifying.

Most benefactors are like unskillful generals who take the city and leave the citadel intact.

I do understand sometimes when actors say there's no one to talk to, or you can't react to, there's truth in that, but for me, I've always enjoyed green screen, and blue screen.

I've always believed that the greatest actors are the ones that have the voices that are imitable.

I invite the entire spectrum, shall we call it, of feeling. Because that is my greatest resource as a film actor. I need to be able to feel everything, which is why I refuse to go on any kind of medication. Not that I need to! But my point is, I wouldn't even explore that, because it would get in the way of my instrument.

I've really had good luck working with younger actors. Every younger actor that I have worked with has always been really on top of their game and fascinating to watch.

Idris Elba is a grand actor. He's very larger than life; he's bigger than life.

I'm not a trained actor. I'm someone who is autodidactic and learned on my own.

I don't want to get locked into any one type of genre. I just want to constantly be working with amazing directors and amazing actors, and just always pushing the envelope on what I can do, as an actor.

Its such a process to get a show off the ground initially. And then, to already have a second season announced is a dream come true for any actor.

Big actors want to work in television because they see it as being new and different.

When we think of an actor, we think of a tanned, frosted-tipped, model-looking guy. We don't think of a plumber.

I've been working steadily as an actor since around 1998. I wasn't well known in the public, but I was a dependable working journeyman.

I started to act in highschool and became a professional actor at 19.

I don't see the point of being an actor and doing the same thing, all the time. Where's the challenge there?

I was able to bring my process of doing improv with actors into the animation world, which was fun.

You have to find actors who have the ability to display a wide range of emotion effectively. That's so much harder than it seems.