Actors Quotes - Page 13

What's funny is that there's a lot of great Australian actors in American movies but you don't often hear them do their Australian, original accent.

Don't pretend to know everything. I've been blessed to work with a lot of veteran actors, and I soak up lessons from them like a sponge.

The only thing an actor owes his public is not to bore them.

Every actor has a natural animosity toward every other actor, present or absent, living or dead

I was a writer. I just wasn't a very good one. I was lucky enough to have a playwriting teacher who told me that I'd be a better actor than I would a playwright.

I don't need a critic to tell me I'm an actor. I make my own way. Nobody's my boss. Nobody's ever been my boss.

However, I hope I am also judged on my accomplishments as an actor and not just on my pretty face!

If you catch me saying 'I am a serious actor,' I beg you to slap me.

When somebody who makes movies for a living - either as an actor, writer, producer or director - lives to be a certain age, you have to admire them. It is an act of courage to make a film - a courage for which you are not prepared in the rest of life. It is very hard and very destructive. But we do it because we love it.

Movies are like magic tricks.

An actor who is good at comedy can also be very good at drama, but not necessarily vice versa.

I wanted to give my actor a break. I wanted to live and to learn English. I wanted to be anything, a cabdriver, a busboy, anything to keep me away from acting for a while.

Becoming an actor is like becoming a father. It's not hard to become one. Making a life of it is the challenge.

My job as an actor, and the part of my job that I love is the transforming-and-becoming aspect of it, and so it doesn't become about me anymore.

I was born a character actor. I was never really a leading man type.

I always wanted to be a comedian and actor. I basically stumbled into the music medium, though. I'm OK, but that's about it. I like to think I'm good enough not to negatively affect the performance.

The actor becomes an emotional athlete.

You ask any actor - they'll tell you they'd rather shoot on location because you don't have to invent the energy, the energy is there.

When you work with a good actor, there is this natural rapport and chemistry that develops over time. That chemistry helps your characters come alive and makes the story of the film that much more convincing.

As far as being an actor is concerned, you have to have passion. If you're not bringing the passion of the character into the room with you, you might as well not come into the room at all.

A conservative frame of mind is very limiting for an actor, and a human being, too.

For taijutsu, the flexibility of the legs is the most important factor, not the strength of the legs.

Your job as actors is to understand the size of what you say, to understand what's beneath the word.

I was obsessed with Jim Carrey growing up. It's why I wanted to become an actor.

Acting is the use of human experience with talent added.