Actors Quotes - Page 130

Someone's going to put the clothes on you, and part of being an actor is wearing costumes. Costumes tell you an awful lot about who you are, so you just, it's nothing.

I was a B student in math, simply because my teachers liked me, as an actor.

I was always ambitious. I always wanted to be more than I was....I always wanted to be a movie actor.

I've just never been the kind of actor that things have stayed with. I've never needed to carry a character off stage.

The better the actor, usually the safer you feel working with.

It seems to me that I never grow unless I'm actually working with other actors who have shed whatever shell it is that keeps them insulated from each other.

I feel that I have grown so much as an actor being on 'Homeland'.

I can't complain. I'm making a living out of what I do, which is really rare for a lot of actors. The hard part is staying confident and staying with it.

The script is the foundation, but it's not the full story for the film, which only comes alive with the actors.

I never wanted to be an actor.

I try to be a good, diligent actor.

And to be honest, most actors are incredibly solipsistic.

John Hughes had such a huge impact on filmmaking.

I think a lot of actors are overly concerned about being well liked in the parts they play.

I'm probably an actor that tends to, instead of putting things on, think about it more in terms of taking away what's not in the character, until I'm left with what is. If that makes sense. That's probably a particularly American way of working, but maybe not. The end of any movie is a readjustment.

I think it's damaging to know too much about a person, about an actor.

As an actor, you usually live your life with faith.

The world seems concerned with Pakistan primarily as an actor in global attempts to combat terrorism.

The TV industry works in this crazy system where everybody's trying to get the same actors at the same time.

I really love being a character actor.

I know as an actor there is a certain liberation auditioning for a role that has no beauty requirements.

As an actor, I would call it a role where you get to stretch out a bit.

Young actors are serious about their work and don't take any time out from it. I'm very serious about my work; there are probably only two films I've done where I had a really good time.

It is hard sometimes to see how other actors are working when you are working with them.

Whenever I mention Greg Kinnear's name to anyone, they always say, "Oh, love him!" He's a really terrific actor, and very funny.