Actors Quotes - Page 131

Bollywood actors are so set in what they want, and the way they want it. And why shouldn't they be? But it is not the same in Hollywood, because the love of the audience is not the same.

...an actor is exactly as big as his imagination.

I notice that a little bit at The Office, with, like, an actor: If I decided there'd be a certain way in the script, it would still seem open-ended, whereas ... if I was a man I would not have seen that.

As an actor if you're working you're usually in three places, you're either prepping something, you're shooting something, or you're post on something or promoting something.

I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be.

As an actor, you travel so much. It isn't great for a marriage.

I think that an actor is more likely to be forgiven in the public's eye than an actress.

I - you know, I'm not an actor.

I came out wanting to be an actor. From my first view of the world, that's what I wanted to be. I'm made of 99 percent ham and 1 percent water. I was just cooked that way!

I definitely believe in the energy of the set and the energy of the actor, way more than your written word.

The notion that acting is simply about intuitively responding to situations the way you feel couldn't be farther away from how I ask actors to work.

Very occasionally I hire an actor and get it wrong. The actor just doesn't trust the process or me as fully as I thought they would. In this case, you can be quite sure that if an actor is untrusting, it's got nothing to do with me or the process.

The reason my films work is because every actor on set is very secure. They're able to fly.

The kind of acting that's wholly literary or cerebral is wrong. It's useless for me to have actors so much in their heads that they can't be organic.

There are plenty of bad actors and there are plenty of bad directors. There are actors who will always be bad and there are good actors who you cry for because they're being badly directed or the material isn't good enough.

In discussing the process with the actors, I made it clear to them that they could improvise but that the sum total of their improvisation needed to impart certain plot points, and schematic material.

As an actor, I need to get excited about something that I can actually relate to.

As an actor, you learn, every time you work.

As an actor you just want to continue to work on things that you like. You can be in this business a long time and consistently working and just be totally artistically unfulfilled.

I guess it's a bit cliché, but as an actor, I really admire good writing. There are a lot of great ideas out there, but it's the execution that really makes it work.

Elia Kazan. He wrote my favorite book about filmmaking, 'Elia Kazan: On Directing.' There is a thing in the book that I do every time, it's part of my production structure. He said when you're hiring an actor, ask them what draws them to the project, and don't lead them to the answer.

I spent so long studying really hard to become a fine actor, but threw it all away because I got the adulation and the fame so easily

Fighting the wild branches of a haunted tree is not something that every actor is confident enough to attack, literally and figuratively.

The best actors in the world are the actors who don't keep the walls up all the time and allow themselves the potential to be embarrassed.

I went on to host a kids' program from when I was around 10 until 15. In some ways I'm a child actor.