Actors Quotes - Page 135

That's one of the fun parts of becoming an actor: You can become whoever you want to be.

Honestly, I want to do films. I want to make that move from actor to producer, like Will Smith.

I think the better you know yourself as a person, the better an actor you can be.

As an actor you have to wait for someone to cast you, so you're relying on the business.

Acting really suited me because I could connect as an actor to emotion.

If I weren't doing what I'm doing now, the actress thing, the star business, if you want to call it that, whatever it is, I'd be in an asylum. I'm sure of it.

When you're an actor and there's no music, you have to sort of bring it all yourself.

Chris Cooper is one of my favorite actors in the world. I've seen him in most everything he's done.

I would say, don't smoke. I'm kidding, but yeah, I did smoke in college and as a young actor and it's stupid.

I always feel like I can't do it, that I can't go through with a movie. But then I do go through with it after all.

Normally, if I'm being acknowledged it is for something in front of the camera. This puts the spotlight on the fact that there are opportunities other than just being an actor.

I went to school for clothing and textiles and thought this is what I was going to do. Then I started working in costumes and literally said, 'I don't know if I can take the actors.'

As the lead actor, you naturally get involved with a show.

It's good to feel tired at the end of the day. It's not often as an actor that you're like, "Oof. Ow. I feel like I've been out working."

It wasn't anything that I thought I was going to be - a singer or an actor or anything like that. I really started acting just because I loved it, and it was more from a need to act and express myself.

Actors make a bunch of money and they are superstars and then all of a sudden they are 35 and they are an old man and then you never hear from them again. So they basically live like a king for a decade and then they are done.

As an actor, at least from my standpoint, I can't not like who I'm playing.

As an actor, you are always looking for something fresh and interesting and not ordinary.

[On Lisa Kudrow:] She's like the best kind of jazz there is. You don't know what note she's going to hit and it's always a surprise.

Through this experience [of makimg movies], I recognized what an extraordinary set of personality traits it takes to be able to succeed in that world, and I was really drawn to the character work we could build with actors as a result.

I'm an actor. I started as an actor. I started on Broadway doing 'Hair' and Shakespeare in the Park.

The actors I respect are the ones who see it as a career and manage to live reasonably normal lives, like Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman.

There are certain things that cut right to the bone, but as an actor you have to because you get turned down for things all the time. I have a friend who was told he didn't get a job because he was too hairy. I've never heard anything that bad, but you have to get used to that sort of thing.

People often find it surprising that actors find photo shoots difficult, because you're very concerned about what's going on externally in those things when you have to be concerned with what's going on internally as an actor.

Less so here, I’ve noticed. I can see why there’s a misconception that it’s easier when your parents are actors, but it doesn’t work out at all. In fact, it’s the reverse.