Actors Quotes - Page 137

I think as an actor you're always learning, you're always trying to experience more things.

As an actor you really want to push yourself, and there's no better way than to do an intense drama.

My parents are proud of me being an actor.

Create your own path. Cultivate it. It'll take time. It doesn't happen overnight. I was an actor for many years before I got behind the camera.

Directing made me realise what I do as an actor that's extraneous, it focuses your mind on story, story, story.

That's where everything starts, as an actor: you've gotta have great writing and great character development, and then you have really great materials to work from.

Heres the thing: If youre taking roles that arent intimidating you, and I think this is a cliche that a lot of actors say, but if its not intimidating you, then why are you doing it?

I think anytime you can do something you haven't seen or done in a film before, it's always a great day as an actor.

As an actor, you can't be off the market for too long.

The better the actor, the less you know about his life. I mean, nobody's better than De Niro and you don't know anything about him, right?

As actors, we react to the material that's out there, and I probably just react more strongly to things that I feel will have some social value.

When you're an actor, you're very much exposed, but in a strange way you're totally protected behind a character, behind a script, behind a director.

My life as an actor has submerged me completely because I dont know why.

Arnaud Desplechin invented me as an actor. I never imagined Id be acting in movies.

The most reliable pleasure afforded by theater is the intermission.

That's the best part about being an actor though. One of the rewarding aspects of it is you're actually traveling in parts of the world that one wouldn't necessarily go to just because it's so far removed, but also like even beyond the metropolitan areas. You're in the woods.

I just get to go to work with such great actors who are so talented, especially Elizabeth (Perkins). You are so wonderful and kind and good and wonderful and sexy and great, and I just want to make out with all of you.

I mean one of the weird things about TV and one of the things that some actors don't like but I kind of dig is that you never know where you're headed, I mean you never know what the writer might think of next.

People still tweet me like, "Oh my god, I just found out you guys are married!" Which makes sense to me because I'm not the type of person who is like, "I love this actor, let me find out everything about their lives."

Whether arrogantly or what, I view myself simply as an actor.

I toyed with the notion of being an actor, and am so glad that this whim did not go any further.

Actors are almost impossible to treat successfully.

I've always had a flare for the dramatic. I thought about being an actor and I thought about directing, but writing truly became something I needed to do, just to stay sane. It's my over-pressure valve.

Actors, they come and go, you know.

In the theater, as an actor, you're welcoming people into your house.