Actors Quotes - Page 138

TV acting is so extremely intimate, because of the peculiar involvement of the viewer with the completion or "closing" of the TV image, that the actor must achieve a great degree of spontaneous casualness that would be irrelevant in movie and lost on the stage. For the audience participates in the inner life of the TV actor as fully as in the outer life of the movie star. Technically, TV tends to be a close-up medium. The close-up that in the movie is used for shock is, on TV, a quite casual thing.

Everyone thinks I'm a comedian - which I am and are. I was born into a comedic family but I'm trained as an actor.

The first film I directed (Explicit Ills), I did when I was like 27 years old. I had been an actor for a certain amount of time, and then I was like, "I want to start directing."

Working with talented people and challenging myself as an actor [excites me].

If you're producing a movie you're involved in every aspect of the movie and that can be daunting and then going and doing a movie where you're just an actor for hire, and you can kind of sit back and giggle where you can see somebody sitting over there wasting time and wasting money.

The important bit for an actor is the actual shooting of it, because the minute the shoot ends, it's got nothing to do with you anymore.

Being an actor is often very tedious, which is why it helps hugely if your fellow cast members are also good friends.

You know, I don't think you need to be educated to be a great actor.

As an actor, you want to remain vulnerable. You don't want to always have all the answers and you want to be fine doing things in the moment with your fellow actors.

These are extremely talented actors who are all putting their talents into the Lost in Space movie.

As an actor, you always want to try new things, so the fact that they set it up so that you can be doing different things each season is great.

The world has obviously changed in terms of the way filmmakers and actors and writers often look at their own careers. They all seem to want to include in their own process - along with some of their iconic and franchise-driven movies.

Acting is not a profession of competing with other actors, but rather a vocation of sharing with fellow human beings.

I chose the actors that I was in love with. I cannot work with people that I don't personally like a lot. They can be the best actor in the world, but if the first contact is not good, if I don't fall in love with them, then I don't want to work with them. It's impossible.

Business is very personal. For me, everything is extremely personal. With actors, the fact that I write helps, because when you say to an actor "Oh I want you to do it a little bit more ...," without saying what you want more of, then the actor doesn't know what to do. But if you can put into words exactly what you want, then the experience of writing is helpful with that.

I think that you always learn something from working with good actors.

I haven't gotten labeled as a Hispanic actor

I like to consider myself an actor who just happens to be Hispanic

An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument.

Actors always want to be musicians, and musicians want to be actors

As an actor, I'll take any job.

People tend to think when you're on dramatic films, that it's all so heavy, but it's really not when you're working with great actors.

Even in the tragedies, [William] Shakespeare always put in parts for the comic actors because his audience was mixed. He puts in people who talk like aristocrats. He puts in idiots and fools.

I'm best known as a stand-up comedian, but I'm a good actor in the right role.

The body of an actor can be either his best friend or his worst enemy.