Actors Quotes - Page 139

Probably the biggest challenge is actors, no matter how talented the actor is they don't have the capability of being in more than one place than one particular time, which is very vexing.

When you're an actor, your body isn't your own. Your body is part of a tool that you use. Everybody else there is using you as a tool, so they have access to those things, too.

So I'm truly an actor who sings, and not a singer who acts.

I love seeing when actors go from one genre to the next because I feel like most of them can pull it off.

At the end of the day, if you are an actor, you definitely know that you're just work-for-hire.

An actor cannot be a censor. I'm there to interpret.

My favorite is Deepika Padukone. She is amazing and is a brilliant actor. She is fantastic and has come a long way

It's so funny, actors usually have a directing ambition. I've got no ambition for directing.

I like to think that I've grown as an actor and things have changed, and I think so.

The common factor of all religions is nonviolence.

As a theater actor I always wondered, 'Is there a place for me in Hollywood?

Over time as an actor, your life with a project can be so short lived because you come on, you do it, and then you're done. You have no control, no say, and all of a sudden there's all of this distance between the work you've put into something and the product as you see it appear on-screen.

I think, as an actor, theater is like one of the things that you feel most in control of and in charge of.

Every actor has to find space where they are free, in order to do good work.

I put Liam at the top of the list, the male actor list, because I had just seen Schindler's List again and Michael Collins, and I was just like, 'God, what an incredible actor.'

Every actor who has done an action film has a little tiny scar somewhere from that.

I became a dancer late and an actor late.

I'm in a very lucky position. You have to remember that 95 percent of all actors aren't working. I'm actually able to go to France and work. It's a situation I couldn't have dreamt up.

Every actor wants to get their two cents in about a scene at the end of the day.

I love the life of an actor because you spend brief amounts of time with other people and then you just leave. I need to be alone a lot, and I need the outdoors.

If I wasn't an actor, I would probably be writing or doing something with psychology.

I love stage actors. The pool of world class actors that have done theater [is big], there's a higher opportunity of grabbing somebody from that pool.

I think I take what you might call a B-movie story, deal with B-movie subjects, and I treat it as if it's an A-movie in terms of my approach, my crew, my actors, my ethics and so on. I guess that's my trademark or one of them anyway!

But I'm an actor and I like to just keep working.

I always wanted the actors to feel really free to leave the words behind if they weren't working, reword lines, if they felt like there was impulse they wanted to follow, if it was taking the scene out of order or adding something, that you should always feel free to do that.