Actors Quotes - Page 14

I find that actors who are wanting to pursue tv or films don't seem to have much interest in classical theatre.

Actors and actresses who say they never go to see their own pictures are talking through their hats. You don't have to be a Freud to know that the most fascinating person in the world - actors or anybody - is yourself.

Improv as an actor makes you present in the moment. You listen, you're attentive. You're not acting so much as reacting, which is what you're doing in life all the time.

That's really just the worst part of life really, you get bracketed somewhere and the next thing you know people are saying, 'No. No. That's not the type. Get me so and so.' I'm not a type. I'm an actor.

Every scene you will ever act begins in the middle, and it is up to you, the actor, to provide what comes before.

I'm a rapper trying to be an actor.

An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer.

An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What if everybody jumped on his violin?

There's nothing more exciting for an actor than a chance to lose, to be someone who has lost - especially if it's someone who starts off with a veneer of control. To be broken is wonderful.

Of all the things I've done in life, directing a motion picture is the most beautiful. It's the most exciting and the nearest than an interpretive craftsman, such as an actor can possibly get to being a creator.

Independent film is for actors that love to act.

I'm just back in line with every other actor looking for a job right now and keeping my fingers crossed.

Until Ace Ventura, no actor had considered talking through his ass.

I think that with any emotion - fear, love, nervousness - if the actor's feeling it, then the audience feels it.

As an actor, I look at scenes much differently than I would look at them as a director, and I never realized that until it actually happened.

Basically, one of the hardest things about being an actor is getting your first break. I'm a product of nepotism. The doors were open to me. I'd done several movies before I decided what I wanted to do.

In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator.

When I walk into a screening, I'm nervous in a different way than I am as an actor. But the response is ultimately I know how I feel about it and that's what matters to me the most.

I'm an actor who believes we all have triggers to any stage of emotion. It's not always easy to find but it's still there.

There are no small parts. Only small actors.

Somebody did an article in one of the newspapers saying that at that time I had the most visibility of any actor around. Kind of nice, you know, when that thing was happening.

My goal beyond being an actor, is just being an open channel.

An actor is a sculptor who carves in snow.

You know, young actors say all the time, 'Should I use my own life experience?' And my response is, 'What choice do you have?'

Actors are basically drag queens. People will tell you they act because they want to heal mankind or, you know, explore the nature of the human psyche. Yes, maybe. But basically we just want to put on a frock and dance.