Actors Quotes - Page 140

I feel like this is the way I was meant to interact with acting. Which is as a director, and helping, working with actors to find their way. Facilitating their performances is so satisfying for me.

I had a background in theater as an actor, and then a photographer, and then as an experimental filmmaker and editor.

I feel like part of your job as an actor is you're going to get noticed, and the more successful you get, the more noticed you are. It's kind of like a Catch-22.

London's Windmill Theater grew famous for its nude tableaux. During the 1940 and 1950, this theater overcame the objections of censors by agreeing that none of its naked actors would move any part of his/her body.

I'm really in no danger of being perceived as a famous movie actor!

I personally take cues directly from the script, then I like to surprise the other actors. But you must maintain control on a level and see how far you can go up, down or out emotionally. You have to balance the craft with spontaneity.

I pray to be of service to the playwright, the audience, the other actors and my character.

Drama is my sweet spot, but the thing about being an actor is that you want to do a variety of things. I definitely love fantasy and would want to be in a fantasy project.

I can speak of actors that I love. I love Cate Blanchett, Viola Davis, her tenacity. I love Charlize Theron. She's so surprising and so exhilarating, the kinds of projects she takes on. Marion Cotillard as well.

My immediate family was always very supportive. It was my own fear of the rest of the world not accepting me, the rest of our society not accepting my wish to be an actor.

I always love to learn new things. That's the reason I like being an actor.

A lot of my mates are actors and it's lovely to be able to work with friends.

You have a lot of stages as an actor.

With any actor, rather than tips, I think when you enjoy working with somebody and you enjoy what they do, I think your reaction is partly to be doing what they're doing, so you're learning all the time, whether it be sub-consciously or whether it be just through the person you enjoy working with.

I'm not jumping into anything fast. I'm an actor that likes to choose my work and there's an element of good taste to my work.

And I knew that, being an actor, you have to take the rough with the smooth and the highs with the lows. That's how it is.

It's just nice to do something a bit different, and I guess when you're an actor, you have the license to do that.

It's quite clear if you look at the actors in film right now, some of them came from theater but they didn't come from musical theater. There's still a bit of a stigma attached to it I would say.

The boom squanders through malinvestment scarce factors of production and reduces the stock available through overconsumption; its alleged blessings are paid for by impoverishment.

The actors I admire, like Ben Kingsley or Daniel Day-Lewis, they totally reinvent themselves in every part. I hope I get a chance to do that.

You respect all of these people that you know in the business as actors. And they sort of turn around and say, we really like your work. It's a nice acknowledgment.

All the hard work means something. That's all you can really ask for, as an actor.

It takes a minute to get use to the TV thing, and I have so much more respect for TV actors now.

I think that's part of the fun of being an actor - you get to not be normal all of the time.

I'm a young actor and I haven't learned everything there is about acting.