Actors Quotes - Page 142

Actors are as good as they allow themselves to be, and to portray life, you have to have as broad an experience of it as you possibly can, so everything's worth it.

Some actors need to be rattled and some need to be focused

You are what you know, as an actor, so you gotta try to know as much as you possibly can.

If I'm doing my job as an actor, the audience knows everything I know about the character.

Every actor dreams of getting a big break, a big opportunity.

At this point, I'm happy to be part of something special. As an actor I liked to choose scripts that I'm passionate about.

I'm a professional actor. If I was a plumber, I wouldn't just do my plumbing in Beverly Hills bathrooms; I'd like to install air conditioning units and a few other things.

As an actor, you never know where the works going to come, so you have to be flexible about it.

It's my first sort of commercial attempt, but it made sense for me because I'm not that kind of guy and I'm not going to continue to do that kind of movie.

When I was doing 'This Boy's Life' I wanted to be as old as Robert DeNiro and as experienced as him and have the same respect as he did in that movie.

We actually did a lot of takes on this movie [J. Edgar Hoover]. I never left the set wanting more. That's for sure. I don't know. This was a very difficult character for me and a lot of the other actors here, and at times we went and did 8 or 9 or 10 takes on a single day.

I have to say as an actor I have been inspired by so many British actors throughout the years.

This created world really helped me as an actor. It heightened everything, which made it more dangerous, more interesting and more liberating.

Acting is a form of deception, and actors can mesmerize themselves almost as easily as an audience.

You never know where you're going to find a great actor.

I'm part of that generation that grew up watching TV, and being an actor was all about being on TV or being in films.

I've always been someone who feels better, if I see what I'm going through in a movie.

I've never thought of myself as an actor, so somebody recognizing me for that would be a real shock.

When I started doing television, I thought that I would change the way that I shot, the way that I blocked, and the technical side of it. You're not going to change your relationship with the actors or how you approach the characters. That wasn't any different.

There are plenty of directors who work with the same actors over and over, many more times than I have. Like I have worked with Bill Nighy more times than I have worked with Kate, but I'm not married to Bill Nighy.

I was an actor for over a year before I ever saw a play.

I don't want fame. I want to grow as an actor and a person while having my family and my life.

I don't work with fear, and I don't work with actors that are fearful.

Trust is hard to get from actors, and for me to give to actors.

I'm not tough when it comes to people criticizing the people that I protect, and those are the actors. It makes them scared to do it again for another director.