Actors Quotes - Page 143

Most actors are small, anyway - at least compared to me.

I just refuse to date actors. I've done that, and I don't want to do that anymore. It's just the stress of traveling and being away from each other so much.

I've been directed by other actors, and being an actor doesn't make you a good director.

There are clearly environmental factors that can decrease the incidence and death from cancer. I would still say though that the majority of cancers cannot be prevented at this point, but they can be treated and they can be treated two major ways.

Scratch an actor and you'll find an actor.

I'll say my dad couldn't act to save his life and nor can my uncle and they'll say I'm the worst actor in the world.

You're an actor - people judge you and criticize you, and praise you and say you're great in equal measure.

Actors should ACT. Not sell perfume, or write cookbooks.

As actors we always say that once the person in a scene gets what they want, the scene is over. It's resolved. But life is never resolved - you're always in the process.

When the creator of the show is gone, the actors end up being the people who have been there the longest.

Actors today go into TV, which I don't consider has a lot to do with acting. They only think of stardom

All actors are terrified - they just learn how to control it.

How long an actress lives professionally depends on her stamina, the extent of her masochism, her imagination, and her yearning for recognition or approval.

I had very few skills. If I hadn't been a producer I'd been a failed actor. That would have been really disastrous.

I knew that I wanted to be an actor. Then it became about whether acting wanted me.So, I gave it a shot. It hasn't worked out too bad, so far.

What I hope in my ideal world is that with each project, I'll either get to work with a really great script that would force me to grow, or work with a really great actor who will make me better.

I love actors, regardless of where they are in their skill level. There's something terribly satisfying about working with someone who's really learning.

Fear, anxiety and neurosis: that's just in the suitcase when you're an actor.

I knew you had to go in and audition and maybe they'd hire you, and that's where you start. I had a good understanding about press: that it's the actor's responsibility to publicize his or her films.

As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!

I find human behavior to be fascinating, which is probably why I'm an actor, and I think that there are a lot of dangerous misconceptions about mental illness in our society, and I would like to be a part of remedying that - particularly the stigma that surrounds so many mental illnesses.

I started as a standup comic and an actor.

Actors can't retire. What would they do?

Who says that actors are cattle? Show me a cow who can earn a million dollars a film.

From the time I became an actor my whole approach was to try to do as many different things as possible. It never occurred to me that I might be typecast.