Actors Quotes - Page 146

Unfortunately, when you're an actor you're like 'Ah, if the only knew.'

Watching a good actor is the best way to learn.

I wanted to be a stage actor but I got stuck on television. It took a couple of years to get used to.

The most important definition of an actor, the job of the actor, is to serve the writer, not yourself. Way too many actors serve themselves.

Have we become so celebrity-obsessed that there is no longer a difference between a character and an actor? I hope not.

Clarence Darrow was a unique and courageous man. Several of my favourite actors have played Darrow... Henry Fonda, Orson Welles and Spencer Tracy.

As an actor, youre always nervous as to what a director will do with something.

In film, movies schedules are based on three things: actors availabilities, when are sets being built, when you can rent the place youre going to film in.

If there is one thing I object to, its actors talking about how tough their jobs are.

I'm probably more of a stand-up comedian than an actor.

As an actor, you're always reading scripts looking for something good.

You know, actors are fans, too. And talent is very attractive to me.

Nothing makes an actor feel freer and more inventive and more creative than being trusted.

I'm only interested in being a good actor and in being remembered for my best films, not for the way I look. But it seems inevitable in this line of work that I have to care about the way I look without getting obsessed about it.

I am a really writer-oriented actor.

I didn't get into this so I could talk about my work, my movies. You become an actor to act.

Gary Oldman is impossible to steal a movie from. He's such a great actor, he's off the hook. I love him.

I think of myself more as a workhorse actor. It will be hot and cold and up and down, but no one will kick me out of the business.

There are some actor secrets you keep sometimes, and you want to keep.

To me, one of the things I love about being an actor is that its never done; its never perfect, and so its the process. Its like practicing being okay with things not being perfect and things being outside of your control.

Most parts that can be played by one actor can equally well be played by another, but not this.

It's great, it's a creative process! It's something that I've been hungry for and I feel like I'm getting fed every day! We've got Adam and Joe in the room, and it's intense but it's a good intensity, you know? It's kind of like an actor's dream.

There are many actors who'll make their living in other areas, and they'll say they don't like theatre. What they're saying is that they're afraid of theatre because they know it will separate those who can from those who can't.

Every project you do, you hope you learn something more as an actor.

I became an actor, and because I had success as an actor, I became famous. I was acting for quite a while before I got famous; television made me famous. I guess that it's television that is responsible for everybody's desire to be famous.