Actors Quotes - Page 148

If I spread myself too thin, I'm not a good actor, I'm not a good mother, and I'm just really high-strung - and everybody hates me.

One of an actor's fears is that your current project could be your last project.

I work with all these amazing voice actors that do a kajillion voices.

I've never worked on a lawyer show for a long time, but I imagine the actors all start acting like lawyers.

It's a very, very rare moment when another actor hurts you. I mean, that's not normal.

We are talking about someone who has lived. It must be honored in every respect. The fictional can take any kind of channel - according to the actor's marriage to the character.

I am a total sucker for an actor's autobiography/biography. I have probably read most of them.

Where possible, if there's something that is highly likely to kill you, the studios won't insure us to do [the stunts]. But where we are insurable, Len likes to make us do that. He likes to see actors' faces and have everybody know that that is them doing it. Yeah, I definitely got some bruises on this one.

I think you can tell when someone is being dishonest as an actor.

Actors make less than you think.

In the theater one must sit in such a way that one sees the audience as a dark mass. Then it cannot bother one more than it does an actor. Nothing is more disturbing than being able to distinguish individuals in the crowd.

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I think that people do things for a reason - that we have mental illness, that we have genetic wiring that can get triggered by certain environmental factors.

There is a difference when you work with actors who have worked on the stage. When we're out there in front of an audience eight times a week, you can't do it on your own.

Unfortunately, I feel as actors we have to fight for the right to really go in as many directions as possible.

Ive always loved the power of stories to transport me to another world, to imagine extraordinary possibilities, to experience things I may not have access to in my regular life - like being a superhero! Also, I would always put on shows for my family and the neighbors; I guess I was an actor before I even knew it.

Usually I don't get specific advice from certain actors or actresses I work with.

Mostly I've just worked with actors and actresses that are fun and easy to talk to and had nothing but great experiences.

I'm not really a Method actor. I'm always afraid of working with someone who's afraid to [break character] and won't talk to anyone because they're in character.

Being an international actor, I always had to keep moving.

It's not often as an actor you get to be involved with a project that seems to be on the right side of history.

When I first started acting in movies - as probably a lot of naive young actors do - I made a list of directors that I wanted to work with and sent it to my agent at the time.

I never felt being an actor or making a movie was an easy thing to do.

As actors, we are so privileged to do what we do and to give to the world and to choose the subject we want to say to the world.

I wouldn't even begin to presume that the talent of an able actor is anything like the talents of a prodigious musician.