Actors Quotes - Page 155

I'd prefer not to act in the film I'm directing. I think, though, as an actor, you do learn how to turn things on and off quickly and kind of compartmentalize. You learn to accommodate the camera and the other actors, to notice where the boom is and where you mark is, and be able to repeat something a few times.

People say as a woman actor your career is over at 40. But then they told me I would never work again after I was 16.

I had always wanted to be on TV; my mom told me that when I was little, I told her I wanted to be a 'modeler,' because that's what I called actors on TV.

I'd see child actors and I'd get so jealous, because they're just completely wide open.

As an actor, you always want to do the juicy stuff. But, it's important to get the levels right.

As an actor, or as a person, I like to do things that are challenging.

The writer creates the role on the page and then the actor takes it and makes it their own.

Tonight I'll be interviewing Ken Watanabe, Keisha Castle Hughes, Benecio Del Toro and Djimon Honsou - and yes, those are actors, not caterers.

I was in drama, wanted to be an actor.

I can't imagine writing if I didn't have a reader. Any more than an actor can imagine acting without an audience.

I think of myself more as a character actor than that ingenue leading lady, who started out something like Michelle Pfeiffer, or Jessica Lange. I'm a bit quirkier than that.

I've never trained as an actor. I've always thought I'm not a good actor. I've been told I'm not a good actor by a lot of people.

To have a job you can count on as an actor is so rare, whether that means belonging to a regional theater company or being on TV.

I like actors who just become that person and then react, and Adam [Driver] is completely reactive in that way. So every day working with him was really a pleasure. And he's in almost every scene in the film, so the poor guy had to work the - almost the entire 30 days of our film shoot. But, yeah, he was really a pleasure, and I really love what he - how he embodied this character.

Yeah, I am a character actor.

I've always wanted to be an actor. I've never planned on the acting and the stand-up feeding each other; they've always been separate desires.

As an actor, you deal with so much rejection and humiliation. When the good things come around, you tend not to trust your instincts.

What actor wouldn't want to work with Mel Gibson?

I didn't want to be an actor.

At the worst it was eight hours of makeup, and I couldn't sit down; I was in this crouched position. [on the traumas of being an actor in full make up]

I really enjoy talking to actors or filmmakers that enjoy that process of creating and how they go about doing it.

You know, my point in being an actor is to get people to believe that this is not about me, but something else.

I want to be the greatest actor that ever lived, frankly. I'd love that. But I don't need to be. I just want to be here. That's it.

But I refuse to believe that I am a better actor than myself.

There are two thoughts that will ensure success in all you do; (1) Don't tell everything you know, and (2) until Ace Ventura, no actor had considered talking through his ass.