Actors Quotes - Page 16

The public must suffer untold pangs from the stiffness, the deliberate stifling of emotion, on the part of many British actors.

English actors feel vaguely apologetic for being there at all. American actors know that the most important thing is to get one take out of fifty that is great, and they'll go to any length to get it. The English are used to working within consistently small, low-budget things and think, I mustn't waste their time.

I am the most fortunate self-taught harpist and non-speaking actor who has ever lived.

I like actors that are good with pantomime and that can transmit a lot by their presence and attitude more than through their dialogue

I became an actor because it was the only thing I could do. I didn't have any friends, I didn't fit in. But when I started acting everything in my life shifted and I felt happy.

In a sense, I think a movie is really a little like a question and when you make it, that's when you get the answer.

I'm Godless. I've had to make my God, and my God is narrative filmmaking

I am admiring of my fellow peers, black filmmakers and black actors and actresses.

Actors who say they can dive inside a character are either schizophrenic or lying.

Fifteen years before I became a screen actor, I was in the theatre. A lot of my work was comedy, which I loved doing. It's harder.

I know that some actors and directors like to have intensity on set. I don't, particularly. Certainly, if they want that, that's fine, but I can't work like that.

As an actor, you're used to putting on characters, taking them off, becoming someone else, doing your research, and working on that.

I keeps it real nothing. Like you actors do

Sometimes you take a job for the money, sometimes you take it for the location, sometimes you take it for the script; there are just a number of reasons, and ultimately what you see is the whole landscape of it. But I can tell you from behind the scenes - that's what it is, as an actor.

As actors we give so much of ourselves away so I like to keep my personal life to myself.

I fell in love with Bruce Lee after I watched his movies, and I wanted to become a kung-fu practicer, and I would like to be someone like Bruce Lee. That's why I learned kung-fu, and that's why I picked the wing chun style, because it's his style. That's why I decided to be an actor, to go into show business, because of him.

The imagination is closer to the actor than real life-more agreeable, more comfortable.

We have been the benefactors of our cultural heritage and the victims of our cultural narrowness.

To be an actor, a true actor, you have to be brokenhearted.

After every single take, I laugh. It's my own awkwardness and discomfort about being an actor.

I never will believe there is such a thing as a great actor.

Actually, the most entitled people I've met are indie rockers and indie actors, because they really believe their press.

I've had this unbelievable amount of good fortune and I'm just so thankful for it. But at the same time I feel exceptionally guilty. I have so many friends who are talented graduates of Juilliard and are exceptional actors and I'm the lucky one that somehow got such a fortunate break.

As actors, you become an expert at starting over.

I want to be a good actor more than anything - someone you can respect.