Actors Quotes - Page 161

I, also, found the opportunity to work with the actors extremely gratifying and rewarding.

I've always done a few things at once. I've always been a musician and an actor, at the same time.

Music informs my work so intensely. The better actor I become, the better pianist I become, and vice versa.

As an actor, you realize that your whole life is about arrivals and departures. You're always meeting people, you get really close, and then you all have to leave.

I haven't even watched that many movies, I'm like a weird actor.

I'm like a weird actor. I feel like I'm vastly uneducated when it comes to the cinema.

I am really attracted to films. It's nice to do something new, all the time. That's why I like being an actor.

One of the wonderful things about being an actor is that every director is different.

Mostly actors are progressive because we are accustomed to all the nuances of human life, whereas dictators just try to flatten it all out. So we usually try to stand up to dictators like, well, we won't mention names.

So many actors are not open in front of the camera - they have a persona.

I love it when actors come to you with a problem and you have to listen. You'd like them to just get on with it, but it often means that there's a problem with the script.

As an actor, your life experience is just as important as studying.

The dog actors and the relationship they have with their trainers is one of the most beautiful things I've ever watched happen in front of me.

Being an actor, you are recognized for being somebody else, whereas these books are distilled from me.

When you're an actor or actress in this business, usually the natural progression is to direct, but a lot of times, we don't get a chance to get to it. Myself, I really want to get into it. I want to be the person who eventually doesn't have to be in front of the camera.

I've been a musician longer than I've been an actor.

It's weird how an actor can read a script and think 'it's really good, it's really funny, that's going to be really dramatic...' and then you get there and say: "Oh, I have to get in it? I have to get in the water?! Are you kidding?"

Im not the kind of actor that can go completely cold into an emotional scene. I have to transport myself emotionally by whatever means possible, and that basically means you carry the situation with you all week, all episode or all day beforehand.

Whenever you're making a dark comedy, you're always looking for the yin and yang in an actor.

Any good actor is a character actor.

One of the reasons a lot of actors go into the business is that for a short period of time, you get to be other people who you can only fantasize about being, by and large.

Every day, every scene, you were like, "My god. I'm doing a scene with Brian Cox today and then I'm onto a scene with Stephen Rea." For us young actors, I think we were all very, very star-struck and impressed by the caliber of everyone who came out.

I always believed that I never wanted to be an actor. I only did it because I was allowed to do it and I had to do something.

As an actor sometimes you can be a bit emotional and forceful, and that's not always the way to be.

I became a professional actor in Detroit and I was able to earn some money. It was a good job because it permitted me to study. It fit perfectly with school.