Actors Quotes - Page 17

To be a good actor, you have to be very smart. But to be a great actor, you also have to have a streak of, 'I'm an idiot, a complete lunatic.'

The hardest job an actor can do is all this pretend, all this screaming and being scared for your life.

When an actor is in the moment, he or she is engaged in listening for the next right thing creatively. When a painter is painting, he or she may begin with a plan, but that plan is soon surrendered to the painting's own plan. This is often expressed as 'The brush takes the next stroke.' In dance, in composition, in sculpture, the experience is the same: we are more the conduit than the creator of what we express

Mr. Hitchcock did not say actors are cattle. He said they should be treated like cattle.

Against the background of this luminous and sparkling stage Bond stood in the sunshine and felt his mission to be incongruous and remote and his dark profession an affront to his fellow actors.

Regrets are something you can't really have as an actor, because ultimately you'll end up destroying yourself there's a lot of disappointment in this business.

It's different when you're an actor and playing a part, but when it's just you, you feel immensely vulnerable have strangers prodding and prying.

Every actor and actress is possessed of the absorbing passion to create something distinctive and unique.

A movie is not a book. If the source material is a book, you cannot be too respectful of the book. All you owe to the book is the spirit.

According to most philosophers, God in making the world enslaved it. According to Christianity, in making it, He set it free. God had written, not so much a poem, but rather a play; a play he had planned as perfect, but which had necessarily been left to human actors and stage-managers, who had since made a great mess of it.

Actors tend to get in their own way, a lot. A lot of times you will do things that will screw up your audition process. I was very bad at auditioning, and I always went in to it saying ‘God I hope I don’t screw this up.’ But at the same time, the directors are saying, ‘God, I hope this person is the savior.’ You have to remember is that the worst thing that could happen is you don’t get the job you don’t already have.

Is this film more interesting than a documentary of the same actors having lunch?

So many people are called but few serve as actors, you know what I mean?

The staff, stage managers, ushers all behaved as if they respected the actors.

I thought I was an actor playing a wizard. But really, I was a wizard playing an actor.

I was born an ordinary actor. I will die an ordinary actor. But I've persisted.

I really think music and movement - dance, you know - and literature inform my visuals. I think film is also based in dance. The relationship between me, the camera and the actor is always a dance.

There are too many stars and too few actors.

When they asked Jack Benny to do something for the Actor's Orphanage - he shot both his parents and moved in.

They're a very strange lot actors, very strange people.

Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he'd be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.

I was very young when I was in RNBDJ and that journey had enabled me as an actor. I am not very confident of my growth as an actor but I am very confident of my growth as a person.

I hope the perception is that I'm an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.

As a director you want to have actors, not only surpassing themselves, but also going somewhere, going different places.

maybe a certain amount of narcissism is as essential to an actress as muscles are to a football lineman.