Actors Quotes - Page 174

For an actor, it is better to play well (or even not so well) in a bad film, than to not play at all.

I always felt that if I was going to do a movie, I wanted it to be authentic.

I had watched 'Alfie,' but I didn't consider it a prerequisite. Michael Caine was just extremely fabulous. He's one of the most professional actors I've ever worked with. I guess after a lifetime of doing it, you know what you're doing. He's incredibly uncomplaining, undemanding.

As actors, we need a moment to take a breath and have a moment of slowness.

You can't quantify love, and if you try, you can wind up focusing on misleading factors.

But actually my dad is a very talented director and not just his use of shots and camera, but he's very good with actors and he knows acting well. It's great to see him do that and be really good at it and he's been doing it for a while and he certainly knows how to make movies, and little movies I guess for a television show, and he's going to come back in November to direct a second episode, which I'm really excited about.

I feel like in Australia, all the films I've done, we're all equal moving parts in this equation of making the film - an actor is another crew member, essentially.

If you give an actor any wiggle room to whine in situations where they want to whine, you're gonna whine.

The genres are widening. I don't think that there's as many limitations on the kinds of projects that actors can do as there once was.

Singers come and go, but if you're a good actor, you can last a long time.

An agent is a person who is sore because an actor gets 90% of what they make.

I love people who expect me to wear great, feathery costumes- and I do it. It's like an actor getting into his costume for his part. I don't really feel that part until I'm into whatever I'm going to wear.

I have trouble sometimes watching actors - even when they do a great job - with an accent.

But I've never been really rebellious. I've got a lot of support and I'm not pushed so hard that I feel like I'm going to burn out, which is what happens to a lot of actors in their early twenties.

I'm an actor and a playwright, and I don't earn much.

'Normal Heart' was my most transcendent moment as an actor.

I love theater. I love sitting in an audience and having the actors right there, playing out what it means to be a human being.

My oldest step-son wants to direct or produce. As far as being an actor, I've already told them they have to wait until they're 18; I won't take them to auditions.

Living in L.A., I was embarrassed to say that I wanted to be an actor.

Part of being an actor is being able to contribute to a character's rhythms. If there's room to explore, you find a happy medium. We almost always get it as written, and then, we throw some improvs in or some alternatives.

As an actor myself, the opportunity to sing and dance and be dramatic and be funny - it's really irresistible to actors. You get to show all sides of your talent.

I'm lucky to have worked with great actors, my whole career.

It's amazing that for actors mostly, it's a risk to attach yourself to a film that you don't know whether or not it's going to even be made and if you sign on, in doing so, who else is going to be in the movie with you.

You don't often get a chance to record with the other actors who are playing the characters, mainly due to the fact that you don't have to, the actors' schedules are all over the place, and it's difficult to get everyone in the same room.

It's always nice when you get a chance to actually work with the other actor. It just brings the scene to life, in a way that's not as easy to replicate on your own.