Actors Quotes - Page 178

I get involved with projects based on three parameters - the script, the actors involved and the director.

I hope to be an actor and never retire.

Nicolas Cage is a great actor and he's done some good action movies too.

I'm such a fan of actors, and also enjoy watching them work, so that I can help their acting in any way I can.

To me, the screenplay only becomes the Bible of the film after the actors have been cast.

I know that some great actors can transform, and that's fine. But I come from the school of thought that people put a version of themselves in their films.

When I was a young actor... the more different you were from the part you played, the more talent it reflected.

Be very clear as to what your dream is. Nowadays it is fairly certain that 90 percent of all actors really just want to be rich and famous as the solution to all that ails.

Nobody taught Picasso how to paint - he learned for himself. And nobody can teach you to be a producer. You can learn the mechanics, but you can't learn what's right about a script or a director or an actor. That comes from instinct and intuition. It comes from inside you.

I think film is a world of directors. Theater is a world of actors.

I was a child actor in radio, and there's not many of us left.

I've probably had more jobs than any other actor living.

I never wanted to be an actor and to this day I don`t. I can`t get a handle on it. An actor wants to become someone else. I am a song-and-dance man and I enjoy being myself, which is all I can do.

I've always been a bit of an orphan, because actors say, 'Well, he's more of a dancer.' And dancers say, 'No. He's really a singer.' And singers say, 'No. He's an actor.'

Every actor you learn from, take something from everyone - big actor or not. Whether they're big movie stars or not doesn't really matter.

I come from a very small rural village in northern Germany, and being an actor never even seemed like a possibility. I thought you would have to live in a big city, or be discovered somewhere, or be born into an artistic family, which I certainly wasn't.

acting is a wild ride, shared in the company of other actors.

I look for things that are going to challenge me as an actor.

Growing up, Paul Newman seemed like the ultimate manly actor. And then, I got to work with him and we became friends, so that was nice.

I was a film student. I became an actor but I thought I'd be pursuing filmmaking originally.

I've been an actor since I was a kid.

As an actor, if you were to simplify what acting really is, it's about letting go.

I'd say I'm definitely an actor first and foremost, but I love filmmaking.

I loved B.I.G., but not like I liked Tupac, because he was an actor, so I related to him.

I tell the actors that the biggest gift they can give me is to fail. And that the second gift they can give me is to surprise me.