Actors Quotes - Page 180

When I met Quentin [Tarantino], he told me what every actor wishes from any director. He said, "I've been through a Demián Bichir marathon. I've watched everything you've done." Most of the time, they don't even know what you've done.

A lot of the things that I’ve learned in the past have been from dear friends. Rodriguez’s favorite line is “Fácil!” Easy! He makes things easy. He doesn’t complicate his life. He’s obsessed with perfection, but he makes it easy, and that’s pretty much the way I work as an actor.

I'm too grateful that I continue to grow as an actor. I hope I get better. I feel like I am. But it's a roll of the dice every time you make a movie. Nobody knows.

And as far as actors go, Peter Sellers is my all-time favorite.

If you take every challenge everyone has in their life and multiply it in severity you get what it's like in the life of an actor.

I became an actor because I couldn't not.

I'm thrilled because I think that, you know, everyone has gotten what they wanted. You know, I just wanted to be (there) surrounded with the best actors period.

For an actor, playing one character and transitioning to a completely different one is a dream come true.

I think actors who take things too far are funny.

Part of an actors job, in my opinion, is adjust to the characteristics of the director and try to understand to how he tries to work.

I like to create an atmosphere where actors feel safe enough to take risks.

I think actors do make really, really wonderful directors.

It'd be hard to be a lead actor if I didn't have lips. Those are tough to graft back on.

While you're making the film and working with the actors, if you want to have a little room to breathe and experiment and play, it grows, and you want that to happen. It's not enough to just shoot the script. You've gotta come up with new inspiration, as you shoot it. There's gotta be room for that and time for that, so it grows.

Sometimes, if you leave yourself open, an actor can bring nice nuances to a character.

When we talk about climate, we need to do everything we can to set the stage before the actors come on. And they may only have one chance at success. We should keep thinking: How do we maximize that chance of success?

Inevitably, every part an actor plays contains some of himself.

I'm really not interested in showing me or playing me. My gift as an actor, given to me, is to be able to become other people.

I like to think of myself as a physical actor.

I'm one of those actors who says, "Point me toward the work that matters to me and I don't care where you're putting it. Television show. Movie. Projected on the back of someone's garage." If that's where the work is that's exciting to me and moving, I want to be there.

You're always looking for roles and other creatives who are going to be challenging to you, because you're always a better actor after the experience.

I seem to be able to disassociate my insecurities. I know a lot of actors - some of the best actors in the world - can't bear to watch themselves and I have to say I can't relate to that.

Actors don’t retire. They just get offered fewer roles.

I really was a terrible actor. I did it for years in my twenties because it was like being at university again.

When I was an actor, I worked with lots of men who had a bit of success early on, who were very good looking, who suddenly made a bit of money and who felt no embarrassment - and nor should they have done - about having a good time.