Actors Quotes - Page 184

It was very natural that people just think of me as a comic actor.

I'm a character actor but unlike a lot of character actors, I don't look radically different from film to film and there was a bunch of them at once.

I think if you don't stop an actor every two minutes, changing the position of the camera and the lighting, there is going to be a flow of energy.

I started out as an actor but now I act to fund my own productions. I've managed to separate my mindset.

I had always planned to be an actor, and the music was just in my DNA, it's always been.

Focus on making you the best you can be as an actor, and follow your own path.

I do a public access show with puppets. Puppets called actors, TV and movie stars.

I've done movies where I've had to cast actors and teach them to rap, and cast rappers and teach them to act.

There's something really special for a young person to sit in an audience and discover somebody, and it's rare to do because so much of a movie's economics are based on pre-existing actors or actresses.

You need great actors in this one, because there are moments where there's no way to get around it, you just need to come up with it. They have no time; they can't help you with coaches: "We've got to have it now!" Whether it's tears, whether it's a five-page scene. You can't put it off tomorrow because we're already behind; you've got to have it. I'm just amazed at the casting and how wonderful everybody was.

I very rarely get nervous as an actor. Very rarely.

I don't know an actor who hasn't let himself down at some point. I imagine it's the same in politics. There's always the potential to self sabotage.

I would like, in the long term, to be recognized as a writer-director-actor.

Shakespeare teaches you how to act. You come out of this process as a better actor. It's just the nature of the words he writes.

[In New York,] when you say you're an actor, there's a certain level of respect that goes with that.

In L.A., being an actor is like a pastime, everybody there is like, "I was on this reality show; I'm an actor." It becomes a word that is loosely thrown around.

A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.

I'm not a big method actor. I'm much more superficial.

If I can be a working actor, if I can be an actor and not have a day job, I'll be fine.

I love working with actors. I grew up with a lot of actors. All my friends are actors. I love that process.

I would love to be able to get behind the camera and direct actors. I think that would be a lot of fun.

I do think I'm a character actor.

Most actors will tell you they have some sort of dream of doing something other than what they're doing.

I can't bring you absolute truth in the detailed factual sense. All I can do is bring you an interpretation as I understand it. That's all you can ever get from an actor.

Actors love to act all those death scenes.