Actors Quotes - Page 189

In my theater days I assumed that you had to get rid of yourself to do a character well, and I don’t think I was a very good actor when I did that.

As an actor, sometimes you feel a pressure to change yourself from time to time.

Actors put ourselves in awkward positions all the time.

I think with acting, since I became an actor... I, as a person, have become more confident and I have really come out of my shell somewhat... and back to myself, you know.

I came out of school just at the time regional theater was first expanding. All of a sudden, lots of new companies needed actors.

I enjoy comedic things. People don't understand it's the hardest thing to do. We have a ratio of 25-to-1 between good dramatic actors and people who are considered good comic actors.

I was born a character actor.

I lack confidence as an actor.

Because [writers] Dan Weiss and David Benioff have done such a great job in adapting them, that's what we work with. It serves no purpose to anybody for actors to come onto a set with a well-thumbed copy of the source material and start querying why this or that line has been left out of the script. It's probably been left out for a good reason.

If you're with someone you don't exactly trust then you have to watch yourself and that's the hardest thing for an actor not to do, and not listen to yourself as you're talking.

There's a dance that happens with you and that's why I really like doing it with stunt men, because they know how to dance generally better than actors do. It is choreography and if you aren't used to doing it things can go wrong.

But I'm not a tough guy or a street fighter for real. I'm just an actor.

I'm excited to flex my Broadway muscles - it keeps you alive as an actor.

Laurence [Fishburne] is a great example of how to communicate to the audience as you're acting with another actor.

I consider Laurence [Fishburn], Keanu [Reeves], both very acclaimed actors, I mean so good.

I think every actor should go back and do theater periodically.

Living as an actor is rather like living life on the trapezes in a circus. Every time you jump on, you have to pray that, when the time comes for you to jump off, there is another trapeze swinging your way.

As an actor, you're kind of aware of everything, or you try to be, so you take in certain habits or find certain things, such as how someone sits or how demure they are. You get those things about everybody.

Actors and burglars work better at night.

The truth is, ever since I was little, I've wanted to be an actor more than I ever wanted to be a movie star.

I have nothing but admiration for the actors on soap operas. It is unbelievably challenging to put out an hour show in one day.

I know many great actors who have small heads.

Actors have to be there and do the work, and that's enough.

Being a film actor is very different from a theatre actor.

I wouldn't say no to being in a film with Jude Law. I love English actors.