Actors Quotes - Page 190

Hitchcock said he viewed actors as cattle.. but some were free range.

Never let your actors go before they are satisfied with a scene.

As an actor I suppose you're constantly observing. I don't sit in restaurants making notes, I don't live my life in order to then feed it into my work.

Because of my background in theater and radio acting, I knew that I could make a living as an actor.

Actors are always looking for ways to build a character.

There's a myth about actors saying, 'Oh no, that's not me on screen at all. I'm just acting.' OK, if I were to say to you that's not me, that's fine. And I would tell you that I don't behave like a villain everyday, and that's true, I don't. But to say there's absolutely none of me in there is ridiculous.

When we approach history, we are dealing with a conglomeration of irrational continua. Those who deal with history by nonrational processes are the ones who make history, the actors in it.

Eventually I want to be a full-time mother who works occasionally - and being an actor you have that freedom.

I feel like I was born an actor. I did not pursue acting until I was a bit older. But I got a taste of it at an earlier age in the UK.

At times as an actor, it's often times unclear as to what the directors envision for a project.

As a writer, I always think about who my prototype actors are, in my brain. It's helpful, as a writer, to think about that.

One of the most important things for an actor is to observe humanity.

I kind of knew it wasn't going to be until my 30s that I really hit my stride as an actor.

What I love about him [Robert Rodriguez] is that he understands that actors are transformational. It's a natural instinct to ask people to do what you've seen them do before. Until you see someone do something new, you don't know what they can.

As an actor, you're naked emotionally; you're revealing yourself emotionally.

Personally, just as an actor, I love accents; they're fun.

I'm a businessman and actor and I still make appearances.

I don't get it. I just don't get it. If Art is supposed to imitate Life, why do they want all the actors to be thin? There are fat people in the world. Shouldn't there be a few of us actors to represent them?

Anyone who says there isn't pressure to look good as an actor in L.A. is lying.

I never know what is going to have that 'X' factor and what isn't.

You never know what movie I will be in next, but let's just hope it's sells (for my sake at least)!

One of the great things about being an actor is that you do get to indulge in someone else's life.

I just love when a movie takes a break and gives you a poetic moment, but sometimes it's good when they just happen randomly. If your actors are really comfortable and you let the camera roll, sometimes things happen and you just see something that's visually iconic, or emotionally that way.

I'm an actor, because I get to see other sides of life and I get to be other people and it excites me so much.

I think it’s because there's quite a few of us now but because we’re less frequent than American actors - because Hollywood is the place to be for actors - and there's just a big rush when an Australian comes over just because there's less of them. I guess that's just how it is. Like if you pick a pink jellybean out of a jar of green ones it’d be amazing, but if you pick a green one, no one will care.