Actors Quotes - Page 23

I'm glad that I'm being acclaimed as an actor. Today, when my hard work has paid off I can chill out about it.

I don't believe actors who say they don't bleed into their characters. It's absolutely impossible not to.

Filmmakers tell actors to adjust their body language, and the famous presence of the actor is his or her body language. That is what makes them special and a movie star. An actor's capital is his body.

I love working with actors. That's what the set really is, for me. It's my time with the actors.

A lot of actors talk about doing their homework, but very few of them do it.

As an actor I want to do as many takes as I can. I wanna shoot the scene... or shoot the shot 'til they make me quit.

When actors are too good-looking, I can’t memorize them. For example, I have never seen a picture of Sienna Miller where I didn’t say, “That girl’s pretty. Who is that?

I will never date an actor or a model. My family will never accept her. We are a middle class family, and an actress will never be able to gel with us.

There's no such thing as a small part. There are just small actors.

I was always a character actress and never a sex symbol. Even when I was the leading lady, I was a character actor.

I was never famous as a kid. That's the biggest difference between me and any other kid actor is that I wasn't famous as a kid.

Technically speaking, you drive like a rabid chicken who has hijacked a tractor.

The reason I'm an actor is because I'll never be able to be perfect.

I didn't back into being an actor, I was born one.

The fact of the matter is that most actors are shy people.

I have friends that are much better actors than I am that had to quit the business because they couldn't survive the auditions or the rejections, or people just didn't realize how good they were.

Being a star is an agent's dream, not an actor's.

In order to be a good actor, I'm a firm believer that you need to bring something to the table.

Strength of character is already written. What we bring, as an actor, is an almost 3D-ness to it.

Before becoming an actor I kind of just wanted to paint and live somewhere and do something low-key and artistic.

I slowly came to realize that this job of being an actor, you spend most of your time looking for work. That is your job. Your job is auditioning. You spend very little of your time actually working.

Today's films are so technological that an actor becomes starved for roles that deal with human relationships.

The key to every actor is deep, deep insecurity.

So many actors wear wigs nowadays. Besides, if someone is hiring me because of how I wear my hair, I don't want to work with them anyway.

It is impossible to describe any human action if one does not refer to the meaning the actor sees in the stimulus as well as in the end his response is aiming at.