Actors Quotes - Page 24

I've always been spontaneous and outgoing... I've tried lots of things so I've got some good life experiences, which is great 'cause it means I've got lots of material to work with as an actor.

An actors' tribute to me is in his work.

I don't write shows with dialogue where actors have to memorize dialogue. I write the scenes where we know everything that's going to happen. There's an outline of about seven or eight pages, and then we improvise it.

There is some mysterious thing that goes on whereby, in the process of playing Shakespeare continuously, actors are surprised by the way the language actually acts on them.

The bottom line is that I'm an actor, so when somebody pitches me a great part, it's a no-brainer. You never know what it's gonna be like, in terms of the actual experience. You can be really excited about a part that can turn out shitty, you can have a bad time, there's a bad egg or two or three, in the bunch, or the producers are weird, or something like that.

Good actors can sort of see into people and immediately you have a chemistry with them or not. It's like an affair with no mess.

Conversely, the most powerful thing an actor can say is "no." If something is presented and it's a stereotypical role or something, you can say no to that, and that's very powerful.

I've done 33 Sherlock Holmes stories and bits of them are all right. But the definitive Sherlock Holmes is really in everyone's head. No actor can fit into that category because every reader has his own ideal.

The marrying of an actor and his whimsical and theatrical vision is very enjoyable, because he wants it to be filled with something honest, truthful, human, soulful, substantial.

Love is the one emotion actors allow themselves to believe.

As an actor, I think most people have a tendency to want to demonstrate that they can act, they can emote.

In America there's no way I can make the kind of movie I like to make.

Dates with actors, finally, just seemed to me evenings of shop talk. I got sick of it after a hile. So the more famous I became, the more I narrowed down my choices.

When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away.

No doubt, my role in 'Urumi' has been one of my best so far. It surprised me as an actor and made me more confident.

He that will forget God, will also forget his benefactors.

Now what else is the whole life of mortals, but a sort of comedy in which the various actors, disguised by various costumes and masks, walk on and play each ones part until the manager walks them off the stage?

Being typecast is a great thing for an actor. I was considered one of the New York mob actors.

I think a good director casts a film so that the actors bring a lot to the table.

I was always going to act, literally ever since I was tiny. In fact, I have Doctor Who to thank for that. I wanted to become an actor after being obsessed with Tom Baker, the fourth Doctor Who, in the 1970s. His was the definitive performance of all time in anything.

I'm used to working alone. Frankly with some of the actors I've worked with, I've felt like I was working alone.

Actors come up and just blatantly hit on my wife in front of me and don't even look at me.

Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference.

But then there is the one who seems to have a hard time separating the actor's work from reality.

The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.