Actors Quotes - Page 26

I have bullshit moments every once in a while - like every actor does.

I've always just liked working. I like being a working actor.

Despair is your friend in show business. I don't believe you can act if happiness is your lot. It's the ups that keep you living and the downs that mete out talent.

I've acted with all types, I've directed all types. What you want to understand as a director, is what actors have to offer. They'll get at it however they get at it. If you can understand that, you can get your work done.

Good directors can bring certain things out of you, with their intensity or gentleness or sensitivity or understanding. They can make an actor feel he can do no wrong.

Take egotism out and you would castrate the benefactors.

I learned a lot about acting - watching not just myself but other actors and learning how to distinguish between two great takes. It's also about one's own taste in performance.

I don't feel particularly comfortable about actors using whatever power they may have to push their beliefs, unless they're extremely well informed.

Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I'm lucky enough to be in the position where I don't make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.

My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.

Well I'd really love to work with Robert De Niro, because he's still the most talented actor out there.

I'm sure there are actors out there who work with other actors on a consistent basis - I am not one of them.

My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.

An actor who's a control freak, that doesn't work. We have to be malleable. We cannot come in and try to control or dominate.

As I got older, with my work, I became aware of the responsibility of film, and I feel one of the best ways I can apply myself as an actor, is to go beyond movie stardom and celebrity.

As an actor, if you want to while shooting, you can run back to your trailer and take a nap. But you cannot do that while directing.

I simply know what the actor's attitude should be and what he should say. He doesn't, because he can't see the relationship that begins to exist between his body and the other things in the scene.

If an actor tries to understand too much, he will act in an intellectual and unnatural manner.

As an audience member and as an actor I much prefer to find ambiguity.

As an actor, you always dream of having material that showcases what you can do.

Being an actor lets me be a million different things.

As a struggling actor, youre not looking for parts that define you; youre just looking for work.

I'm an actor and a writer, that's how I think of myself. Sometimes my time is divided equally, sometimes less equally, but that's what I do.

You're always running into people's unconscious.

It is tough to be a woman. Also as an actor, but more so as a director. And even more today, when distributors and producers are looking at different kinds of films and maybe not necessarily what a woman would want to do.