Actors Quotes - Page 27

If you're gonna let the character be the story, you better set a tone that allows the actors to do the best work they can do.

I always knew that I wanted to work and I knew I wanted to be a singer and an actor. I knew that every choice I made would help me get to that point. So the better the choices I made, the more of a chance I would have to get to where I wanted to be.

When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise. His whole behavior is so shocking.

People don't yell nasty things at actors - they let them continue.

Money isn't a major motivating force in my life. Nor is my profession. There are other things that I care more about than being an actor.

Forget the credit, they (male actors) take all the money as well. We don't get paid even one-third of what male actors get. It's not so much about the money, but it's about (being a) woman.

The thing that I enjoy about being an actor and the thing that I enjoy about the arts in general is the ability to make the audience feel an emotion that they weren't intending to feel before they went in.

You make your own path as an actor. Nobody does it for you, so you have to invent yourself.

You have to remember that Hollywood is in the business of making movies that they can sell tickets to, they're not in the business of finding great roles for actors.

I honestly have no interest in celebrity whatsoever. If anything, I always cringe at it because it takes away from what I am, which is an actor who wants to be better and do better things.

I see very small movies being financed by crowdfunding. If you're a well-known actor or celebrity of some sort, you can probably raise between one and two million. I don't have that kind of cult [following].

It is easier to get an actor to be a cowboy than to get a cowboy to be an actor.

Some actors, I think, want to feel that they are as creative as the writer. And the answer is, frankly, they're not.

I can't remember ever staying for the end of a movie in which the actors wore togas.

I'm a craftsman. I'm an actor.

Deadwood was a magical experience. It was an absolute culmination of everything Ive ever wanted to do as an actor as an artist, and I was enormously proud to have been involved with it.

I was very introverted. I had glasses and was kind of weird. A lot of actors are pretty weird people.

The face and the actor is great, but if you were to start out and you said, "my name is Humphrey" somebody would punch you out, because that's a stupid name to have.

No one asked me to be an actor, so no one owed me. There was no entitlement.

There's nothing more boring than actors talking about acting.

In that way, as an actor in particular, you're powerless. And so in that way as an actor in particular you can't make mistakes.

The movie business is a big gamble.

Nobody deserves this much money - certainly not an actor.

I come from an era, in my world, where you just had to define yourself as who you are and what you do. I happen to be an actor. I happen to be someone that loves to act, that also likes music, that also likes to speak, and that also has an opinion.

Actors cannot choose the manner in which they are born. Consequently, it is the one gesture in their lives completely devoid of self-consciousness.