Actors Quotes - Page 28

I realized that public affairs were also my affairs. I became active in politics because I saw the possibility, if we all sat back and did nothing, of a world in which there would no longer be any stages for actors to act on.

I'm usually trying to react to what the actors are coming up with. And then the environment, and then the story.

Because as an actor, I really feel you cannot judge a character. You have to totally commit to that character. And for me to totally commit to the character, I have to find those places where I understand the sequence of behavior.

'Ides of March' I did for scale - scale as a director, scale as an actor, scale as a writer.

I want to be an actor, maybe a comic actor but a real actor.

Dysfunctional families have sired a number of pretty good actors.

Movies are in a much longer production conversation before an actor is even involved. I always thought of actors as the last piece of the puzzle - so you're a tool.

For non-state terror actors, the United States must develop the ability, no matter how difficult, to track down and incapacitate those responsible and do it rapidly.

Making a film is like making a mixtape. You're collecting all this stuff and putting your favorite stuff into it: you have actors that you like, characters that you're interested in, moments you want to explore, themes you want to deal with, music that you want to put in. It's a pastiche of all these things that deal with how you see the world. You're just trying to make a love letter, a gift.

My sexual nature is irrelevant. I'm an actor, I play roles, fragments of myself.

Don Siegel last advice to me was 'Don't short yourself.' He said the tendency is when an actor's directing is to kind of you want to work on everybody else but you're going to short yourself. He said, take the time to do a good job with yourself so that you're satisfied with it.

As an actor you become that lighting rod between the person who made the play and the audience.

What you're trying to do as an actor is somehow trick yourself into believing that these words have never been said, and so you've got to discover them for the first time.

Every experience feeds an actor, and I've learned that depression is all around us.

Whatever you do, make sure you want to write more than you want to be a writer. Make sure you want to act more than you want to be an actor. That is what will sustain you.

The true determining factor of our belief system is not what we're saying, but how we are living.

We all want to escape our circumstances, don't we? Especially if you are an actor.

They say an actor is only as good as his parts. Well, my parts have done me pretty well, darling.

You have to be pretty tough to be an actor, and you have to be pretty certain what you want. You can't waffle through this business.

I try to stay out of the spotlight as much as humanly possible, because I think that when actors, whether or not they've chosen it or it has been thrust upon them, are living very public lives, it affects your ability to get lost in their performances.

Great writing attracts great actors. It attracts money. Without a great script, you have nothing.

PRE-EXISTENCE, n. An unnoted factor in creation.

As an actor, I still have to remind myself of daring to let go and not to repeat myself.

I want to be a great actor someday, and I've decided there's no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.

Auditioning is extremely bizarre. Just being an actor is extremely bizarre, but I wouldn't have it any other way.