Actors Quotes - Page 29

People either buy nuclear power, nuclear reactors from outside, and don't train their own men, or they just don't go into nuclear power at all, they are so afraid of it.

The less I speak to the actors, the better. And I always hire great people, and I don't want to impose my pre-conceived notions on them. They know how to play it.

There are a lot of things that dancers can do that actors cannot and actors can do that dancers cannot.

As an actor, you should be willing to take challenges.

[Making movies is] 80% script and 20% getting great actors. There's nothing else to it.

Molly Shannon and I used to always talk about that we really felt strongly that we were comedic actors, that we weren't comedians. You just played things real and the comedy came out of the context.

Actors have no color. That's the art form.

The rehearsal is where it all happens for an actor.

I was friends with President Ronald Reagan and he once said to me, 'I don't know how anybody can serve in public office without being an actor.

The theater has never been any good since the actors became gentlemen.

A lot of shows are more script-driven, like a prose script. As an actor, you never see a storyboard.

I have lost a brother and a best friend. The world has lost one of the greatest actors of all time.

I've always preferred actors who sing to singers who act in all the shows I've done.

I'm still an actor who wants to work all the time.

The ultimate aim of the training is to create an actor who can be responsible for his artistic development and achievement.

I was trained as a dramatic actor. Im really excited to do some more dramatic stuff.

Vivek Oberoi is the most over rated actor in Hindi cinema

I used to ask Sean questions about acting. He's a brilliant actor, but I could never digest his information. I work primarily on an intuitive level.

I want to do a movie, but it has to be the right movie, whether it's independent or a studio movie. I'm much more open to being a supporting actor. At the age of 60, I'll be second fiddle. Fine. I'm happy to do it.

Only comedians can talk about death, life, God and Virgin Mary. If I was a tragic actor, I couldn't allow myself. But with this accent I can do it. I can talk with death in person because I am a clown. Yes. And I am proud to be a clown - very much.

With the films I've done, I've written on them, I've acted in some of them. And even ones I haven't acted in, I've acted them out just to be sure another actor can do them.

People always said, "I can't believe you made a movie that had no script." Yeah, but here's the thing, if you've got actors who are used to that, and that's what they like to do, they're all good improvisers and they're all people that feel comfortable doing that, then you know, it's not that big of a deal. It's what you do.

Seriously I suspected I was a good actor, though I didn't know it during 'Monsoon Wedding'. Now I realize the more I learn the less I know about acting... and life.

The best part about the movie, and everybody seems to rave about it, is the boot camp part.

I found American actors quite scary because they're brilliant actors and brilliantly funny, and they never stopped once you wound them up... off they went and they just deliver fantastic stuff.