Actors Quotes - Page 30

Theater is the most enriching and thrilling thing to do as an actor.

There's a reason why actors are always dying to work with the Coens. They just set the stage for you to do their best work.

The thing with Ridley [Scott] is he's been doing this forever, he knows what it is he wants and how to get it. There's absolutely no messing around on set. Having said that, he's very accessible to actors, very open to what you want to do and willing to talk about it.

Actors are born, good actors are trained. Dancers are born, good dancers are trained.

It's the formulaic studio movies the make money, and when they do, the actors in them are automatically movie stars.

There are some actors who are rehearsal actors, and some who are not. I am not. Having said that, I don't know what I am talking about.

I feel like I've finally made it as an actor. I've been doing this for years and you don't always make a movie that everybody likes.

When becoming a character, you have to steal. Steal whatever you see. You can even steal from other actors' characterizations; but if you do, only steal from the best.

Actors have these delicate appendages called Egos.

The job of an actor is disclosure, not pretence!

Working with any actor is like working with a monkey.

Timing: The alpha and omega of aerialists, jugglers, actors, diplomats, publicists, generals, prizefighters, revolutionists, financiers, dictators, lovers.

A lot of talented actors still have to pay their bills.

I never saw myself so much as an actor. I wanted to be a cartoonist like Charles Schulz and create my own world and be able to have a studio at home and not commute and be able to be with my family.

a struggle with shyness is in every actor more than anyone can imagine.

With everything you do as an actor, you obviously know the full story. But the person watching it doesn't, necessarily. So, you just have to discipline yourself to wipe the slate clean as you go along.

I had to learn that a good actor, like an iceberg, reveals only a small part of his ability on the surface. You suggest; you don't serve on a platter. You hold back. You don't expose it all to view. That's the way to put the audience's imagination to work.

Unfortunately, on one or both of my shoulders sits lots of anxiety and that is a controlling factor in my life.

There are lots of actors out there who are hugely, hugely talented and haven't got the breaks I've had.

I've always been a bit of a self-doubter, I think a lot of actors are. I still am.

You really can't explain how you do the things you do. I can't, anyway. I love certain actors, but sometimes they say the stupidest things about technique. I don't want to say something stupid.

There's something very interesting about the way each individual actor approaches stuff.

The best actors, I think, have a childlike quality. They have a sort of an ability to lose themselves. There's still some silliness.

Seeing someone happy on set is just a very small slice of the reality of an actor's life.

Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.