Actors Quotes - Page 33

The actor side of me loves to get dressed up and I feel like Cinderella when I'm in diamonds.

That's how I digest it, 'cause I can press the fast-forward button and I know that I'm gonna have to continue to be an actor, continue to make choices, continue to perform in a show every week.

Any actor will tell you, as soon as your ego and your vanity come into the mix, it destroys your work. Completely destroys it.

My approach to the work is the same, whether I had the lead or a supporting role. I consider myself a character actor in the true sense of the word. Unless I'm doing my autobiography, I'm playing a character.

I'm an actor. I can do whatever I want. As an actor, not everything has to be the most obvious choice. And sometimes, the best thing you can do is to defy expectations.

I don't think a lot of actors talk about it, but there's usually a process where you essentially purge yourself of the character that you played prior to the movie.

Agents are still asking for millions of dollars for actors that don't sell one ticket.

I'm an actor, I'm always looking for work. I was born to do that.

I do some acting. And there's a difference between "I do some acting" and "I'm an actor."

Characterization in a play is like a blank check which the dramatist accords to the actor for him to fill in.

The world 's a theatre, the earth a stage, Which God and Nature do with actors fill.

All actors are incredibly insecure.

For me as an actor, daring is to tell the truth - to be yourself, no matter how the world interacts with that.

I'd love to do Broadway some day. Before I started doing television I was just a primarily a stage actor, but I haven't done it in a while.

Regeneration, however it is described, is a divine activity in us, in which we are not the actors but the recipients.

I'd love to direct a film, but I don't think I have the temperament for it. I'm very hyper, and I want things to be done ASAP. If I turn director, I might end up killing my actors.

The big thing for actors is the level of commitment.

Sometimes, I even recite the role to the actor if it's not clear. And I beg them not to imitate me, because I'm not a good actor.

Inside I never said I wanted to do theatre or be an actor.

My career is very easy to interpret. It's about working. I'm a working actor, so that's how I see myself.

An actor without an audience is rehearsing.

Becoming an actor? If it's not a calling, don't do it. It's too hard.

I have no personal interest or gain from this , I am just an actor

I don't like shows, I don't like to put on a show, I just really want to work intimately with my actors.

I still have the actor's disease. I always think I'll never get another job.