Actors Quotes - Page 34

Actors love mental disorders, dialects, and corsets. Give them one of the three and they're happy

I have never liked Morrissey, and I still don't. I think it's hilarious, actually, what things I've heard about him, what he's really like, and his public persona is so different. He's such an actor.

As an actor, you use the things from yourself that you can apply to the character.

I've always believed that as an actor anything you're asked to do is within you. You just have to try and find it.

A film is born in my head and I kill it on paper. It is brought back to life by the actors and then killed in the camera. It is then resurrected into a third and final life in the editing room where the dismembered pieces are assembled into their finished form.

I want to see something that I've never seen before, so how can I tell that actor what that is? I'm not trying to construct a document or situation that is what I want, because what I want is something new to me.

C'mon, we're actors. We love the attention. We love the applause. We sure don't like to be rejected.

When I was five, I always told my mom I would want to be an actor.

Acting is bad acting if the actor himself gets emotional in the act of making the audience cry. The object is to make the audience cry, but not cry yourself. The emotion has to be inside the actor, not outside. If you stand there weeping and wailing, all your emotions will go down your shirt and nothing will go out to your audience. Audience control is really about the actor

I am a better cook than I am an actor. If I have any ego, it's about cooking. I'm one of the best cooks... and I cook in any language.

When it came to a lot of these German actors with the English, they just couldn't do it. They couldn't get the poetry out of it. They couldn't own it and make it their own. And then Christoph [Waltz] came in, and I didn't know who Christoph was.

As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I'm severed.

I don't enjoy being told what to do, I'm not that kind of actor, I'm a thinking actor.

I'm not an actor, I'm a movie star!!!

The actors are in control, getting outrageous amounts of money. The reason they're getting this kind of money is because the studios don't know what else to do. They don't have a clue about what to do except to pay an actor a lot of money.

Age is not the determining factor in health.

I think I'm a better actress for having friends and interests outside the theatre. I wouldn't want to live my life surrounded by other actors all the time.

This movie is a toupee made up to look like honest baldness.

You can't stop being a citizen just because you have a Screen Actors' Guild card.

An actor has to evaluate his own abilities and be honest with himself.

I never was able to do karate. That's calling me a good actor. I act like I can do anything.

In fact, as a general thing, money-getters are the benefactors of our race.

An actor is part illusionist, part artist, part ham.

I just wanted to be an actor. It's better to be well-rounded.

But I love filmmaking - I'm not ashamed of that. You're sort of vilified if you say that in England.