Actors Quotes - Page 37

I know what my talents are, and at the end of the day I'm an actor who can dance.

I'm still interested in perfecting whatever talents I have and continuing to grow as an actor and continuing to be useful to the telling of the story.

My hunger and desperation, being an actor, an out of work actor - my memory of that is as fresh as an open wound.

The great actresses and actors receive awards for great roles in great films.

An actor without a playwright is like a hole without a doughnut.

If you want to protect yourself as an actor, always work with good people

John Goodman is more that just a big guy, he's a wonderful actor.

Since first starting my career, I've grown accustomed to working with actors older than me. I'm always the youngest.

I've worked with a lot of really fine actors, both on stage and on screen. The level of their game lifts me up and brings the level of my game up to theirs. Always. It's like a constant upgrade.

People imagine that actors are being offered everything and you are not. So things come in and sometimes there are things that I want and can't get a meeting on, or go to a different actors.

The early part of my career was the 1990s, and I was living in New York working as an actor. It was the world I was in. A lot of companies had a great deal of money.

Are you genuine? Or just an actor? A representative? Or what it is that is represented?-In the end, you might merely be someone mimicking an actor ... Second question of conscience.

Directing a movie is serious, it's not a joke.

When you're a young actor, there's this pressure to rush. But I hope to be doing this into my sixties and seventies, so I'd prefer to take my time.

If painters left nothing of themselves after their deaths, so that we were obliged to rank them as we do actors according to the judgment of their contemporaries, how different their reputations would be from what posterity has made them!

I was able to capture on film things the actors didn't even know they were doing.

The first thing you should do with an actor is not sign a contract with him. Take him to dinner. And take him for a walk afterwards.

To save the Theatre, the Theatre must be destroyed, and actors and actresses all die of the Plague ... they make art impossible.

The actor's popularity is evanescent; applauded today, forgotten tomorrow.

Most actors hate watching their own films because all you can see is the glaring mistakes, your own tricks and ticks.

That's such a relevant thing, as an actor - committing and not being distracted by any kind of technical awareness, or whatever. You do have to block things out sometimes, and sometimes it's easier than others.

One of the things you can do as an actor, is compensate for the things you can't do in life.

Be your own hero, it's cheaper than a movie ticket.

From my experience as an actor, choreographer, action director, and producer, I understand the elements and the dynamics of being a film maker.

I've had some ambivalent feelings about being an actor. I don't know that I've ever been totally and completely comfortable with it.