Actors Quotes - Page 38

The best thing about switching from being an actor to being a director is that you dont have to shave or hold your stomach in anymore.

The audience perceives only what the actor wants to do to the other actor.

Movie actors disappear - any young person wouldn't know Cary Grant. They're going to disappear. Fifty years ago, you thought film was here to stay. But nothing is here to stay, actually - except perhaps paintings and drawings.

Filmmaking is such a collaborative medium.

Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.

The actor has a constant problem of personal identity.

Without chiropractic care, I couldn't have existed with my work as a TV and film actor.

Clark Gable was the only real he-man I've ever known, of all the actors I've met.

Actors' careers are random with a capital "R."

There's an impression that actors make a lot of choices. I just take what's there.

Emotional power is maybe the most valuable thing that an actor can have.

No matter how big a name you are, how many big series you've been in or how good looking you are, in the end, all actors are secondary to the writer.

Because ultimately only the witness -- and not the actors -- knows the truth (Vyasa to Draupadi)

A kitten is the delight of a household. All day long, comedy is played by an incomparable actor.

Those offers come in now and again. They're not knocking down my door. I'm only an old character actor, and I'm not needed.

When someone who is known for being comedic does something straight, it's always "a big breakthrough" or a "radical departure." Why is is no one ever says that if a straight actor does comedy? Are they presuming comedy is easier?

All actors have to make the words fit in their mouths, and make the words the words fit to how you say it and how you make it life-like and make it look like what you're saying is just conversation that you're just thinking off the top of your head. That process is not quite improvisation.

I know that I'm an actor and I guess I could kind of put on an act, but it takes so much more time to be someone you are not. I feel so much better just being comfortable with myself and hopefully girls will accept that.

Intellectual capital is the most valuable of all factors of production.

I want to do entertaining films, where a woman gets the respect of being an actor.

As a director and an actor, I encourage improvisation but in character and in the moment of what it is.

It is interesting to be here and to see that for certain actors they have to live in a way that you think of nobody living anymore except for in small towns. They have such elaborate double lives.

They were all wonderful [on Andy Griffith Show], but I enjoyed Andy and Don and Ron the most. Ron played little Opie so well. He really took acting seriously and worked hard to deliver his lines well. Andy was always fun and liked to tease. Don was nothing like Barney. Don was very quiet, which shows what a good actor he was.

A benefactor is a representative of God.

Out of all the actors I have worked with, I love working with Larry Hagman the most. We were very close and it was just a wonderful time.