Actors Quotes - Page 43

A famous actor, Edmund Kean, on his deathbed, was reported to have said, "Dying is easy. Comedy is hard."

It's a pretty good job being an actor, but it's work sometimes. And when I say work, I mean it's a job. You're going to a job.

As actors you're always going to take certain roles that are in your comfort zone and take ones that aren't.

I do prefer doing more takes. There's something very organic that comes from the first take, but certain things come out. More details come out, in the way another actor says something. It's always this investigative process. You come further and further to the truth, the more you escalate. I like to do a lot of takes. I have a hunger for it. I like to see what there is to discover in a scene, that hasn't been thought of.

When you've got good actors, they're going to come up with good stuff, but you're never quite sure how the dynamics are going to work between them.

The relationship between the make-up man and the film actor is that of accomplices in crime

People use the Method as a shield; it shields them from being vulnerable. I hear all these young actors who are like, 'I'm Method, I'm gonna go live in the house, you know, I totally get it, I've done it, I've been there', but one thing I know is it kills spontaneity.

You develop relationships with people, and suddenly a family of actors and crew that you became so close to are now not around anymore. I'm not too sad about it because I got to move on to something else, but it's sad the way these things turn out.

I love actors, number one. There's probably nobody that you could name that I don't like, depending on what it is they're in.

I would rather be called a character actor than a star.

The primary factor in a successful attack is speed.

I appreciate film actors who respect the film making process.

To be a Dumont actor was considered to be a great honor for an actor, yet it also had its disadvantages.

Directors and producers were afraid of a Dumont actor while at the same time they admired him.

[on whether he harbored any resentment at his forced retirement from the stage after he was fired by Britain's National Theater] I should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods, feeding on the caviar of Shakespeare... An actor must act.

Most scripts are written to be green lit. They're not written to be acted. And a lot of writers with the greatest intention in the world don't write for actors. They don't understand the architecture of what an actor needs to get from point A to point B.

I love involving actors at all levels - and they have to know that I want to hear their contributions, with dialogue, with story suggestions, with script changes, whatever.

There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.

I never had any desire to be a film actor. I never thought I was the good-looking movie type, which I assumed they wanted.

I hope to become an actor who succeed not from how I look, but my talent.

It's hard to compare actors from different generations.

I like to let the actors work the way they want to.

Two of an actress's greatest assets are love and pain. A great actress, even a good actress, must have plenty of both in her life.

When people see an actor speak, they think they know him or her, whereas I'm just a face or a body to them.

I'm not Tom Cruise. Very few British actors are. If you look at the body of work I've done it's pretty obvious I'm not going to make a 'Mission: Impossible.'