Actors Quotes - Page 45

I don't have any expectations as an actor and being rich and famous is not my driving force.

As a character actor, I've learned that you have to watch yourself because nobody else is watching. Nobody is concerned with you.

We do assess that hostile actors gained access to the private commercial email accounts of people with whom Secretary Hillary Clinton was in regular contact from her personal account.

I've never had sex with boxers on and it's an odd thing to watch actors do. That's not saying I haven't tried... I just don't recommend it!

As an actor, I feel like I'm somebody who, when somebody gives me a mark, I don't want to hit it. I don't like that. But then, without even knowing it, I just hit it.

The thing about anything in life is you have to get ready for it. Study, learn and in terms of acting, there's a lot to learn. The bigger culture you have in life, the better actor you'll be. You'll have more to pull on.

I believe in making all movies at their most reasonable. That I get a lot of money as an actor is because nobody else will get it if I don't.

I never had any backlash from the model-turned-actor thing.

When I think about actors I know, I'd much rather hear about who they're shagging than what film they're doing next.

A film actor is just a victim of directors and editors.

I guess I work well with others I handle younger actors well.

Even when you're making a movie about life, death is a presence, and I guess it's part of my dramatic viewpoint. I'm not sure why exactly.

I'm an actor, that's my contribution.

What you try to do, as an actor, is just make it work somehow.

If it's a good script I'll do it. And if it's a bad script, and they pay me enough, I'll do it.

As a filmmaker you get typecast just as much as an actor does, so I'm trapped in a genre that I love, but I'm trapped in it!

Gene Wilder often said that his job as an actor wasn't to make something funny but to make it real.

It was the fashion of the time, still is, to feel that all actors are neurotic, or they would not be actors.

Fonda and Gary Cooper had the best sense of timing of all the actors I knew.

I was trained to be an actor, not a star.

John [Cassavetes] loved actors. He gave them a lot of freedom. So if something came up that a certain actor just felt at the moment and said - that kind of improvisation he would accept. He gave very little direction.

I'm not like one of those actors who's a frustrated director.

I like celluloid, I like film, I like the way that when a movie is projected it sort of breathes a little in the gate. That's the magic of it to me.

I have a sixth sense for casting. I just have to see and talk to the actors. I never make tests. I like to work with crowds. I like to get the principals in a crowd. When they do, something else comes off, something special.

The energy released by it is enormous and it becomes quite addictive, the power between the audience and the actor.