Actors Quotes - Page 46

Being an actor you have a lot of expenses.

There is only one thing I respect in so-called Broadway actors... and that is their competitive sense.

I was very intense. I think it's a privilege to be an actor.

I've worked with wonderful actors like Marlon Brando and Henry Fonda.

Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it.

Every little thing that people know about you as a person impedes your ability to achieve that kind of terrific suspension of disbelief that happens when an audience goes with an actor and character he's playing.

Boundaries are actually the main factor in space, just as the present, another boundary, is the main factor in time.

My motto is that the audience should notice the actors, not the clothes.

But I've always been hard to cast, I've never been an ingenue, I've never been the romantic lead. I'm an actor; give me the script and I do what I do and hope it's good.

As a runner on a film, you are the lowest of the low, and yet you have incredible access to everyone. I can totally imagine that for actors in the middle of a Hollywood bubble, all they really want is a sense of normality, and that gopher can be a tap for that.

Actors who perhaps are super-confident and have absolute belief in themselves I always admire, because I can't really be like that.

I was brought up in a house full of women; the first time I realised no one was interrupting me was when I was on stage - that's probably the subconscious reason I became an actor.

As an actor, Hollywood would be a horrible place to go if you weren't actually invited.

She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.

I see my face in the mirror, and I said, No, my ambition is not to be an actor.

Page one of the script, I launch into, "How would I feel if I were in this position?" That's an actor's job.

I try to encourage actors to work harder off screen because that's where you find things.

There are some actors that are so gifted, that move you in such a way that every time you see their names again, you go and pay another ticket because you want to have that experience again.

The comedians I liked were Bill Cosby and Steven Wright, like just always as a comedic actor. I always liked Gary Larson, who's really funny for a cartoonist, obviously.

I love directing because you get to see your film come to life. You get to work with the actors. There's something magical about each piece of it.

I was an accidental actor. I was never formally trained.

I am not a long-run actor. I admire actors who can do that.

There's nothing better than an actor who is really, really hungry to show everything they've got.

I really feel like indie films are where I learn to be a better actor, especially because they always give you a bit more freedom to collaborate.

I'm not a leading man. I'm a character actor. That's what I want to be.