Actors Quotes - Page 47

I think you can't be really posh and be an interesting actor. I'm a bit of a posh rough.

So many singers want to act, and so many actors try to sing.

What use is there for a biography of myself? I'm just a movie actor.

I try to carve my own way so the actors who come after me will say, "I want to do it like Columbus did it."

God felt sorry for actors, so he gave them a place in the sun and a lot of money. All they had to sacrifice was their talent.

Method actors are like hams.

I depended on chiropractic care when I was an athlete. I depend on it now as a busy film and TV actor.

An actor really is a kind of intermediary between an audience and the piece, whether it's a play or movie.

The only job that was ever of interest to me other than filmmaking is architecture.

Every actor has to make terrible films from time to time, but the trick is never to be terrible in them.

I want everyone to feel as much as possible as if they inhabit the same space. They more fluid the relationship between actor and audience, the better.

Nuclear apocalypse-who do you need? Actors are probably not top of the list. What can I do for you? I can pretend to be somebody who can grow you some nice crops.

The interesting thing about a movie is the movie.

I'm not an actor that tends to care. I don't ask "Is this a close up? Is this a master? Is this a wide? What are you doing?" If I look up and notice the camera I go "Oh, it's a big one today, must be an IMAX." And that's kinda it for me because it doesn't affect what I'm doing.

The process of filmmaking is very musical, you get into the rhythm and the rhythmics of how someone is, especially with Woody Allen who is very much into body language and body movement.

What I learned as an actor was the only way you could really do August Wilson's work, you had to leave an ounce of your essence on that stage,... Otherwise it was impossible.

In the theatre, the actor is given immediate feedback.

I go to the movies a lot, and I regret when I see some actor that I used to like, to find them offering no more surprises.

Being an actor means being an instrument for someone else. I want to give myself completely.

I never hoped that both my children would become actors. I expected them to do something else.

I'm scared of actors with a scheme.

If you know why someone is doing what they're doing, why they're behaving the way they are, then that's your job to reveal that, and often that's situational. The storytelling does that, and then some of it's your job as an actor to make that subtext come to life.

Actors may know how to act, but a lot of them don't know how to behave.

Me being an actor was an accident, and not something I wanted to do, because I knew what happened eventually. Yeah, maybe you'd get famous, but then you wouldn't be famous anymore. Then you'd have to scramble to get back to where you were, and chances are, you wouldn't.

In the editing room, 20 percent of the time you're using stuff from before the actor knew the camera was rolling or you're taking a line from somewhere else and putting it in his mouth.