Actors Quotes - Page 5

Maybe I should just go home and ride my tractor.

There's nothing more boring than unintelligent actors, because all they have to talk about is themselves and acting. There have to be other things.

I remember hitting Sarah Michelle Gellar with a right hook during my first week on the job. It was awful. They usually pair actors with stunt doubles to avoid things like that.

For we cannot adequately understand 'man' as an isolated biological creature, as a bundle of reflexes or a set of instincts, as an 'intelligible field' or a system in and of itself. Whatever else he may be, man is a social and an historical actor who must be understood, if at all, in close and intricate interplay with social and historical structures

An actor works with their soul and their thought

I'm drawn to filmmaking that can transport me. Film can immerse you, put you there.

The applause is a celebration not only of the actors but also of the audience. It constitutes a shared moment of delight.

If there was another Dr. Quinn movie, I would do it in a heartbeat.

Only a great actor finds the difficulties of the actor's art infinite.

I know that if I can't move people, then I have no business being an actor.

I think any good actor is an anarchist. They have to be.

Nobody makes movies bad on purpose.

The Actor should make you forget the existence of author and director, and even forget the actor.

To me the recognition of the audience is part of the filmmaking process. When you make a movie, it's for them.

The fitness builds the foundation for me as an actor to have clarity. Fitness has always been the base of where I start off as a performer.

Acting is not being emotional, but being able to fully express emotion.

You can't get an actor to do something that is beyond his range, so you have to be aware of the range of the actor and, if necessary, alter the part to suit the actor.

The world is full of actors pretending to be human

Actors are rogues and vagabonds. Or they ought to be.

Television allowed me to kick the Hollywood habit of typing an actor in certain roles.

Jeff Bridges is one of my favorite actors in the history of ever.

Film actors reach a certain level, but they don't get beyond it unless they work in the theater.

Actors should be overheard, not listened to, and the audience is 50 percent of the performance.

As actors, we deal with rejection so much more than any other business. So I don't care how much of a genius you are, if you don't have the propensity to be able to get back up every time you get knocked down, then you're not going to survive.

The filmmaker's got to make it his story and the actors have got to make it their story.