Actors Quotes - Page 50

If you're lucky, and not a lot of actors are these days, you get the chance to create a character

Nobody became an actor because he had a good childhood.

Ninety percent of the preparation we do as actors is just jive. It doesn't do anything.

Actors are embracing a new aesthetic, which is leaning more toward truthful and simple and direct, as opposed to what we would normally call sitcom acting.

Any actor who tells you that he makes choices, absolutely, is wrong. You find work and work finds you.

I'm a task-oriented actor. A pretender. And I try to invent my process anew each time I make a new project. So I frown on any method.

All the time, as an actor, you want to be asking what's next and where things are going. If you're not asking those questions, you're not growing.

The best thing an actor can be is ready. Be flexible, be ready.

I didn't go into this business to do action because I'm a classically trained actor. But I'm good at kicking and punching.

Animating is a very slow, pain-staking process and the animators become the actors at that point.

I like to direct landscapes just as I like to direct actors and animals.

Well, an actor is an actor is actor, to paraphrase someone or other and the opportunity to work, to have a steady engagement, certainly seemed like an appealing concept to me.

Sometimes people come in as a director, and they just want the result, and they barely want that to tell you the truth. Sometimes directors barely talk to the actors; they are so focused on the cinematic elements of the movie, getting the shot and getting the lighting right or getting the CGI effects right and all of that, and they just trust that you are just going to do what you do.

I allow an area for improvisation because the chemical things actors bring to stories make it not work.

Someone called actors 'sculptors in snow.' Very apt. In the end, it's all nothing.

And when I was a kid being an actor was not cool. I'm thirty now and when I was a kid in the 80s that wasn't a cool thing to be.

The majority of the filmmaking process is in pre-production. The more you've planned out the more freedom there is on set to find new stuff, to play around, find new jokes and let the actors kind of breathe - but it needs to come from a place where it's completely structured.

Being on 'Batman' allowed me to do something we actors are taught never to do: overact.

Now while the German money is over for Hollywood, I still have $80 million to make movies, and we will have two things coming up: less major movies and the price for actors will go down.

A lot of times black actors get stuck in a box. They're up against a lot of limitations for the kind of films that they get approached about. It's easy to get stuck in a box and just be approached about nothing but urban films.

I've always wanted to work with Blair, and finally the timing was right. I have a tremendous amount of respect for him. I think he's a hugely underrated actor in Hollywood.

Any actor will tell you, anybody in the public eye, that the tabloids are the worst kind of ramification of being a celebrity.

As a director, I have to feel realism from actors, and they can't be plastic. The words for me are secondary, but the chemistry between the actors is most important. However, you have to go by the script because it's related to production, otherwise you will not finish your project.

I didn't come to Hollywood to drink or get high, and I don't want to be considered a cool actor - I want to be a great actor.

Nothing else is as fulfilling as playing a part in which you are able to have a significant say in the creative process all the way through. How many actors get to do that? It's extremely rare.