Actors Quotes - Page 52

The great actors we had came from the actor-manager theaters. Not only did they create a team, they were the generals working with the soldiers.

From 1980 to 1990, I shot more films than any other actor in the Screen Actors Guild, apart from Gene Hackman.

There are 100,000 actors in the Screen Actors Guild. Only 2,000 of them make more than $75,000 a year.

Actors say they do their own stunts for the integrity of the film but I did them because they looked like a lot of fun.

Everybody wants to be a Bond villain. That is the coolest. To be able to portray a Bond villain, that is the feather in any actor's cap.

The worst thing for an actor is a director that gets on your nerves and says things that actually confuse you.

No actor is a success unless he feels inside himself, as long as he lives, that he is good.

I try to always be open to what the actors want to try. I don't storyboard and try to be intuitive and open on the day of filming.

I don't take myself too seriously. I think that's something so many actors and people in general tend to do.

What's the classical moment that every actor or actress deals with? A tragic thing. They get that blank, faraway look in their eyes. But in life, it's not that way.

When you meet people that you know from other films - as often happens to me, and as tends to happens to you when you're an actor, you constantly meet people that you've seen in other films. But when it's people who've kind of had a seismic effect on your life, it's quite extraordinary.

The other death for an actor is comparing yourself to other people: Forget someone else's path. Concentrate on your path. Otherwise, you get lost, and if you don't have joy in the work, forget it.

I've learned a great deal about a certain type of filmmaking. But I have ambitions toward another type of filmmaking that I haven't been allowed to engage in yet.

I'm not an Adonis, that's for damn sure. I've never really thought of myself that way, and it doesn't matter to me. My favorite actors aren't Adonises. Dustin Hoffman is a flawed-looking man; he's amazing to me. Tom Hanks is flawed-looking; people love him. Same with Gene Hackman.

I like to think of myself as a fairly educated human being, but I'm a very uneducated actor when it comes to movies, directors, producers, actors for that matter.

A great actor is simply just seeing him or herself, and reacting to what exists around them.

Work is good when people are responsible, and in low-budget movies a lot of the actors don't want to be there. They're there to build a resume.

I love acting, truly my favorite people are actors.

When you're doing a play you get to go full speed ahead, all night, in front of an audience. It's a roller-coaster ride, responding to other actors, it feeds you.

I'm sure one reason I became an actor is my basic unwillingness to live one life.

When I used to do tours, I'd be anxious and nervous on the plane returning to New York. I now realize the reaction was because I was coming back unemployed. Actors are constantly being put to the test.

I'm always surprised that certain actors have Twitter accounts. I guess they use it in a way that works for them. But I'd rather that people had less access to my personal life. If I could keep it that way, I'd be a happy lady.

The actor is too prone to exaggerate his powers; he wants to play Hamlet when his appearance is more suitable to King Lear.

Id just love to have an audience and its the most fun in the world to get a new script every week and have the audience come in, and work with those actors.

As an actor, I am meant to dabble with different themes and genres.