Actors Quotes - Page 54

What impresses me is the young actors with terrific talent arriving on the scene. They'd have blown us all away in the old days. Guys like Brad Pitt.

A market is not politically neutral; its existence creates economic power which one actor can use against another.

Many great horror stories are period pieces and English actors have a facility for historic characters.

Every actor needs someone to take a chance on them.

Every actor wants to break out of the box that they put you in and that's where I'm heading, out of the box as fast as I can.

The actual process of filmmaking, the many hours out of your life- it is very slow and boring. I'm not interested in that now unless an opportunity was provided for me.

I've said this so many times but there's a magic when you have a really good actor in a really good makeup.

Other actors like to rehearse on film-they like 30 or 40 takes. When you get an actor like that, it becomes difficult for me because I'm ready to quit after number two.

I'm an actor and my job is to interpret.

I've had a year out of work, more, and just toughed it out. There are those who think that all actors are overpaid. I beg to differ.

I do think that good actors can do any part. It doesn't mean that they are the best ones to do it.

How was I going to make a man fly? How was I going to convince the public that an actor could fly?

Personally, I wouldn't advise a gay leading man-type actor to come out.

In a way, a lot of my work is in the re-writing once it is cast, as I adapt to the rhythms of how the roles are played out by the actors.

You know I hate watching myself on TV, I know a lot of actors say that, but it's true for me.

At the end of the day, an actor is only a cog in the wheel.

Being on a Paul Thomas Anderson film, the best decision an actor can make is to listen to Paul Thomas Anderson. Because he's probably not going to steer anyone in the wrong direction. I would always say go with your gut on any other movie set, but with Paul, I would say go with Paul's gut.

Every evil to which we do not succumb is a benefactor.

It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.

Everything I learned as an actor, I have basically applied to writing.

I am a genre lover - everything from spaghetti western to samurai movie.

When you're rapping, you do have to perform to a certain degree, but not every rapper is necessarily a gifted actor.

Being unemployed is not good for an actor. No, it isn't, no matter how unsuccessful you are. Because you always remember getting fired from all the restaurants. You remember that stuff very, very strongly.

American actors are coy. We all have pricks and cunts, or are you different from the rest of us?

Crazy is so hard to play, there's nothing you can really tell an actor.