Actors Quotes - Page 55

Love is the X-factor in healing!

Sometimes you read a script and it's like, "You'll improv and this is just a blueprint of what the scene could be," and that's never a good sign. And it's never encouraging as an actor to take that on, really.

It wasn't as though I really made a commitment to it; there wasn't anything else around. So I wasn't driven to become an actor.. it just seemed to be the thing that I managed to do best.

An actor shouldn't undergo psychoanalysis, because there are a lot of things you're better off not knowing.

You hear this story that we're all on the left, but when there's a demonstration, you count how many actors actually come out. If there's a half dozen, that would be a big day.

I don't consider myself a very interesting person. I have the mentality of a supporting actor.

John Doyle just knows how to feed actors, and what comes out of us, good, bad, right, wrong, doesn't matter. There's no fear or censure. He opens up the creative goo and all of the actor vessel stuff. He knows how to do it. It's just incredible.

I like most of the Humphrey Bogart movies because they had to act then, and they acted very well. Edward G. Robinson is probably the best actor I've ever seen on the movies.

I think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies.

Working with a bunch of actors is like trying to tune each violin.

An actor's career relies on a lot of luck. Being in the right place at the right time.

Actors are professionals who deal with people's emotions and their thoughts.

I want to direct and work with the youngins and the fabulous actors of today.

When you are an actor, you bring a tool in your craft but you are not that person.

I do not welcome advice from actors, they are here to act.

I really believe great actors, even with disease and age, can be great.

Many casting directors won't hire aspiring actors because you might be burning some chick's headshot under the table so she doesn't get the part.

When you choose to be an actor, you are going against the odds.

I was very disappointed that Denzel didn't win Best Actor for The Hurricane because I thought he deserved it.

I'm an actor. Whether I'm on stage, in front of a camera or a microphone, what I do is the same - although with videogames it requires a lot of imagination.

It's always hard as an actor I think to be just on the set and have the kind of confidence to be like, 'Yeah, I did that. That went perfectly. That's great.' That's more confidence than I have.

If you want to be an actor, you need to learn how to act first, even in sketch comedy.

Part of the reason of being an actor is you like playing other people's lives and exploring all the psychologies in that and the emotions.

I don't do stunts and I don't think many actors do. For an actor to say they do their own stunts I don't think is very respectful of the profession of stunt men and women.

I think what makes so many other actors miserable is focusing completely on making other plans. They're obsessed with their haircut and their headshot and their agent, their IMDB profile or whatever.