Actors Quotes - Page 56

The actor's life is the road. Always has been, always will be. That is his cross and his glory.

I'm living in Los Angeles, I'm in films and I'm on television, and I'm working with actors and telling stories. I'm living the fantasy. My worst day is a great day.

There are certain stars who are not actors. I don't want to be that type.

Actors have this amazing skill - we bond quite quickly but equally we move on quite quickly. There's nothing particularly cold or capricious about it - we're troubadours and lead a troubadour's lifestyle.

As an actor it's like, go with whatever excites you as an actor. What are you're going to invest yourself in as a character? What are you going to get into? Have a variety of characters to play.

Actors are pretending for you, but they're not lying. They are not putting on a guise instead of themselves. They are finding things inside that they have experienced.

The way an actor is trained doesn't ultimately have much bearing on my work. I'm interested in the actor as artist.

It's difficult working with very rich actors, because inevitably they become a little spoilt, and the managers and agents tend to control things more than is healthy.

I learned how to turn it on and turn it off. You learn that in theater, too, but for film work, I learned from doing 'Henry,' I learned how to leave work at work and go home. There's always spillover. Actors speak of this.

Actors are actors. They're all buddies. I've done so many movies and TV that you get to be friends with everyone. And the ones you don't get to be friends with, you simply don't work together with them again.

You know, Tupac is very near and dear to my heart. He started my career as an actor.

When you're a short actor you stand on apple boxes, you walk on a ramp. When you're a short star everybody else walks in a ditch.

I ended up an actor, did my first professional union gig in 1974, and I've been doing it ever since.

I'm a director's actor; I'm a storyteller's actor.

Every actor I know wants to be a pop star.

You try to pick good stories, and that's pretty much all the control you have as an actor.

I admired Marlon Brando as I grew up. I though he was one of the finest screen actors around.

If you're an actor and you don't act for a long time you sort of think, I wonder if I can still do it.

The three actors I admire the most are all dead. Humphrey Bogart, Spencer Tracy and the French actor, Jean Gabin. They're all very natural, sort of masculine without being overly macho.

I'll always be there because I'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is beside the point.

You can't please everyone... If you make a good movie, that's all that matters.

Think of Frank Capra and Preston Sturges. They used the same actors over and over again.

The actor in me would always like to be more dashing, or slimmer, or have nicer hair.

I don't feel like a romantic lead; I guess I feel more like a character actor.

I always think that I'm the best thing in a lot of bad movies. Personally, I have to. I think that I like me as an actor.