Actors Quotes - Page 59

Everybody has his own theatre, in which he is manager, actor, prompter, playwright, sceneshifter, boxkeeper, doorkeeper, all in one, and audience into the bargain.

People think actors have such glamorous lives, but the truth is actors go where nobody wants to go.

Oh, well, in Los Angeles everybody is an actor, or a producer, or a writer, or a director, or an agent, or... So everybody understands the hours.

I am a big fan of horror movies but I had never thought that I had wanted to act in one because I don't think that actors get to do much in them. They're usually just reacting.

I cannot absorb living in a world where I have an Oscar for best actress and Denzel doesn't have one for best actor.

When you see something that is well-written, the actors can get behind it.

You are [as an actor] aware that you don't want to repeat stuff, but you want to use what has worked. But you don't want to be accused of just going over the old thing, you know? You want it to start growing a little bit more.

Personally speaking there's only so long you can go from film to film to film. There's an inspiration an actor gets from the stage.

What is it in the actor, the stage, that casts so powerful a spell on the young imagination?

Actors want to do Shakespeare again and again, or want to do Hamlet. When you hear one guy do Hamlet and another guy do it, it's going to be a whole different experience.

I did seven indies because the independent market used to be a lot better before all the stars were doing independents. As a beginning actor, that's where you started.

My dad didn't often bring me to the set, being an actor himself, so my infancy as an actor was wracked with a lot of giggles and nervousness.

In the scenes of moral life the soul is at once actor and spectator.

I was convinced there as only one actor to play Templeton the Rat, and that was Tony Randall.

We can make ourselves actors, but only the audience can make a star.

I think, frankly, that I'm a better director than I was an actor.

As they say, there are two rules in improv: Never say no, and never ask why. When another actor asks 'Why?' or says no to something you're suggesting, then it's very clear that they're putting the onus on you, because they're not comfortable with it themselves.

An actor needs to be not remotely anywhere close to in control, and a filmmaker has to be totally in control.

For the actor, The Lee Strasberg Notes are an indispensable companion.

Oh, the relationship with actors and managers and agents and things is a terrible problem sometimes.

Well, acting is cheap; I knew all these actors who weren't in the Screen Actors Guild yet, and it happened that they were all just about thirty years old.

In L.A., though, people get off busses calling themselves actors, so many are really not professionals.

I'm a Navy brat. You find that a lot of stage actors are Army or Navy brats, because they have the ability to make a big impression, make friends, and then leave just a few months later.

I love to watch good actors who surprise and amuse me.

Ronnie Barker will forever be remembered as one of the great comic actors.