Actors Quotes - Page 6

I always wanted to be an actor, but with a speech impediment it's kind of tough. I decided to roll the dice and take an acting class, which was very, very nerve-wracking... my stomach would just be in knots.

A film is a director's vision... there is, however, much input an actor or actress can have.

There's such good people out there where there filmmaking world is alive.

Acting is a craft, and you need to study to be an actor.

When [actors] are talking, they are servants of the dramatist. It is what they can show the audience when they are not talking that reveals the fine actor.

Eighty percent of a picture is writing, the other twenty percent is the execution, such as having the camera on the right spot and being able to afford to have good actors in all parts.

Broadway has changed tremendously from the early days when the shows were referred to as musical comedies. Musical Theater is now a more expanded art form. Back then, singer/actors were not the norm. From the 60's to now, it is necessary to do it all to be a consummate Broadway performer.

What is filmmaking but groping in the dark?

If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.

My goal was always to be recognized as a good actor but no one was interested in that, simply because society just wants to warm towards your appearance. This is the great blemish of society.

Our demands are simple, normal, and therefore they are difficult to satisfy. All we ask is that an actor on the stage live in accordance with natural laws.

The main factor in any form of creativeness is the life of a human spirit, that of the actor and his part, their joint feelings and subconscious creation.

At the end of the day, I'm not a model, I'm an actor. I didn't want to be a model for a brand - I wanted to be a spokesperson and to collaborate.

I don't think I”m a very good actor. Everything is very tentative and at a certain point you click in and just feel the spirit move you. I can be possessed really well.

You must be so thoroughly immersed in the given circumstances of the play, then you decide what it is at any given moment what that the actor wants.

My love for sports will never die. I love martial arts and I want to promote it in whichever way I can. I am a fighter first, then an actor.

To be a good actor you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules to strive for something new.

I think the lawyers are such incredible actors. Can you imagine the performance they have to do every day?

There's always a concern as an actor that you'll be boring unless your character is swinging from a chandelier.

Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.

Your face needs to have character if you're an actor - otherwise you're just a face.

There are not a lot of places for an actor to explore what it's like to be a woman in her 60s. There aren't any films about it and there very few TV series about it.

To me if there's an achievement to lighting and photography in a film it's because nothing stands out, it all works as a piece. And you feel that these actors are in this situation and the audience is not thrown by a pretty picture or by bad lighting.

In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.

Well, we can skip childhood because I didn't have any. Not one goddam moment on the Good Ship Lollipop.