Actors Quotes - Page 62

As an actor, you're trained to do the right thing, be politically correct, say your lines, say the right thing about the people you're working with...

Working at BBC, at the head of one of the top dramas, is a tradition for great actors.

As an actor, you always think that whatever job you have is going to be your last. In some way, shape or form, you think you're going to screw it up and you're never going to work again.

There are not many things in my life I can be absolutely proud of or certain I got right, but one of them is that I've got better as an actor. I've learnt how to do it. And I still have enough energy to do it.

The performance is created by the director. The actor is the material. And I think that has to be true.

Actors are merely the medium through which a story happens.

You're spoilt as an actor if you are in that small percentage that works regularly.

I've been aware of the work I do as an actor being directorial in feel.

I'm not sure I'm the sort of actor people are hugely interested in finding out an awful lot about.

I think when your image becomes so big that it's hard for a viewer to see a character, then I think you're in danger as an actor of being unable to perform what you should be doing.

I suppose actors crave attention of some kind or they have suffered some form of arrested development and are still living in a sort of child's fantasy existence at some level in their psyche.

A film is the director's medium. The theater is an actor's.

The moral of filmmaking in Britain is that you will be screwed by the weather.

You cannot assume that somebody can define you. You cannot assume that the other person is right. No matter how they say it to you, no matter with how much force they say, ‘Oh my god, you’ll never make it; oh my god, you’re not bright; you could never do this’—that’s one person. I can’t tell you how many people told me I would never be an actor.

In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor.

There is but one stage for the peasant and the actor.

I've wanted to be an actor ever since I was a little boy.

We become actors without realizing it, and actors without wanting to.

When it comes to acting, people talk about the suspension of disbelief that you ask of the audience. Before that starts, you have to, as an actor, suspend your own disbelief.

I always love working with young actors, because there's always something to learn. It's always exciting to see the next generation and how they approach things and what's great about them and what's not so great about them.

Once a film gets into production, the actors sometimes begin to have more input than a writer does.

Americans are very good at animating voices. I don't know why. They have a freedom with them that we British actors find more difficult to get to.

First of all, I never make a movie for awards consideration.

Men, you are about to embark on a great crusade to stamp out runaway decency in the west. Now you men will only be risking your lives, whilst I will be risking an almost certain Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.

My father was brought up in an orphanage in the Catskills. He was a factory worker. And because his family wasn't there for him, family was everything. We could disagree inside the house, but outside the house it was us against the world. So when I became a drag actor, he looked sideways but said okay.