Actors Quotes - Page 69

It is better for me to serve a charity as an actor or a voice, rather than at a luncheon being just a celebrity.

I don't want to be like the actor who rehearses everything in the bathroom, then comes to the set and carries on completely uninterrupted while the other actors tiptoe away.

some actors seek parts similar to their personalities. But, I prefer undergoing a metamorphosis that depends on the role .

Most actors are drawn towards historical tellings because it's one of the most simple forms of storytelling.

Every single director-actor I talked to, from Warren Beatty to Clint Eastwood to George Clooney, said the biggest mistake they made is not shooting enough footage of themselves.

Craig Nelson who is an actor and is in a show called Coach in the United States. We began to do some improvisational stuff and we used to get laughs and things.

I know actors come around and they always talk like that, but I don't do publicity if I don't like the film.

Shows have asked a lot of actors to take cuts. Shows are going off the air. So okay, life goes on.

I mean, if you are directing actors to do one thing and then directing them to do something else entirely because the one thing you wanted them to do may not work, then you are just shattering their confidence in the project.

Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth.

I began my comedy as its only actor and I come to the end as its only spectator.

I like the Baldwin boys a great deal. Alec is super-smart, super-articulate, almost too smart to be an actor.

If I spent all my time criticising myself, I wouldn't be able to function. There are actors who theorise till the cows come home. I haven't the patience for them. It's maybe shallow, but that's why I'll never be part of the acting set.

I became an actor because I didn't know what else to do. Academically, I wasn't good.

The knighthood was a tremendous honour, I don't dismiss it. But I feel embarrassed by the flowery, theatrical stuff that goes with being an actor.

Oh yes. I'm an actor, so I just learn my lines, and show up and do it. I gave it a little bit of thought.

I don't just act, and that's really important to me. I don't want to just be an actor forever. I want to score movies. I could be an actor first, but I don't only want to be an actor.

Actors are trusting souls, and we must go by gut-level instinct, even after our agents and business managers weigh all the odds.

An actor definitely has to be in the past a well as the present; an actor must react to past experiences every minute, every second.

I didn't even know my bra size until I made a movie.

I don't have incredible knowledge about films or of filmmaking history; I'm not that kind of person.

I love it when you ask actors, 'What are you Doing now?' and they say 'I'm between roles'. To be living 'life between roles' that's my favorite

Performance capture is a technology, not a genre; it's just another way of recording an actor's performance.

If you have the right actors and you can give them the freedom to explore, you've done a lot of your work as a director.

A novelty in Polish filmmaking was that it was possible to find funds for a big production. However, at the same time, the state budget committed less and less money to filmmaking.