Actors Quotes - Page 70

However, that old mode of Polish filmmaking virtually disappeared.

If one story becomes too hot, then you can't forget it. As an actor, you want to remain fluid.

When you are an actor every day kind of morphs into one as there is no set structure to my job.

I have to remember that I didn't have to become an actor. I didn't have to put myself in this position. If I'd wanted to have autonomy - if that was what I was after - then I could have chosen another profession.

Dustin Hoffman was the greatest. He had so much information to give and he mesmerized me. He really feels for actors who are just starting out and remembers his early days like they were yesterday.

I also think if you're an actor and you can improvise, when you go on an audition and you can improvise you're just a genius. If you can, you know, take a Tide commercial and you can just say one funny line that's not in the commercial they think you're a genius.

Concentration attracts luck factor.

The actors are the greatest executors of tone in a film. They're the most important cinematic component.

I was a professional dancer before I was an actor.

I can be a horrible actor, but I make a move that makes a money I'm secured a job.

I always think politicians and even my dentist have more egos than actors.

Much of the day I have busied myself making notes on the small parts in Shakespeare, often nameless, which are rewarding to the actor if only he'll not dismiss them as beneath his dignity. If I can work it up into a talk I might call it, 'Only a cough and a spit ' -the phrase so often used by actors to explain away a lack of opportunity.

Actors are always outsiders. It's necessary to be able to interpret - and that gets distorted when you become famous.

Part of the work is determining through what instrument you are playing. Actors are physical, olympian storytellers and we should be able to create entire landscapes with nothing.

Every actor wants to change things up a bit. You don't want to be pigeonholed, and not just because of what the industry might think.

the audience is the controlling factor in the actor's life. It is practically infallible, since there is no appeal from its verdict. It is a little like a supreme court composed of irresponsible minors.

The hardest thing as an actor is that you work really hard constantly for these roles, and you invest so much in it. And when they don't come to fruition and nobody sees them, there's a part of you that dies a little bit. It's like, 'Ah! But I worked so hard!' But that's the business.

If you are prepared to make a fool of yourself for them then you usually get that back. I think that there are points where you become so close to an actor, you know them so well, almost as well or better than their spouse. You have to know them, warts and all.

I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.

I'm an actor, paid to act. I don't bring personal problems to the sets. Dad taught me that.

I'm a bit hyperactive as an actor, I like to keep moving.

I wasn't interested in fame or fortune. I was interested in being an actor and being creative. I was very adamant about that.

It used to be that you kind of got pigeonholed into one thing - you're either a stage actor or a TV actor or a movie actor. Today, there's a lot of crossover with film actors doing television, which never happened before, so those lines are a little bit more blurred than they used to be.

You always have to make positive choices as an actor, even when you're playing someone who may not be doing the best things.

Some movies I see today have the most dramatic plot points but the actors are not playing them dramatically.