Actors Quotes - Page 73

Daniel Day-Lewis is one of the greatest actors of our age; he's like Olivier. He's one of those people who can take you into a place where no one else can take you.

Whenever you read interviews with actors, they always seem to be given three months to do something - get fat, get skinny, learn card tricks.

As an actor, I still dont really know exactly what I am doing most of the time.

I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big movies.

In orthodox film-making, you never shoot sequentially - but with improv, obviously every move you make has a knock-on effect; it is a cumulative process. I have improvised, on the non-scripted 'Timecode.' It can become entirely indulgent: actors smashing crockery and competing verbally.

It certainly helps, I think, with some actors to understand the process of acting. You see what extraordinary pressure they're under, there's a huge circus dedicated to a particular moment and they're got to deliver and it can help that you, even if empathetically alone, understand what they're doing.

I think having healthy relationships makes me feel much more confident and available to do good work as an actor.

How can a president not be an actor?

I saw and I met a lot of people who were in the field. It also provided a context in which I came to respect what the actor did, because I saw how difficult it actually was to do.

I don't think that I've had a career like anyone else's, but there are hosts and hosts of actors whose careers I admire.

As an actor or anybody as a human being, I feel more and more like I want to spend time doing something significant. Because what's the alternative? Spend your life wasting your time.

I just don't believe you're capable of being an actor unless you have a desire to experience your emotions in a public way.

I enjoy being a highly overpaid actor.

It often strikes me that the actors in high school movies look too old.

I'm frequently surprised, sometimes bugged off, and sometimes happy, depending on the actor. It's a fact of life that just as often as not an actor can breathe life into a line as he can destroy it by misinterpretation, and I've been blessed frequently by having good actors.

I was never really a character actor - I was a leading man who was always cast as a character. I wanted to be Jack Nicholson or Jean Gabin.

I think a lot of what you do depends on the other people in the cast. It doesn't only depend on you the actor, but it depends on a variety of things, what the other actors are like.

I think every actor should be always grateful when they work.

The best visual effects are when you shoot as much of what you can in camera. And it's really good for the actor's performance to have something real.

A lot of actors said they hated the studio system, but I loved it. It was like a college; it was a great place to learn.

Certainly there have been better actors than me who have had no careers. Why? I don't know.

Twin Peaks' was the best job I ever had as an actor.

I've always felt that actors in my experience have a very good and accurate instinct about whether something feels right or not. They just have a sense because they have to literally do it.

It is joyous for any actor to enter other grounds of consciousness and thought. At the end of the day, we just all like dressing up and playing around.

I love actors who are wonderful - like John Cusack and Russell Crowe, and wouldn't it be a treat to eventually direct them one day.