Actors Quotes - Page 76

I'm not the kind of actor who runs around and insists on being called Stravinsky by everybody, and my family has to call me Igor. I'm not that kind of actor. I think that's pretentious.

Other actors dont get asked about their brothers or sisters, so why do I have to always answer questions about having a twin brother? I suppose its interesting for everybody other than me.

Uncertainty causes more anxiety than perhaps any other single factor.

As an actor, you never try to be someone else. You can't.

I always wanted to be an actor and I'd never dreamt that not only would I be able to do this for a living, but also on top of that I'd be able to choose and steer the course of my own career.

I credit the motion picture industry as the strongest environmental factor in molding the children of my day.

Actually, I started to become an actress because I met someone who was just a friend and I found his life wonderful, I thought, Oh my god, you can travel, you're free, you can do what you want, you're the boss. And then I met an actor and I was in love with him.

I knew what I wanted to be at 8 years old - an actor!

I call this book The Intent to Live because great actors don't seem to be acting, they seem to be actually living.

As an actor, you always want to find a piece of who you are in every role you take on.

It's much more enjoyable being an actor.

For most actors, it's such a struggle to get work. Once they have it, they feel that there's an enormous amount of pressure on them to make it work, and have everyone love them.

If you're a young person who wants to become an actor, it's really important to walk into a casting room with a sense of yourself and some life experience. You can really delight a room and have them already choose you before you've even said a word!

Wearing a monkey suit really lets you know where you stand as an actor.

I'm a working actor, so I do pretty much whatever comes along because it's my job.

I've never understood the notion that actors and actresses should look great on-screen just because they're on-screen. That doesn't make sense to me.

If you decide to become a political actor, then the things that you say and you do become subject of public scrutiny and comment.

Actors are greedy. They can never be satisfied. I want praise as well as box office returns.

Who could have asked for anything better? I was cast in movies with great actors, with great leading men.

All actors are on the run from some demon or other.

In TV, there's so much compromise, it does start to grate a bit. But if you're a writer or an actor, it really is the place to be.

The hardest thing to walk away from, over a long-form TV show, is the comradery of the company, both with the crew and the group of actors.

We use improv in all kinds of fun ways. Sometimes it's to invent or discover new things, sometimes it's to weird out the other actors, and sometimes it's to create a sense of fun, to find new things inside the scripted lines.

While I'm not a celebrity, it's such a weird concept that society has cooked up for us. Astronauts and teachers are much more amazing than actors.

I think it helps, as an actor, to never know when you're going to get that next script and you're done.