Actors Quotes - Page 77

It's always important for me as an actor to reflect human behavior for a sense of reality.

Before 1972, no actors got residuals. They just got paid. No residuals.

Actors generally get to do things you probably shouldn't do in real life - well, at least as much as one might like to or be tempted to. Though I suppose a lot of actors just go ahead and do it, don't they?

As an actor there are no drawbacks.

Anyone who hears enough laughter and applause at a young age will become an actor, whether they intend to or not.

If my parents were alive, they'd giggle "John was an actor since day one!".

I'm a huge fan of John Malkovich and Josh Brolin, and Michael Shannon has got to be one of my favorite actors.

I think that you can't make a movie without a script. But you also can't make movies without actors. You also can't make movies without technicians. And there has to be just one person in charge of everybody, and to me that one person is the director.

It'd be nice if Asian actors could be perceived as profitable, which is the bottom line. We're perceived as not mattering much fiscally.

It's fascinating to watch the progress that is made during previews. The coolest thing is watching the actors take over the show, and make it there own.

If there's anything I know about directing, it's how to make actors comfortable. It's where I started and it's what I know, and it's what I love. I like when the actors are really partners and I want them to be excited and I want them to surprise me. I don't want them to be puzzle pieces.

I knew I wanted to be an actor. I just kept saying, "Until somebody tells me to stop, until I have to go get a real job, and until I'm practically homeless, I'm not gonna get one."

I always felt so much more comfortable in the Western. The minute I got a horse and a hat and a pair of boots on, I felt easier. I didn't feel like I was an actor anymore. I felt like I was the guy out there doing it.

I do like the idea of doing something different, maybe doing something that's more like a genre film. And there are certain actors that I'd like to work with that would go along with working with a bigger budget.

Basically, the actor's job is to pay attention to the script.

I'm a ballplayer, not an actor.

I try to be like a sponge when I'm around other actors, picking things up about the way they work and how they do things.

I still think that movies are amazing; I respect actors and directors.

It's nice to bring the changes with everything you do. As an actor, that's what you want to do, all the time.

Since age 14, I know what actors fear, what they like; I know how to get things out of them and I listen to them better, since I've been there.

When I analyse myself and my reactions or behaviour, there is the act and the actor. There is a division between the two and that creates conflict between "what is" and "what should be".

Actor of the low IQ, let's hear your view.

The worst is when I talk myself into something. Sometimes you take things because you want to work with a certain actor, or you want to work with a director, even if the script or the part's not that great.

I love being around great actors and film-makers, and I try to hide the fact that I'm in awe of them.

I don't like improv at all. It terrifies me. I like to know exactly what I'm going to say. Being surprised does make me a better actor. Anytime I'm afraid of something that makes me rise to the occasion, it scares me, but it's what makes great actors - being in the moment.