Actors Quotes - Page 78

When something's wrong, even though you're the one doing it, you shouldn't feel defensive about it. It's hard because you have to protect yourself as a person in your life, but you can't protect yourself as an actor. You have to just take criticism.

If you read a part that you want to play, and you already know you have actors you want to work with but it's not on the page, it's not going to be on the screen. So that is the most difficult thing to do for a producer, is to get a script that attracts this kind of talent.

Because I'm now successful, what I'm being offered as an actor is more and more of the same.

Well, I made an announcement to my family at 8 that I wanted to be an actor, and I focused like a laser beam on it. I never had a fallback plan.

Actors usually respond to minor aspects of their own character or things that even feel disparate from themselves.

I just never did buy this idea that you have to live in Los Angeles to be an actor. I didn't see that as a requirement in my job description.

Movies are very subjective.

When you're an actor, actually, you shouldn't come up with too many ideas.

British actors behave like Europeans; they are also extremely well trained.

I had to choose between American and British actors, and it didn't take me more than a second to decide: Russians are Europeans and should be played by other Europeans.

You become an actor because you don't want to do the same thing all the time.

Every actor I ever meet goes, 'Ultimately I plan on having my own company and write and direct,' but yes, I too would love to write and direct a movie. I want to do a play, too. I want to do it all.

I pay attention to the actors and stuff, but not even that much. I don't pay attention to who's writing.

As actors, it is our responsibility to read the newspapers, and then say what we read on television like it's our own opinion.

An actor's job is about putting across the author's intention; I don't think of myself on the same level as a creator.

I don't think there's a lot of actors out there right now who really know what they're doing at all.

I really do want to just be able to sit in the corner of the pub with my friends... to just be an actor and still go to the supermarket and not get bothered.

Next year, if no one gives me any work, that's fine. I'm not going to do well anyway. I'm not an actor, I'm just exploiting this industry.

Actors never discuss future plans.

I consider myself a novice film actor.

I'm not sure people even think of me as an actor at all.

We did not find direct evidence that Secretary Clinton’s personal e-mail domain, in its various configurations since 2009, was successfully hacked. But, given the nature of the system and of the actors potentially involved, we assess that we would be unlikely to see such direct evidence.

It took me a long time to realize that you have to have a bit of an interlanguage with actors. You have to give them something that they can act with.

As an actor, I feel that my work makes me very vulnerable. I have to be emotionally available to serve the scene I'm doing. You never quite know where your emotions will take you.

That takes a lot of confidence to let your actors come up with something that could be theoretically funnier than what you had envisioned originally.