Actors Quotes - Page 8

I was getting to perform with an actor with whom I had never interacted before

The best actors instinctively feel out what the other actors need, and they just accommodate it.

Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.

In the middlegame, the king is merely an extra, but in the endgame, he is one of the star actors.

I think the toughest thing for me to figure out, as an actor, was how to translate all those layers that are in there and that history that the writers have done such a great job at forming.

My husband, who's the greatest actor in the world, can do anything. Look at what he did in The Critic and Oedipus. In every role he gets-he did this in Richard the Third-there's nothing he can't do, nothing. Just nothing.

I always feel like I have to prove myself as an actor, otherwise you get lazy if you're not slightly terrified that you're going to fail all the time.

I always tell actors when they go in for an audition: Don't be afraid to do what your instincts tell you. You may not get the part, but people will take notice.

As an actor you have one great fear: pimples!

Bill Powell is the only intelligent actor I've ever met

I'm much more proud of being a father than being an actor.

I drove a tractor almost as soon as I could reach the pedals.

I became an actor so I didn't have to be myself.

Actors are very good at not revealing anything, so they're safe.

The art of persuasion. The actor persuades himself, first, and through himself, the audience.

There is no pure success. I am action actor. I have broken almost every piece of my body.

Once I found out how much an Off-Off-Broadway actor makes, I was whoring myself out the next day.

Take it from a director: if you get an actor that Sandy Meisner has trained, you've been blessed.

As an actor you always want to be challenged and you always want to have someone tell you you can't do something, because I always want to be like "I can do it and I'll show you I can, and I'll do it better than anyone can".

I think naturally, if you're an actor, there's a high level of assertiveness that you need to have to survive this business. There's boldness in being assertive, and there's strength and confidence.

To grow: that is your deepest and truest need when you say, 'I want to be an actor.'

I am a huge Bollywood fan, and my favourite actor of all time is Shah Rukh Khan.

The virtue you would like to have, assume it is already yours, appropriate it, enter into the part and live the character just as the great actor is absorbed in... the part he plays.

Most rappers these days is actors, And I can't keep watching the same movie.

Every scene is a love scene. The actor should ask the question: 'Where is the love?'