Actors Quotes - Page 80

An actor is a man with an infinite capacity for taking praise.

Emma Watson is my kids' favorite actor on the planet. They never took me more seriously than when I was working with her.

There is some sadness for me now about acting because it used to be that there was a reverence for actors.

Every once in a while as an actor, you do something that the kids really like.

It is dreadful to see actors reproducing the same image constantly.

You can't trust actors.

I want to do a musical movie. Like Evita, but with good music.

I'm not naive to the fact that I'm an out gay actor.

That's an amazing gift as an actor - to be able to say I have an audience in so many countries in the world and that people know my work.

You have no idea how fragile an actor's self-worth is.

An actor rides in a bus or railroad train; he sees a movement and applies it to a new role. The whole garment in which the actor hides himself is made of small externals of observation fitted to his conception of a role.

As an actor, I don't have any politics. As an actor, I'm driven more by an authentic - I would say an obsessive-compulsive-disorder level-fixation on mimicry, tonality of voice, to literally imitate something until I can just disappear into it.

I’m a comedian who got into movies, so I don’t really think of myself as an actor.

I get tweets every single day going, like, 'I'm so glad you weren't on 'The X Factor.''

Barack Obama did tell me that I was one of Michelle Obama's favorite actors.

[To the British actor who annoyed her by repeated references to his busy 'shedule':] I think you're full of skit.

Authors and actors and artists and such - Never know nothing, and never know much.

I'm the sort of actor who likes to talk about what we're going to do.

Everyone fails. Everyone is constantly failing. It is all part of life, and especially this job of being an actor.

As an actor, you're a color of paint on someone else's palette. But as a director, it's your canvas and you make the painting you want to make.

That's what I tell young actors. "You don't have to compromise. Go do some theater and wait for an appropriate role."

I'm a big believer in rehearsal and a big believer in the actors being able to find the material themselves and identify with the beats themselves without us having to stick to the actual language of the script, just for them to understand what each scene is about.

I want you to understand the words. I want you taste the words. I want you to love the words. Because the words are important. But they're only words. You leave them on the paper and you take the thoughts and put them into your mind and then you as an actor recreate them, as if the thoughts had suddenly occurred to you.

I feel television is in a fantastically rich vein of what it's presenting both by opportunity to actors and to audiences.

I love it [a career as an actor] to bits, but it's highly bizarre, especially when you're playing a psychopathic rapist with various diseases.