Actors Quotes - Page 83

I think most actors like to be liked.

Even though it's my job to be an actor, I have given my life to God.

Thinking back to those earlier days, I felt I was weak when I wasn't making movies, and then when I was, I thought I was weak as a family member.

It's not a pleasure torturing actors, although some of them enjoy it.

I have only really gotten by with playing versions of myself as most young actors do.

As an actor, it's my job to make everything interesting and exciting and new. If I'm not doing my job well, then I'm stealing.

My plan was never to be an actor like my father...

Film has to be reflecting the world that we live in, and that's all you want to be a part of. Actors inhabit the same planet as everyone else. It's a weird thing that happens when you're an actor because people hold you up because you somehow embody in parts groups of people or people's hopes or something.

When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies. It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I'd go home and act all the parts. It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.

I've often said there's two kinds of actors. There's a more gregarious type and the shy type.

What really enthralls me is working with the actor and seeing where you can go with that. It's in that exchange and that relationship.

It's every actor's dream to work in a hit show on Broadway and also shoot a television show.

I'm a character actor.

I've grown so much, not just as an actor, but as a human being.

There was this book that Judi Dench wrote that said there was a moment where, before an actor can be this or be that, the actor must simply be. I thought that to have absolute presence was to absorb everything that’s thrown at you.

My hero is Michelle Williams, who I grew close to when we did 'Meek's Cutoff.' She's an extraordinary actor and mom.

I think most actors jump at the chance to do something where the camera's on them all the time.

Its not easy for Chinese actors to do foreign films, and its not easy for foreign actors to do Chinese films.

I think that it's much easier for a recording artist to become an actor than for an actor to become a recording artist.

I realized that I was a really, really terrible actor. I was like, "I'd better be myself."

I have a list in my mind and in my heart of actors who have been extraordinarily kind, and Hugh Laurie is near the top.

I have a lot of actors I want to work with; Brad Pitt, Keanu Reeves, and Uma Thurman.

You look for those actors or actresses that fit the personality to populate the film.

There are loads of amazing actors in the UK and only 2% of them are in work, which is crazy.

I didn't become an actor because I wanted to act. Actually, I wanted to become a marine biologist. But most of all, I wanted to be accepted.