Actors Quotes - Page 87

Most actors will tell you that it takes a while to figure out what you want to be because we just want to do everything we see on TV and don't know that 'actor' is a job yet.

In Manhattan, every flat surface is a potential stage and every inattentive waiter an unemployed, possibly unemployable, actor.

Actors have to stay optimistic. The moment we start thinking otherwise, we're dead.

I'm a self-confessed genre nerd. I'm a very serious actor, but a genre nerd, all the same.

I don't think actors ever retire, they just stop being asked to work.

So often actors only mix with actors, which is quite incestuous, and doesn't give them the insight into how other people work.

I never thought I was going to be an actor. And I never really thought of myself as one. Even though I keep working. I thought I'd just do a wave of movies, and then I'd burn out. They just kept coming together.

I'm as interested in photographing the film crew as much as the actors and actresses.

I'm sure that my wanting to be an actor had to do with a need for approval.

We call my son's role in the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy Sean's little independent movie.

I always thought that Elvis could have been a great actor, and that he was put in a lot of unimportant movies when he could have done a lot of great ones.

I come from the stage. I started my career as a stand-up comedian and then later on became an actor.

When I left Maine, I always wanted to be a working actor. I never cared too much about being the star. I just wanted to do the work and get on with it.

FDR used to say, 'You and I are the two best actors in America'.

The difference between film and theater is that in film, an actor is sort of under a magnifying glass and everything that they do, just the smallest movement, is very detectible.

My goal has been to be a great character actor.

I'm not much of an actor, I'm realizing.

As an actor, rejection is a big part of it, and I've had a lot of it. So when there's something that you really want to do, it's so great to have someone to be a part of a team as great as this team is.

You have to believe in yourself and always strive for the best. Whether that is getting the best actor, the most talented cinematographer, or the best location for your story, you have to have the hunger to want it and be willing to do what it takes to get it. A filmmaker should never be satisfied with their work. There should always be something that they want to improve on.

Most television shows are going to require an actor sign up from four to six years, but an anthology show really amounts to five or six months at the most. I thought serious actors might be attracted to that.

Once you've gotten the job, there's nothing to it. If you're an actor, you're an actor. Doing it is not the hard part. The hard part is getting to do it.

There's really no reason for any musician, writer, actor to ever take themselves seriously. If you work in a needle exchange, take yourself seriously. You're doing good work. If you're involved in hostage negotiations and saving lives, you can have a sense of entitlement.

I don't think anybody planned for me to be an actor. I didn't. I didn't know this was what I was going to do.

Everybody in L.A. wants to be an actor. I just wish I could meet somebody who doesn't act or sing.

In L.A. everyone is an actor. In Texas, everyone's a musician.