Actors Quotes - Page 9

There is a kind of invisible thread between the actor and the audience, and when it's there it's stunning, and there is nothing to match that.

I couldn't remember ever having seen a young man with such power, so many facets of expression, so much sheer invention as an actor.

Change is vital to any actor. If you keep playing lead after lead, you're really gonna dry up. Because all those vehicles wean you away from the truths of human behaviour.

You have to be selfish to be an actor.

You know I am an actor, and I have medals for diction.

[As an actor] I have ideas, but things should always be fluid. You should always be ready to follow an instinct. Something might reveal itself on the day.

Not every actor gives their life to do this job. Some just do it as a job. Well, it's my life.

Homelessness is the actor's fate; physical incapacity to attain what is most required and desired by such a spirit as I am a slave to.

It is a common perception that actors don’t get along.

I used to joke I was a point-and-click actor. My whole process has been about trusting your instincts and hitting your mark.

The out-of-work actor wears out more than shoe leather. The very sensibilities that make him an artist are shattered by the disregard he is shown as a human being.

Basically I am just another actor who loves his work and this thing about age only exists in the media.

Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.

Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me.

If I hadn't made it as an actor, I might have wound up a hood.

I think the actor or performer should be - to touch that truth inside of a person. Touch that reality so much that they become a part of what you're going and you can take them anywhere you want to.

Being a celebrity has taught me to hide but being an actor has opened my soul.

I would never assume to tell another actor how to do his job!

I'm the kind of actor who has ventured into escaping from me.

It sometimes feels like a strange movie, you know, it's all so weird that sometimes I wonder if it is really happening.

Filmmaking isn’t if you can just strap on a camera onto an actor, and steadicam, and point it at their face, and follow them through the movie, that is not what moviemaking is, that is not what it’s about. It’s not just about getting a performance. It’s also about the psychology of the cinematic moment, and the psychology of the presentation of that, of that window.

The point is the doing of them rather than the accomplishments . There is no actor but the action; there is no experiencer but the experience.

What's important about an actor is his acting, not his life.

I have never taken myself that seriously as an actor.

The first actor I ever saw was The Lone Ranger. I thought: "That's what I want to do."