Actors Quotes - Page 98

I'm constantly intimidated by Shakespeare's work. Trying to decipher what he's saying and holding on to that thought - not just as an actor, but as a human being - is a rigour.

I doubt I'm more secure than Meryl Streep... I guess actors just never feel secure.

Most actors and actresses are performative as people.

Theater is a really exciting place to return to all the time because it's incredible training for an actor.

I guess actors are very sensitive people. We're porous.

There's part of me that's grateful for the delusion, because it takes a very hard shell to get started as an actor, and I don't have a very hard shell.

I had to paint the picture that I was never scared, otherwise I couldn't do my job. But now, as an actor, I'm literally paid to look emotionally accessible.

A combination of working in politics as well as teaching and being [an actor] certainly helped. I became so much more comfortable in front of a crowd. I felt like I was calling on all those other experiences.

Other actors are not my concern, and that's their life and that's their journey. Everybody has to get to a point in their own time and their own way.

I recognized that I had a window of opportunity that had opened because of my exposure as an actor.

Exercise is an important element of being an actor, on any level.

I think it's always good when you're able to, as an actor, allow your work to be some kind of a conduit for social discourse, and an examination of where we are, as a society.

People are more willing to accept a singer as an actor, than an actor as a singer.

As a comic, it's anti-comedy to be known. I think a lot of comedic actors get lost in this world of Hollywood and all this stuff. They lose what brought them there in the first place. I'm very trepidatious about it.

My co-stars aren't bad actors, but they're no Zach Braff.

I blame Walt Disney; well he has to find voice actors better than me somehow doesn't he?

Some people just can't handle that they will never be a better actor than me

I try to be green as much as I can and it's hard. I feel like I'm never doing enough. [...] For me as an actor, there's only so many things I can do, and this is a way, through a film, to teach and hopefully get the message out to young kids.

Most of the film directors expect their actors to want to work fast.

It's very rare, as an actor, to be someplace - to have an address, so to speak.

I don't really see myself as an actor.

Glen Cove. [Referring to Glenn Close on a movie review television show]

As an actor you're used to being the focus of attention.

To work with Richard [Ayoade] is my favourite thing in the world. He is my favourite person. So, it was great for me to be involved in a project that was, again, so different and with such wonderful actors. Everyone from Submarine is in the film in one way or another, which helps because it really does feel like a family.

The secret of being a great actor is a love of food.