Actors Quotes

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The person you are is a thousand times more interesting than the best actor you could ever hope to be.

The actor must use his imagination to be able to answer all questions (when, where, why, how). Make the make-believer existence more definite.

We are all actors: being a citizen is not living in society, it is changing it.

Don't be an actor. Be a human being who works off what exists under imaginary circumstances.

Anyone can do theater, even actors. And theater can be done everywhere. Even in a theater.

Of course, if you have thought up to now that an actor relies merely on inspiration you will have to change your mind. Talent without work is nothing more than raw unfinished material.

Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it.

When an actor is completely absorbed by some profoundly moving objective so that he throws his whole being passionately into its execution, he reaches a state we call inspiration.

Actors should arouse a sense of wonder because of their ability to exceed what the spectators can envision ever being able to do.

You'll never see any two good actors approach a role in the same way.

The Theatre of the Oppressed is theatre in this most archaic application of the word. In this usage, all human beings are Actors (they act!) and Spectators (they observe!).

Hollywood is still the mecca for good or bad, but it isn't the beginning or end for filmmaking.

An actor has to burn inside with an outer ease.

The thing about film-making is I give it everything, that's why I work so hard. I always tell young actors to take charge. It's not that hard. Sign your own cheques, be responsible.

I think I'm good at amplifying an actor's strengths, and minimizing their weaknesses. And they all have strengths and weaknesses.

Well, I’ve been in several films including documentaries, but the big blockbuster, I was hired as advisor to the actors, I was trying to make Jesuits out of them.

Remember: there are no small parts, only small actors.

A magician is only an actor - an actor pretending to be a magician.

You have film actors doing TV, rap stars doing TV, with everyone kind of crossing the line.

There is a strange pecking order among actors. Theatre actors look down on film actors, who look down on TV actors. Thank God for reality shows, or we wouldn't have anybody to look down on.

I'm no actor and I never have been. What people see on the screen is me.

The actor is an athlete of the heart.

Everything changes once we identify with being the witness to the story, instead of the actor in it.

I couldn't be a cameraman or a designer or an actor - I have to be a director because I learned how to do that from my dad.

When the drama of history is over, Jesus Christ will stand alone on the stage. All the great figures of history ... will realize that they have been but actors in a drama produced by another.

I want to become a superstar, but for that, I first have to be a super actor.

Eventually, in '84, we made a film for a little over a million dollars - with American actors that was shot in English - that was shown in Finland A little action film called Born American.

All human beings are Actors (they act!) and Spectators (they observe!).

Being a good actor isn't easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I'm done.

I have always been a Malibu Man, like all actors.

In nighttime series, the actor gets billing up front on every episode.

Only a madman or an actor would want to be President of the United States.

Botox should be banned for actors, as steroids are for sportsmen. Acting is all about expression; why would you want to iron out a frown?

A magician is an actor playing the part of a magician.

You get the information, and it's not your job to judge it or not judge it. You adapt, and you do it. That's what we do as actors. We're just as surprised as the viewers, sometimes.

Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.

I'm only wanted by directors for the image I give off, and it makes me angry. I always wanted to be an actor and not a beauty pageant winner.

I'm an actor... I do a job and I go home. Why are you interested in me? You don't ask a truck driver about his job.

Christina Ricci is amazing, the most professional actor I think I've ever met. You can be chatting with her and when they call action, she's right there.

I think any actor worth their salt wants to show as much versatility as they possibly can.

We exponents of horror do much better than those Method actors. We make the unbelievable believable. More often than not, they make the believable unbelievable.

We can compare classical chess and rapid chess with theatre and cinema - some actors don't like the latter and prefer to work in the theatre.

You grow up in a Sicilian household, becoming an actor is not a big leap.

When you do an animated movie - at least the ones that I've been a part of - you never see any of the other actors. It's all done separately with headphones in a voice booth.

And I think it is the genius of actors to be able to escape whatever people are expecting of them. Otherwise you become like a factory worker.

If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.

The big-budget blockbuster is becoming one of the most dependable forms of filmmaking.

Every animator is really an actor performing in slow motion, living the character a drawing at a time.

By instinct I'm an adventurer; by choice I'd like to be a writer; by pure, unadulterated luck, I'm an actor.

I'm notorious for giving a bad interview. I'm an actor and I can't help but feel I'm boring when I'm on as myself.