Actors Quotes
When you work with directors who really love actors, who love their contribution, it feels amazing. But sometimes when you work with directors, you feel like youre in the way.
For aspiring actors out there, I would say stay focused and don't let anyone pull you away from your goals. Shoot for the stars so that if you ever fall short you can land on the clouds.
As actors, we went where we wanted to, and the camera followed us: it was like having another person in the room. There was no formal structure to the process. It was very liberating.
I did well as an actor in Australia, and then Paramount invited me over... to have a look at me.
I had admired Richard Burton for years and years before I had ever worked with him. He was a great, great actor. It was a joy to get to know him as a person.
It's very important to be able to distinguish the actors from the characters they play.
I was a terrible actor, and that's why I got the job: I would allow myself to be so bad that I lowered and got down to WWF standards.
You are exposing yourself all the time as an actor. There's the risk of being thought of as bad or boring or unattractive.
It's difficult working with very rich actors, because inevitably they become a little spoilt, and the managers and agents tend to control things more than is healthy.
I admired Marlon Brando as I grew up. I though he was one of the finest screen actors around.
If it sounds good as you say it, likely as not it'll sound good when an actor's saying it.
A strange thing happens to me that I'm sure happens to a lot of actors when the camera starts rolling. I'm not 'me' any more.
The way an actor is trained doesn't ultimately have much bearing on my work. I'm interested in the actor as artist.
If you're an actor and you don't act for a long time you sort of think, I wonder if I can still do it.
I have had the occasion to meet child actors from the '60s and '70s at various functions, and everyone's gone on to various different lives - they're real-estate agents or surfers.
Eventually though, I'd like to have my own production company. Then I could create great opportunities not only for myself, but for other actors as well
Actors are pretending for you, but they're not lying. They are not putting on a guise instead of themselves. They are finding things inside that they have experienced.
I'm not a method actor, but I'm affected by the life I share my life with during shooting. It's always a very strange and special period for me.
I'm not one of those actors who romanticizes his trials working out and brags that he can bench press a panda now.
A theater is such a revealing form of art, such a transparent and good actors, they're such powerful individuals. I always kind of dreamt that one day I will open my mouth on stage.
I don't think that there's much hiding that actors can do. If you're doing good work, you're showing a part of yourself to someone.
Shooting in 3D hasn't really affected the way I work as an actor that much. Maybe that's not a good thing. Maybe I'm not being diligent enough.
As an actor it's like, go with whatever excites you as an actor. What are you're going to invest yourself in as a character? What are you going to get into? Have a variety of characters to play.
Nobody in the world knew about Megan Fox until I found her and put her in 'Transformers.' I like to think that I've had some luck in building actors' careers with my films.
I couldn't have left my career as an actor on a better note than to have done a cameo in the Lost In Space movie. Doing this part is the highlight of my career. What a way to leave the profession!
You know those actors who have a sense for how they should be used? I don't think I have that.
I think it's really important for actors to have another creative outlet, or for anyone, really.
It's kind of interesting to be a director who is all of a sudden being an actor playing an agent. This is my whole world!
You know, I've never been much of a method actor. I feel like, with every project I go in extremely prepared and I like to have a good time.
The actor in me would always like to be more dashing, or slimmer, or have nicer hair.
Actors worry about bad breath, weight, receding hairlines and why their leading lady looks like their daughter.
People should realize that I shot a Coke commercial back in 1986. So, you know, I've been around a long time. I carry my Screen Actors Guild Card.
Actors, movie stars, rock stars, I can meet them with no worries - but with footballers I go weak at the knees. All of them.
The great, rewarding thing about directing is that you're overseeing the whole thing. When you're an actor, you're just one department.
Playwrights are the most gregarious writers - to get our work done, we need actors, directors, set designers.
Most child actors go through that. Unless you can transition into an adult star, your career is over.
I got into radio when I was eight, and I was one of the busiest child dramatic actors in America.
In terms of being Australian, I think a big part of it is the determination to prove yourself, just like Aussie actors.
It was being young and sensitive and an actor. There was a lot of pressure, everything was a hurdle.
As actors you're always going to take certain roles that are in your comfort zone and take ones that aren't.
Before I was 14, I wanted to be a singer, an actor, or a hockey player. By 15, I knew I was going to be a singer.
I've been around where I knew other actors were going to steal the scene, and I don't compete with them.
Im a firm believer that actors take to work who they arent at home. People show their other self in their art or in their work.
With a lot of actors, you've got to chip through the surface to see who the real person is.
There's the most resistance to an actor singing. It's like I'm being disloyal to my industry.