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I toyed with the notion of being an actor, and am so glad that this whim did not go any further.
American actors are coy. We all have pricks and cunts, or are you different from the rest of us?
By the time an actor knows how to act any sort of part he is often too old to act any but a few.
Daniel Day-Lewis is my favorite actor walking the planet right now. He never ceases to amaze me.
It is an actor's defect. I want everybody to like me, so I'll say what I think will please them.
Film actors reach a certain level, but they don't get beyond it unless they work in the theater.
I did well as an actor in Australia, and then Paramount invited me over... to have a look at me.
You don't need qualifications as an actor or a politician. And I didn't want to be a politician.
The beauty of being an actor in a horror film is that you know what to expect and what's coming.
A kitten is the delight of a household. All day long, comedy is played by an incomparable actor.
The best actors instinctively feel out what the other actors need, and they just accommodate it.
You learn early as an actor that creating your own material is the only way to have any control.
Both Averill and Bayar were like actors speaking lines for their audience and not to each other.
If you're going to be born ugly and be an actor - the least they can do is let you play Lincoln.
Raving mad is quite easy. You just chew up the scenery or something. It's quiet mad that's hard.
Actors love mental disorders, dialects, and corsets. Give them one of the three and they're happy
Strength of character is already written. What we bring, as an actor, is an almost 3D-ness to it.
There's nothing better than an actor who is really, really hungry to show everything they've got.
Given a chance, I would like to work with Aishwarya Rai Bachchan because she's a versatile actor.
'Do the Right Thing' was like the first film where I really felt comfortable working with actors.
If you're lucky, and not a lot of actors are these days, you get the chance to create a character
Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd are really amazing, lovely people and really great comedic actors.
That is exciting to reinvent myself, to invent a new character. As an actor that is revitalizing.
It's a blessing to be given a variety of roles to what I call an iconic action actor like myself.
In the middlegame, the king is merely an extra, but in the endgame, he is one of the star actors.
There's no shame in stealing - any actor who says he doesn't is lying. You steal from everything.
I've always thought that actors wanted to be pop musicians and pop musicians wanted to be actors.
I've always been a people-watcher, and as an actor, later, I just mined all those little details.
You're an actor who's Irish, not an Irish actor. And you shouldn't be limited by your extraction.
Like all actors, I was open to taking on new challenges, including those outside my comfort zone.
Once I found out how much an Off-Off-Broadway actor makes, I was whoring myself out the next day.
When you're an actor, you show up and it's wonderful because you're in the world of make-believe.
Great writing attracts great actors. It attracts money. Without a great script, you have nothing.
Animating is a very slow, pain-staking process and the animators become the actors at that point.
The Actor should make you forget the existence of author and director, and even forget the actor.
I'm not a great actor in the sense that I can't fake it if I'm going through something difficult.
I usually hang out on the set. I get to know everybody. I have a nice time with the other actors.
But then there is the one who seems to have a hard time separating the actor's work from reality.
I know from teaching, that actors want to act. Even the subtlest actors can do a little too much.
As an actor ... at some point you've got to forget that the crew's there in order to do your job.
Take it from a director: if you get an actor that Sandy Meisner has trained, you've been blessed.
When you write a movie, you have a hundred collaborators. But when you write a novel, it's yours.
They say an actor is only as good as his parts. Well, my parts have done me pretty well, darling.
When they say I'm a great actor, I close my ears because it's not good for you to think that way.
It's really hard as a Canadian actor to make a footprint in the States, because of the visa stuff.
I've always wanted to act and I grew up a little on film sets when my dad was working as an actor.
One of my favourite sorts of actors...the rat actor. The rat actor knows his job and gets it done.
How was I going to make a man fly? How was I going to convince the public that an actor could fly?
No, I'm at full height, I'm in the studio, I can actually catch actors by the eye, it's fantastic.
Filmmaking is always sort of building a mosaic of this arc of what the character is going through.