Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I'm not sure I'm the sort of actor people are hugely interested in finding out an awful lot about.
It's more enjoyable to shoot in a studio on a single location with two actors... if they are good.
I do think that good actors can do any part. It doesn't mean that they are the best ones to do it.
Europeans have a different take [on nudity] than American actors do. They're not quite as hung up.
Everybody thinks that actors would be really good at bluffing, but I think it's a little backward.
I'm glad to be an actor to be employed by people who are now 12, probably. I look forward to that.
It occurs to me that with all the television people watch, most of their acquaintances are actors.
I've got to see my movie to see how I'm acting, see what little things I can learn about my craft.
When I decided I wanted to be an actor, I said I wanted to work with quality actors and directors.
When you are a character actor they trust you will go in and give them a full character and leave.
I'm not a wealthy person because I was never a star. I was a working actor and a supporting actor.
When you work as an actor, you've got to feel safe even in what appears to be the simplest things.
I am selective, but at the same time, I want to be out there as an actor and show people my range.
No I don't really write thinking about specific actors because it can get in the way a little bit.
As a fortysomething actor, you reach a plateau of maturity from which you can really get stuck in.
I'm not one to mythologize other actors too much, but obviously Sandy Bullock is a gorgeous woman.
However, I hope I am also judged on my accomplishments as an actor and not just on my pretty face!
One of the great things about being an actor is that you do get to indulge in someone else's life.
People who call themselves actors and can't ever get work; they do need to get another profession.
Everybody in L.A. wants to be an actor. I just wish I could meet somebody who doesn't act or sing.
All I know is that when I go somewhere, I'm not an autobot. I am a human being. I am not an actor.
If you want to be an actor, my advice is to learn your lines and don't bump into the other actors.
That's why there's so much bad acting out there, because you could see actors watching themselves.
I think, as an actor, you're always traveling. There's a sense of dislocation sometimes from home.
I think if actors don't think of themselves as funny in real life they think they can't do comedy.
The finished product is not finished when the actor is. The work is completed by a pair of shears.
A rapper is about being completely true to yourself. Being an actor is about changing who you are.
I've never had a desire to be famous. Lots of actors are actually extremely shy. I have shy areas.
There are certain actors who are very good at improvising, like Dustin Hoffman and Glenda Jackson.
I've always done a few things at once. I've always been a musician and an actor, at the same time.
There are two types of actors: those who say they don't want to be famous and those who are liars.
I've always believed that the greatest actors are the ones that have the voices that are imitable.
Chris Cooper is one of my favorite actors in the world. I've seen him in most everything he's done.
Every actor-performer says this, and it sounds so irritating, but I'm not the most outgoing person.
I've worked with actors who tell everyone what to do in the scene - that makes me go pretty atomic.
And I have been able to establish this sort of decent reputation as being a decent character actor.
If I wasn't an actor and I watched my films, I could easily be like 'This guy's a clown,' you know?
The thing with being able to do accents is that it's still completely separate from being an actor.
As an actor I kind of do. I started out doing voice overs in the mid 80s when I was in grad school.
I always learn something from every actor I've ever worked with. I always pick something from them.
Most actors are either a shower of bloody scruffs or think they should dress like Hamlet off stage.
I know every actor says this, but the people behind the camera are great. They always have answers.
Some of the most cutthroat auditions youll have as an actor are when youll have three words to say.
I think any actor who talks in beatings-up is just talking himself up. I tend to not bring them up.
I got into [producing] to be part of stories that wouldn't necessarily be right for me as an actor.
Acting is a form of deception, and actors can mesmerize themselves almost as easily as an audience.
I did everything pretty cliche as an actor in New York. I read the trades, I sent out 'head shots.'
Like every actor, you get notorious for maybe one role and then get offered a lot of similar roles.
Once a film gets into production, the actors sometimes begin to have more input than a writer does.
You never know what movie I will be in next, but let's just hope it's sells (for my sake at least)!