Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
The performance is created by the director. The actor is the material. And I think that has to be true.
I've been on movies where I literally couldn't hear what the other actor was saying. It's very awkward.
I'm happy being an actor, it's what I have always wanted to do. I'm just lucky I got to do it so early.
I never fully committed to the child actor thing. I also liked being a regular kid and being a student.
When it's just a few scenes and a couple of actors behaving in a room, I feel very confident with that.
Many great horror stories are period pieces and English actors have a facility for historic characters.
I think there are advantages to different scales of filmmaking. You wouldn't want to do just one thing.
Well I'd really love to work with Robert De Niro, because he's still the most talented actor out there.
Every actor has their own method, so I'm not suggesting what works for me will work for everybody else.
Meeting actors and TV personalities is one thing, but I just feel like meeting musicians is the coolest.
You can't be an openly gay movie star. You can't be an openly gay pop star, really - minus Ricky Martin.
The most dramatic moves I have made as an actor have been from stage to screen and from sitcom to drama.
I'm just back in line with every other actor looking for a job right now and keeping my fingers crossed.
The same thing I applied to football, I applied to trying to be an actor and hopefully it came off well.
What makes an actor, I think, is a combination of a deep curiosity about life and a case of the crazies.
Then if the actor comes up with, "It's more logical to do this," I just change it [a scene] on the spot.
I don't like shows, I don't like to put on a show, I just really want to work intimately with my actors.
Actors, said Granny, witheringly. As if the world weren't full of enough history without inventing more.
It's certain that the death of an actor can be on a television screen playing the same thing every week.
Most actors will tell you they have some sort of dream of doing something other than what they're doing.
I know as an actor there is a certain liberation auditioning for a role that has no beauty requirements.
I think documentary filmmaking is a braver way to make films because it's real, and you're really there.
My favorite character on Friends was Joey, because we're both actors. I always thought that was so cool.
I've been around where I knew other actors were going to steal the scene, and I don't compete with them.
maybe a certain amount of narcissism is as essential to an actress as muscles are to a football lineman.
Some actors go, 'Bing!' and suddenly they're being paid huge sums. Me, I seem to get screwed every time.
I don't like comedy. I like funny things. I don't like comedy. Like, comedy movies are just, 'Oh Jesus.'
I love writing for other actors, women of African descent and people who are generally underrepresented.
I can be tough on actors, but I also let them know early on in our relationship what I expect from them.
As a playwright, you are a torturer of actors and of the audience as well. You inflict things on people.
Maybe that's my lot in life as an actor, to be the guy who gets crapped on everywhere he goes. Oh God...
I'm just not one of those naturally funny, relaxed actors who enjoy the spotlight and are so good at it.
Every actor has to make terrible films from time to time, but the trick is never to be terrible in them.
My main interest in being a director, and the most important thing to me, is that world with the actors.
I started out as an actor but now I act to fund my own productions. I've managed to separate my mindset.
To be a Dumont actor was considered to be a great honor for an actor, yet it also had its disadvantages.
Like actors and writers who are on and off again in terms of employment, I had a very unstructured life.
The joy is when you work with great actors, it just comes to life in a way that you never even imagined.
Gary Oldman is impossible to steal a movie from. He's such a great actor, he's off the hook. I love him.
I'm a physical type of actor and love projects in which I can get physical. The more action, the better.
The fictional work is a kind of actor that wears a satirical garb but can put on other costumes as well.
I think we're all guilty of mistaking the actors we've seen over and over again - we think we know them.
I know that I'm a decent actor, but it's another thing to be in a scene with Jon Hamm and hold your own.
The actors are the greatest executors of tone in a film. They're the most important cinematic component.
I pay attention to the actors and stuff, but not even that much. I don't pay attention to who's writing.
To be on the set with the actors, with the location, every day changes; every day something can go wrong.
When the creator of the show is gone, the actors end up being the people who have been there the longest.
Chadwick Boseman work as an actor, I think, is truly remarkable, and I had a great time working with him.
I'm hardly the most notable person in 'Zombieland.' The other actors in it are way more famous than I am.
Actors and magicians are both performers and they represent things that are not necessarily who they are.