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I don't think any actors love taking their clothes off on film, unless you're an exhibitionist, which I'm certainly not.
I want to be a great actor someday, and I've decided there's no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.
Being an actor is like winning the lottery. It's not really about your talent, it's right time, right place, right face.
If I meet someone at a bus stop, I want to really meet that person. I don't want to be 'Hugh Jackman, the famous actor.'
I read about some movie where they did everything on blue screen, and the actors were not even connecting to each other.
I only want to work with actors that really get it and make it work. I didn't want it to be a star-driven thing anymore.
I wanted to be a musician but I didn't have the talent for it, so I decided I wanted to be famous, so I became an actor.
As an actor, you know, I love not being pigeonholed, which is great. No one really knows who I am. So that's a positive.
I love working with the right actor, and if the right actor happens to be unknown, that should be allowed, too, I think.
[ Gareth Edwards] never wanted to force anything that wasn't true. He's very much an actor's director, and it was loose.
If you have the right actors and you can give them the freedom to explore, you've done a lot of your work as a director.
When you change a lead actor, everything's going to change - but you can rest assured he's going to absolutely smash it.
To be frank: the translations that often sound bad in the mouths of the actors, these have often been done by linguists.
My goal was just to work regularly. I didn't ever expect to be rich or famous. I wanted to be a working character actor.
The difference between me and American-born actors is that I came here with the expectation of not being treated fairly.
I like working with an actor who doesn't do the oneupmanship. One who has no trick and gives a true, honest performance.
I don't think that I've had a career like anyone else's, but there are hosts and hosts of actors whose careers I admire.
I wouldn't even begin to presume that the talent of an able actor is anything like the talents of a prodigious musician.
I got to New York when I was eighteen. I was knocking around, trying to be an actor, writer, musician, whatever happened.
There's a nimble quality to the way a television actor can work. When that muscle gets strong it's a very valuable thing.
My path was to be an actor and it’s been very good to me in life. It’s broadened my horizons and given me a lot of gifts.
Emma Watson is my kids' favorite actor on the planet. They never took me more seriously than when I was working with her.
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!
Eventually, if something pops up, that's cool, but I still wanna continue the process of learning how to be a good actor.
For some reason it gives people pleasure to equate the life of certain movie actors or actresses with their actual lives.
I had spent my entire career not wanting to talk about weight, not wanting to deal with it, wanting to be an actor first.
I considered going to film school; I took a course in film and was very interested in filmmaking as well as film writing.
My mother implanted in me as a young girl...you can either be an actor in your own life, or a reactor in somebody else's.
I was terrorized by the emotional requirements of being an actor. Acting is like letting your pants down; you're exposed.
I never expected to be a movie star. It's not that I didn't want to be, I didn't think about it. I wanted to be an actor.
After I began to explore what an actor actually is, I studied for three years before I had the guts to go on an audition.
Some of the things I've been in are comedic, but I don't get considered for true comedies because I'm a 'dramatic' actor.
I think actors like to be directed. Actors like to know where they're headed and what they want, so I'm very encouraging.
Deepika is one of my absolute favourite Bollywood actors. It is wonderful to have someone of her stature wearing my brand
The applause is a celebration not only of the actors but also of the audience. It constitutes a shared moment of delight.
Critics should be to actors what ornithologists are to birds: they can write all they want, but it shouldn't affect them.
In the business of acting, those are the actors that make the trains run on time, you know? There's nothing without them.
No actor wants to choose - they just want all of the options available to them all the time; we tend to be pretty greedy.
I had a feeling about Shakespeare's soliloquies, that there should be a real exchange between the actor and the audience.
I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.
Mostly I've just worked with actors and actresses that are fun and easy to talk to and had nothing but great experiences.
One of the great things about doing series television is the guest actors that you can have come on and play around with.
An actor has many lives and many people within him. I know there are lots of people inside me. No one ever said I'm dull.
I love working with actors. I love visual things. I always intended to be a writer who directs and a director who writes.
If somebody for some reason, for music or for movie, becomes famous, it's because they have something, something special.
I always think that I'm the best thing in a lot of bad movies. Personally, I have to. I think that I like me as an actor.
I wish it was a little easier for an actor to later go into singing and have it be accepted, but maybe I can still do it.
The only fear I have is that I will wake up one day and nobody will allow me to do films. This is a fear every actor has.
To me, a lot of what makes a good actor is not what a teacher tells you to do but how you respond when youre on your own.
I try to be like a sponge when I'm around other actors, picking things up about the way they work and how they do things.