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There's so much I want to do as an actor. I feel like there's so much more that I want to achieve and that I can achieve.
I feel television is in a fantastically rich vein of what it's presenting both by opportunity to actors and to audiences.
I think it's very hard to direct foreign language actors, but Carl Rinsch found a great way. A special super visional way.
I think when you're a mom and an actor, it forces you to leave any actor neuroses behind and just concentrate on the work.
I'm an actor who believes we all have triggers to any stage of emotion. It's not always easy to find but it's still there.
One of the great things about my job is I get to do all of these things that I may not experience had I not been an actor.
It is often difficult to watch yourself onscreen, especially 60-feet high. As an actor, it is an uncomfortable experience.
I'll walk through fire to do what I do because the movie business, when it's right, is the coolest art form ever invented.
A vampire is very easy; you just take a very good-looking actor, put some teeth on them, make them pale, and you're there.
I really loved my dad. I was very, very close to my dad. He - you know, he was very, very nervous about my being an actor.
Actors always loved props and-so instead of a hat or an umbrella, they feel really comfortable with a cigarette as a prop.
some actors seek parts similar to their personalities. But, I prefer undergoing a metamorphosis that depends on the role .
I go to the movies a lot, and I regret when I see some actor that I used to like, to find them offering no more surprises.
I certainly want to establish myself as an actor in my own right, rather than being just the actor who plays Harry Potter.
Dakota Fanning is a child, but she is a wonderful actor. I don't know what a child actor is. She's an actor who's a child.
And I knew that, being an actor, you have to take the rough with the smooth and the highs with the lows. That's how it is.
I can rely on me [being a director], unlike some actors. I never got anything less than what I needed from the lead actor.
Jealous of the actors now, are we?" "What, of some fancy boy on the screen? Inconceivable." Oh, this was going to be good.
I never had any desire to be a film actor. I never thought I was the good-looking movie type, which I assumed they wanted.
All the actors I've worked with as a director over the years I really love and I thought they were all right for the part.
I know that I've had a very fortunate life, but also I think my job as an actor is to connect emotionally to human beings.
To be a good actor you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules to strive for something new.
I didn't go into this business to do action because I'm a classically trained actor. But I'm good at kicking and punching.
I never had posters on my wall and when I meet actors that I really admire, it's exciting because I get to work with them.
Casting a film, you can have the greatest actors in a film and it doesn't work. It's a combination of all of the elements.
I'll never admit that I'm an actor, because the next horrible follow-up question is always, "Oh, what have I seen you in?"
At this point, I'm happy to be part of something special. As an actor I liked to choose scripts that I'm passionate about.
From my experience, I think that every actor has to make sure that they're in charge of their own career somehow or other.
I was home-schooled 'cause I wanted to be an actor. I would spend all day watching movies, trying to get through calculus.
I was a big Mickey Rourke fan in his first incarnation. I thought that at the time he was America's greatest screen actor.
The caliber of actors I'm getting to work with and learn from on a daily basis is phenomenal for me as a developing actor.
I was a Shakespearean actor, I had preconceived ideas, line readings - everything was a gesture, everything was conscious.
It can't be overstated how wonderful it is not to have to audition any more. Any actor will tell you, it's like Christmas.
The reason actors, artists, writers have agents is because we'll do it for nothing. That's a basic fact - you gotta do it.
I touched emotions I've never tapped in my entire life. I've heard people say, 'I hope this movie doesn't glamorise drugs.
The crushing, pitiful, and frequently just plain risible pathos of an unsuccessful actor/performer's life is well charted.
When you look at some of the most respected actors there are and the crap that they're in... it didn't used to be that way.
It's rare that you get to work with actors, female or not, where you all get along. Just because of the nature of humanity.
Through all permutations and youthful poetry, I came to believe that the film actor was the great "literateur" of his time.
I'm more of a writer than an actor, and I used to say that I'm mostly an improviser, though I haven't improvised in awhile.
For a child actor, its a matter of listening, reacting, and being able to put yourself in a new place without being scared.
The Russians and rogue actors, including ISIS - this is a serious part of the 21st century security challenge that we face.
I couldn't be a cameraman or a designer or an actor - I have to be a director because I learned how to do that from my dad.
Those offers come in now and again. They're not knocking down my door. I'm only an old character actor, and I'm not needed.
The actor is too prone to exaggerate his powers; he wants to play Hamlet when his appearance is more suitable to King Lear.
Human beings are, necessarily, actors who...can be divided...into the sane who know they are acting and the mad who do not.
Transitioning to being an unemployed film actor is different, but it's fun and I've been looking forward to it for a while.
I just don't believe you're capable of being an actor unless you have a desire to experience your emotions in a public way.
As a writer, I always think about who my prototype actors are, in my brain. It's helpful, as a writer, to think about that.
You have to understand that crew members make movies so they're seeing a lot of actors all the time in their career acting.