Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Really, the novelist has the best casting since he doesn't have to cope with the actors and all the rest. -Alfred Hitchcock
As an actor, you're always in situations that can be compromising. But you can wipe away that gray area by making a choice.
I don't put big concepts on my work, and it's all often about keeping actors in a room together and not letting them leave.
There's a reason why actors are always dying to work with the Coens. They just set the stage for you to do their best work.
The ultimate aim of the training is to create an actor who can be responsible for his artistic development and achievement.
Anyone who thinks impressions of old movie actors is funny absolutely cannot be trusted. I think it's like a law of nature.
When you're on set and you professionally listen to what the other actors have to say, then the emotion is naturally evoked.
We joke about it in the entertainment industry: Every actor wants to be a musician, and every musician wants to be an actor.
As an actor, I've always been interested in making sure I can perform the role and the lines in the way the writer intended.
In a huge way, everything that I've done in my life has helped inform my ability to communicate with actors and direct them.
Every actor hopes that the character that they're playing continues to be a challenge throughout their tenure of their show.
Great actors who I want to work with-have such a misconception of who I am because of all the things that get said about me.
Actors have to protect each other in a way. The idea of humiliating another actor or being humiliated myself is devastating.
I've always been hopeless at everything when I was a kid. That's why I became an actor - 'cause I couldn't do anything else.
I used to joke I was a point-and-click actor. My whole process has been about trusting your instincts and hitting your mark.
Doing 'Young Adult' was really reassuring to me in a lot of ways. It confirmed a lot of suspicions I had about great actors.
One of the things that is assumed about actors is that they are extrovert, which is almost never the case, in my experience.
As a filmmaker you get typecast just as much as an actor does, so I'm trapped in a genre that I love, but I'm trapped in it!
Unless it's a specific accent, or something about physicality you have to change, I am generally not such a conscious actor.
I think if I learned anything in graduate school, it was to not drool around other actors who would normally make you drool.
Did I think I'd ever be in television shows that people would see or movies? No. But I knew that I was going to be an actor.
Ninety per cent of how you learn is watching great people. When you are surrounded by good actors it lifts your performance.
I always fancied myself more of an actor than a comedian before I realized that only assholes make that kind of distinction.
I admire the actors that truly can impersonate someone - become someone, inhabit someone. It's amazing when you see it done.
As an actor, it's always fun when you're able to feel like there's freedom to explore things and try out jokes and be funny.
Dog movies nowadays are not what dog movies were 50 or even 10 years ago. For one thing, the dogs have become better actors.
Honestly, puppets themselves are actors effectively. The joy of puppetry is that it is very simple and low-fi, which I love.
You always have to make positive choices as an actor, even when you're playing someone who may not be doing the best things.
A challenge is always important; as an actor, as a human, it's good to face challenges and it's good to push your boundaries.
If you're gonna let the character be the story, you better set a tone that allows the actors to do the best work they can do.
God felt sorry for actors, so he gave them a place in the sun and a lot of money. All they had to sacrifice was their talent.
If I'd made it right away as an actor, I would've stopped at a certain level and stayed there, probably as a character actor.
It's destiny that pushed me towards showbiz. I wanted to start off as a technician, but out of compulsion, I became an actor.
The most important thing, when playing characters with chemistry, is being able to work off the other actor and be supported.
When I was a waiter I was fired twice from the same restaurant. I guess I was that good of an actor but that bad of a waiter.
The next actor I meet that uses the term 'courageous' to describe another actor's performance is getting punched in the face.
Lot of the scripts I've been in with other non-white actors haven't been great. Lot of non-white actors ain't all that great.
Every actor wants to break out of the box that they put you in and that's where I'm heading, out of the box as fast as I can.
I just enjoy working with really wonderful actors and amazing creative people and I hope to keep doing that, no matter where.
I always believed that I never wanted to be an actor. I only did it because I was allowed to do it and I had to do something.
I wasn't interested in fame or fortune. I was interested in being an actor and being creative. I was very adamant about that.
An actor who's a control freak, that doesn't work. We have to be malleable. We cannot come in and try to control or dominate.
I feel bad for young actors who become huge stars too quickly, because you haven't had a chance to practice your craft a lot.
I love actors, number one. There's probably nobody that you could name that I don't like, depending on what it is they're in.
I didn't come to Hollywood to drink or get high, and I don't want to be considered a cool actor - I want to be a great actor.
There's no such thing as good voices. Because there's no such thing as bad voices. There are only good actors and bad actors.
I do certain things that, maybe, nobody else knows why I'm doing. But it's all - it all has to do with - to grow as an actor.
You've got to have a sense of different audiences. I'm a kind of performer manque - I come from a long line of failed actors!
What I've been noticing is people coming up to me and going, 'Are you an actor?' which is cool. That's ultimately what I want.
You know, young actors say all the time, 'Should I use my own life experience?' And my response is, 'What choice do you have?'