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Show business is like riding a bicycle - when you fall off, the best thing to do is get up, brush yourself off and get back on again.
I feel very privileged to have worked with a lot of outstanding actors: Alun Armstrong, Peter Mullan, Matt Smith and Andrew Garfield.
Every actor wants to change things up a bit. You don't want to be pigeonholed, and not just because of what the industry might think.
I spent so long studying really hard to become a fine actor, but threw it all away because I got the adulation and the fame so easily
Part of an actors job, in my opinion, is adjust to the characteristics of the director and try to understand to how he tries to work.
The world of chemical reactions is like a stage, on which scene after scene is ceaselessly played. The actors on it are the elements.
Insiders say Obama's pretty comfortable around actors. He should be. He has been 'acting' like he was born in Hawaii for a long time.
I love working with actors, and it's great that I'm an actor myself. I know how I like to be directed and how I like to be talked to.
Actors are insanely competitive and they hold back on each other. They are like magicians and none of them want to show their tricks.
The varying physical characteristics of the actors may also necessitate changes. Sean Connery is six feet four. Dustin Hoffman isn't.
One can't help but bring one's own personality into what one is doing, and it's certainly true of us actors and it's true of writers.
I'm a task-oriented actor. A pretender. And I try to invent my process anew each time I make a new project. So I frown on any method.
We remember Ronald Reagan as a man who maximized his gifts from an unknown to an actor to a Governor to the leader of the Free World.
We've all seen great actors and actresses who are missing a certain chemistry. And it's not about getting along or not getting along.
I'm not an American actor. I'm a French actor. I'll continue in France. If I could make another silent movie in America, I'd like to!
Nick Offerman is my hero. He just cracks me up. He's so funny, but he's a true actor, too - he's bringing so much when he's onscreen.
I'm inspired by good work. Whether it is a great performance by another actor, a piece of art, or someone doing something altruistic.
An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be.
I certainly never expected to be a professional actor. I never expected to be in movies. I thought I would probably become a teacher.
3D is quite a lot more advanced in animated movies; for live-action movies we're just taking baby steps, we're just in the beginning.
If you have the opportunity to meet someone as an actor, it's just great fodder for you. It's wonderful source stuff that we die for.
I was a terrible actor, and that's why I got the job: I would allow myself to be so bad that I lowered and got down to WWF standards.
As an actor, you deal with so much rejection and humiliation. When the good things come around, you tend not to trust your instincts.
I would do 'John Carter' again tomorrow. I'm very proud of 'John Carter.' Box office doesn't validate me as a person, or as an actor.
I always want to do something I haven't done before and get to work with other actors, writers, or directors that I want to work with.
I've had to deal, a lot, with my own sense of intimidation at meeting famous people - especially actors, but really any famous people.
I am a better cook than I am an actor. If I have any ego, it's about cooking. I'm one of the best cooks... and I cook in any language.
I remember the actor Dale Robertson said he quit acting when he got tired of having to hold his stomach in. I feel that way sometimes.
I feel like I was born an actor. I did not pursue acting until I was a bit older. But I got a taste of it at an earlier age in the UK.
I really like to work with theater actors. Theater actors tend to do lots of independent movies, and those are the actors that I like.
I wanted to work on a cable show and with a writer/director because that's a much more fulfilling and freeing experience, as an actor.
The truth in acting is that we are all hired help. We are a commodity. There is no difference between being an actor and pork bellies.
All that back-story stuff doesn't help. What you get paid for is to stand toe-to-toe with the other actor and get him to do your will.
You ask any actor - they'll tell you they'd rather shoot on location because you don't have to invent the energy, the energy is there.
I'm not really much of an actor, so when I started on 'The Daily Show', I was just trying to adopt the faux authority of a newsperson.
It's so rare, especially as a younger actor, to find a role where it's not just one-dimensional and it's not just a stock leading man.
One of the things that made me want to be an actor more than ever was seeing a Chekhov play, "The Sea Gull," when was 14 in the Bronx.
The best thing about switching from being an actor to being a director is that you dont have to shave or hold your stomach in anymore.
Acting is not that far from mental disease: An actor works on splitting his character into others. It is like a kind of schizophrenia.
I like actors that are good with pantomime and that can transmit a lot by their presence and attitude more than through their dialogue
As an actor, you're putting yourself out there when you perform. You're bound to experience feelings of vulnerability because of this.
The biggest challenge to being an actor is when you're not working, just being unemployed, the downtime and not having anything to do.
If the [actors] are working, and I have a dinner engagement, I don't do 20 takes. I do five takes and go home. I want to go to dinner.
What really enthralls me is working with the actor and seeing where you can go with that. It's in that exchange and that relationship.
I was really disappointed that Warner Bros. didn't think highly enough of my film or my filmmaking to ask me to make the new Superman.
I'm practically an actor. Even when you do an interview, it's like you're performing a little bit, so yeah, I'm enjoying it, it's fun.
The actor must be full of passion. If he's too cool he's better off as the manager of a company, not someone who appears on the stage.
Actors are always a little high at work. Acting is their drug. So when you put the brakes on, they're naturally a little disappointed.
For the actors, there's something very important about that first showing of the scene to the crew, becomes like a little performance.
Homelessness is the actor's fate; physical incapacity to attain what is most required and desired by such a spirit as I am a slave to.