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As an actor, you want to keep your demons to some extent, but you also have to exorcise them so you can use them instead of them using you.
Every actor has a strength, and sometimes you just respond to things that you see yourself better at. I'm aware of what I can and can't do.
I've never had sex with boxers on and it's an odd thing to watch actors do. That's not saying I haven't tried... I just don't recommend it!
A lot of actors never talk to other actors about how they're doing things, or why. I think it's important to share the way you're thinking.
Fat noses have no place in the Hindi film industry. But it is not so in the West - otherwise, Anthony Quinn would have never been an actor.
The displacement of scripted series by reality programming continues to be a severe obstacle to a working actor's ability to earn a living.
My preference is live performance, because you get the feedback. There's an energy. It's live theater. That's why I think actors like that.
I was never really a character actor - I was a leading man who was always cast as a character. I wanted to be Jack Nicholson or Jean Gabin.
Why things get canceled or not is so unbelievably out of actors' hands that it's one of those things where you've just got to ride with it.
Actors are journeymen. We show up for work. We do the job and then we go. What goes on behind the scenes is what goes on behind the scenes.
There's this freshness that happens within the first few takes of the actors actually listening to each other and actually really reacting.
The hardest thing to walk away from, over a long-form TV show, is the comradery of the company, both with the crew and the group of actors.
Good actors never use the script unless it's amazing writing. All the good actors I've worked with, they all say whatever they want to say.
The fitness builds the foundation for me as an actor to have clarity. Fitness has always been the base of where I start off as a performer.
I'm constantly trying to find something that's different from me, whereas some actors do the same thing, again and again. That's not for me.
A script is utterly useless in and of itself; it's only of any worth the minute your actors, your designers, your directors come into being.
I left our home to work on a movie, and while I was away, my boyfriend [Billy Bob Thorton] got married, and I've never heard from him again.
I'm an actor and a writer, that's how I think of myself. Sometimes my time is divided equally, sometimes less equally, but that's what I do.
One of the rules about being an actor or an actress is that you never diss other actors or actresses, particularly when you don't know them.
The great thing about Eminem is, he's just hysterical. You forget, people like Eminem because he is riotously funny. And he's a great actor.
It was a very good experience. It wasnt just to make a movie, it was my life. I was employed at The Lord of the Rings for a year and a half.
I didn't become an actor because I wanted to act. Actually, I wanted to become a marine biologist. But most of all, I wanted to be accepted.
I always felt I was a nobody, and the only way for me to be somebody was to be - well, somebody else. Which is probably why I wanted to act.
Every actor has a production company already. It's just a matter of producing your own films under the label of your own production company.
Of course, when you work with actors and when you work on a script everything that you know about the human experience can't possibly go in.
My love for sports will never die. I love martial arts and I want to promote it in whichever way I can. I am a fighter first, then an actor.
As an actor, I've always said, half the audience is going to love you, half is going to hate you so just live with it. It's easier that way.
I guess [Richard] Pryor was that good. I never saw him in a theater, but I imagine he was that good, because he was such a phenomenal actor.
I'm not a popular actor. I don't necessarily want to be famous. I want to be known for great work. I want to be known to surprise audiences.
The most important definition of an actor, the job of the actor, is to serve the writer, not yourself. Way too many actors serve themselves.
Allison Janney is the best actor on the series.Allison is one of the few actors I ever worked with who is incapable of hitting a false note.
There are actors who just bring an enormous amount of empathy. They just have that"it" that makes you want to follow them and root for them.
I don't want to just be an actor my whole life. I mean I do want to be an actor my whole life but not only an actor, I want to be an artist.
Sometimes 'great acting' is just showing off - chewing up scenery and dialogue and other actors - the equivalent of a theatrical sugar rush.
Sometimes, the actors are thrilled to have visitors because they're just waiting most of the day. It's the directors that are a little busy.
Actors want to surprise themselves. When it's really good, you kind of transcend yourself, and that happens infrequently. Very, very rarely.
As an actor, there's a bit of you that's decided you want to be looked at and watched, but there's a paradoxical bit that wants to run away.
I always wanted to be a movie star. I thought it meant being famous and having breakfast in bed. I didn't know you had to be up at 4:00 a.m.
It's just a whole different vibe with improv. As an actor I just kind of exercise within my environment and adjust depending on where I'm at.
For acting, darlings, is the world's most perilous trade. Compared with actors, steeple jacks and deep-sea divers lead snug and placid lives.
I'm only wanted by directors for the image I give off, and it makes me angry. I always wanted to be an actor and not a beauty pageant winner.
I believe in making all movies at their most reasonable. That I get a lot of money as an actor is because nobody else will get it if I don't.
The actors I admire, like Ben Kingsley or Daniel Day-Lewis, they totally reinvent themselves in every part. I hope I get a chance to do that.
The press concentrates on a divorce an actor's going through and they ignore the good performances he gives, or the causes that he works for.
I just never did buy this idea that you have to live in Los Angeles to be an actor. I didn't see that as a requirement in my job description.
Any actor who tells you that they have become the people they play, unless they’re clearly diagnosed as a schizophrenic, is bullshitting you.
My circle of friends are not actors at all. None of them are actors, really, because they're are not available. They're always off somewhere.
General improvisations often give actors an insight beyond their words by helping them to 'see the word' and achieve a reality for the scene.
The good thing about being an actor, and the gift of being an actor, is that you are beautifully forced to see the world with different eyes.
We can compare classical chess and rapid chess with theatre and cinema - some actors don't like the latter and prefer to work in the theatre.