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Whenever you read interviews with actors, they always seem to be given three months to do something - get fat, get skinny, learn card tricks.
It's interesting - a lot of good actors are good mimes. But I'm terrible. If I tried to do an impression, nobody would know what I was doing.
As an actor, you most often play relatively average parts, so to get to play extreme versions of anything, those are the most exciting parts.
Unfortunately, in Hollywood, there are those directors that have some contempt for actors. We've all experienced that, in one way or another.
You work with each individual actor as you perceive their needs to be. It's something that you've figured out in the weeks of pre-production.
As an actor, I look at scenes much differently than I would look at them as a director, and I never realized that until it actually happened.
My dad didn't often bring me to the set, being an actor himself, so my infancy as an actor was wracked with a lot of giggles and nervousness.
I wanted really to make it moment to moment, partly because I'm an actor and that's how I operate - actors are all about creating the moment.
I'm a character actor, so I don't take the hit if the movie's bad, the lead does. So, I don't want to be the lead. He takes the hit, I don't.
The dog actors and the relationship they have with their trainers is one of the most beautiful things I've ever watched happen in front of me.
The greatest gift that an actor can have is good scripts because then you're relieved of the responsibility of trying to elevate the material.
Actors have to make you believe that it's happening for the first time and all that jazz and make it human and at the same time entertain you.
I know that I am one and I've made a living as an actor and I enjoy being an actor, but when I'm not actually doing it, I forget that I do it.
I knew that I wanted to be an actor. Then it became about whether acting wanted me.So, I gave it a shot. It hasn't worked out too bad, so far.
I would prefer just to be an actor for hire rather than struggling with something like Higher Ground, that I had a lot of emotion attached to.
There's a lot of idiots in Hollywood, a lot of people with no imagination, so as an actor you have to constantly re-show them what you can do.
Tonight I'll be interviewing Ken Watanabe, Keisha Castle Hughes, Benecio Del Toro and Djimon Honsou - and yes, those are actors, not caterers.
There's a certain thought process about actors that they are in Hollywood and they sit around pools and get suntans and just get offered jobs.
To be a good actor, you have to be very smart. But to be a great actor, you also have to have a streak of, 'I'm an idiot, a complete lunatic.'
The point is the doing of them rather than the accomplishments . There is no actor but the action; there is no experiencer but the experience.
I was fortunate as a young actor, to go straight to the RSC, where I learned that being an actor can bring with it wonderful responsibilities.
I feel very lucky to be part of this amazing show [Exorcist] with such an amazing cast of actors, with a really talented writer behind it all.
I've always wanted to be an actor. I've never planned on the acting and the stand-up feeding each other; they've always been separate desires.
I hate hearing about actors who don't like the show. There are so many actors out there who'd give their right arm for what I'm getting to do.
This created world really helped me as an actor. It heightened everything, which made it more dangerous, more interesting and more liberating.
I hadn't intended to end up there. I meant to be a serious actor with a beard who wore a lot of black and wanted to share his misery with you.
I love it [a career as an actor] to bits, but it's highly bizarre, especially when you're playing a psychopathic rapist with various diseases.
As professional actors, it's our job to entertain our audiences while setting benchmarks for ourselves as well, creatively and intellectually.
It's not like I sit around watching my movies again and again, but I've never quite believed actors when they say they don't watch themselves.
I've only had good experiences with actors. Starring next to them and directing them, for the most part they're all inspiring, special people.
I know some amazing actors who are not mortified every moment of the day, so my feeling is that maybe you don't have to be a wreck to be good.
I know plenty of actors smarter than me with better taste than me who love horror movies and love sci-fi and it just doesn't make sense to me.
I have no illusions about my position in this world as an actor or anything like that. I'm very realistic. Reality is a very liberating thing.
I love acting, but being an actor for hire only serves so much, and then you want to fill your well up again and be charged by something else.
In all aspects of life, we take on a part and an appearance to seem to be what we wish to be--and thus the world is merely composed of actors.
The actor must use his imagination to be able to answer all questions (when, where, why, how). Make the make-believer existence more definite.
There is a kind of invisible thread between the actor and the audience, and when it's there it's stunning, and there is nothing to match that.
As an actor, to be part of that story's [Marvel univerce ] terrific. I've enjoyed it so much as a fan and now I'm getting to have a go myself.
I had never really done voice-over. If you've ever seen me, I'm more the communicator through body language and movement I'm a physical actor.
From my experience as an actor, choreographer, action director, and producer, I understand the elements and the dynamics of being a film maker.
I can tell when an actor's forcing tears, and it's tricky because you then have to film it and edit in a certain way to skirt around the issue.
I love it when you ask actors, 'What are you Doing now?' and they say 'I'm between roles'. To be living 'life between roles' that's my favorite
In a way, putting actors deep into this sort of complicated universe frees them from thinking about who they should be. They just are somebody.
I've seen many, many movies over the years, and there are only a few that suddenly inspire you so much that you want to continue to make films.
I've worked with Steven Spielberg three times. I'm proud to say that I'm one of those actors that continues to get hired by the same directors.
I was friends with President Ronald Reagan and he once said to me, 'I don't know how anybody can serve in public office without being an actor.
So, one way or another, I found myself in a few movies. I take it seriously when I'm on the set, but I don't take myself seriously as an actor.
It's weird talking about projects as an actor because you're so in them. I would prefer to write a paper and deliver it to everyone via e-mail.
Since age 14, I know what actors fear, what they like; I know how to get things out of them and I listen to them better, since I've been there.
When you know your cast well and their strengths and weaknesses, you can start writing for them, just the way Shakespeare wrote for his actors.