Quotes about actors
actors world scripts
What I hope in my ideal world is that with each project, I'll either get to work with a really great script that would force me to grow, or work with a really great actor who will make me better. Laura Linney
actors want entertainment
We joke about it in the entertainment industry: Every actor wants to be a musician, and every musician wants to be an actor. Lance Bass
actors might musician
Somebody might get criticized for doing some movie that totally sucks, then turn around and be incredible. Every actor goes through that, not just musicians who act.
actors needs filmmaker
An actor needs to be not remotely anywhere close to in control, and a filmmaker has to be totally in control. Johnny Depp
actors notes companion
For the actor, The Lee Strasberg Notes are an indispensable companion.
actors stories audience
I've always thought of, of a relationship with an actor to an audience as a marriage, you know. And a story, you know. And there are ups and downs, and you work through them, and you work with them. John Travolta
actors paid
Before 1972, no actors got residuals. They just got paid. No residuals. John Ratzenberger
actors want able
I really do want to just be able to sit in the corner of the pub with my friends... to just be an actor and still go to the supermarket and not get bothered. James Purefoy
actors done competent
Any competent actor could have done what I did. Larry Hovis
actors retiring
Actors can't retire. What would they do? Larry Hagman
actors broads worth-it
Actors are as good as they allow themselves to be, and to portray life, you have to have as broad an experience of it as you possibly can, so everything's worth it. Liev Schreiber
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I resisted being an actor for some time. Henry Hopper
actors wells handle
I guess I work well with others I handle younger actors well. Hector Elizondo
actors singers
So I'm truly an actor who sings, and not a singer who acts. Mandy Patinkin
actors void different
A lot of why we become actors is to fill a void that we have and a part of that void is to live out and tell stories that we've lived or that we hope would have been different in our own lives. Eric Balfour
actors directors excitement
Stepping out of the director's chair completely and into a scene as an actor was weird. It was more excitement about directing than anything, but I was on a high from being a director and enjoying that process so much that going back to being an actor was almost secondary because I really was loving directing.
actors ive-learned things-ive-learned
One of the greatest things I've learned, as an actor, was how to talk to actors.
actors directors use
As an actor, most of the time, you only have so much say in how, what and where things go. As a director, you really get to paint a bigger picture. You have many more brushes to use.
actors relevant
It's always been my hope, as an actor, to reveal only what is relevant about myself to the work. Eric Bana
actors reproducing
It is dreadful to see actors reproducing the same image constantly. Emmanuelle Riva
actors due-diligence homework
I'm a very cerebral person and I like to do my homework and break it down. I like to feel like I did my due diligence. It's a confidence factor for me, as an actor. Emmanuelle Chriqui
actors want teeth
Most actors want to sink their teeth into amazing material.
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I'm an actor, so I love to be degraded! Emmy Rossum
actors littles way
When we were doing 'Freaks and Geeks', I didn't quite understand how movies and TV worked, and I would improvise even if the camera wasn't on me. I thought I was helping the other actors by keeping them on their toes, but nobody appreciated it when I would trip them up. So I was improvising a little bit back then, but not in a productive way. James Franco
actors saws honest
As Uta Hagen would say, there's the representational actor and the presentational actor. My sister [Maggie Gyllenhaal] came up to me recently after she saw this movie, Southpaw, the movie I did, and she thought there was this exploration of that type of presentation, and a bit of representation as well, if I could be totally honest, where she was deeply moved. Jake Gyllenhaal
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Uta Hagen would say, there's the representational actor and the presentational actor.
actors hobbies shows
Actors always have things that they're not thrilled about on a show and have a hobby of bellyaching about those things. Jon Cryer
actors needs great-actors
To be a great actor you just need to comprehend, so that's why I became a writer. Johnathon Schaech
actors reason new-things
I always love to learn new things. That's the reason I like being an actor. Lupita Nyong'o
actors kind speak
I can speak of actors that I love. I love Cate Blanchett, Viola Davis, her tenacity. I love Charlize Theron. She's so surprising and so exhilarating, the kinds of projects she takes on. Marion Cotillard as well.
actors natural absent
Every actor has a natural animosity toward every other actor, present or absent, living or dead Louise Brooks
actors delight celebration
The applause is a celebration not only of the actors but also of the audience. It constitutes a shared moment of delight. John Charles Polanyi
actors fortunate-life fortunate
It's such a fortunate life, if you can work as an actor. Rashida Jones