Quotes About Actors

I think a reason why actors get reputations for being crazy and neurotic is because your life task is constantly in flux.

Here are a few of the actors who have brought my novels to TV life: Bill Pullman, Holly Hunter, Frances McDormand, Julian Sands, Gena Rowlands, Rob Lowe, Julia Ormond, Chelsea Hobbs, Tate Donovan, Anne Heche, Max Martini, Campbell Scott, Kimberly Paisley-Williams, Alexa Vega, and the late legends Richard Kiley and Kim Hunter.

There's a lot of us idiot actors that get tattoos and they cover them with makeup when you do a film.

I started backstage, making the tea, looking after the actors, doing stage management for two years.

What's fascinating is that when you write a script, it's almost a stream of consciousness. You have an idea that it means something, but you're not always sure what. Then when you get on the set, the actors teach you.

I had many, many mentors that I worked with. Music teachers, choir directors, directors in summer stock or in regional theater. You know, people I was able to work with repeatedly and learn from who were really sort of appropriate people for me to work with at a given time in my development as an actor.

I worked with creative people who were very demanding of me, and they helped me reach performances that I never could have gotten on my own without being pushed and having trust in them. And so I know the best way to get the best performance of an actor, and that's not to coddle them or to baby them. It's to help them it's to push them.

My career was full of struggles and dreams, disappointments and peaks and valleys. But there was no Twitter, no Facebook or TMZ. Young actors could make mistakes and not become the focus of tabloids.

The role of the director is to create a space where the actresses and actors can become more than they have ever been before, more than they have ever dreamed of being.

A l'assurance des acteurs oppose le charme des modèles qui ne savent pas ce qu'ils sont.

Two types of films: those that employ the resources of the theater (actors, direction, etc...) and use the camera in order to reproduce; those that employ the resources of cinematography and use the camera to create

Brain-imaging studies of drug users at that stage show that viewing a film of actors pretending to use drugs activates dopamine pathways in the brain more than does watching porn films. This

Praxeology exhibits subjectivism in that it takes actors' subjective ends as they exist in the minds of each person. By refraining from passing judgment on these ends, praxeology itself is objective.

And making a fool of yourself is something all actors have to risk doing. That's part of our business. And that too is not the end of the world, though it can seem so at the time

The Players are gentlemen," he'd intoned, "pretending to be actors. The Lambs are actors, pretending to be gentlemen. And the Friars—the Friars are neither, pretending to be both.

The world of chemical reactions is like a stage, on which scene after scene is ceaselessly played. The actors on it are the elements.

When searching for harmony in life one must never forget that in the drama of existence we are ourselves both actors and spectators.

The fame of surgeons resembles the fame of actors, who live only during their lifetime and whose talent is no longer appreciable once they have disappeared.

We are all actors: being a citizen is not living in society, it is changing it.

En otras palabras, la consiste en transformar la humana de algo en una , y en hacer responsables a los actores de la realización de esta tarea y de las consecuencias (así como los efectos colaterales) de su desempeño.

En otras palabras, la individualización consiste en transformar la identidad humana de algo 'dado' en una 'tarea', y en hacer responsables a los actores de la realización de esta tarea y de las consecuencias (así como de los efectos colaterales) de su desempeño.

We make a home for ourselves, every time we work on something: actors, writers, singers, building these little nests in our gypsy souls, in place of the ones we so seldom seem to make in our own lives. And then suddenly it's over, and we have to start again.

In life we listen to other people. Listen with varying degrees of concentration and attention, right? Actors must learn to listen in a different way.

Actors ought to be larger than life. You come across quite enough ordinary, nondescript people in daily life and I don't see why you should be subjected to them on the stage too.