Quotes About Actor

The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.

I am not a master-class director. I am not a teacher. I am a coach. I dont have a methodology. Each actor is different. And on the film set, you have to be next to them all.

My dad was also a teacher until he was 34. I think there is a basis in reality. But I'd only done two jobs before I was an actor. I worked in a petrol station and I worked in a supermarket.

Paul Gleason played the teacher. I just tortured him as best I could. 'Cause he wasn't one of the kids, you know, so it was okay. He was great.

I certainly never expected to be a professional actor. I never expected to be in movies. I thought I would probably become a teacher.

In cinema the director has to breathe life into the actor, not make of him a mouthpiece for his own ideas.

The American actor is very lucky... Because so little is asked of him.

I love these movies where it's just about the film. You don't have my face on the poster. It's all about the movie. I like that.

Yes, it is a rehearsed show, yes, it was analogy of going to see a play at the theatre, where everything has to be in place and whole things, everything being works, all works together to get the best effect you know it's more like an actor learning a part.

There's things that I can do as an actor that I couldn't do in any other form of life and I've got a strange personality. But film requires strange people, so I've got a nice comfy home.

If I had had to struggle at the beginning like most actors... Id never have stuck it out. But having such complete success at the beginning, I was stuck with being an actor for life.

Comedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write.

It was very clear to me I wanted to be an actor when I got out into civilian life.

The Chinese say that having two homes is the way to madness. I'm not mad, but I definitely wish Hollywood would move to Trafalgar Square. But the life of an actor is a life of movement, isn't it?

I come from a show-business family, so wanting to become an actor never crossed my mind. It was just a part of my life.

I just feel that God gave me a certain gift, and that was to go out, do storytelling and be an actor. And my responsibility with that gift is to do the best job possible and to re-create real life.

I'm into being a dad, that's where my focus is most of the time. I'm an actor that's my job, but it's not my life. I have a lot of other interests too.

I was always an actor, starting in middle school. I was in all the plays and all that. But dancing didn't come into my life until late into high school.

I play a bad boy on television, but in real life I have a passion for nature and nature conservancy, specifically bird rehabilitation.

I've been a sports fan all my life, and like most other actors, I'm convinced I could have been a pro athlete if Hollywood hadn't come calling.

I didn't understand how you could be an actor if you didn't also study philosophy and study political science, astronomy. And also just go out and live life and have experiences.

Some of Jimmy Stewart's performance in 'It's A Wonderful Life' is some of the most disturbing performance he ever did, when he falls apart and when he breaks down.

As an actor, you live a little bit of a cloistered life. It's a lonely life. You oddly, strangely find yourself all alone, quite often, with a lot of time to think.

Idris Elba is a grand actor. He's very larger than life; he's bigger than life.