Quotes About Actor

An actor should always let humility outweigh ambition.

Certainly as an actor, half of your work is not going to end up on the screen anyway, because in the editorial process, they need to cut to the other actor in the scene. Very often, your best work ends up on the cutting room floor, because it just doesn't work with the overall narrative drive of the story.

I enjoy being a highly overpaid actor.

I wanted to go overseas and act. I wanted to be an actor in an industry that isn't necessarily the most inclusive for anybody different.

I'm an eternal realist and the success rate for being an actor is pretty low.

If you put anger in the writing, then it's like an actor crying on stage. The audience will not cry with the actor and in some way inure itself against the emotion.

An actor is an actor is an actor. The less personality an actor has off stage the better. A blank canvas on which to draw the characters he plays.

The art of persuasion. The actor persuades himself, first, and through himself, the audience.

Empathy is at the heart of the actor's art.

It is an actor's passion to observe the world. It is his art to become what he observes. And finally, it is his job to let the world observe him.

The concealment of art by the actor is as great a mark of genius as it is in the painter.

I was an actor as a kid in Boston. Then I went to art school with Brice Marden, the Massachusetts College of Art. So the hybrid of being an actor and artist is a director.

I was particularly proud of my performance as the Joker. I considered it a piece of pop art.

You know, it's such an insult to actual martial artists that I say that I do martial arts.

I think the most important thing is to establish myself as an actor. As much as it's a performing art, I'm not really a performer.

My older brother Joel became an art teacher my brother Rip ultimately became a television producer and singer and actor himself.

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And what's he then that says I play the villain?

La vida no es más que una sombra en marcha; un mal actor que se pavonea y se agita una hora en el escenario y después no vuelve a ser oído: es un cuento narrado por un idiota, lleno de ruido y de furia, que nada significa

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To-morrow re than an illusion. It's like a poor actor who struts and worries for his hour on the stage and then is never heard from again. Life is a story told by an idiot, full of noise and emotional disturbance but devoid of meaning.

I met Tati, who advised me to save my money lest I wind up in the old actor's home, where he had just come from visiting a friend.

It's not a matter of becoming a superstar. Fame and money aren't the purpose of all this. No actor's going to say, 'I don't want to be famous.' But the main purpose for doing what I'm doing is the passion in the work.

Every actor has to make terrible films from time to time, but the trick is never to be terrible in them.