Quotes About Actor

I think as an actor you're always learning, you're always trying to experience more things.

The security comes, as an actor, in knowing that you're not in control. If you try to control your career, or how people perceive you, you'll make yourself unhappy, because life doesn't work like that. So much is luck. It's much better to let yourself off, to think, 'There's nothing I can do.'

I don't feel like a romantic lead I guess I feel more like a character actor.

I mean, it's fine when you're a kid and someone runs into the playground and goes, 'I've got this great game of pretend ' and you play... As an actor, getting to play, getting to use your imagination and be childish - it is weird but it's wonderful.

Evan Handler is not only a fine actor, he's a damn good writer. It's Only Temporary is wise and funny and as righteously indignant as it is endearingly self-effacing. In what may be a literary first, the book actually left me wanting more.

One must never assume that a character is sympathetic because of either the actor playing them or the fact that they're a lead. I think that's a recipe for failure, actually, because if they become unsympathetic, you lose your audience.

All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene.

As an actor you have to wait for someone to cast you, so you're relying on the business.

I would love to direct but I feel like directing is a whole separate craft and so I tend to respect it as a separate craft that I would need to study first. So, right now I'm still trying to do certain things as an actor and until I get bored of that or I feel completely fed by that then I'll move into directing.

One of the reasons I'm an actor is because I was no physical specimen as a child. I wasn't athletic and didn't have any prowess in that regard. Growing up in Kentucky, most little boys were trying to get into sports, and it was very competitive, so that was not to be. But I did want to do something.

I think I'm becoming more relaxed in front of a camera. I suppose I'll always feel slightly more at home on stage. It's more of an actor's medium. You are your own editor, nobody else is choosing what is being seen of you.

Sartre wrote after describing his epiphany that his life was nothing but a play, and he an actor in it

I shoot people in a way that makes the audience feel equal to them. And it's hard to express and it's hard to execute but I think it works on every level - the choice of the material the choice of the actor, my relationship with the actor, and so on.

I've always said that the actor is only an element of the image, rarely the most important. The actor is important with his dialogue, with the landscape, with a gesture but the actor in himself is nothing.

I have never understood that. I come from a place where the press makes or breaks an actor and it is more of a teamwork relationship.

There is no means of testing which decision is better, because there is no basis for comparison. We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always like a sketch. No, "sketch" is not quite a word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch for nothing, an outline with no picture.

The magic of drama is infinitely more powerful than the magic of trickery. It is as available to the conjurer as it is to the actor. The only difference is that actors take it for granted, whereas few conjurers are even aware that it exists.

Hugh was in prime Jackman when he played smoldering Van Helsing.

I know as an actor there is a certain liberation auditioning for a role that has no beauty requirements.

Technology has changed the fan/actor interaction quite a bit.

Laughter is so cheap in the presence of a comedian. But happiness is so expensive to the audience and the actor himself.

There is no such thing as real and fake life. Because it is the same role of an actor in a film which will make him famous, in the so-called real life.

1929, with his appearance in the movie Hearts in Dixie, the very visible African American actor known as Stepin Fetchit began a film career in which he popularized for an entire generation the crude stereotype of laziness suggested by his on-screen name.

The question loomed: At what point does commonness cease to be an asset, as a viable form of populism, and become a liability for a political actor? And should anyone be shocked when voters are swept up in an "almost Elvis-sized following," as Cavett said Palin's supporters were? When you turn an election into a three-ring circus, there's always a chance that the dancing bear will win.