Quotes About Actor

Sometimes you need to put your own characteristics into the actor, and you take different things from the character that you admire - sometimes you can't see the boundaries anymore.

As an actor, you want a director who makes you feel comfortable in a place that you can really create and try a lot of different things.

I'm a very physical actor; everything I do is pretty much body-oriented. I sometimes am able to deliver information just with a look; my face does two or three different things, and it says it all.

Sometimes being an actor is kind of demanding in very different ways.

Even if I do get stereotyped, I would like to think that it is more of a challenge because if you are given one character and asked to play in 10 different ways, it says more about me as an actor.

Bizarrely, on movie sets, they don't really dig it when you look in the camera, which is a bizarre fact.

I appreciate my role as an actor much more after I direct because it's just easier.

I'm very old-school. I like a director to direct me. I like to be the actor.

Being an actor helps me direct a little bit, when I do that, which I haven't been able to do that much, but I plan to in the future. There are a lot of reasons for that, but certainly because I feel like you know how to talk to actors, and you know what they need from you if you've been one yourself.

I've always been an actor, a lowly actor without power, so I've never been corrupted. I've never even directed.

It is always a pleasure to be directed by an actor because they know the scene from the actor's perspective, too. That's an advantage.

I was a film-directing major at NYU. I'm still not sure why I became a directing major, when I was really an actor and a comedian, but there was something that drew me to doing that.

I started as an actor. I started directing because Steppenwolf needed another strong director.

I started as an actor, then became a theater director. I loved acting but didn't feel as confident as I needed to be, so I started directing theater; then I played in some movies, and then I felt the need to do my own stuff.

I think like an actor when I'm acting, and I think like a director when I'm directing.

The AT&T commercials are the most fun acting opportunity that anyone could ask for. That being said, directing exercises a part of my brain that is really fun that I don't get to try out as an actor.

For me, all you want from your actor is for them to engage on a deeply emotional level with the material. If you feel like that happens, directing the actors is pretty much done at that point.

I don't even consider directing Burt. I just say, 'Hey, Burt, the camera's here. Read the joke and let's get onto the next shot.'

The thing about Brando was that I'd make these directions, and he'd walk away. He'd heard enough... to get the machine going.

As a director, it is important to understand the actor's process.

If you're a movie actor, you're on your own - you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.

I thought I'd make a really great director because I'm an actor. Like, I thought I could really direct actors.

Richard Marquand, on Jedi, was very much an actor's director.

There's a lot of directors who were actors, so they have the sensibility of an actor, which sometimes helps.