Actor Quotes
- Page 35I'm at least getting my foot in the door as far as doing straight dramatic parts, which no one would have ever considered me for in the '80s. I never objected to that because I love doing comedy, and I'm not the kind of actor that insists that unless you're doing a serious dramatic role, you're not acting.
Curtis Armstrong
Other actors like to rehearse on film-they like 30 or 40 takes. When you get an actor like that, it becomes difficult for me because I'm ready to quit after number two.
Richard Widmark
The progression of roles you take strings together a portrait of an actor, but it's a completely random process.
Meryl Streep
I didn't become an actor because I wanted to act. Actually, I wanted to become a marine biologist. But most of all, I wanted to be accepted.
Willie Aames
The actor's life is the road. Always has been, always will be. That is his cross and his glory.
Nick Mancuso
You have to get through the Hamlet hoop as a young actor. Your classical qualifications are based on the quality of your Hamlet. And then, as an older actor, you have to get through the Lear hoop. And I'm approaching the Lear hoop.
Derek Jacobi
I know certainly, when one job draws to a close, that I feel I'm simply never going to work again. No one will ever want me for anything ever again. I think that's a vulnerable moment in every actor's life, and it happens every time you finish a film.
Anjelica Huston
I didn't feel compromised as an actor, and allowed other people's fingerprints all over that aspect.
Gregory Harrison
I think any actor should be aware of where they're starting to stretch into what's not truthful.
Naveen Andrews
Sometimes the odds are against you-the director doesn't know what the hell he's doing, or something falls apart in the production, or you're working with an actor who's just unbearable.
Jessica Lange
As far as my dreams go, all I want to do is be a working actor, and I happily achieved that.
Lucas Grabeel
I did well as an actor in Australia, and then Paramount invited me over... to have a look at me.
Rod Taylor
When I decided I wanted to be an actor, I said I wanted to work with quality actors and directors.
Puff Daddy
I feel like everything you learn as an actor growing up is wrong. You're supposed to hit your mark, find your light and know your lines. Those are all things that just make things wooden, dull and boring.
Joaquin Phoenix
I think by eighth grade I knew I wanted to be an actor. I'd done church plays and stuff, but my first actual acting class was in eighth grade. I was obsessed with it.
Aaron Paul
I don't like people who use the press to advance themselves in a way that they haven't earned as an actor, performer or director.
Jason Patric
And lot of Asian audiences and reporters don't like me to act as a bad guy. But I think I want to become an actor, I want to try different way.
Jet Li
I'm always looking, as an actor, for activities. I think it's far more interesting to watch what people do than what they say. You always want to watch behavior, because the dialogue as written by our illustrious leaders is great. Eminently playable.
Adam Baldwin
I wasn't like a Hollywood child actor - 'I'm five! I can sing, I can dance, I can act! I wanna be a star!'
Alexander Skarsgard
Today's films are so technological that an actor becomes starved for roles that deal with human relationships.
Natalie Wood
But you really - I always think that a director has got to adapt to whatever the needs of the actor are. You know, so if you take someone like Eddie Murphy, who is not a big fan of rehearsal. You know he comes out of stand-up. He comes - it's all about capturing the moment - in the moment, you know.
Bill Condon