Quotes about actor

I never was very good at acting. I never was very good at playing the role. Because the true pretending can only come off in our genuine awareness of the real. Only those of us with the most secure grasp on the real can pretend can really be good at the performance. And of course I didn't know what was real I only knew the camera was always on.

I'm a big fan of Daniel Day-Lewis. He's a marvelous actor. He stands alone, I think.

My dad became a soap opera actor, and I was an extra in a skating rink scene on the soap. I didn't audition. It was nepotism all the way.

My dad was very much a struggling actor and spent more of his life as a postman, as a member of a tarmac firm, as a van driver.

One of the things I've always enjoyed is moving around and staying fit. Physicality is such a big part of being an actor, but it's also about stillness and silence.

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

My father has been an actor since 1964. Things were tight a lot of the times, financially. It wasn't like a big romantic adventure.

My basic profession is as an actor, and I have learnt much about life through working as an actor. Working as an actor is really a spiritual profession, since it means to create life on the stage. It means to play a role totally, while at the same time you know deep down inside yourself that you are not the role that you are playing. Working as an actor gave me early a spiritual discipline, which taught me a lot about awareness and meditation. Life is also about learning to play different roles,

Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world. Don't let anything stand in the way of the light that shines through this form. Risk being seen in all of your glory.

ARE YOU A MOVIE STAR?Prerequisite for Laziness: Creativity, award winning actor/actress, convincing speech

Life as a Person is Unfair, Life as an Actor is Bullshit

Every villain is a hero in his own mind.

She was merely an actress who had been forced to perform her part on stage without fully knowing her lines. She was not real.

The simple act of caring is heroic.

On a level of simple personal survival, understanding and forgiveness are crucial... whether in an intimate personal relationship or on a global level.

What I want to be is an actor, not a star.

He completely lacked any ardent interest that might have occupied his mind. His interior life was impoverished, had undergone a deterioration so severe that it was like the almost constant burden of some vague grief. And bound up with it all was an implacable sense of personal duty and the grim determination to present himself at his best, to conceal his frailties by any means possible, and to keep up appearances. It had all contributed to making his existence what it was: artificial, self-consc

Before You Begin Writing Your Book, Ask Yourself A Very Important Question: What Kind of Results Do I Plan To Receive From Writing This Book? If You Say Money, Then Don't Bother Even Writing The Book.

Don't Become An Artist, Actor, Muscian, Producer or Writer, Etc, For Only The Money. You May Be Very Dissapointed.

The most talented people are always the nicest.

Only the gentle are ever really strong.

Use filmmaking to eliminate racism – use to it terminate misogyny – use it to destroy homophobia and all other primitiveness.

The art of filmmaking is the most influential form of art that has ever existed throughout the history of human artistic endeavors.

Filmmaking has the power to fortify the feeble, unify the divided, raise the abandoned and inspire the ignorant.

A movie is not a movie, it is a potential nuclear furnace of inspiration, courage and conscience.

Make movies my friend – make nice, inspiring and bold movies that will penetrate the darkest corners of the human mind and illuminate the soul.

Give people films, they will forget after a few weeks, but give people ideas, they will assimilate them into their consciousness.

Make films that purify the soul with the flow of rational, vigorous and compassionate thinking.

Use filmmaking for a greater purpose, than to just entertain some drowsy minds. Wake the whole world up with your movies. It has been sleeping for long. Its eternal sleep has become its darkest nemesis. Now is the time to wake it up.

Take the clapper and become the alarm that the world so desperately needs.

Whatever genre you deem suitable for your taste – romance, comedy, action, mystery, sci-fi or anything else, make sure it has the plain everyday human kindness.

Some days it is a heroic act just to refuse the paralysis of fear and straighten up and step into another day.

I’ve never liked the term ‘actor’.” Barron spoke slowly, joining hands with the cast members to his left and right. The rest of them formed a circle, also holding hands, and he continued. “Seriously now, is anyone here ‘acting’? Is anyone here pretending? “Me, I’m a theater director. One hundred percent, all the time. I’m not pretending, or acting, or trying to fool anyone. This is what I do, and I give it my all—just like you. I look around me, and I don’t see a single phony. I see people who g

You have to be an Actor to face life not the camera.

Every one of us has been called to be an actor in the drama of life and everyone has a role to play as well.

If you want to be a good actor or director, firstly see life, secondly see films and thirdly read books!

A sex worker deserves a billion times more respect, than the mystical fraudsters of the society, such as astrologers, psychics and tarot card readers.

A Writer is Actor, Creator, Director & Producer Of HIS Life. Ask ME anything.

I always am in a role, lovely – for you, for them – even for myself. Yeah... Even when I’m alone, I am still in a role – and I myself am the most exacting audience I have ever had.

Even I don’t know myself... In fact, I don’t know if I really have a self at all, as I’m constantly playing different roles and pretending – not so much on stage as in real life...

Emotions don’t interfere in my acting, nor in my life.

If you're waiting until you feel talented enough to make it, you'll never make it.

Creativity without discipline will struggle, creativity with discipline will succeed.

Once you drop a mask, you can never wear it again.

Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.

By drinking, a boy acts like a man. After drinking, many a man acts like a boy.

I became an artist because I wanted to be an active participant in the conversation about art.

Every villian is a hero in his own mind.

I am not an actress. I am a mistress of disguise. Acting happens to be one of the perks

You as a soul you are alive, you as an actor - dead, as a character - dead... That's life, like it or not, it's not my problem!

I had the privilege of being able to choose, or at least have the opportunity to work at, being anything but an actor.

Even the world’s greatest actor cannot fake an erection.

I'm like a circus standing on two legs.

In musical performances one can sense that the person on stage is having a good time even if they're singing a song about breaking up or being in a bad way. For an actor this would be anathema, it would destroy the illusion, but with singing one can have it both ways. As a singer, you can be transparent and reveal yourself on stage, in that moment, and at the same time be the person whose story is being told in the song. Not too many kinds of performance allow that.

A successful actor is praised for never giving up his dreams to become someone else for a living but to dream to be an unmasked artist is a mortal sin in a consumerist society. Artists don't consume; they create things that can’t be consumed with riches. You consume art by seeing, by listening, by feeling, never by buying.

His intuition was luminous from the instant you met him. So was his intelligence. A lot of actors act intelligent, but Philip was the real thing: a shining, artistic polymath with an intelligence that came at you like a pair of headlights and enveloped you from the moment he grabbed your hand, put a huge arm round your neck and shoved a cheek against yours; or if the mood took him, hugged you to him like a big, pudgy schoolboy, then stood and beamed at you while he took stock of the effect. (Abo

The thing is', (Rufus) Stone said, 'that if you don't believe that you are an old man, or a woman, or a tramp, then how can you expect anyone else to believe you? Looking the part is just the surface; being the part is the true disguise.

No good actor ever stops learning. He is constantly evolving.

The term 'serious actor' is kind of an oxymoron, isn't it? Like 'Republican party' or 'airplane food.'

The secret of being a great actor is a love of food.

I guess just a lively imagination is the best effort an actor can have.

It's funny, in a way the actor is a writer. It's not like the two things are so separate as to be like apples and oranges. The writer and the actor are one.

In a rehearsal room, your real resource as an actor aren't the things around you; your resources are your imagination and your director and the other actors. In those close quarters, your imagination and your skills are what you turn to.

As an actor, whether I'm playing Othello on stage or David Estes on 'Homeland,' that ability to give into your imagination is something that I enjoy.

I probably became an actor because of my vivid imagination, and doing voice-over really sort of takes me back to that.

I mean, sometimes... a comedian becomes an actor, and they just don't deliver, because the bottom line of comedy is to be funny, and the bottom line of acting is to be truthful, and they get that mixed up sometimes, or don't even notice that that's the thing.

In all my years as an actor, I had never been me - I had always hidden behind my glasses, mustaches and funny voices.

Richard Donner's friendship and guidance showed me that there's more to life than being an actor.

As an actor, I trust my ear.

Fear, anxiety and neurosis: that's just in the suitcase when you're an actor.

Obviously an actor draws on his own experience.

To be a good actor you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules to strive for something new.

Watching a good actor is the best way to learn.

I always felt thrilled and amazed that I could put actor on my tax form.

I guess if I weren't an actor, I'd be a history professor.

Given a chance, I would like to work with Aishwarya Rai Bachchan because she's a versatile actor.

I was 3 when I told my mom that I knew what my dharma was and that I wanted to be an actor.

When I was seven, I had been very vocal about wanting to be an actor. And my mom decided that we would try it out for a couple weeks and come to L.A. from Sacramento.

Performance capture is a technology, not a genre; it's just another way of recording an actor's performance.

I found my niche as a character actor, and I've never felt like a movie star or teen idol and never wanted to.

As an actor and as a performer, I've felt that the education system has really helped me in a lot of ways... there was always a teacher or a professor along the way that kept pushing me to the next stage.

If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a teacher, a history teacher. After all, teaching is very much like performing. A teacher is an actor, in a way. It takes a great deal to get, and hold, a class.

My greatest strength as an actor is that I follow my director's brief completely. The film is always the director's visual baby.

I must have had faith that day. When I went out, I was Henry Fonda again. An unemployed actor but a man.

I like Ryan Gosling as an actor. I watch all of his movies, and he's Canadian and I just like his swag. I read his interviews and I'm a big fan of his.

I'm an actor. And I guess I've done so many movies I've achieved some high visibility. But a star? I guess I still think of myself as kind of a worker ant.

I'm a comedian who got into movies, so I don't really think of myself as an actor.

So, one way or another, I found myself in a few movies. I take it seriously when I'm on the set, but I don't take myself seriously as an actor.

Basically, one of the hardest things about being an actor is getting your first break. I'm a product of nepotism. The doors were open to me. I'd done several movies before I decided what I wanted to do.

It takes a lot of courage as an actor to take time off for family. But family is everything.

I think part of what I love about being an actor is getting to take on different worlds and investigate different genres and travel to different lands.

Being an actor, imitating to the point of inhabiting the lives of others, may simply be a way of continuing to do what I learned to do as a boy - to travel, mentally and physically.

The thing I love about being an actor is the ability to travel and experience new cultures.

I find that communication as an actor and person is an important part of who I am. And I'm really drawn into the psychology of those dynamics.

If I could work with any actor it would have to be Johnny Depp. He is cool.

The only reason my work seems to be eclectic up to a certain period is because I was a failure as an actor.

When I first set out to do it, I wanted to be a working actor, and now it seems like it's superseded even my dreams.

When I realized that if I was an actor, I could be any character I wanted instead of just one particular, I was like, 'Wow, that's cool.'

When I was a very young actor, I cruised around in a pretty cool vehicle called the Starship Enterprise.