“Some people manage to make that transition from child actor to adult actor seamlessly. But I felt that if I spent my whole life on a film set without taking a few years to do something else, all I would ever know about was film sets.” PeopleIfsKnowsYearsChildrenWholeFilmActorsFeltAdultsWhole LifeManageTransitionFilm SetChild Actors Author:Anna Popplewell
“But I've always felt that the less you know about an actor's personal life, the more you can get involved in the story in which he's playing a character. And I don't like to see movies where you know about everything that happens behind the scenes. I can't engage in the story if I know what's going on in the actor's head.” IfsKnowsI CanCharacterStoriesHappensActorsFeltBehindsInvolvedScenePersonal LifeGet InvolvedBehind The Scenes Author:Eric Stoltz
“Being on 'Glee' was amazing. I remember my first day on set, my first day I arrived to the set I was in my trailer and all of the actors came and banged on my door - Lea Michele, Chris Colfer, Amber Riley, Naya Rivera. They all welcomed me with open arms, so it was a great experience. It felt like family, and I miss them a lot over there.” FirstsRememberActorsFeltDoorsMissingArmsTrailersAmberGleeGreat ExperiencesOpen ArmsLike Family Author:NeNe Leakes
“I never really had that father figure to look up to. I think that's the reason I'm so ambitious. I felt like I wasn't appreciated as a child so I wanted to prove my worth as an adult, as an actor.” ThinkingLooksChildrenReasonWantedActorsFatherFeltFiguresProveAdultsLook UpAmbitiousAppreciatedFather Figure Author:Jesse Metcalfe
“I always felt so much more comfortable in the Western. The minute I got a horse and a hat and a pair of boots on, I felt easier. I didn't feel like I was an actor anymore. I felt like I was the guy out there doing it.” FeelsGuyActorsFeltMinutesEasierComfortableHorseWesternHatsPairsBoots Author:Joel McCrea
“To have a songwriter that wrote so specifically what I felt to be true... I've never been much of an actor either. If something is real for me, then I can do it.” IfsI CanRealActorsFeltCan DoBeing TrueSongwritersI Can Do It Author:Barry McGuire
“Having been an actor and a writer for so long - 20 years or so - I felt that it would be daft to go to one's grave without having directed. It's a natural extension of writing and acting, and so I knew it would happen one day.” WritingYearsLongHappensWould BeActorsFeltNaturalActingOne DayGravesExtensionsDaft Author:Stephen Fry
“I became an actor because it was the only thing I could do. I didn't have any friends, I didn't fit in. But when I started acting everything in my life shifted and I felt happy.” ActorsFeltActingFit Author:Gillian Anderson
“I felt as if I was the brunt of some massive joke at my expense: Can you believe this loser can be connected to Marlon Brando and Katharine Hepburn? But through the years I have learned to tolerate and sometimes embrace the idea. People have asked me if I consider it an honour. Well, all it indicates is that I've been in a lot of movies with a lot of people. And besides that there are plenty of other actors that would work.” PeopleIfsYearsBelieveWellsIdeasSometimesFilmActorsFeltJokesHollywoodEmbraceConnectedPlentyMassiveExpensesHonourLoserTolerateI Have LearnedThrough The YearsHepburnBrando Author:Kevin Bacon
“To be an actor or actress, you have to feel on a deep level and tap into emotions that you've never felt before. You're imagining how something would feel. You have to use your imagination so much.” FeelsUseActorsFeltImaginationLevelsEmotionActresses Author:Elle Fanning
“Doing Prometheus was what you imagine being an actor is like when you're five. In a spacesuit, on another planet, getting killed by an alien. It was a real treat, it felt like being a part of movie history.” RealActorsFeltFiveImaginePlanetsTreatsAliensPrometheus Author:Rafe Spall
“I always felt I was a nobody, and the only way for me to be somebody was to be - well, somebody else. Which is probably why I wanted to act.” WayWellsWantedActorsFelt Author:Marilyn Monroe
“[On Marilyn Monroe:] I think my response to her death was the common one: it came to me with the impact of a personal deprivation but I also felt it as I might a catastrophe in history or in nature; there was less in life, there was less of life, because she had ceased to exist. In her loss life itself had been injured.” ThinkingMightDeathActorsFeltLossCommonImpactResponseCatastropheInjuredDeprivation Book:Claremont essays Source: Claremont essays
“I felt sometimes too responsible as an actor because people promote violence or weird things that I don't want to be part of.” PeopleWantSometimesActorsFeltViolenceResponsibleWeird Things Author:Sophie Marceau
“For the first 10 minutes after you meet them, they have the wattage and charisma of movie stars. Then you have a coffee with them and you realize we're all the same, we're all just people. All of the actors in The Avengers are so nice. Marvel has these code names for projects and the code name for The Avengers was Group Hug. It felt very much like a group hug on set.” PeopleFirstsActorsNamesStarsFeltRealizingNiceGroupsMinutesProjectsCoffeeCodeHugMovie StarCharismaAvengers Author:Tom Hiddleston
“I know other actors who are relieved when their shows get cancelled, and I've never felt that way about 'Community.'” KnowsWayShowsActorsFeltCommunityRelieved Author:Gillian Jacobs
“Cosmopolis is the movie of my life. I didn't consider myself an actor before, even if I had 10 years of acting behind me. I always felt like a fraud, and inappropriate. I doubt a lot. David Cronenberg gave me confidence in myself. He changed my way of acting and thinking in this industry.” IfsThinkingWayYearsActorsFeltActingBehindsDoubtChangedIndustryMy WayFraudInappropriate Author:Robert Pattinson
“It always seemed to me like it was a significant thing to do with one's life to be an actor 'cause I love movies and I felt like, not to be grandiose about it, but there is something important about film with the function it provides to general society.” ImportantFilmActorsFeltCausesFunctionSignificantThings To DoMovie LoveGrandioseSignificant Things Author:Charlie Hunnam