“I learn a lot with actors that I don't think are good. Every experience shapes you. I've had experiences with actresses - and I say actresses because there's just a woman thing - that have achieved what she's achieved, by means that I can't understand.” ThinkingMeanI CanActorsShapesActresses Author:Kristen Stewart
“I love theater. I go all the time. It's one of the reasons I moved to New York. But I understand that I have limited range as an actor. I can only play people who talk like me.” PeopleI CanReasonPlayActorsNew YorkTheaterMovedLike MeRange Author:Steve Earle
“I'm an actor and I am looking for roles where I can continue to evolve, and things that are challenging. I gravitate to the roles, not necessarily television or film. It's just the fact that, for me, the most interesting roles have been in television.” Has BeensI CanFactsFilmActorsChallengesInterestingRolesTelevisionEvolveMost Interesting Author:Octavia Spencer
“The longer you stay in the job that you do the more you learn about what those around you do. As an actor I've always nosed around apologetically about: "oh wouldn't it be interesting if I could do that?" I can't imagine not wanting to do this everyday.” IfsI CanJobsActorsInterestingImagineEverydayIf I Could Author:Jason Bateman
“If you give the actors a problem 'I'm not getting something out of the scene' and it's the writing, we just don't have the scene, if you give them the problem and just give them some key thoughts they can bring some great solutions to the equation too. So if it's just not perfect, or I'm not getting all I can, I'll open it up to them and say let's talk about it.” IfsGivingWritingI CanProblemActorsPerfectKeysSceneSolutionsEquationsNot Perfect Author:Bryan Singer
“Having gone through editing process, I can see that in actor's faces there's point where they're not managing their performance and that's, I think, the best place to be. You've done the homework, you've learned the lines, at that point you just sort of let it out.” ThinkingI CanDoneFacesActorsProcessLinesGonePerformancesBe YouEditingHomeworkBest Place Author:Ralph Fiennes
“I'm fairly well off. I can't poor-mouth that away from people's sensibilities about me, which is something I worry about as an actor. But it would be real stupid of me to do something for the money.” PeopleWellsI CanRealWould BeActorsPoorWorryStupidMouthsBeing RealSensibility Author:Jack Nicholson
“I consider myself a martial artist and an actor. They can work together or individually. I love to do action. I love having a good role in which I can act and fight. Thats double happiness.” I CanActionTogetherArtistFightingActorsRolesWorking TogetherMartial ArtsMartial Artist Author:Mark Dacascos
“For actors, being successful is generally getting a job. If you can work a lot, you're really successful. If you work a lot on projects that are interesting and intelligent and great fun to be part of, then you're hugely successful. And I feel hugely successful. I can't believe that I get to be involved with the projects and the people I work with.” PeopleIfsFeelsBelieveI CanJobsActorsFunInterestingSuccessfulInvolvedProjectsIntelligentBeing Successful Author:Anne-Marie Duff
“I don't think I”m a very good actor. Everything is very tentative and at a certain point you click in and just feel the spirit move you. I can be possessed really well.” ThinkingFeelsWellsI CanMovingSpiritCertainActorsVery GoodPossessedClicksGood Actors Author:River Phoenix
“The bad thing about being with an actor is that the role he's in stays with him all the time. The good thing about being with an actor - well, I can't think of any good thing.” ThinkingWellsI CanActorsRolesDatingGood ThingsBad Things Author:Sally Field
“There's so much I want to do as an actor. I feel like there's so much more that I want to achieve and that I can achieve.” WantFeelsI CanActorsAchieve Author:Hilary Swank
“As an actor, I've always been interested in making sure I can perform the role and the lines in the way the writer intended.” WayI CanActorsLinesRoles Author:Jennifer Westfeldt
“I thought being in the wheelchair might be kind of limiting for me as an actor. It turned out cool in a lot of ways. Of course, at the end of the day, I can get up out of the chair and go home, but I'm very acutely aware that most people can't, so I try to give the situation that depth.” PeopleWayGivingTryingKindI CanEndsHomeMightCoursesActorsSituationDepthGet UpThe End Of The DayChairsBe KindWheelchairs Author:Jim Beaver
“I can't imagine that anyone in Hollywood is sitting around trying to decide what actor is good or right or qualified for a role and is being denied a role because of their political views. I don't think that's the way Hollywood works. We're not living in an era of blacklisting.” ThinkingWayTryingI CanPoliticalActorsViewsRolesImagineSittingHollywoodErasDeniedImagine ThatQualifiedSitting AroundPolitical View Author:Kevin Spacey
“I'm such a fan of actors, and also enjoy watching them work, so that I can help their acting in any way I can.” WayI CanHelpingActorsEnjoyActingFans Author:Dito Montiel
“I can't remember ever being involved in a fight in a movie where I haven't done most of it.” I CanDoneRememberFightingActorsHavensInvolvedMovie Author:Clive Owen
“There are always going to be people that are judgmental that are going to say, 'Well, he was an actor first, so he doesn't have the right to be a musician,' or, 'I know him as this, so therefore I will never accept him as that.' I can't change those people. I can only be myself. And I can only keep making art. I can only do the best that I can. I am not going to spend my life trying to silence the critics. I'm going to do what I'm passionate about and follow my dreams.” PeopleKnowsTryingFirstsWellsArtI CanDreamActorsSilenceAcceptingMusicianCriticsPassionateDo The BestCan't ChangeJudgmental Author:Jared Leto
“I don't care about the money. I just need, as an actor, to do as many different things that I can to make me feel good about myself.” NeedsFeelsI CanDifferentCareActorsDon't CareFeel GoodI Don't CareDifferent Things Author:David Morse
“Its either feast or famine, and thats the way its been for as long as I can remember. Ive spent my whole career thinking Ill never work again. Every actor lives with that insecurity. You just have to negotiate the rapids as they come.” ThinkingWayLongI CanWholeRememberActorsCareersIllInsecurityRapidsFamine Author:Amanda Donohoe
“I'm a physical type of actor and love projects in which I can get physical. The more action, the better.” I CanActionActorsTypeProjectsAnd Love Author:Wesley Snipes
“I love working with older actors because number one, I can learn so much from them because they have so much experience. And it's fun to hear their stories from their era, some of the jokes.” I CanStoriesActorsFunNumbersJokesEras Author:Donnie Yen
“In the theatre, if you say 'Macbeth', all the actors will start looking very anxious. I'm so well-trained not to say it in the theatre that I can hardly say it in normal life.” IfsWellsI CanActorsNormalTheatreAnxiousNormal Life Author:Anna Chancellor
“I can't see how I'd learn to be a better actor from reading reviews.” I CanReadingActorsReviews Author:Ebon Moss-Bachrach
“There are a lot of actors who wish there was a next play, a next musical. As an actor, I guess that's all I can wish for - the next role, the next opportunity.” I CanPlayNextActorsOpportunityWishRolesMusicalNext Play Author:Lea Salonga
“You always take a little bit back with you at the end of the day. I always put a little bit of myself into the characters, too. You find parallels, points of connection, things like that. But I'm not an actor who gets so incredibly haunted by my characters that I can't come back.” LittlesI CanEndsCharacterActorsBitsLittle BitConnectionsThe End Of The DayParallels Author:Aaron Stanford
“There's things that I can do as an actor that I couldn't do in any other form of life and I've got a strange personality. But film requires strange people, so I've got a nice comfy home.” PeopleI CanHomeFilmFormActorsCan DoNiceStrangePersonality Author:Denzel Washington
“Most actors have to sit by the phone and wait for somebody to call them up to audition and stuff. I don't think I can exist in Hollywood just on that. I think I need to be proactive and making sure that things I really want to do are being developed to the point where somebody wants to make them?” ThinkingWantNeedsI CanActorsStuffWaitingHollywoodPhonesAuditionsProactive Author:Ice Cube