“One of the great perks of being an actor is you're only as smart as the job you're in, you know, and you're only as informed as the job you're in, and you do become an expert, and you read all the books, but then there's a part of, like, you move on.” KnowsBookJobsMovingActorsLike YouSmartExpertsPerks Author:Amy Ryan
“Unfortunately, when you're an actor you have to act. It's not like you can sit in your living room, your bedroom, your study or whatever and act with yourself. It requires having somebody to respond to.” ActorsRoomsStudyLike YouBedroomLiving Room Author:Chris Sarandon
“You know, it's hard as a writer to lose characters (and actors) you like. You really don't want them to die because you're not going to get to see them anymore.” KnowsWantHardCharacterDiesActorsLosesLike You Author:Michael Loceff
“When you're a lead role, I'm learning that you set a tone for the movie in a way, like a director does, or like other actors do. But it seems like you set a mood on set.” WayDoeSeemsActorsRolesLike YouDirectorsMoodTone Author:Kit Harington
“You don't have a lot of time to massage a scene into oblivion. It's like you do it, you get a couple of good takes, and then you move on, so you have to be very spontaneous as an actor and have done your homework, and I like that.” DoneMovingActorsLike YouCoupleSceneSpontaneousOblivionHomeworkMassage Author:Barry Bostwick
“As an actor, you have an accumulated knowledge base. But there's also something about it that every time you really feel like you're doing it for the first time; you have no idea whether you're capable of it.” FeelsFirstsIdeasActorsLike YouCapableFirst TimeNo Idea Author:Brit Marling
“Actors, who should pride themselves on their singularity, are forever trying to be someone else. It isn’t necessary for you, the actor, to like yourself— self-love isn’t easy to come by for most of us— but you must learn to trust who you are. There is no one else like you.” ShouldTryingSelfActorsEasyForeverLike YouPrideSelf LoveWho You AreSingularityLike Yourself Book:Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part Source: Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part
“The growing pains of being an actor, that was a little frustrating at times because you feel like you have great capacity to do many things. And yet there seems to be a misunderstanding about who you are and what you're trying to do. And that requires patience, and people eventually will understand.” PeopleFeelsTryingLittlesSeemsPainActorsGrowingLike YouCapacityWho You AreMisunderstandingFrustratingGrowing Pains Author:Matt Dillon
“Being an actor, you always feel like you're swimming upstream. People are going, "No, they don't like you. They don't like the way you look. They don't like how old you are."” PeopleWayFeelsLooksActorsLike YouSwimmingOld YouSwimming Upstream Author:Bradley Whitford
“I think the best models are actors, you're taking on a character. In that sense, I have been acting for a long time. It didn't seem like a crazy transition. Acting is a bigger step into modelling in a way. Modelling is easier when you don't look like yourself. When you look like a different person, you feel different. Acting goes deeper into that, you have to move and talk like that character. I love it.” ThinkingWayFeelsLooksPersonsLongHas BeensDifferentCharacterSeemsMovingActorsActingStepsCrazyLike YouEasierLong TimeModelsBiggerDeeperTransitionLike YourselfModelling Author:Liberty Ross
“With every project, you feel like you're trying to find your place to vent. For any actor, that's typically the feeling that drives you to do it.” FeelsTryingFeelingsActorsLike YouProjects Author:Kristen Stewart
“It's just an impulse, in some actors. You want to make the audience like you. That's the aim of the exercise.” WantActorsAudienceLike YouExerciseAimImpulse Author:Ethan Coen
“As a director, I do very few takes, because I feel like you hire the right actor and they'll do the job right. And the directors that I've worked with and had the best luck with - Jason and [ Steven] Soderbergh and the Coen brothers - all have been that kind of director.” FeelsKindHas BeensJobsActorsBrotherLike YouDirectorsLuckJasonCoen Brothers Author:George Clooney
“There is nothing worse than when actors come to a set - and it happens a lot with big stars - and they are too aware of where the camera is. They are the show. And that becomes apparent and it affects the production. I am like 'You should not know where the camera is - you should act, and I will do the rest.'” KnowsShouldShowsBigsHappensActorsStarsLike YouCamerasProductions Author:Paddy Considine
“If a play is good and you're effective in it, you suddenly hear a silence that is loud, and that moment makes the whole schmageggy business of an actor or an actress worthwhile, because you suddenly know that they are human beings like you, who are receiving something from you.” IfsKnowsHumansPlayWholeMomentsActorsHuman BeingsSilenceLike YouTheaterActressesLoudThat MomentWorthwhileReceiving Author:Shelley Winters
“Working with great actors - being part of something of that magnitude and not knowing the business and what the business entailed or any of that. I was so wet behind the ears, I didn't know anything. It's, like, you're watching movies, and then here you are in front of those people and working with them. It was pretty interesting.” PeopleKnowsActorsInterestingBehindsKnowingFrontsLike YouEarsWetNot KnowingMagnitudeGreat Actors Author:Mekhi Phifer
“I identify myself as an actor, because I feel like you don't go to the doctress, you go to the doctor; it doesn't matter what the gender is. I think actresses worry about eyelashes and cellulite, and women who are actors worry about the characters we are playing. A separate category is another way of making us a special-interest group.” ThinkingWayFeelsMatterCharacterActorsInterestWorryGroupsSpecialLike YouDoctorsGenderActressesCategoriesAnother WaySpecial InterestsEyelashesInterest GroupsCelluliteSpecial Interest Groups Author:Alfre Woodard
“Talent is to actors what luck is to card players. Its not really anything; its just a fictitious word that people have created and labeled things. Talent is like, you know, I never really believed in talent, I believed in drive and determination and preparation, but talent is sort of like luck.” PeopleKnowsActorsPlayerTalentLike YouDeterminationLuckCardsPreparationDrive And Determination Author:Shia LaBeouf