“Not only do I have to live, right, I have to get some cash for my troubles - it's a scary thing, and people need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies.” PeopleThinkingNeedsActorsTroubleMessagesScaryMovieScarCashScary Things Author:Morgan Freeman
“I do know there are a lot of people who seem to be in my corner, and that's, of course, wonderful. I'm really more interested in the nomination than in the award, because I think the nomination just puts you within a group of outstanding actors.” PeopleThinkingKnowsSeemsCoursesActorsWonderfulGroupsCornersAwardsOutstandingNominations Author:Morgan Freeman
“People say it's a movie about boxing, but... I don't agree at all. I don't think it's a movie about boxing. Boxing is like a platform. It's just a stage where this is played out.” PeopleThinkingActorsStageAgreeMovieBoxingPlatforms Author:Morgan Freeman
“I like the character roles. Somewhere back there I really came to the conclusion in my mind that the difference between acting and stardom was major. And that if you become a star, people are going to go to see you. If you remain an actor, they're going to go and see the story you're in.” PeopleIfsMindCharacterStoriesActorsStarsDifferencesActingRolesMajorsConclusionStardom Author:Morgan Freeman
“And what you do is you go into where your anger is, if you're writing anger, you go into where your hatred is, if you're writing hatred. Your joy is, if you're writing joy. You find the source of the energy that draws hatred, anger, joy, etc., etc., etc. That's what you have to find. That's what you do as an actor and that's what you do as a writer. And you bring people to the page.” PeopleIfsWritingJoyActorsEnergySourcePagesDrawsHatredEtc Author:Timothy Findley
“I'm not an actor who appears on the stage and gives people advice on how to live or what to do and entertains them. It is not my specialty.” PeopleGivingActorsAdviceStageSpecialty Author:Vagit Alekperov
“A lot of people give actors credit when they gain weight for a role in a drama when they win an Oscar, but when you’re doing a sitcom, people don’t give you a lot of credit, because you’ve got to keep your weight on for five or six years if it’s successful.” PeopleIfsGivingYearsActorsWinningRolesSuccessfulFiveDramaSixGainsWeightCreditOscarsSitcom Author:Mike O'Malley
“Actors were the first people to accept me.” PeopleFirstsActorsAcceptingAccept Me Author:Michael Lindsay-Hogg
“People say that one of the most important things about being an actor is to have thick skin, but I don't think that's it. Because you can't just walk around being tough, you have to be able to be vulnerable to do this. So really, it's about not being defensive.” PeopleThinkingImportantAbleActorsWalksToughSkinsImportant ThingsVulnerableThickThick Skin Author:Jess Weixler
“I've done a lot of odd jobs, including waitressing, which most actors have done. I was a busboy - girl - when I was younger and sold things at little fairs when I was younger. I mostly related the role to being a waitress and having to deal with customers. There are good people and some not-so-good people.” PeopleLittlesDoneJobsGirlActorsDealsRolesFairsIncludingCustomersOddRelatedGood PeopleWaitressOdd JobsBusboys Author:Jess Weixler
“In movies, you get to explore parts of yourself that in real life, people shy away from, like looking stupid or embarrassing yourself or getting too angry, anything inappropriate. As an actor, you walk into those moments.” PeopleRealMomentsActorsWalksStupidAngryReal LifeShyEmbarrassingInappropriate Author:Jess Weixler
“As an actor, that's the best thing you can do, really take people along on a story and tell them something.” PeopleStoriesActorsCan DoBest Things Author:Austin Peck
“It was not my class of people. There was not a producer, a press agent, a director, an actor.” PeopleFunnyActorsClassStupidDirectorsPressesProducersAgents Author:Zsa Zsa Gabor
“I don't think a lot of people really understand the commitment it takes to being a character that an actor in Hollywood would take to approaching a role that they're doing.” PeopleThinkingCharacterActorsRolesCommitmentHollywood Author:Misty Copeland
“Leonardo is the most incredible actor, on the planet, with a couple of people alongside him. Getting to act with him is just [amazing]. I walked away from my audition for that and I couldn't believe that I'd been acting with him. I've worked with amazing people, but my friends freak out that I'm working with him. I freak out in a geeky acting way. They freak out in a starstruck way. He's Leonardo DiCaprio, and his fame is so big. That's a complete tangent about that.” PeopleWayBelieveBigsActorsActingPlanetsCoupleFameMy FriendsIncrediblesFreakAuditionsLeonardoAmazing People Author:Carey Mulligan
“I think actors who know their job know that's how you do it. You don't show up and make people miserable. That poor grip who's standing there, he just wants to feed his family. He doesn't need to hear about your psychosis on life and love and death.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantNeedsShowsJobsActorsPoorStandingAnd LoveMiserableLife And LoveStanding TherePsychosisLove And Death Author:Charlize Theron
“The human condition is all about us pretending to be something sometimes that we're not. When you get into the core of people kind of stripping all of that away, that's for me, as an actor, always the most fun stuff to do.” PeopleHumansKindSometimesActorsFunStuffConditionsCorePretendingHuman ConditionStrippingFun Stuff Author:Charlize Theron
“Often in America people would assume that [as an English actor] you've had some sort of deep, classical training, or that you're a Shakespeare enthusiast. I have zero interest in me performing Shakespeare.” PeopleAmericaActorsInterestTrainingAssumingPerformingZero Author:Bill Nighy
“It's disheartening that animal people criticize societies that enlist the help of actors or organize creative acts like 'I'd rather go naked than wear fur,' to increase public awareness to our cause. These are great/courageous ideas which time has come! Liberation of animals is REVOLUTION - not elegant performance/ intellectual competition. We should do most anything to advance the animal rights cause. All the bickering may make the one step forward... TWO STEPS BACKWARD???” PeopleShouldMayTwoIdeasHelpingActorsCausesAnimalStepsCreativeRightsAwarenessRevolutionIntellectualPerformancesIncreaseCompetitionNakedLiberationCourageousCriticizeAnimal RightsOrganizeElegantFurSteps ForwardBickeringDisheartening Author:Adela Popescu
“When I got the script to this movie, The Good Girl, I read it in an hour. The writer, Mike White, has an ability to create characters that are so creepy and dysfunctional and human, with this duality that makes people feel empathy for them at the same time. My first thought was 'Was this sent to the right person?' I called my agent. 'Are they sure? Let's say yes before they realize they've sent it to the wrong person!'” PeopleFeelsFirstsHumansPersonsBookCharacterGirlReadingActorsRealizingHoursAbilityWhiteEmpathyScriptsAgentsMovieMikeDualityCreepyRight PersonBooks And ReadingGood GirlWrong Person Author:Jennifer Aniston
“Achieving success as an actor has not been easy for me. My biggest, probably most irrational complaint has been that I've had to work harder for what I've gotten. I've seen other people with nepotism or wealth or cheesy good looks on their side who've had it easy...” PeopleLooksHas BeensActorsEasySidesWealthAchieveHard WorkHarderIrrationalComplaintsLooking GoodWork HarderCheesyAchieving SuccessNepotism Author:James Woods
“I think people think I'm accessible. I'm never treated as a star, either by fans or other actors, and I like it like that. I don't get the star treatment. I think that means I'm a good actor. They acknowledge me as a human being, and to me, that's invalua.” PeopleThinkingHumansMeanActorsStarsHuman BeingsFansTreatedAcknowledgeTreatmentGood Actors Author:Kate Mulgrew
“I try to keep away from being bigheaded. That's what causes people to lose the acting thing. They start being commercial, and then they stink the rest of their life. But there are several respected adult actors who were child actors that started very young. I'm going to try to model myself after Kurt Russell and Jodie Foster. Just keep learning from the role and not just go for the money.” PeopleTryingChildrenYoungActorsCausesLosesActingRolesModelsAdultsStinkKeep LearningChild Actors Author:Haley Joel Osment
“We're all unique as actors. To yourself, you are unique, you have to think 'I'm me, I'm not going to bunch myself with other people.' Agents and producers have to get you into a box, to accommodate their limited imaginations.” PeopleThinkingActorsImaginationUniqueBoxesBunchProducersAgentsAccommodate Author:Imelda Staunton
“I hate it when people pray on the screen. It's not because I hate praying, but whenever I see an actor fold his hands and look up in the spotlight, I'm lost. There's only one other thing in the movies I hate as much, and that's sex. You just can't get in bed or pray to God and convince me on the screen.” PeopleLooksHandsHateActorsLostSexPrayingBedI HateScreensLook UpConvinceFoldsPraying To GodSpotlight Author:Orson Welles
“On the one hand, you have these huge budget films that cost millions of dollars. They are effects driven, they don't have well known actors in them, and they are making money. Well, some of them are. One the other hand, you have Stallone and Statham, and guys like DeNiro and Pacino, and Costner, who are all trying to make movies about real people. They are interested in character driven projects.” PeopleTryingWellsRealCharacterHandsFilmGuyActorsKnownMillionsEffectsHugeCostProjectsDollarsDrivenMaking MoneyBudgetsWell Known Author:Dolph Lundgren
“That's really just the worst part of life really, you get bracketed somewhere and the next thing you know people are saying, 'No. No. That's not the type. Get me so and so.' I'm not a type. I'm an actor.” PeopleKnowsNextActorsWorstTypeParts Of LifeSaying No Author:Morgan Freeman
“People always want to ask me about my dad. Which I get because he's a phenomenal actor, and that's for the world, that's out there. But my mother is every bit as impressive and as important for the world as my dad is. It's just that she's not an actor.” PeopleWorldWantImportantMotherActorsAsksBitsDadMy DadAsk MeImpressivePhenomenal Author:Domhnall Gleeson
“As an actor, I've just gotten insanely lucky. I quite like being surrounded by lots of different talented people lots of different times a year.” PeopleYearsDifferentActorsLuckyDifferent Times Author:Domhnall Gleeson
“People always feel like there's a big split between TV and films: I'm a television actress, I'm a film actress. Maybe that's how it was but I feel like there's not that separation anymore. And actors are able to kind of flow between both worlds - and connect to both audiences.” PeopleWorldFeelsKindBigsAbleFilmActorsAudienceTelevisionTvsFlowActressesSeparationSplits Author:Cobie Smulders
“It's tough to be an actor and it's tough to portray a real person, and it's tough to play two people adding up to one person.” PeoplePersonsTwoRealPlayActorsToughReal Person Author:Oren Moverman
“I'm always in the elements, it seems like it's pouring rain on me a lot and there's crowds of people pushing me around, and it feels very real. Which is great as a actor, you don't have to come up with too much of it. I'm always amazed.” PeopleFeelsRealSeemsActorsToo MuchElementsRainCome UpCrowdsPushingAmazedPouringPouring Rain Author:Charlie Day
“You become funny for a reason. I became an actor because that's who I was, nothing else - it was the only thing I was good at. You become a clown and you make people laugh because a) it protects you from everything, and b) it's this validating force in your life. And when you're 12 and 13 years old, you need validation and you're lost and you're kind of floating and you suffer from a severe learning disability and you're overweight and you have glasses... you become funny for a reason.” PeopleNeedsYearsKindReasonSufferingActorsLostForceLaughingProtectGlassesDisabilitySevereFloatingClownMaking People LaughValidationOverweightProtect YouOld YouLearning Disability Author:Matthew Lillard
“I fired a bunch of people and kind of went back to my roots. I fired my agent - I had this big, fancy agent and a big fancy manager and a big fancy lawyer - and I went back to my first agent and said, "I want to go back to just being an actor."” PeopleWantFirstsKindSaidBigsActorsRootsLawyerBunchAgentsManagersFancyJust Being Author:Matthew Lillard
“Acting is not a genteel profession. Actors used to be buried at a crossroads with a stake through the heart. Those people's performances so troubled the onlookers that they feared their ghosts. An awesome compliment. Those players moved the audience not such that they were admitted to a school, or received a complimentary review, but such that the audience feared for their soul. Now that seems to me something to aim for.” PeopleHeartSoulSeemsSchoolUsedActorsActingAudiencePlayerPerformancesAimMovedProfessionGhostUsed To BeReviewsComplimentBuriedStakesCrossroads Author:David Mamet
“There are a lot of people who want to be famous nowadays: singers, actors and, you know, it's like a roller-coaster. And when you are very sensitive - I'm very sensitive - you have to be very strong... You have to just not pay attention to the people who hate you, you know?” PeopleKnowsWantHateActorsStrongPayAttentionFameSingersPay AttentionSensitiveVery StrongHate YouRoller CoasterCoasters Author:Eva Green
“Oftentimes, actors are looked at as court jesters. They are not looked at as deep-thinking, smart people who do many other things or have gifts in other areas.” PeopleThinkingActorsSmartAreasCourtSmart PeopleJesterCourt JesterDeep Thinking Author:Goldie
“A lot of good actors tend to be quite introverted as people.” PeopleActorsGood ActorsIntroverted Author:Antony Sher
“A lot of people think, 'I'll give acting or poetry or filmmaking a try. And if it doesn't work out I'll go get a law degree, do something else that's more practical.' For me I went the reverse way. I lived the back-up plan.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayGivingTryingLawActorsActingPlansDegreesWork OutPracticalsMovieFilmmakingReverse Author:Brit Marling
“In the case of drama (stage, movies, television ), there appear to be people in almost every audience who never quite fully realize that a play is a set of fictional, symbolic representations. An actor is one who symbolizes other people, real or imagined. [...] Also some years ago it was reported that when Edward G. Robinson, who used to play gangster roles with extraordinary vividness, visited Chicago, local hoodlums would telephone him at his hotel to pay their professional respects.” PeopleYearsRealPlayUsedActorsRealizingPayRolesCasesAudienceStageTelevisionDramaYears AgoExtraordinaryLocalsHotelChicagoRepresentationTelephonesNever QuitSymbolicGangstersVividness Author:S. I. Hayakawa
“In the early days of my carer as an actor, I shared what was then the prevailing attitude of Negro performers :;that the content and form of a play or a film scenario was of little importance to us. What mattered was was the opportunity, which came so seldom to our folks ... Later I came to understand that the Negro artist could not view the matter simply in terms of of his individual interests, and that he had a responsibility to his people who rightfully resented the traditional stereotyped portrayals of Negros on stage and screen.” PeopleLittlesMatterPlayFilmFormArtistActorsOpportunityIndividualTermInterestViewsAttitudeResponsibilityStageImportanceFolksScreensTraditionalPerformersScenariosPrevailingPortrayal Author:Paul Robeson
“When you're young, you kind of take yourself seriously, and you think, like, "People need to see what I can do." And it's so laughable, especially with actors.” PeopleThinkingNeedsKindI CanYoungActorsCan DoLaughable Author:Will Arnett
“If you want anybody to have a different voice, you really have to visualize and hear the voices of all these people. Sometimes when I write with specific actors in mind, it helps.” PeopleIfsWantWritingMindDifferentSometimesHelpingActorsVoiceDifferent Voices Author:Billy Bob Thornton
“When people are bothering you constantly when you're trying to do just a simple thing that humans do every day but they won't let you do it without bugging you about it, that was a hard thing. Because I became a movie star overnight. From a working actor and working writer to a movie star.” PeopleTryingHumansHardActorsStarsSimpleBotherMovie StarSimple ThingsHard ThingsBothering YouBugging You Author:Billy Bob Thornton
“A lot of people are doing television now. Great, legendary actors are doing movies on cable and stuff now, and you can't blame them, because they're still doing adult dramas and adult comedies on those stations.” PeopleStillsActorsStuffComedyTelevisionDramaAdultsBlameStationsCablesLegendary Author:Billy Bob Thornton
“So we are headed for a time when there won't be anything but movies that are essentially made like video games, and actors will become obsolete, and then the big stars will be people who live in Brentwood or wherever it is, and they have a show called, I don't know, "Pool Parties of Brentwood" or something like that.” PeopleKnowsMadeShowsBigsActorsGamesStarsPartyVideoPoolObsoletePool Party Author:Billy Bob Thornton
“I mean the most important thing you can have as an actor, writer, director, or whatever you are, poet or whatever it is, is life experience. Life experience doesn't mean you have to live 50 years to have it. I mean you know a lot of people have huge life experience by the time they're in college.” PeopleKnowsYearsMeanImportantActorsCollegePoetHugeDirectorsImportant ThingsLife Experience Author:Billy Bob Thornton
“All I'm saying is we got plenty of Texans, and people from Montana, and New Jersey, and Wyoming, or Kansas City. We got plenty of actors. So we don't need some cat from Cardiff-upon-Rosemary-upon-Thyme, or whatever the hell it is, playing people from Montana. And in the reverse, they got plenty of people from Cardiff-upon-Rosemary-upon-Thyme that they don't need our asses coming over there trying to do British accents.” PeopleNeedsTryingActorsCitiesHellCatBritishAssPlentyReverseAccentsJerseyNew JerseyKansasMontanaTexanWyomingKansas CityRosemaryThymeCardiff Author:Billy Bob Thornton
“That's really good for an actor - to like the people behind the scenes - because then you treat the camera differently. If you really like someone who's shooting you, you're more open. You're not defensive, you're more relaxed, and I think that translates into a more interesting, natural performance.” PeopleIfsThinkingActorsNaturalInterestingBehindsScenePerformancesTreatsCamerasShootingTranslateRelaxedBehind The Scenes Author:Emile Hirsch
“It's tricky playing people that you don't like and finding a way to empathise with them. It's challenging and very exciting for an actor.” PeopleWayActorsChallengesFindingsExcitingTricky Author:Carey Mulligan