“I don't have a burning desire to act strangely enough. I don't know that if I hadn't been an actor as a young person, I don't know that I ever would have chosen this because it's not really my personality.” IfsKnowsPersonsEnoughYoungDesireActorsPersonalityChosenBurningBurning Desire Author:Jodie Foster
“some actors seek parts similar to their personalities. But, I prefer undergoing a metamorphosis that depends on the role .” ActorsRolesPersonalityDependsPartingMetamorphosis Author:Ben Gazzara
“Every part I play is just a variant of my own personality. No real character actor, of course, just me.” RealPlayCharacterCoursesActorsMy OwnPersonalityCharacter ActorsReal CharacterMy Own Personality Author:Michael Gambon
“For almost every character I've played in the 43 years I've been working as a professional actor, I've found parts of myself. We are all bipolar in the tiniest essence of what it is. We are all multiple personalities, in a sense, and to be healthy mentally, I think, learning what those multiple personalities are and inviting them in your life is really important.” ThinkingYearsImportantCharacterLife IsActorsFoundActingPersonalityHealthyEssenceMultipleInvitingBipolarMultiple Personalities Author:Sally Field
“First of all, directing is an idea that you have of a total flow of images that are going on, which are incidentally actors, words, and objects in space. It's an idea you have of yourself, like the idea you have of your own personality which finds its best representation in the world in terms of specific flows of imaginary images. That's what directing is.” WorldFirstsIdeasActorsTermSpaceObjectsPersonalityFlowImaginaryRepresentation Author:Abraham Polonsky
“It's one thing to be sitting at a drawing board, alone in your home and coming up with a fantasy character, and drawing her whichever way you feel like drawing, then dealing with a real performer. All of a sudden, things change. It's amazing, in working with actors, how much I learn from them and how many new lines will come to mind because of their personality or their strengths.” WayFeelsMindRealCharacterHomeActorsLinesFantasyOne ThingPersonalitySittingDrawingBoardsPerformersThings Change Author:Frank Miller
“For the actor's wishes to be respected in terms of characteristics that your character's gonna have, you have to work with good and intelligent and talented stunt people that not only can carry weapons well but can also carry a personality.” PeopleWellsCharacterActorsWishTermPersonalityWeaponsIntelligentCharacteristics Author:Zoe Saldana
“Being an actor is such a humiliating experience because you are selling yourself to the public, your face, your personality, and that is humiliating. As you get older, it becomes more humiliating because you've got less to sell.” FacesActorsPersonalitySellsSellingYour FaceHumiliatingSelling Yourself Author:Katharine Hepburn
“Acting is the developing of one's own personality, too, you know. That's what the public buys in a star, shall we say, the personality thing.” KnowsActorsStarsActingPersonalityFameDeveloping Author:Shelley Winters
“I think all actors have addictive personalities.” ThinkingActorsPersonality Author:Jonathan Rhys Meyers
“When I was in theater I was forever trying to inhabit a space which puts yourself under the microscope as an actor and your personality and your take on life, but actually through another portal of a character.” TryingCharacterActorsSpaceForeverPersonalityTheaterMicroscopesPortal Author:Andy Serkis
“I like actors who just are who they are, with a little bit of qualification to adapt to their character. But mostly they just use their own personality to embody the character.” LittlesCharacterUseActorsBitsPersonalityLittle BitQualifications Author:Michel Gondry
“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