“I did four or five years in telly, and by the end of it was drained. I was a bit sick of myself. I didn't feel like an actor anymore. That sounds silly, but when you're doing a play you're using different muscles, and it blew all the cobwebs away.” FeelsYearsDifferentEndsPlayActorsBitsSoundFiveFourSickSillyMusclesFive YearsDrainedCobwebs Author:Matthew Macfadyen
“I never consciously said, 'I want to be an actor.' It sounds stupid, but it's kind of like being a painter or something. You don't say, 'From today on I'm going to be a painter.' It's not something conscious - you've just been painting pictures all your life.” WantKindSaidTodayActorsSoundStupidPaintingConsciousPainterPainting A Picture Author:Franka Potente
“Everything about filmmaking is incredibly weird, and there's nothing natural about watching yourself on the big screen or hearing your voice. It's that same thing that you feel when you watch yourself on a video camera and you hate the sound of your voice - it's that times 800.” FeelsBigsHateActorsSoundVoiceNaturalWatchesCamerasHearingScreensVideoMovieFilmmakingBig ScreenVideo CamerasHearing Your Voice Author:Eddie Redmayne
“The way I teach people to sing... I have them talk the lyric out until it sounds like something they really believe, like an actor with a monologue.” PeopleWayBelieveActorsSoundTeachLike SomethingMonologues Author:Margaret Whiting
“Every actor-performer says this, and it sounds so irritating, but I'm not the most outgoing person.” PersonsActorsSoundPerformersIrritatingOutgoing Author:Billy Eichner
“I think I always wanted to be an actor - sounds a bit boring, doesn't it? And I pretended once that I wanted to be a vet because one of the teachers asked me and saying you want to be an actor sounds a little bit silly. And I do still feel a bit silly saying it. You feel a bit fraudulent.” ThinkingWantFeelsLittlesStillsWantedActorsBitsSoundTeacherLittle BitBoringSillyVets Author:Sophie Thompson
“It sounds so weird, but I'm totally pro-aging. If you look at the film industry, it's so funny how it's so much more accepted that actors begin their prime in their forties or fifties, and for women it's so different. I think it's time to change that. Aging is a beautiful thing.” IfsThinkingLooksDifferentBeautifulFilmActorsSoundIndustryAgingAcceptedFortyPrimeBeautiful ThingsFilm Industry Author:Michiel Huisman
“This sounds so bogus, but I would love to, at some point when my kids are in college, is just go do a whole season at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and do a year of plays. Most actors miss the days of live theater.” YearsPlayWholeKidsActorsSoundMissingCollegeSeasonsTheaterFestivalsOregonLive Theater Author:Donal Logue
“My understanding of the way sex scenes work is that you're surrounded by crew, and you're cold, and you have to do it eight times 'cause they didn't get the lighting. It doesn't sound pleasant, but you think that actors actually enjoy it?” ThinkingWayActorsSexCausesEnjoyUnderstandingSoundColdSceneEightPleasantCrewLighting Author:Mindy Kaling
“An actor stands in front of a camera onstage, and he controls time and space for the audience. He tells them how long this will take, where to look, when to look, what to think about it. And good performers should be able to do their part with the sound off.” ThinkingShouldLooksLongAbleActorsSoundSpaceAudienceFrontsCamerasPerformersTime And Space Author:John Michael Higgins
“An actor's life is the shadow of a cloud, the echo of a sound, the memory of a dream, nothing come of nothing. The finest actor does not create, he is but a translator of another man's work.” MenDoeDreamLife IsActorsSoundMemoriesShadowCloudsEchoesFinestAnother ManTranslators Author:Fanny Kemble
“Acting is one element in a film. Directing is sort of the painter using all of those elements - sound and music and camera and putting it all together. And that can be fun and exciting. If you fail, it's incredibly upsetting - much more upsetting than when you're an actor. But when you succeed it's incredibly, incredibly exciting, so I like the risk of it all.” IfsTogetherFilmActorsFunSoundActingFailingRiskSucceedElementsExcitingCamerasPainterUpsetSound And MusicFilm Directing Author:George Clooney
“It might sound glib, but in a sense, as an actor Im a journalist and a psychologist recording life and truth.” MightActorsSoundJournalistPsychologist Author:Bertie Carvel
“For a lot of actors, our biggest fear is that we're going to start talking about things we don't fully understand and sound like idiots.” ActorsSoundTalkingIdiotBiggest Fear Author:Matt Damon