“I'm a young actor and I haven't learned everything there is about acting.” YoungActorsActingHavensYoung Actors Author:Lucas Neff
“Young actors are pretty fantastic. I can't even imagine doing stuff like that when I was a kid.” I CanKidsYoungActorsStuffImagineFantasticYoung Actors Author:Donal Logue
“The young actors coming out of the Universities are well trained.” WellsYoungActorsUniversityComing OutYoung Actors Author:Tony Randall
“There are a lot of limitations and stigmas that are placed on young actors, specifically young black actors.” YoungActorsBlackLimitationStigmaYoung Actors Author:Anthony Mackie
“When I was a young actor... the more different you were from the part you played, the more talent it reflected.” DifferentYoungActorsTalentYoung Actors Author:Dirk Benedict
“My advice to young actors is probably to do some theatre; definitely do that. I keep running into these actors who have never been on stage, and it's invaluable for an actor. What you will learn about yourself is huge.” RunningYoungActorsAdviceStageHugeTheatreAbout YourselfInvaluableKeep RunningYoung Actors Author:Yul Vazquez
“I think the young actor who really wants to act will find a way ... to keep at it and seize every opportunity that comes along.” ThinkingWayWantYoungActorsOpportunityYoung Actors Author:John Gielgud
“I studied cinema at the university so I had a very classical approach to it. I studied all those silent films, and then the films from the 1940's, the Nouvelle Vague, the late Hollywood films. Now I realize, as a young actor, that it's one of my duties to actually be aware of what is today's industry and today's next big directors.” BigsTodayFilmYoungNextActorsRealizingDutyIndustryDirectorsLateApproachHollywoodSilentUniversityCinemaVagueYoung ActorsHollywood FilmsSilent Films Author:Gaspard Ulliel
“As a kid, as a young actor, I really wanted to pop. I wanted to create something different. I wanted to be Sean Penn, but I didn't have all the words to be Sean Penn. But I was trying to do something different in every role.” TryingDifferentKidsWantedYoungActorsRolesPopsSeanYoung Actors Author:Matthew Lillard
“I feel so sorry for younger actors who aren't able to have the opportunities that I had, starting out in repertory theatre. It's really tough on young actors now.” FeelsAbleYoungActorsOpportunityToughSorryStartingTheatreStarting OutYoung Actors Author:Antony Sher
“When I was coming up in the '80s television, if you were on television that meant either you were a young actor just coming up like I was, or you were an older actor whose career was over and you had to go on television.” IfsYoungActorsCareersTelevisionGoes On80sYoung Actors Author:Billy Bob Thornton
“When you're a young actor you ring your agent every evening. It's not like when you're in Hollywood where you do one picture a year. You just hope you get a day on television.” YearsYoungActorsTelevisionHollywoodRingsAgentsEveningYoung Actors Author:Michael Caine
“You reminded me of a quote that my acting teacher Stella Adler wrote in her book ['The Art of Acting'], which I asked her to sign: "The young actor feels some greatness inside themselves that they want to give back to the world." That resonated with me, but I didn't really understand what she was talking about until much later, in the way you surmised that my struggle to become an actor was from being this kind of introverted young boy.” WorldWayWantGivingFeelsKindArtBookYoungActorsActingTalkingBoysStruggleTeacherGreatnessGiving BackIntrovertedYoung ActorsMy StruggleStellaActing TeachersAdler Author:Mark Ruffalo
“They're making a movie about Barack and Michelle Obama's first date, called 'Southside With You,' and the producers say they've already cast someone to play young Barack Obama. Now, I'm not saying the president has aged a lot but that young actor is Morgan Freeman.” FirstsPlayYoungActorsPresidentCastsProducersBarackFreemanYoung ActorsFirst Date Author:Jimmy Fallon
“I started in comedy when I first started as an actor on stage and doing improvisational theater and stuff like that. So a lot of people who know me know that sort of side of me. But I got the roles that I got as an young actor kind of steered me in a different direction, which were, at times, darker characters. And so comedy was not something that came easy for people to think of my in those terms.” PeopleThinkingKnowsFirstsKindDifferentCharacterYoungActorsEasyStuffSidesTermRolesComedyStageTheaterKnow MeDifferent DirectionsYoung Actors Author:Andy Garcia
“This is advice I would give to any young actor - if you go into a room with anybody and you come in with a positive attitude and a place of love, and you truly do love what you're doing, then the negative energy doesn't even get into the room. You just have to prepare, and then go in and be the best you that you can be, and you'll either get the job or you won't.” IfsGivingJobsYoungActorsEnergyRoomsAttitudeAdviceNegativePositive AttitudeBeing The BestYoung ActorsNegative Energy Author:Adam Baldwin
“It's great to have people to bounce off and I love working with people my age. I think young actors have such energy about them and such a passion and a drive to do their best and prove themselves constantly, and to work with that is really fun and interesting.” PeopleThinkingAgeYoungPassionActorsEnergyFunInterestingProveBounceYoung Actors Author:Kaya Scodelario
“I grew up with it. As a young actor, I was always aware of the brilliant work of Shakespeare. We studied Romeo & Juliet and Macbeth in school. As a young actor, you're always mystified and intrigued by such brilliant work. To actually have the chance to be involved in this production was a wonderful thing for me.” SchoolYoungActorsChanceWonderfulGrewInvolvedGrew UpProductionsBrilliantWonderful ThingsIntriguedJulietYoung ActorsRomeo Juliet Author:Ed Westwick
“When I was a young actor I was in a lot of film doing one day work and two days' work, and they've included all those titles, which I don't even remember. I think I've played the lead in about 75 movies.” ThinkingTwoRememberFilmYoungActorsOne DayTitlesTwo DaysLead InYoung Actors Author:Michael Caine
“I would hate to be thrust into the middle of a big film and not deliver. There's young actors and they're put into these central roles and they're commanding armies - but they can't quite pull it off. I'd much rather do it in small steps and build it from there.” BigsFilmYoungHateActorsStepsRolesMiddleArmyThrustYoung ActorsSmall Steps Author:Paddy Considine
“I started acting when I was about nine. I always wanted to get into acting since I was really little but my parents would never let me because they'd heard all the bad stuff about being in the business as a young actor and stuff like that.” LittlesWantedYoungActorsStuffParentActingHeardLet MeNineYoung ActorsBad Stuff Author:Josh Hutcherson
“If you can't fail then how can you possible develop as a communicator or as a creator of anything? We are locked into a deeply unhealthy notion that somehow you've got to succeed all the time. An appalling notion. Any painter or writer will tell you that that is no way to proceed. One of the things that will kill off a decent actor, especially a young actor early on and they will never recover from it, is too much success. It's disastrous. You stop being criticized, therefore you stop challenging yourself. You then can't afford to fail because there's too far to fall.” IfsWayYoungArtistFallActorsChallengesToo MuchFailingSucceedNotionCreatorPainterDecentLockedSuccess And FailureUnhealthyYoung ActorsCommunicatorsChallenge Yourself Author:Emma Thompson
“He [Alan Lomax] started right off trying to find people who could introduce folk songs to city people. He found a young actor named Burl Ives and said, "Burl, you know a lot of great country songs learned from your grandmother, don't you know people would love to hear them?" He put on radio programs. He persuaded CBS to dedicate "The School of the Air" for one year to American folk music. He'd get some old sailor to sing an old sea shanty with a cracked voice. Then he'd get me to sing it with my banjo.” PeopleKnowsTryingYearsSaidCountrySchoolYoungSongActorsFoundVoiceCitiesAirSeaProgramFolksRadioGrandmotherIntroducingSailorCrackedFolk MusicGreat CountryYoung ActorsBanjosYour GrandmotherFolk Songs Author:Pete Seeger
“When I was a young actor, I just didn’t understand how to function in this business as an artist. It is a business, it’s called the film business for a reason, there’s money involved ... But on the flip side, now I do not let the business side of it rule either. It’s a balance.” ReasonFilmYoungArtistActorsSidesBalanceInvolvedFunctionFlipYoung Actors Author:James Franco
“I feel bad for young actors who become huge stars too quickly, because you haven't had a chance to practice your craft a lot.” FeelsYoungActorsStarsChancePracticeHavensHugeCraftsYoung Actors Author:Topher Grace
“If I had even the tiniest scrap of advice to give to a young actor who was figuring out how to audition, I would say don't memorize the script The reality about auditions is that 98 percent of the results has to do with what you are, not with what you did in the audition.” IfsGivingRealityYoungActorsResultsAdvicePercentScriptsAuditionsScrapYoung Actors Author:Wallace Shawn
“Performance capture is a tool that young actors will need in the next 10, 20 years. It's on the increase, as you say. It's not going away.” NeedsYearsYoungNextActorsToolsPerformancesIncreaseGoing AwayCaptureYoung Actors Author:Andy Serkis
“You always like to learn from people as a young actor. I think every young actor says that, but its true.” PeopleThinkingYoungActorsYoung Actors Author:Tom Weston-Jones
“My main goal, starting out as a young actor, was to carry the reins that Pac left off and to reach the depths as an actor that I know he would have reached had he still been here with us.” KnowsStillsYoungActorsLeftGoalDepthStartingReinsStarting OutYoung ActorsPacs Author:Michael K. Williams
“I feel it's so hard for young actors; It's a different world that they're coming up in; there's so much money to be made off of their personal lives, and people are bound and determined to make that money.” PeopleWorldFeelsMadeDifferentHardYoungActorsBoundsDeterminedPersonal LifeDifferent WorldsYoung Actors Author:Garrison Keillor