“It used to be that you kind of got pigeonholed into one thing - you're either a stage actor or a TV actor or a movie actor. Today, there's a lot of crossover with film actors doing television, which never happened before, so those lines are a little bit more blurred than they used to be.” KindLittlesTodayFilmUsedActorsBitsLinesHappenedOne ThingStageTelevisionTvsLittle BitUsed To BeCrossoverMovie ActorsFilm ActorsStage Actors Author:Aaron Tveit
“I've been for 10 years trying to make something out of my life as an actor. I've learned a lot but I haven't done much that's worthwhile. So maybe if I make people wonder what I really do look like and make myself unrecognizable, they will be interested and intrigued, which eventually, of course, happened.” PeopleIfsTryingYearsLooksDoneCoursesActorsWonderHappenedHavensI've LearnedWorthwhileIntrigued Author:Christopher Lee
“Well, acting is cheap; I knew all these actors who weren't in the Screen Actors Guild yet, and it happened that they were all just about thirty years old.” YearsWellsActorsActingHappenedScreensThirtyThirty YearsGuildsThirty Years Old Author:John Sayles
“When you're having conversations about actors, you realize these same conversations have happened about you. If you want to make a film for $5m, then you cast A, B and C, but if you want $20m, you won't be able to cast them, you need X, Y and Z.” IfsWantNeedsAbleFilmActorsRealizingHappenedConversationCasts Author:Paddy Considine
“A lot of people want to judge the fact that I'm an actor. That's ridiculous. No one knows what I was doing before I made my first movie. I just happened to do it as an actor all the while I've been doing music, but never with the intention to become a screaming famous pop star.” PeopleKnowsWantFirstsMadeFactsActorsStarsHappenedJudgingIntentionPopsRidiculousPop Stars Author:Taryn Manning
“So to answer your question, Im not entirely sure how I ended up where I am today, in the sense that nobody in my family is an actor. It just happened by mistake.” TodayActorsAnswersMistakeHappenedMy Family Author:Hugh Dancy
“I got to New York when I was eighteen. I was knocking around, trying to be an actor, writer, musician, whatever happened.” TryingActorsHappenedNew YorkMusicianEighteenKnocking Author:Sam Shepard
“I've always wanted to be an actor. I didn't get into this game to be the best improviser in the world. I didn't choose improv as a stepping stone, it just happened to become one.” WorldWantedActorsGamesHappenedStonesBeing The BestStepping Stones Author:Rob Corddry
“As an actor, it's your job to find the way to play a character. I think you can latch on to some things that might have happened.” ThinkingWayPlayCharacterMightJobsActorsHappenedLatches Author:Justin Timberlake
“I was doing progressively smaller movies in England, after Harry Potter... to the point where I was doing nine-day shoots for, like, 20p and a packet of Space Invaders. And then this happened. So I'm not just another actor who's around and jobbing. When you hire me for a job, you're hiring.” JobsActorsSpaceHappenedEnglandNineHarry PotterPottersHiringInvadersSpace Invaders Author:Robert Pattinson
“Too many Broadway actors in motion pictures lost their grip on success--had a feeling that none of it had ever happened on that sun-drenched coast, that the coast itself did not exist, there was no California. It had dropped away like a hasty dream and nothing could ever have been like the things they thought they remembered.” Has BeensFeelingsDreamActorsLostActingSunHappenedCaliforniaRememberedMovieCoastBroadwayMotion PicturesHasty Author:Mae West
“Each religion is a brave guess at the authorship of Hamlet. Yet, as far as the play goes, does it make any difference whether Shakespeare or Bacon wrote it? Would it make any difference to the actors if their parts happened out of nothingness, if they found themselves acting on the stage because of some gross and unpardonable accident? Would it make any difference if the playwright gave them the lines or whether they composed them themselves, so long as the lines were properly spoken? Would it make any difference to the characters if 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' was really a dream?” IfsLongDoePlayCharacterGodDreamNightActorsFoundDifferencesLinesActingHappenedStageBraveAccidentsNothingnessGrossPlaywrightAuthorshipMidsummerMidsummer Night's Dream Author:Lewis Mumford
“The first part of my life was to be an actor and maybe have some success at that. Then [it was time] to find somebody to be in a relationship with and have a life that way. Because of Parkinson's, I had to change: How can I be of service here? Is there something unique to my situation that I can use to help people? I did not have the wherewithal to invent that. It just happened in front of me and had me join in.” PeopleWayFirstsI CanHelpingUseActorsSituationHappenedFrontsUniqueParkinsonParkinson's Author:Michael J. Fox
“The big thing for actors is the level of commitment. So, if you know something's already happened, there's not a whole lot of whys and hows that go down. You just innately commit 'cause it happened. It does help with commitment.” IfsKnowsDoeWholeHelpingBigsActorsCausesLevelsHappenedCommitmentCommitBig Things Author:Shia LaBeouf
“The interesting thing with child actors is that kids are natural actors. They're wonderful actors, and most kids are acting all the time. They're imagining they're out in the yard playing. They're imagining that things happened, and they can get very vivid.” ChildrenKidsActorsNaturalInterestingActingWonderfulHappenedThings HappenYardsVividInteresting ThingsChild Actors Author:Clint Eastwood
“As an actor, I look at scenes much differently than I would look at them as a director, and I never realized that until it actually happened.” LooksActorsHappenedSceneDirectors Author:Jensen Ackles
“I worked as an actor for a few years before anything happened, so I'm used to going up for auditions, and then not getting the role. But sometimes I don't read the book of the film, in case I just totally fall in love with it, and then it just becomes an obsession and you want to do it so much because you've completely fallen in love with the story and the characters. And then, if the part doesn't go your way, it's heartbreaking. So, there's a certain amount of distance you have to keep before you can throw yourself in 100%.” IfsWayWantYearsBookSometimesCharacterStoriesFilmUsedCertainFallActorsRolesCasesHappenedAmountDistanceFalling In LoveObsessionFallenAuditionsHeartbreaking Author:Jim Sturgess
“It's never happened to me before, in my career, and never will again. It's a one-off experience. It's a rare treat to have a cast together for six years. Crews come and go, and a few of them have been there throughout, but not many. It's rare, in my experience, after 26 years, to have had a proper company in a show that enjoys each other's company, and who is such a fine bunch of people and actors. To have struck a chord with people, and to have had that combination, is extremely rare.” PeopleYearsHas BeensShowsTogetherActorsEnjoyCompanyCareersHappenedFineSixTreatsCastsBunchCombinationCrewChordsComes And Goes Author:Hugh Bonneville
“Me being an actor was an accident, and not something I wanted to do, because I knew what happened eventually. Yeah, maybe you'd get famous, but then you wouldn't be famous anymore. Then you'd have to scramble to get back to where you were, and chances are, you wouldn't.” WantedActorsChanceHappenedYeahAccidentsGet BackChances Are Author:Carrie Fisher
“The most complex challenge for an actor is the ability to give dimension to the story from the time that it happened, not from the present.” GivingStoriesActorsChallengesAbilityHappenedComplexesDimensions Author:Benjamin Avila
“What happened is I was going to college in 1950. L. A. City College. A guy I knew was going to an acting class on Thursday nights. He started telling me about all the good-lookin' chicks and said, "Why don't you go with me?" So I probably had some motivation beyond thoughts of being an actor. And sure enough, he was right. There were a lot of girls and not many guys. I said, "Yeah, they need me here." I wound up at Universal as a contract player.” NeedsSaidEnoughMotivationNightGuyGirlActorsActingCitiesClassPlayerHappenedCollegeUniversalYeahWoundsContractsChicksThursdayActing ClassesGoing To CollegeThursday Night Author:Clint Eastwood
“Well, I think that's been my career. I always choose stuff that's the same, yet different. These projects just happened. I didn't plan it out that way. I just happened to be free, and the director, Dan Pritzker, decided to do his film again. I say again because we did it seven years ago. A lot of the actors were not available, so he just couldn't wait anymore and he recast everything. Me and two other characters are the only people involved with the new one, who were involved with the previous one.” PeopleThinkingWayYearsWellsTwoDifferentCharacterFilmActorsStuffWaitingCareersPlansHappenedInvolvedDirectorsProjectsYears AgoDecidedSevenAvailableSeven Years Author:Michael Rooker
“('Mad Men') was my final audition of the pilot season. It had been three miserable, horrible months where I had zero callbacks, zero positive reception, one of those pilot seasons that makes you pretty sure you are never going to be an actor and never want to be an actor. And then that happened.” MenWantThreeActorsHappenedMonthsSeasonsMadFinalsHorribleMiserableZeroPilotsAuditionsReceptionMad MenCallbacks Author:Rich Sommer
“I'm just an actor who happened to love these [Marvel] comics when I was a kid, and got to rediscover them.” KidsActorsHappenedMarvel Comics Author:Clark Gregg
“Any place where you have to deal with many social actors like a school - you have the parents, the Ministry of Education, the school board, and the teachers - you need all kinds of sets and rules. You're trying to foresee anything that can happen and everything becomes really rigid. They don't want to talk about death because they don't want to overwhelm the children, but that has already happened, so you're not going to overwhelm them more.” WantNeedsTryingKindChildrenHappensSchoolActorsSocialParentDealsTeacherHappenedAll KindsBoardsMinistrySchool Board Author:Philippe Falardeau
“I never thought of myself as being that good looking, I was an actor, people saw me on television, and then they start to think you're good looking because of that presentation. I was no better looking before the show, than after - and before the TV show I couldn't get a date to save my life. So what changed? Did I suddenly become more good looking? No. I got lucky, I got a TV show. That's what happened.” PeopleThinkingShowsActorsSawsHappenedChangedTelevisionTvsLuckyTv ShowsLooking GoodPresentation Author:Parker Stevenson
“Well if I had my choice I would not - I wouldn't mind working with Alec Baldwin, but the mother role - I'm kidding. It's terrific. I'll tell you what happened with Alec Baldwin and myself. This is a couple acting together just this side of heaven. He's one of the best actors I've ever worked with in whole life. And I - I'm not overdoing it. I just think he's about the best around today. So I got lucky.” IfsThinkingMindWellsWholeTodayTogetherMotherChoicesActorsHeavenSidesActingRolesHappenedCoupleLuckyWhole LifeTerrificOverdoing ItActing Together Author:Elaine Stritch