“Actors think they're far more important than they are, and that can only lead to hurt. People with colossal self-importance have very far to fall.” PeopleThinkingImportantSelfFallActorsHurtImportanceColossalSelf-importance Author:Julia Sawalha
“I grew up in Arkansas and that's the law. My dad was a high school basketball coach, so I was raised as a coach's son and I was a baseball player back in Arkansas, and I lived in Texas, too, so I was just surrounded by sports. So that's what I was going to do: Pitch for the St Louis Cardinals. I had no idea I was going to be an actor. So I got my collar bone broken in the Kansas City Royals training camp. And once I got hurt I started doing other things for a while.” IdeasSchoolLawActorsSportsHurtCitiesPlayerSonBrokenGrewDadBasketballGrew UpTrainingHigh SchoolBaseballRaisedMy DadBonesCoachesNo IdeaTexasCampsRoyalCollarsCardinalsBaseball PlayerKansasBasketball CoachArkansasKansas CityGot HurtTraining Camp Author:Billy Bob Thornton
“On the day we filmed the scene, a bee stung me. I screamed and cried so much they called a doctor, and my father said, "It can't hurt that badly!" But it wasn't the pain that upset me, it was the thought that I mightn't be in the film. Already the little professional.” LittlesSaidPainFilmActorsFatherHurtActingSceneAmbitionDoctorsUpsetBeesCried Author:Natasha Richardson
“Actors aren't fighters. They don't know how to throw a punch. So, there's a lot of hitting in the face. I'd much rather fight with a stuntman than another actor. I don't like fighting with other actors because somebody always ends up getting hurt.” KnowsEndsFacesFightingActorsHurtKnow HowFighterHittingGetting HurtStuntman Author:Aaron Eckhart
“It's like a dance, to choreograph a fight is like a dance. It's very specific. You have to carefully plan it out. Because if someone gets hurt, then we didn't do our job, someone screwed up. The fight choreographers and the actors involved, we messed up somewhere.” IfsJobsFightingActorsHurtPlansInvolvedMessed UpScrewed UpChoreographers Author:Bryan Cranston
“My biggest emotional defeat and the greatest emotional pain I've had as an actor was when "Wild Wild West" opened up to $52 million. The movie wasn't good. And it hurt so bad to be the No. 1 movie - to open at $52 million - and to know the movie wasn't good.” KnowsPainActorsHurtMillionsEmotionalWestDefeatIt HurtsEmotional PainWild WestWild Wild West Author:Will Smith
“You cannot hurt animals, so what do I do? I kill the dog first. Then I do it with the boy. You're not supposed to break the illusion of this being a film, so I make the actor talk to the audience. Provocation is the principle of the whole film [ Funny Games]. It is very ironic.” FirstsWholeFilmActorsGamesHurtAnimalBoysPrinciplesBreakAudienceDogIllusionIronicProvocationFunny Game Author:Michael Haneke
“When criticism comes your way as an actor they are not criticizing your writing or your painting or your piece, they are criticizing you! It is hard to put that away in a place where you are not hurt.” WayWritingHardActorsHurtPiecesPaintingCriticismCriticizeWhere You Are Author:Meryl Streep
“Actors have bodyguards and entourages not because anybody wants to hurt them - who would want to hurt an actor? - but because they want to get recognized. God forbid someone doesn't recognize them.” WantActorsHurtBodyguardEntourage Author:James Caan
“As an actor and as a performer, I'm very much aware of the fact that my job is to change both physically and emotionally and that was what hurt the most - the fact that people were judging me based on nothing.” PeopleFactsJobsActorsHurtJudgingPerformersJudge Me Author:Jamie Campbell Bower
“Studios might cast an actor because he is too tall next to the leading lady, who is too short, or they might not cast your guy because he's blond, and they wanted a brunette. There's all kinds of reasons why they want one person over another. I don't worry about it, but it can hurt sometimes if you really wanted something, if you really went after something.” IfsWantKindPersonsSometimesReasonMightWantedGuyNextActorsHurtWorryCastsStudiosAll KindsReason WhyTallToo ShortBrunetteLeading Ladies Author:Bruce Campbell
“In my experience of doing physical scenes, half of your energy is spent on trying to get the other actor to enter into it physically with you. Most actors don't want to hurt each other.” WantTryingActorsEnergyHurtHalfScene Author:Daniel Radcliffe
“I've been an actor for 30 years, so I pretty much know how to do the basics of a fight without hurting anybody.” KnowsYearsFightingActorsHurtKnow HowBasics Author:Julie Benz
“One of my career ambitions was fulfilled working with John [Hurt]. I loved his work long before I ever had the idea of being an actor, so I was nervous to meet him. I was like a fanboy, like that annoying character on 'Saturday Night Live'. I'm sitting there. 'Do you remember when you were in 'Midnight Express'? Remember that scene you were in?' And he doesn't disappoint.” LongIdeasCharacterRememberNightActorsHurtCareersSceneAmbitionSittingNervousAnnoyingFulfilledSaturdayMidnightRemember WhenDisappointSaturday NightSaturday Night Live Author:Gary Oldman
“It's a very, very rare moment when another actor hurts you. I mean, that's not normal.” MeanMomentsActorsHurtNormalRare Moments Author:Katee Sackhoff
“I think when you get the opportunity to work with someone like Lars Von Trier... I mean, Alexander Skarsgård, Charlotte Rampling, John Hurt, just to work with those actors, you take that opportunity when you get it.” ThinkingMeanActorsOpportunityHurtCharlotte Author:Kiefer Sutherland
“I'd moved to L.A., and everyone's actors here and writers, they were like super emotional and super in touch with their feelings, and it seemed like every two weeks one of my friend just coming to me and, like, you hurt my feelings the other day, dude.” TwoFeelingsActorsHurtWeekEmotionalLike YouMy FriendsMovedTwo WeeksHurt My Feelings Author:Seth Rogen
“I have made 70 or so films. In all my films not a single actor, a single extra, was hurt. Not one. So statistics are on my side when I say I'm clinically sane.” MadeFilmActorsSidesHurtExtrasStatisticsSane Author:Werner Herzog
“It's funny how in the long time of me working in various countries and various situations that there is this kind of idea out in the media that I am a daredevil and that I risk the lives of everyone around me, but nobody ever gets hurt on my shoot. Some crew members sometimes, but the actors are OK.” KindLongIdeasCountrySometimesActorsHurtSituationRiskMediaMembersLong TimeVariousCrewDaredevil Author:Werner Herzog
“It's like they talk about how American actors have the method and English actors just kind of switch views faster. And John [Hurt] is telling me the story as he's sitting in that witness chair, and they're putting the final touches of makeup on. And he goes, "Hold on a second," to stop his story so he can do the take. And he does this incredible take. They go, "Cut." And then immediately John goes, "Anyways, so Alec, he's playing the chess." And I'm just going, "Holy crap." You get whiplash from those kinds of quick turns!” KindDoeStoriesTurnsActorsCan DoHurtViewsCuttingHolySittingMethodFinalsIncrediblesChessWitnessFasterChairsMakeupCrapWhiplash Author:Judd Nelson
“I went and saw him [ John Hurt ] here in L.A.He did a one-man Beckett show of Krapp's Last Tape. I went back and saw him afterwards, and what an actor he is. He is so gifted.” MenShowsLastsActorsHurtSawsOne ManTapeGiftedBeckett Author:Judd Nelson
“Everything that I've done was prudent and never has anyone gotten hurt in my films - not a single actor, not a single extra, ever.” DoneFilmActorsHurtExtrasPrudent Author:Werner Herzog
“If you dissect my career as an actor, and you can pull out more than enough of those type of movies, from The Hurt Locker and The Town and so on and so forth, and that's kind of where our wheelhouse is. We love it.” IfsKindEnoughActorsHurtCareersTypeTownsLockersHurt Locker Author:Jeremy Renner
“Gambles are the most fun because it's part of being an actor or being a creative person. It's risky only in the vulnerable sense. And then outside of that, no one gets too hurt by it.” PersonsActorsFunHurtCreativeVulnerableGambleCreative Person Author:Emma Stone