“In a weird way, that's the beauty of being an actor. You get to live out things that you're afraid of, and you get to say, 'Well, maybe I can get to the end of it and survive it intact and I can be the hero of my own story.' It's kind of a way of exorcising fear.” WayWellsKindI CanEndsStoriesActorsMy OwnHero Author:Jodie Foster
“A lot of the time with child actors, you get the feeling they’re trying to have a kind of poise or presentation that’s beyond their years that might be put on, but also might be because they’ve spent years just hanging out with adults and they don’t even have a sense of what it’s like to grow up with kids their own age.” TryingYearsKindChildrenFeelingsMightKidsAgeActorsGrowsGrowing UpAdultsHanging OutPresentationPoiseChild Actors Author:Alessandro Nivola
“When you're an actor or any kind of artist, you use your life as something to draw from in every experience.” KindUseArtistActorsDraws Author:Josh Peck
“I know that I'm an actor and I guess I could kind of put on an act, but it takes so much more time to be someone you are not. I feel so much better just being comfortable with myself and hopefully girls will accept that.” KnowsFeelsKindGirlActorsAcceptingComfortableHopefullyMore TimeJust Being Author:Brie Larson
“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
“I'm so uncomfortable, especially in emotional situations, having to say sentences that don't feel right. As an actor - or really, as any kind of person sensitive to it.” FeelsKindPersonsActorsSituationEmotionalSentencesUncomfortableSensitiveFeels Right Author:Franka Potente
“There are a lot of actors that I really love to watch, actors who I have fun watching - I think Johnny Depp is phenomenal. But I wouldn't want that career as much as I'd like a career like Tom Hanks - he kind of represents the everyman.” ThinkingWantKindActorsFunCareersWatchesHaving FunTomsPhenomenalEveryman Author:Jared Padalecki
“When you think about it, we actors are kind of prostitutes. We get paid to feign attraction and love. Other people are paying to watch us kissing someone, touching someone, doing things people in a normal monogamous relationship would never do with anyone who's not their partner. It's really kind of gross.” PeopleThinkingKindActorsWatchesKissingNormalAnd LovePaidAttractionPartnersTouchingGrossAttraction And LoveKissing SomeoneMonogamous Relationship Author:Megan Fox
“I find I like to work with a lot of the same actors, because I find that there's sort of shorthand there, and there is this unspoken trust, both ways. They trust me and I trust them. And I know what I'm going to get from them, to an extent. It's just fun, kind of creating this little family.” KnowsWayKindLittlesActorsFunCreatingTrust MeUnspokenShorthand Author:Todd Phillips
“I mean, I enjoy my work as an actor. But to make a difference in people's lives through advocacy and through supporting research - that's the kind of privilege that few people will get, and it's certainly bigger than being on TV every Thursday for half an hour.” PeopleKindMeanActorsEnjoyHoursDifferencesHalfTvsResearchBiggerPrivilegeMaking A DifferenceAdvocacyThursday Author:Michael J. Fox
“I'm kind of private and I keep things inside a lot, but it's been so wonderful to realize that people care about you in a very deep way and that there is some bond between an actor and his audience. I don't even know how to describe that feeling.” PeopleKnowsWayKindFeelingsCareActorsRealizingAudienceKnow HowWonderfulVery Deep Author:Michael J. Fox
“As an ambiguously non-white actor, I've been able to play light-skinned African American guys, Latinos, and I don't think that I've ever had to play some kind of ethnic stereotype or something that was typed specifically for a person of color.” ThinkingKindPersonsPlayLightAbleGuyActorsWhiteColorAfrican AmericanStereotypeLatinoAmerican GuysEthnic Stereotypes Author:Daniel Sunjata
“I spent so many years of my life as a stage actor and when you do all these plays, a lot of really great plays are very politically driven. They deal with deep social issues, and that's the kind of stuff that I love, as an audience member.” YearsKindPlayActorsSocialStuffDealsAudienceIssuesStageMembersDrivenReally GreatSocial IssuesStage Actors Author:Danny Strong
“But really, for the most part - doing a prequel is great because you do have room to kind of free this character and how they got to where they are instead of being a slave to exactly what the previous actor did.” KindCharacterActorsRoomsSlave Author:Jennifer Lawrence
“Human nature is not amenable to prediction based on the trends or tendencies prevailing at the time. It is amenable to startling creativity of the kind practiced by great artists, directors, writers, musicians, actors, who know how to touch a chord in humans everywhere.” KnowsHumansKindArtistActorsCreativityKnow HowHuman NatureDirectorsMusicianTendenciesTrendsPredictionsGreat ArtChordsGreat ArtistPrevailingAmenable Author:Maurice Saatchi
“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
“Living in somebody else's pain for an actor man, it's actually nice when you get to feel that kind of emotion. That's what I like.” MenFeelsKindPainActorsEmotionNice Author:Miles Teller
“'Transformers' was important and defining for me because it taught me about what kinds of movies I want to make and the kind of actor I want to be, and I have a long way to go before I become that actor.” WayWantKindLongImportantActorsTaughtLong WayDefiningLong Way To Go Author:Rachael Taylor
“If you say, 'You've made it,' then you kind of come to a standstill, and I don't think any actor wants to do that.” IfsThinkingWantKindMadeActorsMade ItStandstill Author:Jenna Ushkowitz
“As a movie-goer, I really like to watch all different kinds of movies and, as an actor, I always feel like I could do pretty much anything but a musical.” FeelsKindDifferentActorsWatchesMusicalDifferent Kinds Author:Luke Wilson
“I love working with male actors, and I think there's a tendency to write really interesting characters that would work solely alongside men where they would be in a man's world and have to deal with that, and it creates a lot of interesting storylines. For me, it's kind of circumstantial, but I definitely enjoy it.” ThinkingMenWorldWritingKindCharacterWould BeActorsEnjoyInterestingDealsMalesTendenciesReally InterestingInteresting CharactersStoryline Author:Elisabeth Moss
“I know there are different kinds of actors, but I tend to have less effective relationships with actors who have a very private process - who really need to do lots of internal work, so that I become merely a witness until they're ready to share.” KnowsNeedsKindDifferentActorsProcessShareReadyWitnessInternalsDifferent Kinds Author:Joe Mantello
“I'm one of relatively few stage-trained actors who doesn't much like acting on stage. It feels kind of like riding the Cyclone at Coney Island, which I did when I was eight. When it was all over, I was glad I had done it, but most of the time when it was actually happening, I was just kind of hanging on for dear life.” FeelsKindDoneActorsActingStageHappeningsDearEightGladIslandsRidingHanging OnCyclonesDear LifeConey Island Author:Fred Melamed
“I'm finding a lot of actors my age now who are a bit more like me, and not as posh or brought up in a certain way. There's now people of all sorts of kinds of backgrounds.” PeopleWayKindAgeCertainActorsBitsFindingsBackgroundsLike MePosh Author:Kaya Scodelario
“You know, for an actor to come into the midst of that, it's - It can either be difficult and somewhat unnerving, or it can be very embracing and like, kind of stepping into a nice hot tub.” KnowsKindActorsDifficultNiceHotMidstTubsHot Tub Author:Keith Carradine
“I've never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind. Apart from the beauty of looks and figure, which I cannot claim to have, there's just a particular kind of ordinary-Joe quality that a film star needs to have.” NeedsLooksKindFilmCertainActorsStarsQualityFiguresParticularOrdinaryIllusionClaimsFilm Stars Author:Stephen Fry
“I love Jon Hamm. I'm so lucky to get to work with him and work so closely with him. We have a lot of these scenes that are very intimate, and very tender. Those are the kind of things that an actor lives for. Real moments of connection with other actors.” KindRealMomentsActorsSceneLuckyConnectionsIntimateSo Lucky Author:Jessica Pare
“The human condition is all about us pretending to be something sometimes that we're not. When you get into the core of people kind of stripping all of that away, that's for me, as an actor, always the most fun stuff to do.” PeopleHumansKindSometimesActorsFunStuffConditionsCorePretendingHuman ConditionStrippingFun Stuff Author:Charlize Theron
“Actors need a kind of aggression, a kind of inner force. Don't be only one-sided, sweet, nice, good. Get rid of being average. Find the killer in you.” NeedsKindActorsForceNiceSweetAverageKillersAggressionOne Sided Book:Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel Source: Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel
“I want to bring something different to every film. I get a bit tired of actors who kind of are the same character in every film that they do.” WantKindDifferentCharacterFilmActorsBitsTired Author:Guy Pearce
“People always feel like there's a big split between TV and films: I'm a television actress, I'm a film actress. Maybe that's how it was but I feel like there's not that separation anymore. And actors are able to kind of flow between both worlds - and connect to both audiences.” PeopleWorldFeelsKindBigsAbleFilmActorsAudienceTelevisionTvsFlowActressesSeparationSplits Author:Cobie Smulders
“Being an actor, when you sign onto a project - whether it's good, bad, or indifferent - you kind of fall in love with it. You fall in love with the experience, you fall in love with the memories.” KindFallActorsMemoriesProjectsFalling In LoveIndifferent Author:Matthew Lillard
“You become funny for a reason. I became an actor because that's who I was, nothing else - it was the only thing I was good at. You become a clown and you make people laugh because a) it protects you from everything, and b) it's this validating force in your life. And when you're 12 and 13 years old, you need validation and you're lost and you're kind of floating and you suffer from a severe learning disability and you're overweight and you have glasses... you become funny for a reason.” PeopleNeedsYearsKindReasonSufferingActorsLostForceLaughingProtectGlassesDisabilitySevereFloatingClownMaking People LaughValidationOverweightProtect YouOld YouLearning Disability Author:Matthew Lillard
“I fired a bunch of people and kind of went back to my roots. I fired my agent - I had this big, fancy agent and a big fancy manager and a big fancy lawyer - and I went back to my first agent and said, "I want to go back to just being an actor."” PeopleWantFirstsKindSaidBigsActorsRootsLawyerBunchAgentsManagersFancyJust Being Author:Matthew Lillard
“The idea is to keep reinventing yourself. Once you attain a certain status as an actor, your fans start expecting from you and you should be able to fulfill them. That's why I try to choose as many different kind of roles as I can so that my fans are not disappointed with me. It would also get boring for me as an actor to keep repeating myself.” ShouldTryingKindI CanIdeasDifferentAbleCertainActorsRolesFansBoringDisappointedDifferent KindsExpectingReinventingReinventing Yourself Author:Arjun Rampal
“I have a final word of advice to our students. If you work very, very hard, this is the kind of actor, writer and director you may turn out to be, and if you work extra hard, this is the kind of person you may turn out to be.” IfsKindMayPersonsHardTurnsActorsAdviceStudentsDirectorsFinalsExtrasFinal WordsWords Of Advice Author:Alan Alda
“When you're young, you kind of take yourself seriously, and you think, like, "People need to see what I can do." And it's so laughable, especially with actors.” PeopleThinkingNeedsKindI CanYoungActorsCan DoLaughable Author:Will Arnett
“I love any kind of acting, so if I could focus on becoming the best actor I can strictly on my voice, I would love that.” IfsKindI CanActorsVoiceActingFocusBecomingIf I CouldBecoming The Best Author:Jennifer Stone
“I'm not actually a psychopath. I don't look evil. People don't normally want to put me in the same kind of things afterward, so I'm looking forward to people taking a few risks and hopefully seeing me as the character actor that I think I am.” PeopleThinkingWantLooksKindCharacterEvilActorsSeeingRiskHopefullyLooking ForwardPsychopathEvil PeopleCharacter Actors Author:David Oakes
“I think my interest in risk is pretty high, a lot higher than I think a lot of other people who are just looking for something to kind of define themselves, give them a set of fingerprints, and certainly is better for the pocketbook. For me it's always about trying new things and wanting to explore something else and something new of myself and of actors I really like.” PeopleThinkingGivingTryingKindActorsInterestRiskHigherSomething NewNew ThingsFingerprintsTrying New ThingsPocketbooks Author:David Gordon Green
“The director is the most important because, ultimately, as an actor, when you watch a movie, it looks like an actor is giving a performance, and they kind of are. But, what's actually happening is that an actor has given a bunch of ingredients over to a director, who then constructs a performance. That's movie-making.” GivingLooksKindImportantActorsGivenWatchesDirectorsHappeningsPerformancesBunchIngredientsConstructsMovie Making Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt
“I did a lot of theater in school. I thought maybe I wanted to go to law school or be a judge or a politician. And then I just kind of got smitten by the process of rehearsal and working with other actors and those kinds of challenges. And then comedy.” KindWantedSchoolLawActorsProcessChallengesComedyJudgingPoliticianTheaterRehearsalLaw SchoolSmittenWorking With Others Author:Rashida Jones
“I'll just be the first to say that Ken [Watanabe] should be a national treasure in Japan, because he is an unbelievably talented actor. You couldn't find more of a gentleman. He's sweet, he's kind and he's extremely thoughtful in the work that he does.” ShouldFirstsKindDoeActorsSweetTreasureGentlemanThoughtfulJapanNational Treasure Author:Leonardo DiCaprio
“I've just never been the kind of actor that things have stayed with. I've never needed to carry a character off stage.” KindCharacterActorsStageNeeded Author:Morgan Freeman
“I think that having the years in college to really focus on your training is incredibly valuable. College shapes the kind of person/actor that one becomes.” ThinkingYearsKindPersonsActorsFocusCollegeShapesTrainingValuable Author:Rachel Hoffman