“When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the great relief of my father whose greatest waking fear was that I would become an actor.” YearsFilmActorsFatherLeftCompanySixSevenUniversityReliefWakingDocumentariesSeven YearsDocumentary Films Author:Sam Neill
“I left L.A. and moved to Cleveland for four years in the early 2000s or whatever. I came back and thought that everything had changed. I was like, 'Oh my God, I don't think I ever fit in here. And wait, who are all of these celebrities that are not actors? Where did all of the actors go?” ThinkingYearsActorsLeftWaitingFourChangedFitMovedFour YearsCleveland Author:Monica Potter
“I'm probably an actor that tends to, instead of putting things on, think about it more in terms of taking away what's not in the character, until I'm left with what is. If that makes sense. That's probably a particularly American way of working, but maybe not. The end of any movie is a readjustment.” IfsThinkingWayEndsCharacterActorsLeftTermMake Sense Author:Molly Parker
“Before I start directing a show, I try to spend a few weeks hanging around the set, getting to know the crew and talking to the actors about how they like to work. Who is fussy? Who is left-handed? Who wants to go home early, and who is the perfectionist?” KnowsWantTryingShowsHomeActorsLeftTalkingWeekCrewPerfectionistHanging AroundLeft HandedFussy Author:Eric Stoltz
“My father was a waiter basically, and when I got my first professional job as an actor, I left a job that he found me for half the amount of money. So anyone would think that they're stupid, that that would be a stupid move.” ThinkingFirstsWould BeJobsMovingActorsFoundFatherLeftHalfStupidAmountWaiter Author:Alfred Molina
“If painters left nothing of themselves after their deaths, so that we were obliged to rank them as we do actors according to the judgment of their contemporaries, how different their reputations would be from what posterity has made them!” IfsMadeDifferentWould BeActorsLeftJudgmentReputationPainterImmortalityObligedPosterity Author:Eugene Delacroix
“Being a movie star, and this applies to all of them, means being looked at from every possible direction. You are never left at peace, you're just fair game.” MeanActorsGamesLeftStarsFairsMovieMovie StarGamerFair Game Book:Conversations with Greta Garbo Source: Conversations with Greta Garbo
“In Hollywood the man who cleans your pool is an actor. The man who sells you your copy of Variety is an actor. I don't think there's a real person left in the place.” ThinkingMenPersonsRealActorsLeftHe ManHollywoodSellsVarietyCopiesPoolReal Person Author:Neil Gaiman
“I distinctly remember watching Daniel Day Lewis in My Left Foot, and my parents were discussing the fact that hes an actor. To me, it was a foreign concept. I was like, Someone is pretending to do that? Thats so awesome! After that, it just stayed in the back of my mind.” MindFactsRememberActorsLeftParentFeetConceptsPretendingDiscussingOf My MindDaniel Day Lewis Author:Dominique McElligott
“Perhaps society should give actors the same sort of protection it gives to those who follow a religious life. Actor/priest was originally the same job. The theater is left wing magic and theology is right wing magic.” GivingShouldJobsActorsLeftReligiousMagicTheaterWingsProtectionTheologyPriestsRight WingLeft WingReligious Life Author:Jennifer Stone
“At school, I was the classroom clown - I was always being thrown out for being naughty. Before I left, a teacher called me in and suggested I became an actor.” SchoolActorsLeftTeacherThrownClassroomClownNaughty Author:David Harewood
“I went to school to be an actor in Canada and realized I hated auditions once I left, which is a huge problem if you want to get a part.” IfsWantProblemSchoolActorsLeftHugeHatedCanadaAuditions Author:Brad Goreski
“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
“In voicing so much is left to your imagination to create the world around you like that. It's really the essence of what's so fun for, I think, many people when they first start to want to be an actor, is that they realise they enjoy making up a world around them to exist in, a whole situation and a whole way of being. And even more so than theatre, animation requires that because there's just nothing to go on. It's in your head and your heart or it's not there at all.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayWantFirstsHeartWholeActorsLeftFunEnjoyImaginationSituationGoes OnEssenceTheatreRealisingAnimationMaking Up Author:Jim Parsons
“It was modesty that invented the word "philosopher" in Greece and left the magnificent overweening presumption in calling oneselfwise to the actors of the spirit--the modesty of such monsters of pride and sovereignty as Pythagoras, as Plato.” WisdomSpiritActorsLeftPrideCallingPhilosophicalPhilosopherMonstersModestyMagnificentPlatoSovereigntyGreecePresumption Book:The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs Source: The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
“The artist's personality must be left in his dressing-room; his soul must be denuded of its own sensations and clothed with the base or noble qualities he is called upon to exhibit.... [he] must leave behind him the cares and vexations of life, throw aside his personality for several hours, and move in the dream of another life, forgetting everything.” SoulDreamCareMovingArtistActorsLeftHoursForgetRoomsActingBehindsQualityPersonalityTheaterIndividualityNobleSensationsDressingsExhibitsAnother LifeDressing RoomsVexation Author:Sarah Bernhardt
“We actually did a lot of takes on this movie [J. Edgar Hoover]. I never left the set wanting more. That's for sure. I don't know. This was a very difficult character for me and a lot of the other actors here, and at times we went and did 8 or 9 or 10 takes on a single day.” KnowsCharacterActorsLeftDifficultHooverWanting MoreJ Edgar Hoover Author:Leonardo DiCaprio
“How you prepare for a role is entirely your business in my point of view. There is little enough mystery anymore left in the world in the part of our profession, which should be clouded in mystery because it isn't in the public. You don't want the magician to show his tricks or how he did them do you? So I do think that is a very private thing that we actors should protect ourselves from.” ThinkingWorldWantShouldLittlesEnoughShowsActorsLeftViewsRolesMysteryProtectPoint Of ViewProfessionTricksMagicianCloudedPrivate Things Author:Christopher Plummer