“When I made a breakthrough as an actor, people started to say, 'Who's that bloke with the funny name?' They advised me to change it, saying it would never be put up in lights outside theaters because they couldn't afford the electricity. But I would never contemplate changing it. It's who I am.” PeopleMadeLightActorsNamesTheaterWho I AmContemplatingElectricityBreakthroughBlokesFunny Name Author:Pete Postlethwaite
“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
“I watched so many comic book movies where the actors weren't as built as the characters in the book. It made me mad because they didn't look right.” LooksMadeBookCharacterActorsBuiltMadComicComic Book Author:Joe Manganiello
“Do you want to be an actor, or do you want to be a celebrity? I made that decision when I went to Juilliard. I wanted to be an actor. So, if I get the opportunity to be an actor and do some cool, fun and interesting projects, I’m going to do that.” IfsWantMadeWantedActorsOpportunityFunDecisionInterestingProjectsJuilliard Author:Anthony Mackie
“It's amazing that for actors mostly, it's a risk to attach yourself to a film that you don't know whether or not it's going to even be made and if you sign on, in doing so, who else is going to be in the movie with you.” IfsKnowsMadeFilmActorsRisk Author:Elisha
“An actor rides in a bus or railroad train; he sees a movement and applies it to a new role. The whole garment in which the actor hides himself is made of small externals of observation fitted to his conception of a role.” MadeWholeActorsRolesMovementTrainObservationConceptionBusGarmentsRailroads Book:The Fabric of Memory Source: The Fabric of Memory
“I'd made these experimental films but I thought the major chore of a filmmaker was to relate to actors.” MadeFilmActorsMajorsRelateFilmmakerChores Author:Bill Forsyth
“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
“For better or worse, I take my acting seriously. I may not have been in the best movies ever made, but I take it deathly serious, and I love being an actor.” MayHas BeensMadeActorsLove IsActingSerious Author:Matthew Lillard
“With kids you can take a chance but casting a guy at 45 is different. You don't discover somebody that age. If an actor hasn't made it by that time he probably has no talent.” IfsMadeDifferentKidsAgeGuyActorsChanceTalentMade ItCastingTake A Chance Author:Elia Kazan
“So we are headed for a time when there won't be anything but movies that are essentially made like video games, and actors will become obsolete, and then the big stars will be people who live in Brentwood or wherever it is, and they have a show called, I don't know, "Pool Parties of Brentwood" or something like that.” PeopleKnowsMadeShowsBigsActorsGamesStarsPartyVideoPoolObsoletePool Party Author:Billy Bob Thornton
“Writing has made me a better actor. Acting has made me a better writer. So why wouldn't directing make me a better actor and writer?” WritingMadeActorsActing Author:Jonah Hill
“Moviegoers like to believe that those they have made stars are great actors. People used to say that Gary Cooper was a fine actor probably because when they looked in his face they were ready to give him their power of attorney.” PeopleGivingBelieveMadeFacesUsedActorsStarsReadyFineAttorneyGreat ActorsGary Book:Movie love: complete reviews 1988-1991 Source: Movie love: complete reviews 1988-1991
“I didn't even know my bra size until I made a movie.” KnowsMadeActorsSizeMovieUnderwearBras Author:Angelina Jolie