“I'm not the best actor I can be, so I'm just working on it. I'm not the quickest reader in the world but when I get an acting book I can read it in two days.” WorldI CanTwoBookActorsActingReaderTwo DaysI Can Read Author:Evan Peters
“I think actors are divided into two groups: one that wants to be an actor to become famous and rich, and the other that wants to be an actor because they have to be. I'm more in the second group.” ThinkingWantTwoActorsRichGroupsDivided Author:Franka Potente
“You can take wonderfully talented actors, wonderfully talented writers and producers, and, uh, do a wonderful show!... but if it doesn't hit with the public in two minutes, it's bye-bye.” IfsTwoShowsActorsWonderfulMinutesProducersByeBye Bye Author:Charlotte Rae
“My mother told me I was begging her to be an actor when I was four. My father and my grandfather saw at least one or two movies a week; they were film buffs, so I guess it just rubbed off on me.” TwoFilmMotherActorsFatherSawsFourWeekGrandfatherMy GrandfatherBegging Author:Giovanni Ribisi
“My mom had an audition for a commercial when I was about two and a half, and I ran in crying and interrupted her. They thought I was cute so they offered me a commercial role. My mom was skeptical and a bit nervous about the child actor thing, but I was extremely bossy and convinced them I wanted to try it.” TryingChildrenTwoWantedActorsBitsHalfRolesCryMomMy MomConvincedNervousRanCuteAuditionsSkepticalInterruptedBossyChild Actors Author:Mae Whitman
“I've worked with actors who treat the first two takes like rehearsals. And that's okay. If the camera is on you and we're doing a scene where I'm off camera, I'm treating that as a rehearsal.” IfsFirstsTwoActorsSceneOkayTreatsCamerasRehearsal Author:Alfred Molina
“I wanna do movies that in ten years time people will respect me for, as an actor. So if I do take two years off or three years off, the next movie I have that comes out you want people to go 'ooh, that's Frankie Muniz's new movie, it's gonna be a good movie cause he's in it.” PeopleIfsWantYearsTwoThreeNextActorsCausesTenTwo YearsThree YearsGood MovieRespect Me Author:Frankie Muniz
“When you're starting out as an actor, you keep raising the stakes. First, you just want to be a character who comes on stage and gets a laugh or two and exits. Just five minutes on a stage, not even Broadway. But every time you say your little prayer at night, you place more demands.” WantFirstsLittlesTwoCharacterNightActorsPrayerLaughingFiveMinutesStageDemandStartingStakesBroadwayFive MinutesExitStarting Out Author:Charles Kimbrough
“I knew I wanted to be an actor for a long time, but I was based out of Chicago and then I went to New York and I did 'The Upright Citizens Brigade' out there. I had a two-man show with a guy named Oliver Ralli who's now in the band Pass Kontrol, which is a big band out of New York.” MenLongTwoShowsBigsWantedGuyActorsNew YorkCitizensBandLong TimeChicago Author:Jake M. Johnson
“I have three older brothers, and each one of them has chosen one of my parents' education. Two of them are actors, and the third is a doctor as my mother is.” TwoMotherThreeActorsParentBrotherDoctorsThirdsChosenOlder BrotherChosen One Author:Bill Skarsgard
“Opening a play is just tough. The idea that actors are weirdly protected from it is a myth. If you imagine yourself having to spend two and a bit hours cooking bolognaise, remembering a whole major work by David Hare and speaking it at the correct moment between chopping carrots and stirring the onions in front of an audience - the normal human response is 'Please, can I go to the airport?'” IfsHumansTwoIdeasPlayWholeMomentsRememberActorsBitsHoursAudienceImagineFrontsPleaseNormalMajorsToughCookingResponseMythOpeningProtectedAirportsStirringOnionsCarrotsHaresChopping Author:Bill Nighy
“I feel quite blessed that I can actually balance between the two worlds, because a lot of really talented actors I know end up getting set in a certain category and no one will ever buy that they can exist outside that category, even though you know full well that they can.” KnowsWorldFeelsWellsI CanTwoEndsCertainActorsBalanceBlessedCategoriesTwo Worlds Author:Donal Logue
“It's disheartening that animal people criticize societies that enlist the help of actors or organize creative acts like 'I'd rather go naked than wear fur,' to increase public awareness to our cause. These are great/courageous ideas which time has come! Liberation of animals is REVOLUTION - not elegant performance/ intellectual competition. We should do most anything to advance the animal rights cause. All the bickering may make the one step forward... TWO STEPS BACKWARD???” PeopleShouldMayTwoIdeasHelpingActorsCausesAnimalStepsCreativeRightsAwarenessRevolutionIntellectualPerformancesIncreaseCompetitionNakedLiberationCourageousCriticizeAnimal RightsOrganizeElegantFurSteps ForwardBickeringDisheartening Author:Adela Popescu
“FDR used to say, 'You and I are the two best actors in America'.” TwoAmericaUsedActors Author:Orson Welles
“My dad was also a teacher until he was 34. I think there is a basis in reality. But I'd only done two jobs before I was an actor. I worked in a petrol station and I worked in a supermarket.” ThinkingTwoDoneRealityJobsActorsTeacherDadBasesMy DadStationsSupermarketsTwo JobsPetrol Author:Domhnall Gleeson
“It's tough to be an actor and it's tough to portray a real person, and it's tough to play two people adding up to one person.” PeoplePersonsTwoRealPlayActorsToughReal Person Author:Oren Moverman
“They say God looks after kids and idiots, and I think actors are probably a combination of the two.” ThinkingLooksTwoKidsActorsCombinationIdiot Author:Scott Glenn
“When I analyse myself and my reactions or behaviour, there is the act and the actor. There is a division between the two and that creates conflict between "what is" and "what should be".” ShouldTwoActorsConflictReactionsDivisionBehaviour Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti
“A Murphy [Eddie Murphy] movie is like a Sidney Poitier comedy - he's that intensely good... He revolutionized acting. He's literally black Brando. Before Eddie Murphy, there were two schools of acting for a black actor: Either you played it LIKE THIS or youplayeditlahkdis. He was the first black guy in a movie to talk like I am talking right now. That did not exist for black actors before him.” FirstsTwoSchoolGuyActorsBlackActingTalkingComedyRight NowMurphyBrandoBlack Guys Author:Scott Raab
“There are two thoughts that will ensure success in all you do; (1) Don't tell everything you know, and (2) until Ace Ventura, no actor had considered talking through his ass.” KnowsTwoActorsTalkingAssAces Author:Jim Carrey
“Every actor wants to get their two cents in about a scene at the end of the day.” WantTwoEndsActorsSceneThe End Of The DayCentsTwo Cents Author:Madonna Ciccone
“There are two kinds of actors -- one sits in a dressing room waiting for his call and the other gets out into the business and polishes his craft by absorbing everything. I don't know enough, I'll never learn everything I need to learn. When a guy thinks he's already learned it, he can only go backwards.” ThinkingKnowsNeedsKindTwoEnoughGuyActorsWaitingRoomsCraftsBackwardsDressingsPolishAbsorbingDressing Rooms Book:Clint Eastwood: interviews Source: Clint Eastwood: interviews