“I'm not a movie star like other actors in the way that I need to walk with a bodyguard.” WayNeedsActorsStarsWalksMovie StarBodyguard Author:Olivier Martinez
“Nothing can teach you what it's like to work on a film set, and the best education there can be for an actor is to walk up the street and observe human nature.” HumansFilmActorsWalksTeachStreetsHuman NatureFilm SetBest Education Author:Rosamund Pike
“When you're a short actor you stand on apple boxes, you walk on a ramp. When you're a short star everybody else walks in a ditch.” ActorsStarsWalksBoxesApplesRamp Author:Michael J. Fox
“Playing a robot is possibly the most difficult role you can have as an actor, because you have to take all your innate emotional responses and completely suppress them. Even the way you walk is affected.” WayActorsDifficultWalksRolesEmotionalResponseAffectedRobotsInnateEmotional Response Author:Kristanna Loken
“Usually I design the lighting and when I have the physical set there, I'm not good at going out loosely and saying, 'Do you what you want, give it to the editor, and he'll figure it out.' I physically then walk on with the actors and I say, 'Let's walk until you guys feel the space works for you, and tell me when all that happens.” WantGivingFeelsHappensGuyActorsSpaceWalksFiguresDesignWhat You WantEditorsGoing OutLighting Author:Tarsem Singh
“People say that one of the most important things about being an actor is to have thick skin, but I don't think that's it. Because you can't just walk around being tough, you have to be able to be vulnerable to do this. So really, it's about not being defensive.” PeopleThinkingImportantAbleActorsWalksToughSkinsImportant ThingsVulnerableThickThick Skin Author:Jess Weixler
“In movies, you get to explore parts of yourself that in real life, people shy away from, like looking stupid or embarrassing yourself or getting too angry, anything inappropriate. As an actor, you walk into those moments.” PeopleRealMomentsActorsWalksStupidAngryReal LifeShyEmbarrassingInappropriate Author:Jess Weixler
“I'm an infant with Shakespeare; I'm kind of learning how to walk. I am trying to decipher the code, you know? I do my research. And I get a clear understanding of what the language is. It is a tremendous process I have to go through as I am sure all actors do, finding the gems hidden in his language.” KnowsTryingKindActorsLanguageProcessUnderstandingWalksClearFindingsResearchCodeInfantGemsDecipher Author:Ruben Santiago-Hudson
“I think you choose how you walk through this life. I think if you choose to participate in a paradigm that is looks-based, if you're an actor, then it can be empowering in some ways, and it can be really limiting in some ways in terms of time and longevity.” IfsThinkingWayLooksActorsTermWalksThis LifeEmpoweringYou ChooseLongevityParadigm Author:Bellamy Young
“I suppose it's whether you want to be a famous person, or whether you want to be an actor. You have to decide what your priorities are. Great actor, huge star. Sometimes, the two walk hand in hand. Most of the time, they don't.” WantPersonsTwoSometimesHandsActorsStarsWalksHugePrioritiesHand In HandGreat Actors Author:Anne-Marie Duff
“There are people out there with three jobs and small children. Being an actor is a walk in the park compared to working as a cleaner overnight. I'm lucky I'm not plucking chickens.” PeopleChildrenJobsThreeActorsWalksLuckyParksChickensCleanersSmall ChildWalks In The Park Author:Anne-Marie Duff
“When you're an actor and you walk into a theatre where your movie is playing, you're kinda proud. "Look at my skill!"” LooksActorsWalksProudSkillsTheatre Author:James Hetfield
“As an actor you want people to know you and there are times you want your pictures taken, but it's unnerving to walk out of a venue with friends and there are 20 people flashing lights in your face. Do you know how bright those lights are?” PeopleKnowsWantLightFacesActorsWalksKnow HowTakenDo You KnowYour FaceVenuesPicture TakenFlashing Lights Author:Ashley Greene
“I don't think RADA wanted me, actually. When I was at Oxford I had a boyfriend at Central [School of Speech and Drama] and it looked like the most fantastic life, but I think not going makes you more free. Nothing can teach you what it's like to work on a film set, and the best education there can be for an actor is to walk up the street and observe human nature.” ThinkingHumansWantedSchoolFilmActorsWalksTeachStreetsHuman NatureDramaSpeechFantasticOxfordFilm SetBest EducationFantastic Life Author:Rosamund Pike
“If you're playing a cop in a modern film, you don't have to walk with your spine straight up and bow before a fight. There's a lot of free form of expressing yourself as an actor.” IfsFilmFormFightingActorsWalksModernBowsCopExpress YourselfSpineStraight Up Author:Donnie Yen
“When you audition for shows in Hollywood, you go in, you do your scene, maybe you get an adjustment. It's sort of easy, and a lot of times it just feels sort of rote and simple. Whereas when you go to New York and you audition for plays, you walk out sweaty and intimidated and nervous and doubting yourself as an actor.” FeelsPlayShowsActorsEasySimpleWalksDoubtNew YorkSceneHollywoodNervousAuditionsAdjustmentIntimidatedDoubting Yourself Author:Ben Feldman
“Once you walk off the set, if you're an actor, the rest isn't your responsibility, which I like a lot. I'm not responsible for the final product, which is why it's always a pleasure when you see it's in the hands of the people afterwards putting it together.” PeopleIfsHandsTogetherActorsWalksPleasureResponsibilityProductsResponsibleFinals Author:Justin Kirk
“I had no idea that, when you audition for television or movies, you go to a big building - like, an office building - and you walk in the room, and everybody, I assumed, was smarter than me and better than me, and there's actors you recognize. I once fainted at an audition.” IdeasBigsActorsWalksRoomsTelevisionBuildingOfficeNo IdeaSmarterAuditionsOffice Buildings Author:Kurt Fuller
“I think part of what makes someone a great actor is being able to walk into a situation emotionally available and open, and have all your guards down, and just have that level of trust and security in yourself to know that you could walk out on that limb with someone else and be safe.” ThinkingKnowsAbleActorsWalksLevelsSituationSecuritySafeDown AndAvailableLimbsGreat Actors Author:Katie Aselton
“The greatest thing an actor can experience is discovery. The greatest thing an artist can walk away with is to learn something about themselves and the world and this was one of those.” WorldArtistActorsWalksDiscovery Author:Brad Pitt
“Many a play is like a painted backdrop, something to be looked at from the front. An Ibsen play is like a black forest, somethingyou can enter, something you can walk about in. There you can lose yourself: you can lose yourself. And once inside, you find such wonderful glades, such beautiful, sunlit places.” PlayBeautifulActorsBlackLosesWalksActingWonderfulFrontsForestsLosing YourselfBackdropIbsen Author:Minnie Maddern Fiske
“The hardest thing to walk away from, over a long-form TV show, is the comradery of the company, both with the crew and the group of actors.” LongShowsFormActorsWalksCompanyGroupsTvsHardestTv ShowsCrewHardest ThingComradery Author:Joshua Jackson
“People don't walk around thinking of themselves as bad people. You're part of the environment that you grow up in, and there can be decency in that. I always try to find a little glimmer of that, in anything that I do, because you can find places where there's humor or lightness in something that's deep and profound, and that tends to resonate more and make people more human. As an actor and performer, I think it resonates more with the audience when you do have the payoff.” PeopleThinkingTryingHumansLittlesActorsGrowsWalksAudienceGrowing UpEnvironmentProfoundPerformersDecencyBad PeopleLightnessPayoff Author:Jimmy Smits
“You can always pick out stage actors at the Oscars: they know how to walk.” KnowsActorsWalksKnow HowStagePicksOscarsStage Actors Author:Ian Mckellen
“I did not think I had what it took to be an actor, because most of the actors that I encountered were people who were very narcissistic and I thought since I lacked narcissism to become an actor because that's what it took. It was more of a social experiment for me to walk in the shoes of other people that I found interesting.” PeopleThinkingActorsFoundSocialWalksInterestingShoesExperimentsNarcissismNarcissistic Author:Michael Jai White
“I enjoy being an actor largely; in part at least, because you get to walk a mile in another person's shoes, you get to see what their skin is like. The other good thing is you get to leave it.” PersonsActorsEnjoyWalksSkinsGood ThingsShoesMiles Author:Michael Chiklis
“When I walk into a screening, I'm nervous in a different way than I am as an actor. But the response is ultimately I know how I feel about it and that's what matters to me the most.” KnowsWayFeelsDifferentMatterActorsWalksKnow HowResponseNervousDifferent WaysWhat MattersScreening Author:Jake Gyllenhaal
“As soon as the actor steps into the role, you probably can cut 50% of the lines because there's a person there now. And what a person does with their eyes, with their mouth, with their hands, the way they walk into a room, you can probably cut half the scene.” WayPersonsDoeHandsEyeActorsLinesWalksRoomsHalfStepsRolesCuttingSceneMouths Author:Stanley Tucci
“One of the many things I love about working with Ryan Murphy is that you're always thin-sliced in this business. You walk into a room and people want you to be how you look or how you're perceived or whatever it is in that 10 minutes that hey meet you. I think Ryan [Murphy] has an intuition that looks a little bit deeper and sees things that other people might not see in you - sometimes you might not even see in yourself - but that he knows are there and that he might want to get to grow and stretch with as an actor.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantLooksLittlesSometimesMightActorsGrowsBitsWalksRoomsMinutesLittle BitDeeperIntuitionHeyThings I LoveMurphy Author:Matt Bomer
“You don't need great actors to do a 3D picture. All of this condescending stuff that they put out? "Oh, we will always need actors." Bullshit! They are able to take anybody and put some markers on them, and have them walk through an empty room. Then they paint in the background.” NeedsAbleActorsStuffWalksRoomsEmptyPaintBackgroundsBullshitGreat ActorsMarkersCondescendingEmpty Rooms Author:William Friedkin
“I'll walk through fire to do what I do because the movie business, when it's right, is the coolest art form ever invented.” ArtFormActorsWalksFireMovieMovie Business Author:Ron Perlman
“I always try to be careful when an actor who is like 70 walks onto my set at work, I don't want them to get called in five hours early or block shoot something. I think you need to treat them with respect and dignity.” ThinkingWantNeedsTryingActorsHoursWalksFiveDignityTreatsCarefulBlockBe CarefulDignity And Respect Author:Robin Tunney
“I think the success of every novel - if it's a novel of action - depends on the high spots. The thing to do is to say to yourself, 'Which are my big scenes?' and then get every drop of juice out of them. The principle I always go on in writing a novel is to think of the characters in terms of actors in a play. I say to myself, if a big name were playing this part, and if he found that after a strong first act he had practically nothing to do in the second act, he would walk out. Now, then, can I twist the story so as to give him plenty to do all the way through?” IfsThinkingWayGivingWritingFirstsPlayCharacterStoriesBigsActionActorsFoundNamesStrongTermWalksPrinciplesNovelGoes OnDependsSceneSpotsPlentyThings To DoTwistsJuice Author:P. G. Wodehouse
“That's the best thing about being an actor. If you're in a baseball movie, you walk away knowing way more about baseball, or if you're in a sci-fi film, you learn way more about Comic-Con, and so I loved all that.” IfsWayFilmActorsWalksKnowingBaseballComicBest ThingsSci FiComic ConSci Fi Film Author:Topher Grace
“Only black people in the whole neighborhood, so let's break it down: Me, I'm a decent comedian, I'm a'ight. Mary J. Blige, one of the greatest R&B singers to ever walk the Earth. Jay-Z, one of the greatest rappers to ever live. Eddie Murphy, one of the funniest actors to ever, ever do it. Do you know what the white man that lives next door to me does for a living? He's a f*****g dentist.” PeopleKnowsMenDoeWholeEarthNextActorsBlackWhiteWalksBreakDoorsSingersComedianDecentNeighborhoodDo You KnowBlack PeopleRapperMaryWhite ManDentistMurphyNext Door NeighborsMary J Blige Author:Chris Rock
“I understand the opposite side of the camera. I have a profound respect for that. I have worked with people who, when you hit that mark, are doing 50 percent of your work for you. So, you know, it's a balance. When you walk into a mark and you're lit a certain way or something's happening so often you don't know what's behind you... And that's what's so strange about being a movie actor.” PeopleKnowsWayCertainActorsSidesWalksBehindsStrangeBalanceHappeningsPercentOppositesMarkCamerasProfoundLitBehind YouMovie Actors Author:Jake Gyllenhaal