Top 1200 Character Actor Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

I've always considered myself an actor, but I wasn't making a living as an actor.

When I got to the reading all the work, I was reduced to being an actor in an experimental play that I'd already written. And I didn't want to be an actor.

I recognize how lucky I am as an actor. I've been working as an actor since I was 9 years old.

I never saw myself as an actor. I neither had the looks nor the backing required to be an actor.

I think I'm a better filmmaker than actor, so I already know that. That's OK. I can handle not being a famous actor.

When I did my first film, I had a fair idea of what I liked and what I didn't while watching an actor in front of the camera. After I finished the film, I thought I had exhausted everything I knew. As I moved from one story, setting and character to another, I discovered something new.

In motion pictures, the actor rules. The camera served the actor.

Why is it when a white actor or even a black actor does a British accent, it's considered art?

And as a director, you constantly try to solve problems, so you have to focus on that. You take away all the other parts. Of course, when the shot finishes, you remember that you have Robert De Niro in front of you. But when you're shooting, you just see a character in front of you, and an actor, and you try to search for very truthful moments. That's what obsesses you.

Acting is about giving yourself away, like the U2 song 'With or Without You.' You just don't stay behind a character and make people laugh or cry. At some point you have to take off that mask, and when you do, you're a human being, not just an actor. After all, I'm Catherine the person first. You share that.

I was going to school with a girl who was an actor. And I was, like, 'No, I want to be an actor.'

Perhaps because my background is theatrical, I have a great affinity with the classics. Hamlet has always been a character of great interest to me and a character I would really love to play. Or a character in a Tennessee Williams play, maybe Tom in 'The Glass Menagerie.'

I never started out to be an action actor. I was an ensemble actor.

I wanted to be an actor to act, and now, being an actor, you have to dress up, you have to be nice, you have to be smart, you have to be sexy, you have to be ready.

The hardest thing in acting is going from child actor to adult actor. It's taken me a long time.

To be a working actor in England is a life. I think it's harder in this country. Either you are a superstar or a starving actor.

I've always freelanced as an actor, and you always have to worry about the next paycheck. When I booked 'True Blood,' I promised myself I would take advantage of the fact that for the first time in my career, I could afford to turn down big money to go and do small, character-driven indies.

It takes a while for audiences on film to see you as something different if they've seen you for so long as a specific character. It's up to the actor to be like, 'Look man, let's try something else,' even if it's an ultra-low-budget independent. People who rep you will keep going with whatever they can send you on.

I'd never ask an actor to do something I couldn't do - not that I'm the best actor in the world - but if I can do it, then I know that anyone I hire can do these things.

My favourite actor is Daniel Day Lewis. He's the finest actor in Hollywood. I've studied his performances.

I thought, if I was going to date an actor, I wanted a real actor.

Every character lives in ever actor and if you're doing your job right, you're just accessing that part of your fantasy life. I can kill someone just as quickly as I can have sex with someone. You can switch that instinct, no matter what - you can pretend anything.

The script that I fell in love with and adored was 'Jane the Virgin'... but every line in the pilot was essentially, 'Why did you keep my daughter a secret all of these years?' I didn't know any direction my character was going - was it going to be a dramatic character, a comedic character? - I didn't know.

If you understand your character and feel like it's a collaborative process, you're more inclined to dive into the deep end and fight for your character and feel passionate about your character, and that passion comes across on screen.

Never say any man is hopeless, because he only represents a character, a bundle of habits, which can be checked by new and better ones. Character is repeated habits, and repeated habits alone can reform character.

I've had experiences where I wasn't allowed to change words around at all because you have to say everything, exactly as written on the page. That's not fun for me. For me, part of being an actor is being able to contribute to a character's rhythms. If there's room to explore, you find a happy medium.

The audience perceives only what the actor wants to do to the other actor.

To be a good actor, you have to be very smart. But to be a great actor, you also have to have a streak of, 'I'm an idiot, a complete lunatic.'

It is a blessing for any actor to be in a Nitesh Tiwari film. It is every actor's dream to work with him.

You have more creative freedom with writing, in certain ways, because you can create everything that happens. But, as an actor you also have creative freedom because you don't so much focus on what has to move the story along, and only on how your character is reacting to situations.

For me, an actor is really, first and foremost, a person and an individual, more than they are an actor or a professional.

It is always a pleasure to be directed by an actor because they know the scene from the actor's perspective, too. That's an advantage.

I think you have to be schizoid three different ways to be an actor ... You have to be a human being. Then you have to be the character you're playing. And on top of that you've got to be the guy sitting out there in Row 10, watching yourself and judging yourself. That's why most of us are crazy to start with, or go nuts once we get into it.

I've never really felt like I was a child actor. Just an actor who happened to be quite young.

My hunger and desperation, being an actor, an out of work actor - my memory of that is as fresh as an open wound.

It took a long time for me to accept I was an actor, a professional actor, and that, actually, I make a living out of this.

Being a film actor is very different from a theatre actor.

As an actor, you generally want to see the other actor's face.

I think when you're a mom and an actor, it forces you to leave any actor neuroses behind and just concentrate on the work.

I don't enjoy being told what to do, I'm not that kind of actor, I'm a thinking actor.

Almost everything I learned about being an actor came from those early years at the Actor's Studio.

I like the character roles. Somewhere back there I really came to the conclusion in my mind that the difference between acting and stardom was major. And that if you become a star, people are going to go to see you. If you remain an actor, they're going to go and see the story you're in.

I was fortunate as a young actor, to go straight to the RSC, where I learned that being an actor can bring with it wonderful responsibilities.

I love Archie. I love Jughead. I like Reggie. I think my favorite character in the show is Betty. Obviously, I can't imagine myself playing that character, but if I had to choose a character, I really love Betty.

For me as an actor, you always sort of want to bring yourself to a character in some way. You want to find a way to approach something in a way that's real and interesting, and also so there's some empathy there.

I've always been very strong minded on character-based fights and character-based action. If you take the character out of the action and you just shoot it as an action sequence, the audience starts to lose connection.

I know that I am one and I've made a living as an actor and I enjoy being an actor, but when I'm not actually doing it, I forget that I do it.

My central strength as an actor is the fact that I'm 6 foot 3. A certain power emanates from my size, juxtaposed with the fact that I try to find an element of sensitivity in every character I play. People enjoy seeing that because it goes against what we're led to expect as far as the way men are supposed to be - macho and all that.

As an actor just learning the craft, you literally do a scene with Jimmy Gandolfini, and you walk away a better actor.

I made my living as an actor, and I love acting, so I'm an actor. But that gets you in a lot of trouble in the art world.

As an actor I can bring the story, the narrative in each performance. If I can't do that, then... might as well give up as an actor, hadn't I?

There's a fine line between lead actor and supporting actor.

Navigating the transition from child actor to an adult actor isn't easy.

I refer to myself as an actor. I mean, why is there an 'actor' and an 'actress' when there is no 'doctor' and 'doctoress' or 'lawyer' and 'lawyeress?'

We want the best actor, and that's why Matt Damon worked so well in this role, because he's a great actor.

I grew up watching 'Rambo' and 'Rocky' and all of those movies, so you have a surreal moment, even as an actor, when you're in front of these guys, whether it's DeNiro or Stallone. You have a moment like, 'Geez, that's Sylvester Stallone,' and then you have to snap out of it and get back in the pocket of the character.

As an actor you should be able to store and recollect your experiences and work on them as an actor as and when required.

As an actor, I'm always just so pumped when I get any job. To be a working actor takes a lot of luck.

It's natural for any actor that segues into directing to be an actor's director. You know how to relate to the actors.

The thing is, I love a great death scene - no good actor doesn't. Sorry, any actor, I should say.