Top 1200 Method Actor Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

Uta Hagen would say, there's the representational actor and the presentational actor.

When I'm playing as an actor, I don't want to interfere at all with the director. I'm just an actor. I'm totally respectful.

I didn't grow up really wanting to be an actor. I don't remember ever not being an actor.

Look, I'm not odd. I'm just trying to be an actor; not a movie star, an actor.

My experience as a young actor on network television was that I couldn't make it work. I was drowning as an actor.

I read all the books on Fairfax in the British Library, did a lot of horse riding and studied military tactics of the time, finding out that he actually laid his rose garden out in strategic formations! But Method acting is a label I don't really understand, because there's a method to everybody's acting. In terms of jumping into a character's skin, I try to immerse myself in the role as much as possible to bring me closer to them. All I do is what's required to achieve what I want to achieve.

Very often the Group actor is a critic when he's acting and an actor when he's criticizing.

I think I am a good actor myself. If I wasn't a director, I would have been an actor.

I don't even know if people are familiar with my name as an actor. It's not as if I ever was an über-famous actor.

As an actor, you can't say, "I'm going to try to be cool at all cost when I do this," because that's the opposite of what you need to do as an actor.

I'm not an actor. I can show up for friends and improvise a little bit, but I'm not an actor.

I think if an actor is not able to pronounce their own dialogues, no matter what language, you are not an actor.

I went to a foreign country as a Japanese actor, not a Hollywood actor. This takes courage.

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.

Claude Rains was what we call an actor's actor. He was very involved with himself and his performance.

I'm very grateful that I'm the kind of actor where I'm not some character actor. I can't disappear into a world.

I've wanted to be an actor since I was six, and I'm going to be an actor until I'm 66.

The way an actor is trained doesn't ultimately have much bearing on my work. I'm interested in the actor as artist.

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

Nothing is off the table... never for an actor. An actor is continuously looking for challenges.

I feel like I'm more of a physical actor than a voice actor.

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

The thing is that I'm an actor first, and in 'Once,' I was able to be a musician and a singer as well as an actor.

My dad had been an actor... not only had my dad been an actor, but his dad had been an actor, and my great-grandfather had been an actor. And who knows before then?

I'm Irish and very proud of being Irish, but as an actor, your extraction should be secondary, really. You should be able to embody whatever character it is, wherever the character comes from. That's always been important, for me. I'm an actor who's Irish, not an Irish actor.

The fundamental characteristic of the scientific method is honesty. In dealing with any question, science asks no favors. ... I believe that constant use of the scientific method must in the end leave its impress upon him who uses it. ... A life spent in accordance with scientific teachings would be of a high order. It would practically conform to the teachings of the highest types of religion. The motives would be different, but so far as conduct is concerned the results would be practically identical.

I don't see myself as a 'black actor,' I'm just Shemar Moore the actor.

I'm not a wealthy person because I was never a star. I was a working actor and a supporting actor.

I'm very happy to have the heritage that I do, but I'm not wanting to be 'the Latino actor.' I just want to be '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.

Sometimes, as an actor - and I've witnessed this with other actors that I've worked with - you don't realize that it's not all about the actor.

Let's not forget that I am an actor and I'm a real budding, enthusiastic and ambitious actor.

The muscularly developed actor is not seen as a serious actor although he should be seen as a serious actor because he has been preparing for these muscular roles his entire life. If you can dedicate years of your life to hitting the gym and dieting and eating right you can definitely take a movie role seriously.

Where do I fit in? That's something I think about as an actor, especially as an actor from a minority community.

I'm not an actor. Lord knows, I'd be acting if I were an actor. What you see is what you get.

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

I am not a bad actor but a smart actor and I have exhausted my smartness now.

It is very difficult for an actor to replace another actor who has already created an image.

You adjust what you do depending on the actor. You evolve a vocabulary and a way of language and talking with each actor.

You suffer as an actor. It's difficult to be an actor and live a good life, especially today.

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

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.

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.'

What we really have to do is stop the adjective before the job title — whether it's 'black actor,' a 'gay actor' or 'anything actor,' Everybody thinks that equality comes from identifying people, and that's not where equality comes from. Equality comes from treating everybody the same regardless of who they are. I hope the media and the press catches on to that because it's time to move out of 1992.

To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty; to interpret it his problem; and to express it his dedication. Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have. Being a good actor isn't easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I'm done.

When an actor comes to you and starts working with the script, the image of his character that you had in your mind gets substituted with an image of that particular actor. And this is the right way to go. An actor has to be absolutely truthful - this is the only thing required of him, apart from talent of course. It's very easy to understand: you need to absolutely believe in what you see.

I was always a supporting actor. It is nice to know one has the equipment to be a leading actor.

Well, I knew I wanted to be an actor, and I didn't necessarily need or want to be famous or a celebrity actor.

I'm not an actor. I can show up for friends and improvise a little bit, but I'm not an actor. I can't remember lines.

If I weren't an actor, I would have been a bad actor because this is where I belong. This is my love and my passion.

As an actor, I don't really think you find yourself. I mean, once you find yourself, I think it becomes boring and you become set in your ways. I think, as an actor I think it's not a bad thing but more of a gift. It's something you're always doing as an actor. You're adjusting constantly.

I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.

Only a great actor finds the difficulties of the actor's art infinite.

I just always wanted to be an actor. I don't remember ever not wanting to be an actor.

For an actor to be working at all is a kind of miracle, because most actors aren't. So it's just silly for a working actor to say, 'Oh, I don't care if anybody knows I'm gay' especially if you're a leading man. Personally, I wouldn't advise a gay leading man-type actor to come out.

I have no problem having any actor from anywhere play a role. I'm excited for any actor that gets a job, I truly am. Even if it's a role that I'm up for and I don't get it, I never begrudge any actor having it work out for them.

To be a Dumont actor was considered to be a great honor for an actor, yet it also had its disadvantages.

Bob Duvall is a great actor because each time out, he creates a whole, complete character. You have the feeling that you're not seeing an actor at all, but a fully realized human being. Think of how he was in The Godfather. If you didn't know Bobby, you'd think that he really was Tom, the consigliere. Then you see him in Santini, and he's completely different. He's not only a personality, he's a consummate actor.

Given the choice between 'actor' and 'actress,' 'actor' is a non-gendered word that I use.

As an actor, sometimes you've gotta take the jobs that you may not want to do. It's so hard to work as an actor.