Top 1200 Method Actor Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

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.

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

If I'd made it right away as an actor, I would've stopped at a certain level and stayed there, probably as a character actor.

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

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

I don't see a difference between the idea of what an actor does and what someone supposes a character actor is, really.

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.

Pransaab was a great character actor. What he has achieved as an actor, I cannot think of achieving even a part of it.

I'm not an American actor. I'm a French actor. I'll continue in France. If I could make another silent movie in America, I'd like to!

The only way to be an actor is to find ways to work as an actor, even if that means doing a one-man show by a river.

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

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 come from Nova Scotia, and I'd never seen a theater or been inside of a theater. When I was 17, my dad asked me what I wanted to do, and I said I thought I would like to be an actor. I didn't have any idea what it was to be an actor. None. I'd wanted to be either an actor or a sculptor, which are both essentially the same thing. That's how it all started for me.

The next actor I meet that uses the term 'courageous' to describe another actor's performance is getting punched in the face.

I started off as an actor thinking that I would be this Romeo, this dashing leading man. It turns out that I'm a character actor.

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

Since the fabric of the universe is most perfect and the work of a most wise Creator, nothing at all takes place in the universe in which some rule of maximum or minimum does not appear ... there is absolutely no doubt that every affect in the universe can be explained satisfactorily from final causes, by the aid of the method of maxima and minima, as it can be from the effective causes themselves ... Of course, when the effective causes are too obscure, but the final causes are readily ascertained, the problem is commonly solved by the indirect method.

I don't know how a hero feels, honestly. I feel like an actor; I wanted to be an actor. I always want to feel just like an actor. I don't know this 'hero' term.

I'm an actor. I can do whatever I want. As an actor, not everything has to be the most obvious choice. And sometimes, the best thing you can do is to defy expectations.

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

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.

There's always down time when you're an actor, especially a character actor.

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.

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

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.

The delineation between the actor and his part is a practical matter. When the camera runs, you want the actor to be the character.

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

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

An actor must read a lot. Books not only make one a good actor but also a better human being.

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

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

The other, the other aspect when I say I'm an actor is that as an actor you make this imaginative leap into being somebody else, that's to say the muscle of the imagination is as important as any other of the muscles in your body, and so it is something about this instinct in space and time which for me I associate with being an actor rather than a director.

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?

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

When you are working, be the director's and producer's actor. Value their time and money, be punctual, disciplined, and don't misuse perks that you get as an 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.

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

A worldly actor is a better actor. It sounds pretentious, but I think having these experiences can translate back into your work.

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

I will also fulfill my profession commitments as an actor as I would not let the actor in me die after joining politics.

I studied movies for many years, but I am professionally an actor because I, my background is actually a stage actor and acting.

You have to have the passion. I could not live if I wasn't an actor. If you're just in it for beautiful dresses and movie stars, then I think you should not be an actor.

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?'

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

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

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

It is in the irony of things that the theatre should be the most dangerous place for the actor. But, then, after all, the world is the worst possible place, the most corrupting place, for the human soul. And just as there is no escape from the world, which follows us into the very heart of the desert, so the actor cannot escape the theatre. And the actor who is a dreamer need not. All of us can only strive to remain uncontaminated. In the world we must be unworldly, in the theatre the actor must be untheatrical.

I never thought about becoming an actor. Even when I applied for university, I didn't choose theater as a major to become an actor.

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

Sometimes, I even recite the role to the actor if it's not clear. And I beg them not to imitate me, because I'm not a good actor.

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

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 firmly believe that the method which sets theological theories against scientifically ascertained facts, is fatal to the current theology and injurious to the spirit of religion; and that the method which frankly recognizes the facts of life, and appreciates the spirit of the scientists whose patient and assiduous endeavor has brought those facts to light, will commend the spirit of religion to the new generation, and will benefit--not impair--theology as a science, by compelling its reconstruction.

I'm proud to be an actor. See, as an actor, you live longer. Football players, the brain and all that stuff, ooh-eee, that's not good.

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

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

At first, I was worried sharing screen with an actor like Nawazuddin Siddiqui, because he is a remarkable actor and an outstanding person.

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

The secret lies in the actor's personal satisfaction. How can the audience be moved by a character the actor himself does not believe in?