Top 1200 Supporting Actor Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Being a film actor is very different from a theatre 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.

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!

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

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

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.

I don't know one actor that became an actor for healthy reasons.

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?

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.

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.

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

I do go back to Ireland, and I'll probably be doing a film in Ireland in January, and I guess that kind of keeps me classified as 'the Irish actor,' but the last four or five projects that I've been in are either American or English, so I don't feel terribly trapped in that. But sometimes, yeah, you would like to not be called 'the Irish actor.' You'd prefer to just be called 'the actor.'

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

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 actor's physical type is the main consideration. It isn't and shouldn't be. Does the actor "look the part"? It is the simplest question to deal with. The director deludes himself who yields to the temptation to believe that an affirmative answer settles the matter. An actor's looks will impress an audience initially but after his first five minutes on stage it becomes aware of what he or she communicates (or fails to communicate) through acting!

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

I'll be supporting anyone but England.

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?

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.

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.

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

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.

I'm a people's actor, not a critics' actor, and I always have been.

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 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 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.

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

The great exception to that, of course, is Johnny Depp, who is absolutely the ultimate character actor. Johnny Depp is the future of the character actor and thanks to his success maybe we will see the return of an era when my sort of actor is back in vogue. It's not in vogue for me to be in Hollywood movies as lots of different people.

I'm not a method actor, but I'm a big research kind of 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?'

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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 think that an actor who is working should be a happy actor.

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

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

If I can be a working actor, if I can be an actor and not have a day job, I'll be fine.

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.

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