A lot of parents tell their children that if they want to be an actor, that's fine, but they should do something else first, so they've got something to fall back on. It doesn't work like that, as far as I'm concerned.
Actors are trusting souls, and we must go by gut-level instinct, even after our agents and business managers weigh all the odds.
The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.
Most of the early part of an actor's career, you do the jobs you get.
The world 's a theatre, the earth a stage, Which God and Nature do with actors fill.
As an actor, your life experience is just as important as studying.
It is an actor's passion to observe the world. It is his art to become what he observes. And finally, it is his job to let the world observe him.
It's an actor's job to play all the human conditions - light, dark, and medium.
It’s a nice challenge to escape your reality. I think that’s why actors do what we do. We like to play other people. It’s therapeutic.
In order to be an actor you really have to be one of those types of people who are risk-takers and have what is considered an actor's arrogance, which is not to say an arrogance in your personal life. But you have to be the type of person who wants the ball with seconds left in the game.
That's always something that's really important for an actor - to find an opportunity to do a scene where there is a moment like that, where you manage to connect with everyone.
An actress can only play a woman. I'm an actor, I can play anything.
An actor rides in a bus or railroad train; he sees a movement and applies it to a new role. The whole garment in which the actor hides himself is made of small externals of observation fitted to his conception of a role.
Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.
As an actor, there's a bit of you that's decided you want to be looked at and watched, but there's a paradoxical bit that wants to run away.
An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In short, his ego.
When student-actors see people and the way they behave when together, see the color of the sky, hear the sounds in the air, feel the ground beneath them and the wind on their faces, they get a wider view of their personal world and development in the theater is quickened. The world provides the material for the theater and artistic growth develops hand-in-hand with one's recognition of it and one's self within it.
My father comes from a generation of film that actors my age don't even know about, which is really sad.
You need three things in the theatre - the play, the actors and the audience, and each must give something.
I'm an actor, coming from New York theater.
We're one of the forces that causes actors to fasten seat belts before they take off chasing the bad guy in the car... or removes some of the cigarette smoking on television.
I've wanted to be an actor ever since I was a little boy.
I was trained to be an actor, not a star.
Until Ace Ventura, no actor had considered talking through his ass.
The mere mechanical technique of acting can be taught, but the spirit that is to give life to lifeless forms must be born in a man. No dramatic college can teach its pupils to think or to feel. It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.
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