Actors Quotes - Page 12

• An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so he must be willing to accept all experiences that life can offer.

  Marlon Brando

  Inspirational, Motivational, Order

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• I think, being an actor, it's just a relief every time you get a part.

  Jillian Bach

  Thinking, Relief

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• When you see something that is well-written, the actors can get behind it.

  Julia Barr

  Wells, Behinds, Written

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• What is it in the actor, the stage, that casts so powerful a spell on the young imagination?

  Joyce Cary

  Powerful, Imagination, Stage

  Joyce Cary (1985). “Except the Lord”, p.79, New Directions Publishing

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• I feel like I'm the most well-adjusted character on the show, even though I'm sure the other actors would tell you the same thing about their characters.

  Thomas Lennon

  Character, Shows, Wells

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• I was convinced there as only one actor to play Templeton the Rat, and that was Tony Randall.

  Joseph Barbera

  Play, Rats, Convinced

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Think of Frank Capra and Preston Sturges. They used the same actors over and over again.

  Matthew Modine

  Thinking, Used, Frank

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• The most fun you can possibly have as an actor is to walk that line between what's real and what's interesting.

  Vincent D'Onofrio

  Fun, Real, Interesting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• One of the grave dangers inherent in the various stages of any theatrical career-whether it be budding, quiescent or diminishing-is the advice of friends.

  Moss Hart

  Careers, Advice, Danger

  moss hart (1959). “act one”

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• Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Humor, Comedian, Imitation

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• I was trained to be an actor, not a star. I was trained to play roles, not to deal with fame and agents and lawyers and the press.

  Gene Hackman

  Stars, Play, Roles

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The long version of the play is actually an easier version to follow. In all of the cut versions the intense speeches are cut too close together for the audience and the actors.

  Kenneth Branagh

  Cutting, Play, Long

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• It makes me feel good that I can now sit there and go, I've worked with Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, all the great actors that I've worked with... Sir Ben Kingsley.

  Aaron Eckhart

  Feel Good, Als, Feels

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• In a collaborative environment directors hire actors because they want their input, not just their bodies.

  Kelly Lynch

  Directors, Body, Want

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• If you compare me to an actor, I'm probably one of the best boxers in the profession. But if you compare me as a boxer, I'm probably one of the best actors.

  Olivier Martinez

  Boxers, Compare, Profession

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• I love actors. I married one. OK, I married a fantastic one.

  Felicity Huffman

  Married, Fantastic

  "Hoffman, Witherspoon capture SAG Awards". www.today.com. January 30, 2006.

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• It's the actors who are prepared to make fools of themselves who are usually the ones who come to mean something to the audience.

  Christian Bale

  Inspirational, Motivational, Mean

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I was very introverted. I had glasses and was kind of weird. A lot of actors are pretty weird people.

  Jennifer Sky

  Glasses, People, Kind

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• The thing about anything in life is you have to get ready for it. Study, learn and in terms of acting, there's a lot to learn. The bigger culture you have in life, the better actor you'll be. You'll have more to pull on.

  Jacqueline Bisset

  Acting, Culture, Study

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• Actors, lots of times, are great when they have great parts. For me, a lot of times, it's been the part.

  Bruce Davison

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• Other actors like to rehearse on film-they like 30 or 40 takes. When you get an actor like that, it becomes difficult for me because I'm ready to quit after number two.

  Richard Widmark

  Two, Numbers, Quitting

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• I suppose when I was a kid, and I went to movies, and later went to some plays on my own when I got a little older, in New Orleans, where I was living then, I zeroed in on the actor.

  Ray Walston

  Movie, Kids, New Orleans

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• Work is good when people are responsible, and in low-budget movies a lot of the actors don't want to be there. They're there to build a resume.

  Sean Young

  Movie, People, Want

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Now, when I started my theater, the modus operandi was having the actors stare right into the audience.

  Richard Foreman

  Ukulele, Theater, Modus Operandi

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• Ronnie Barker will forever be remembered as one of the great comic actors.

  John Major

  Forever, Comic, Remembered

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