Actors Quotes - Page 27

• I don't know how to ground myself without the other actor present.

  Garry Shandling

  Know How, Knows

  "Interview: Garry Shandling (Over the Hedge)". Interview with Devin Faraci, www.chud.com. May 19, 2006.

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• I think the challenge for an actor is always to see which parts of you you can explore and go have fun with.

  Ally Walker

  Fun, Thinking, Challenges

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• Filmmaking is a huge privilege; it's not brain surgery. It's art, and art is supposed to be an enjoyable process, and it is an enjoyable experience for me.

  Lake Bell

  Movie, Art, Brain

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. September 2, 2011.

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• Just listening to Pac, ain't gon' make it stop
  A rebel in your thoughts, ain't gon' make it halt
  If you don't become an actor, you'll never be a factor

  Lupe Fiasco

  Listening, Rebel, Pacs

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• From the movie, The Boy Who Could Fly Somewhere, deep inside, we can all fly.

  Guy Finley

  Inspirational, Movie, Boys

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• You can see when an actor gets bored: Their eyes go dead. I promised myself I'd never let that happen. If it does, I'll go and live on a desert island for a year.

  Anna Friel

  Eye, Islands, Years

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

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• Being pigeonholed is the death of all actors.

  Jack Nicholson

  Acting

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• (Acting) certainly comes-100 percent-from the need to be loved. Any actor who says this isn't true is lying.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Lying, Acting, Needs

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• I got a tiny part in a play, auditioned for another one and got that as well. Not only that, the first finished on the Saturday and the other started on the Monday which is like an actor's dream!

  Christopher Eccleston

  Dream, Monday, Play

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I became an actor at a very young age, but I also had a deep respect for nature and I think I was sort of a little biologist when I was younger. I watched documentaries on rainforest pollution and the loss of species and habitats for animals around the world. It affected me in a very hardcore, emotional way when I was younger. So, later in life I wanted to continue that path more and investigate and learn more about ecological issues.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Loss, Emotional, Thinking

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• I would compare it to an actor. I drive myself into the character that later on is in the ring.

  Wladimir Klitschko

  Motivation, Character, Fighter

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• I love people who expect me to wear great, feathery costumes- and I do it. It's like an actor getting into his costume for his part. I don't really feel that part until I'm into whatever I'm going to wear.

  Elton John

  People, Expectations, Costumes

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• When I was a waiter I was fired twice from the same restaurant. I guess I was that good of an actor but that bad of a waiter.

  Nathan Fillion

  Restaurants, Waiter

  "Roundtable With Seven Stars Who Had an Emmy-Worthy Year". Interview with Jenelle Riley, www.backstage.com. June 6, 2012.

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• I've never worked with an actor that I did not like.

  James Gandolfini

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• Of all the things I've done in life, directing a motion picture is the most beautiful. It's the most exciting and the nearest than an interpretive craftsman, such as an actor can possibly get to being a creator.

  Laurence Olivier

  Beautiful, Done, Craftsman

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

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• I went to acting school, but only for nine months. If you're an actor, you know, don't really need to learn how to do it.

  Patrick Macnee

  School, Aggravation, Acting

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• I acted in junior high in the junior high school group, and then when I got into senior high I was, you know, the main actor of the senior high school.

  Richard Foreman

  Senior, School, Aggravation

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• The '80s were about trying to establish myself as an actor with a career. And being a teenager enjoying the fruits of being successful with lots of what I think is appropriate for that age.

  Rob Lowe

  Teenager, Successful, Thinking

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• I've always known I wanted to be an actor. It never crossed my mind to be anything else. I think I probably decided for sure when I saw 'Sounder'.

  Christopher Judge

  Thinking, Mind, Saws

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• The body of an actor can be either his best friend or his worst enemy.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Worst Enemy, Body, Enemy

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• I'm not a big star in Japan. I'm an actor. I have a very normal life. Four days a week, I cook at home. A star doesn't do that.

  Ken Watanabe

  Stars, Home, Japan

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

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• WHY is the most important word in an actor's vocabulary.

  Sanford Meisner

  Vocabulary, Important, Important Words

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• I love to watch good actors who surprise and amuse me.

  John Malkovich

  Watches, Surprise, Good Actors

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• This was basically the first time I got to act in action scenes, with things blowing up all around me. It sounds corny, but I think every actor would like to - at least once in his or her career - play the person who saves the entire world.

  Lukas Haas

  Thinking, Play, Careers

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

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• Only a madman or an actor would want to be President of the United States.

  Mick Jagger

  President, Want, United States

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