Actors Quotes - Page 4

• Every scene you will ever act begins in the middle, and it is up to you, the actor, to provide what comes before.

  Michael Shurtleff

  Acting, Up To You, Scene

  Michael Shurtleff (2009). “Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part”, p.48, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• They are, as it were, train-bearers in the pageant of life, and hold a glass up to humanity, frailer than itself. We see ourselves at second-hand in them: they show us all that we are, all that we wish to be, and all that we dread to be. What brings the resemblance nearer is, that, as they imitate us, we, in our turn, imitate them. There is no class of society whom so many persons regard with affection as actors.

  William Hazlitt

  Life, Glasses, Hands

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• People told me, when I was coming through the ranks, that a mark of a great actor is one who deals with the period of unemployment as well as they deal with the period of employment

  Claudia Black

  People, Unemployment, Periods

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• I think actors have a choice of drawing attention to themselves or living on the outskirts.

  Rachel Weisz

  Thinking, Drawing, Choices

  "Weisz Girl". www.mirror.co.uk. March 18, 2005.

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• She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.

  Dorothy Parker

  Running, Acting, Emotion

  Dorothy Parker (2004). “Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words”, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• The inner life of the [imagination], and not the personal and tiny experiential resources of the actor, should be elaborated on the stage and shown to the audience. This life is rich and revealing for the audience as well as for the actor himself.

  Michael Chekhov

  Imagination, Acting, Tiny

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• Actor training should be broadly humanistic, involving the study not just of dramatic literature and theatre history, but of languages, literature, and history generally, and should be centered on acting in plays rather than just exercises, improvisations, monologues, or even scenes.

  Richard Hornby

  Exercise, Play, Training

  Richard Hornby (1992). “The End of Acting: A Radical View”, Applause Theatre & Cinema Books

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• While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.

  Oscar Wilde

  Giving, Romance, Acting

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “A Critic in Pall Mall: Being Extracts from Reviews and Miscellanies”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• Some actors get fired up by the sound of the audience. I just want to retreat.

  Francesca Annis

  Sound, Want, Retreat

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• A good actor must never be in love with anyone but himself.

  Jean Anouilh

  Good Actors

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• There is a need for aloneness... for an actor.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspirational, Motivational, Acting

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• Actors are rogues and vagabonds. Or they ought to be.

  Helen Mirren

  Vagabonds, Rogues, Ought

  "Calendar girl" by John Patterson, www.theguardian.com. August 29, 2003.

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• From my experience as an actor, choreographer, action director, and producer, I understand the elements and the dynamics of being a film maker.

  Donnie Yen

  Elements, Dynamics, Directors

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• I try not to have high expectations of people because it just sets you up for disappointment, but it's great to work with actors who are that talented and accomplished.

  Famke Janssen

  Disappointment, People, Expectations

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• Is this film more interesting than a documentary of the same actors having lunch?

  Gene Siskel

  Lunch, Interesting, Documentaries

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• Theatre, in which actors take on changing roles, has among its many functions the examination of identity. For the individual, theatre is a kind of identity laboratory in which social roles can be examined vicariously.

  Richard Hornby

  Theatre, Acting, Identity

  Richard Hornby (1986). “Drama, Metadrama and Perception”, p.71, Associated University Presse

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• It was only when I realized how actors have the power to move people that I decided to pursue acting as a career.

  Cate Blanchett

  Motivation, Moving, Careers

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• Ninety percent of the preparation we do as actors is just jive. It doesn't do anything.

  William H. Macy

  Preparation, Ninety, Percent

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• I've been in fights, but that doesn't make me cool or like a tough guy or more interesting actor, I'm not proud of it.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Fighting, Interesting, Guy

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• I went to school, majored in theatre, and said 'Mom, I have to choose my own destiny. I want to be an actor.' A couple of weeks after I graduated college I called my mother up and said 'Can I borrow $200?' and she said 'Why don't you act like you've got $200.'

  Arsenio Hall

  Funny, Mom, Mother

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• I remember hitting Sarah Michelle Gellar with a right hook during my first week on the job. It was awful. They usually pair actors with stunt doubles to avoid things like that.

  Eliza Dushku

  Jobs, Hook, Hitting

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• I think it's sort of a rite of passage for a British actor to try and get the American accent and have a good crack at doing that.

  Orlando Bloom

  Thinking, Trying, Cracks

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• Those offers come in now and again. They're not knocking down my door. I'm only an old character actor, and I'm not needed.

  Carroll O'Connor

  Character, Doors, Knocking

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• Compare the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the season they re-enact the same drama. Deep in the nature of theatre is a sense of ritual. The cinema, by contrast, transports its audience individually, singly, out of the theatre towards the unknown.

  John Berger

  Art, Nature, Drama

  John Berger (2008). “Selected Essays of John Berger”, p.736, Vintage

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• Id just love to have an audience and its the most fun in the world to get a new script every week and have the audience come in, and work with those actors.

  Sara Gilbert

  Fun, World, Scripts

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