Quotes on Actors

I always thought I'd be a New York theater actor, riding my bicycle to rehearsal. That was all I ever wanted.

He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the word, will never be a good actor.

There's no such thing as a small part. There are just small actors.

As in a theatre, the eyes of men, after a well-graced actor leaves the stage, are idly bent on him that enters next.

The person you are is a thousand times more interesting than the best actor you could ever hope to be.

The actor is an athlete of the heart.

In a sense, I think a movie is really a little like a question and when you make it, that's when you get the answer.

When I was a child I was a dreamer. I read comic books, and I was the hero of the comic book. I saw movies, and I was the hero in the movie. So every dream I have ever dreamed has come true a thousand times.

I've always seen it as the role of an artist to drag his inside out, give the audience all you've got. Writers, actors, singers, all good artists do the same. It isn't supposed to be easy.

The most important thing you can teach actors is to understand plays.

A fool cannot be an actor, though an actor may act a fool's part.

The Actor should make you forget the existence of author and director, and even forget the actor.

Preparing a character is the opposite of building-it is a demolishing, removing brick by brick everything in the actor's muscles, ideas and inhibitions that stands between him and the part, until one day, with a great rush of air, the character invades his every pore.

An actor is part illusionist, part artist, part ham.

As a soccer player, I wanted an FA Cup winner's medal. As an actor you want an Oscar. As a chef it's three-Michelin's stars, there's no greater than that. So pushing yourself to the extreme creates a lot of pressure and a lot of excitement, and more importantly, it shows on the plate.

I realise that I do not change the course of history. I am an actor, I do a movie, that's the end of it. You have to realise we are just clowns for hire. After I had success it was great, at first, not to worry about money. It was on my mind when I was growing up.

Remember that you are an actor in a play, and that the Playwright chooses the manner of it: If he wants you to act a poor man you must act the part with all your powers; and so if your part be a cripple or a magistrate or a plain man. For your business is to act the character that is given you and act it well. The choice of the cast is Another's.

I was a serious method actor until I visited this site.

Remember that you are in actor in a play of such a kind that the author chooses...For this is your duty, to act well the part that is given to you; but to select the part belongs to another.

Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.

I have lost someone I loved as a brother, as a closest friend, and a remarkable human being. We have also lost one of the best damn actors we'll ever see.