Actor Quotes - Page 2

Not that it matters an awful amount in the grand play of things. And it is play. All of it. It's not real. You have to live your life like you're pretending. An actor living a character's life. Otherwise you won't take risks. You won't live.

The ability to be emotive comes from within...it's innate".

You as a soul you are alive, you as an actor - dead, as a character - dead... That's life, like it or not, it's not my problem!

The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when [Holmes] became a specialist in crime.

Healthy entertainment does not evoke raw emotions in the mind of a viewer only to make them wreak havoc, rather it guides those emotions in a healthy direction.

I’m a bit-part actor in my own life

A model is an actor without a voice.

Words come alive from a page or script because both the writer and actor were brave enough to neither deny or invent their truth

Everythings a choice. Nobody's born good. Nobody's born evil. It's always a choice.

Even I don’t know myself... In fact, I don’t know if I really have a self at all, as I’m constantly playing different roles and pretending – not so much on stage as in real life...

Before You Begin Writing Your Book, Ask Yourself A Very Important Question: What Kind of Results Do I Plan To Receive From Writing This Book? If You Say Money, Then Don't Bother Even Writing The Book.

So fast you couldn't realise it, from one face to another - that's called an actor. Then what happens??Victim a killer, victim a killer wow. One time be a part of a victim, other being a part of a killer - awesome just awesome.

Some days it is a heroic act just to refuse the paralysis of fear and straighten up and step into another day.

Use filmmaking for a greater purpose, than to just entertain some drowsy minds. Wake the whole world up with your movies. It has been sleeping for long. Its eternal sleep has become its darkest nemesis. Now is the time to wake it up.

A movie is not a movie, it is a potential nuclear furnace of inspiration, courage and conscience.

Take the clapper and become the alarm that the world so desperately needs.

Every villain is a hero in his own mind.

In this business, until you're known as a monster, you're not a star

An actor cannot and must not become more important than the story.

Whatever genre you deem suitable for your taste – romance, comedy, action, mystery, sci-fi or anything else, make sure it has the plain everyday human kindness.

His intuition was luminous from the instant you met him. So was his intelligence. A lot of actors act intelligent, but Philip was the real thing: a shining, artistic polymath with an intelligence that came at you like a pair of headlights and enveloped you from the moment he grabbed your hand, put a huge arm round your neck and shoved a cheek against yours; or if the mood took him, hugged you to him like a big, pudgy schoolboy, then stood and beamed at you while he took stock of the effect. (About Philip Seymour Hoffman)

The first time we did cavalry charge I was so breathless with excitement I nearly fell off the horse. I actually saw stars in front of my eyes and thought I was going to faint. The second time I had a bit more control but was still giddy with excitement. And the third time I was an emotional wreck. I had to really try hard not to cry.