Beetlejuice Actor Quotes

The worst thing you can do as a comedy director is be on set and think of something ridiculous, or an actor comes up to you with something ridiculous, and you say 'No, no that's too much.' Let's not worry if that's too much, let's shoot it, and then decide if that's too much when we see it. ~ Todd Phillips

I gained a lot of confidence after 'IP Man' as being a true actor. I went on to tackle what it is an actor is supposed to do before a film. Do a lot of research, get into the character. That's what I did with 'Dragon.' ~ Donnie Yen

As I say, there's something that scares the hell out of me but it really makes me work hard in losing myself. I'm not really interested in me as an actor or being a personality player, or a Hollywood star. What's given to me is to become different people and to find the truth of that. That is really what I do. ~ David Suchet

Different things drive me at different points in time. Hopes, the things you envision, and even things that pull you down" - Kunal Karan Kapoor ~ Kunal Karan Kapoor

An actor remembers his first piece of published praise. It is written on his heart. ~ Conrad Veidt

And I knew that, being an actor, you have to take the rough with the smooth and the highs with the lows. That's how it is. ~ Luke Evans

I don't think it's necessary to be an actor to get great performances out of an actor. But I do think it helps me as a director because I know what I like as an actor, and I try to get that to the actors who I'm working with. ~ Steve Buscemi

You shouldn't speak until you know what you're talking about. That's why I get uncomfortable with interviews. Reporters ask me what I feel China should do about Tibet. Who cares what I think China should do? I'm a fucking actor! They hand me a script. I act. I'm here for entertainment. Basically, when you whittle everything away, I'm a grown man who puts on makeup. ~ Brad Pitt

Ask any great athlete or the concert pianist or the successful actor if they have arrived at the place where they need no further practice. They will tell you that the higher you climb in proficiency and public acceptance, the greater the need for practice. ~ Eric Butterworth

I think I have much more appreciation for directing and movies overall versus a performance or an actor. Their body of work is more interesting. ~ Jamie Bell

I remember Chris Cooper saying to me - I was doing October Sky with him - and he said, "You know, you're just yelling at me." He's like, "You're just yelling. You need to listen." We were in a fight, and you know, oh you'd get so excited as an actor, you're like, "We have a fight, oh, I get to get mad." And he just said, "You need to listen." And I started listening - and then all of a sudden where I was listening was where, I don't know, anger became something else. ~ Jake Gyllenhaal

Some of the most cutthroat auditions you'll have as an actor are when you'll have three words to say. ~ Stephen Amell

As an actor, the training I received was that I walk through the world as an observer of life and of people. My job is to actually be looking out all the time and watching people. ~ David Schwimmer

I loved B.I.G., but not like I liked Tupac, because he was an actor, so I related to him. ~ Derek Luke

It's my job as an actor to commit to the role and not - through my own inhibitions - run away. ~ Nicole Kidman

If you want to be an actor because you want to be recognized on the street and have people ask you for autographs, look for another career. If you want to be an actor because you love being on stage and want to capture a person's heart, go for it. ~ Jaime Camil

Oh yes. I'm an actor, so I just learn my lines, and show up and do it. I gave it a little bit of thought. ~ Anthony Hopkins

I'm an actor, and when I close the door at home I'm kind of off-duty. ~ Warwick Davis

There have been two [career highlights]. Waking up in New York to hear I'd been nominated for Best Actor for a Tony Award on Broadway, for An Ideal Husband. The other one was waking up the morning after the opening night of A Man For All Seasons and reading the reviews. ~ Martin Shaw

I've probably wanted to be a rapper since I was a teenager. I was an actor and comedian and stuff, but I always wanted to rap, it was another outlet. ~ Jamie Kennedy

Sometimes you need to put your own characteristics into the actor, and you take different things from the character that you admire - sometimes you can't see the boundaries anymore. ~ Bonnie Wright

I want to try something different in Hollywood, to tell the audience I am not just an actor star - I am an actor, too. ~ Jackie Chan

You have a lot of disappointments as an actor. ~ Tika Sumpter

The great thing about acting is, because you're constantly playing other characters and exploring yourself because you have to find those other characters in yourself, you sort of broaden as a person over your life because you've been other people. So you can empathize with many different sorts of people. It's great in that way and I hope, therefore, as you get older as an actor, you not only get more interesting because you lived more, but you get a bit wiser as a person. ~ Jeremy Irons

Rory McCann is an amazing actor and a very strong man. ~ Gwendoline Christie

Evan Handler is not only a fine actor, he's a damn good writer. It's Only Temporary is wise and funny and as righteously indignant as it is endearingly self-effacing. In what may be a literary first, the book actually left me wanting more. ~ Meghan Daum

I don't hate being an actor. But if there's a choice, I prefer to direct. ~ Stephen Chow

If you're an English actor, and you're asked to do an episode - especially the Christmas episode - of 'Downton Abbey,' you can't turn it down. It's like, 'Of course!' ~ Janet Montgomery

I've done 33 Sherlock Holmes stories and bits of them are all right. But the definitive Sherlock Holmes is really in everyone's head. No actor can fit into that category because every reader has his own ideal. ~ Jeremy Brett

I was brought up in a house full of women; the first time I realised no one was interrupting me was when I was on stage - that's probably the subconscious reason I became an actor. ~ Eddie Marsan

My mother implanted in me as a young girl ... you can either be an actor in your own life, or a reactor in somebody else's. ~ Hillary Clinton

We are not the originators of the story. I think it's actually the opposite when you're an actor. You're telling somebody else's story. ~ Jessica Lange

I become an actor, a quick-change artist, as if I can trap the Prince of Truth in the act of switching a style. ~ Norman Mailer

Eventually, if your career goes higher and higher, that's just how it is, but it's a little frightening. When I was younger and I thought about being an actor, I thought of the old Hollywood style of glamour, and that was so beautiful and appealing to me. Now, if you want to be an actor, it's not the same. ~ Tinsel Korey

Decide very early on: do you want to be an actor or do you want to be famous? Because they're very different routes. ~ James Purefoy

I always admired Hugh Jackman as an actor in movies but also in theatre because I'm a big fan of Broadway musicals. ~ Tao Okamoto

Sex appeal is a good thing for commercial cinema. Though I can't sit at home and consider myself a sex symbol, it is for people to do so. I want to be known as an interesting actor. ~ Randeep Hooda

I have to remember that I didn't have to become an actor. I didn't have to put myself in this position. If I'd wanted to have autonomy - if that was what I was after - then I could have chosen another profession. ~ Andrew Garfield

I was a theater actor back in the U.K., and you knew the whole play, so you could plot your storyline and character. And then I did 'Lost' and didn't know, and it was kind of frustrating, but I enjoyed it. ~ Henry Ian Cusick

My goal beyond being an actor, is just being an open channel. ~ Ezra Miller