Finnick Actor Quotes

Becoming an actor has really helped me as a human being. The joys in my life I feel are more joyful, and the sorrows I feel are a bit sadder, but I find I'm more in tune with my feelings as a human being and others as well. ~ James Preston Rogers

What factors make you decide to take a particular role?" The actor always answers: "Because I'm afraid of it. ~ Steven Pressfield

Throughout my career, even as a very young actor, people have always said to me that they would like to see my Othello. They could see something of him in me, I suppose. ~ Eamonn Walker

I remember the actor Dale Robertson said he quit acting when he got tired of having to hold his stomach in. I feel that way sometimes. ~ Ted Shackelford

When I left Maine, I always wanted to be a working actor. I never cared too much about being the star. I just wanted to do the work and get on with it. ~ Patrick Dempsey

I think that having the years in college to really focus on your training is incredibly valuable. College shapes the kind of person/actor that one becomes. ~ Rachel Hoffman

An actor is an instrument. One needs to control them. ~ Bruno Dumont

As an actor, you want to do the best job possible, and you want the best scripts possible because it makes life more interesting. ~ Mark Strickson

When it comes to acting, people talk about the suspension of disbelief that you ask of the audience. Before that starts, you have to, as an actor, suspend your own disbelief. ~ Helena Bonham Carter

You always like to learn from people as a young actor. I think every young actor says that, but it's true. ~ Tom Weston-Jones

It's never going to get better than working opposite an actor like Jeff Bridges. That's as good as it gets. I don't even know what to refer to him as. He's just a great guy. He's iconic on his own merits. ~ Sam Elliott

My dad had been an actor ... not only had my dad been an actor, but his dad had been an actor, and my great-grandfather had been an actor. And who knows before then? ~ David Hyde Pierce

I think it would be pompous to say I am an underrated actor. I don't think it is for me to think and decide; it is for people to decide. But I am glad I am underrated than being overrated - that is something I would find hard to digest. ~ Randeep Hooda

If there's ever going to be a challenge for an actor, it's that character who's often evolving - which is not often the case in television. ~ Jim Rash

As an actor, you don't have much choice about your appearance. It's a good excuse for looking ridiculous. ~ Kit Harington

For a long time I was embarrassed to say I was a 'B' movie actor, ... But now that I see what Hollywood's putting out, I realized 'B' actually means 'better.' ~ Bruce Campbell

Ask everyone whether they're an actor or a doctor or a teacher or whatever is entitled to his or her opinion. But unfortunately, because actors are in the public eye, whether we want it or not, sometimes our opinions carry more weight or influence than they deserve. ~ Debra Messing

I'm most excited that the hard work has paid off for myself and the team. You put your heart and soul into something and you want to show it to an audience outside of Jersey Boys. It gives a chance to not only show my work, but of Jeffrey Schecter as an actor and co-writer. It gets to show off our cinematographer, my production team. That's what I'm most proud of everybody gets to have their own moment to enjoy it. ~ J. Robert Spencer

I was never educated to be an actor. I went to a regular college. It was a great thing for me because I feel that the main thing to get out of college is a thirst for knowledge. College should teach you how to be curious. Most people think that college is the end of education, but it isn't. The ceremony of giving you the diploma is called commencement. And that means you are fit to commence learning because you have learned hot to learn. ~ Vincent Price

One of the secrets of being a great photographic model, as it is for a great film actor, is that you let the camera in. It's an intimacy that the model or actor creates with the lens, that then transmits itself to the viewer. ~ Mary Harron

People often find it surprising that actors find photo shoots difficult, because you're very concerned about what's going on externally in those things when you have to be concerned with what's going on internally as an actor. ~ Max Irons

It may be a mistake to say this, but I know my limitations as an actor and I know what I can and can not do. Robert De Niro can do everything. I can't. A 'Highlander' movie is basically my thing. What I'm attempting to do is develop my ability as an actor and try to be the best I can be in the fantasy/action genre. ~ Christopher Lambert

I'm a self-confessed genre nerd. I'm a very serious actor, but a genre nerd, all the same. ~ Penelope Mitchell

After I began to explore what an actor actually is, I studied for three years before I had the guts to go on an audition. ~ Gale Harold

I found that with Rooney, her instincts in films was always to underplay and to sort of reduce down what was necessary to bring you in - a sense of economy, a sense of scale, which just seemed to understand the medium so well. When you see that in a younger actor, I always think it speaks to incredible knowledge. I can't exactly figure out where that comes from, that confidence to know how to be quiet. ~ Todd Haynes

Any actor worth his salt has a responsibility to reinvent himself from part to part. ~ Matt Smith

I believe you can't be an actor if you haven't had the feeling of being abandoned as a child. ~ Isabelle Adjani

Even dramatically how you position some person, the depth, the existence is different than a flat image even though by itself it has depth, we create the illusion of depth. For example, some of the shots I have to stay closer to the actor because it's a young actor, I like it closer for some of the shots. I watch 2D scenes next to the camera, then when I go back to my station and watch it in 3D I have to go back and reduce his acting, he has to shrink a little bit because he peeks out more. ~ Ang Lee

I'm still an athlete, I'm still a stockbroker, I'm still an actor. I think of it as more of an opening of new doors than an actual transition. I enjoy all of those things, which is why they remain a part of my life. ~ Brian J. White

Actors can be very precious about their work and their scenes, but I think good actors have a strong understanding of narrative and are very often not as precious about that stuff. They just can't be because they understand what makes for a better film, and that it's the job of the actor to work toward that, and then if you want you can go to acting class or workshops. But making movies is not workshops. ~ Kristen Stewart

I grew up in Arkansas and that's the law. My dad was a high school basketball coach, so I was raised as a coach's son and I was a baseball player back in Arkansas, and I lived in Texas, too, so I was just surrounded by sports. So that's what I was going to do: Pitch for the St Louis Cardinals. I had no idea I was going to be an actor. So I got my collar bone broken in the Kansas City Royals training camp. And once I got hurt I started doing other things for a while. ~ Billy Bob Thornton

I was working in Lexington when I recognized this actor, Michael Shannon, and I was like, 'What do you do?' He told me to get into a theater company, so I got into a theater company near my hometown. I was a carpenter there. And then I slowly got some work. ~ Boyd Holbrook

I'll be in a series for three or four episodes, but then I'll be off the series, and downtime, as an actor, is a little more than most people understand. Most of the time you're just sitting around taking coffee with friends. ~ Felicia Day

I didn't go to L.A. because I wanted to move to California. I went to L.A. to work as an actor. ~ Bryan Greenberg

I experience psychic phenomena, so people think I must be crazy. But you have to be accessible and intelligent to be a good actor. I might not have gotten the best grades in school, but I have a very high level of emotional intelligence. You have to be open to receive. ~ Christine Ebersole

Alan Rickman was such a terrific actor, and that was such a terrific character that he played. And it was a joy to be with him. We used to laugh together because we ran out of reaction shots. They were always - when everything had been done and the children were finished, they would turn the camera around and we'd have to do various reaction shots of amazement or sadness and things. We used to say we'd got to about number 200-and-something and we'd run out of knowing what to do when the camera came around on us. But he was a joy. ~ Maggie Smith

As an actor, you're constantly looking to be pushed. ~ Maisie Williams

There's so much I want to do as an actor. I feel like there's so much more that I want to achieve and that I can achieve. ~ Hilary Swank

Actors live dependent on being validated by other people's opinions. I don't understand what it is I do that people want. I don't know what an actor does. I have no credentials. I don't know what I'm doing. ~ Shia Labeouf

There are not a lot of places for an actor to explore what it's like to be a woman in her 60s. There aren't any films about it and there very few TV series about it. ~ Sally Field

My strength as an actor is in the theater - I know that about myself. Some actors get onstage and vanish, but I'm much better there than I am on screen. ~ Stacy Keach

I have been doing this since I was nine years old. So whatever the role is, I am going to do the best I can do. The only thing I am concerned with is stepping on the stage in front of that camera and giving the best performance I know I can give, day in and day out as an actor. ~ Darius McCrary

You can be really weird, and people will still accept you if you're in movies. I'm not actually weird, but if I feel like being weird, then I can do it, and they accept it because you're an actor. ~ Ansel Elgort