Lawther Actor Quotes

There could be some unknown actor who's a better actor than Ving Rhames, but no one knows that actor, so Ving Rhames will get the job. ~ Ving Rhames

TV and films are same for me. I took a decision to be an actor, and I am an actor. I never decided to be TV actor or film actor. ~ Ram Kapoor

An actor is an actor is an actor. The less personality an actor has off stage the better. A blank canvas on which to draw the characters he plays. ~ Arthur Lowe

I know that I'm better as an actor when I'm working with a good actor. I think anytime you're working with a better actor, it makes you a better actor. ~ Ben Stiller

Only be an actor if you can't be happy doing anything else. I don't think you should be an actor if you want to be actor. I think you should be an actor if you have to be an actor. ~ Linden Ashby

If you want to be an actor, don't. If you need to be an actor, do. ~ Derek Jacobi

I think, basically, I am an actor. Sometimes I'm an actor who's writing and sometimes an actor who's directing, but I think if I'm forced to fill out a form for my tax return, 'actor' is the first thing I write down. ~ Chris Eigeman

I always thought the leading actor should be the best supporting actor, because you're the only person that can help every other actor on the set. ~ Kevin Costner

You have to succeed as a young actor, then as a dad actor, those would be my 'Harvey Moon' years, then as an old actor. ~ Kenneth Cranham

The Playwright had long been fascinated by the strange mercurial personality of the Actor. What is "acting." and why do we respond to "great acting" as we do? We know that an actor is "acting" and yet - we wish to forget that an actor is "acting," and in the presence of talented actors we quickly do forget. This is a mystery, a riddle. How can we forget the actor "acts"? Is the actor "acting" on our behalf? Is the subtext of the actor's "acting" always and forever our own buried (and denied) "acting"? ~ Joyce Carol Oates

Well, an actor is an actor is actor, to paraphrase someone or other and the opportunity to work, to have a steady engagement, certainly seemed like an appealing concept to me. ~ Walter Koenig

An actor should have not one face but a thousand faces; like the phoenix which carries a print of each animal, an actor should carry a print of each human being! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

For me, some of the happiest moments on a live-action film are the awkward moments. One actor says something to another actor. They didn't expect that performance from that actor; that affects their return performance. ~ Gore Verbinski

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

Going from a child actor to an adult actor is not an easy thing, and I was sort of lost in a no man's land for a while, trying to figure out who I was as a person, and going from a young actor to an adult actor. ~ C. Thomas Howell

As an actor, you generally want to see the other actor's face. ~ Bob Newhart

Uta Hagen would say, there's the representational actor and the presentational actor. ~ Jake Gyllenhaal

The heritage of a British actor revolves around the challenges of playing the classic roles to meet certain levels of success as an actor. In America, the heritage of an actor is based on cinema mainly. ~ Brian Cox

Truthfully, most directors don't direct actors. Every actor is different, so when you're asked, "How do you approach an actor?," it depends on the actor. With some, you do nothing. With some, you're very specific. ~ John Landis

Almost everything I learned about being an actor came from those early years at the Actor's Studio. ~ Paul Newman

I don't consider myself an actor, for me it's employment. Like the actor who's a waiter a lot, I'm an actor when I'm not on tour, in that that's a job I can do. ~ Henry Rollins

Life made me an actor from birth. The world, darling, is not my stage but my audience. ~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Our dreams are the place where we can remember that which we never realized we knew. ~ Tilda Swinton Actor

Before an actor can be this or be that, the actor must simply be. ~ Zoe Saldana

I think of myself as a character actor, compared to a straight actor. I know a character actor in England is pretty much the same as in the States; you're actually hired to put on terrible teeth and stuff like that. ~ Burn Gorman

I think that an actor who is working should be a happy actor. ~ Brian Dietzen

I'd rather be a happy Hooters waitress than a depressed out-of-work actor. ~ Lauren Beukes

What I want to be is an actor, not a star. ~ Edward Albert

Life is a stage where the worst actor plays the king while the best actor the beggar. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer

I'm an actor. I've always been an actor. I've always approached all my comedy as an actor. I don't really care about jokes either. I tire of jokes. ~ Brett Gelman

It's very hard to tell an actor, 'Stop acting.' It's easy to tell a non-actor, because they're embarrassed when they act. They get ashamed when they do something cliche, whereas an actor is happy. ~ John Carney

I've never trained as an actor. I've always thought I'm not a good actor. I've been told I'm not a good actor by a lot of people. ~ Jo Brand

I think there are always actor parts, and then there are movie-star parts, and an actor's always an actor until he does a movie-star part. ~ Lynda Obst

How you look is part of what acting is, but the way I look at it, every actor is a character actor. Someone once told me at a casting, 'You're a character actor in a leading man's body,' and I can live with that. ~ Santiago Cabrera

I'm a bit-part actor in my own life ~ Johnny Rich

You have to be an Actor to face life not the camera. ~ Tapan Ghosh

Dakota Fanning is a child, but she is a wonderful actor. I don't know what a child actor is. She's an actor who's a child. ~ Denzel Washington

I don't think that many people today, understand the nature of what an improv does for an actor in a specific setting. What an improv does for an actor is help him find the life; it's the life that an actor's after. ~ Giovanni Ribisi

The next actor I meet that uses the term 'courageous' to describe another actor's performance is getting punched in the face. ~ Dov Davidoff

I love to read scripts. But I am very happy right now to say that I am a working actor. In this town of Los Angeles, the phrase 'I'm an actor' is overrated. So, I like to say, 'I'm a working actor.' ~ Jaime Camil

Being a film actor is very different from a theatre actor. ~ Catherine Deneuve

I am an actor, living generally on air, but I have always elastic hopes for the future; they may be stretched indefinitely, such hopes, without bursting ~ Vladimir Nabokov

I wasn't grateful for all the great shit that had happened to me. If you're not grateful, then it's very easy to be an asshole. ~ Actor Mark Ruffalo

I never think of an actor as a model. A model wears what you tell them to wear, that's their job. An actor is different. It's important to work with the actor because in the end that's who the audience sees and that's the success that you need. ~ Patricia Field

I'm just an actor. Just a stupid actor. ~ Vincent Kartheiser

You can either be a movie star or an actor. I'm an actor. ~ James Avery

I don't know one actor that became an actor for healthy reasons. ~ Judge Reinhold

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

Thomas Buddenbrook's existence was no different from that of an actor - an actor whose lfe has become one long production, which but for a few hours for relaxation, consumes him unceasingly. ~ Thomas Mann

I didn't become an actor to make money. And I didn't become an actor to be famous - though people always gasp if you say that, as if it's unfathomable that an actor doesn't want to be a star. ~ Ruth Negga

I think, when someone say, "When did you feel like an actor?" it's those moments when I feel like, "I'm an actor, wow." That's an extraordinary moment for me. So it's not like I walk around going, "I'm an actor." ~ Jake Gyllenhaal

I've never really felt like I was a child actor. Just an actor who happened to be quite young. ~ Saoirse Ronan

The audience perceives only what the actor wants to do to the other actor. ~ David Mamet

It's not like every actor needs to train, but an actor will either develop their process through training or through working. ~ Emory Cohen

You suffer as an actor. It's difficult to be an actor and live a good life, especially today. ~ Catherine Deneuve

We want the best actor, and that's why Matt Damon worked so well in this role, because he's a great actor. ~ Bobby Farrelly

I never started out to be an action actor. I was an ensemble actor. ~ Sylvester Stallone

Picture sometimes says something that connects with people. Connection, that is what it is all about in the end". ~ Kunal Karan Kapoor

The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act. ~ Al Pacino

The delineation between the actor and his part is a practical matter. When the camera runs, you want the actor to be the character. ~ Mike Leigh

An actor will use every piece of information at their disposal, or a good actor will. ~ Jessica Pare

In order to feel safer on his private jet, actor John Travolta has purchased a bomb-sniffing dog. Unfortunately for the actor, the dog came six movies too late. ~ Tina Fey

My belief is that if I can achieve that level of entertainment by making the audience happy or sad or angry, then I have succeeded as an actor and have done my job. The profits and the fame as an actor will eventually surface, but first and foremost comes the work as an actor. ~ Cole Hauser

To be an actor, a true actor, you have to be brokenhearted. ~ Shia Labeouf

If you're an actor, and you've thought your way into the part, then you're character portrayal will have authority ... ~ John Geddes

I studied movies for many years, but I am professionally an actor because I, my background is actually a stage actor and acting. ~ Tommy Wiseau

Life as a Person is Unfair, Life as an Actor is Bullshit ~ Joshua Teya

I guess George Clooney would be a wonderful silent actor, and Leonardo DiCaprio is such a wonderful actor he certainly could do it. ~ Michel Hazanavicius

I would love to work with Bill Murray. I've always been such a big fan. I think he's obviously a great comedic actor but a really interesting actor. ~ Will Ferrell

I don't want to be quoted as 'Tom Hiddleston, psychologist says ... ' But there is a psychological aspect to being an actor. We are particular students of human nature - not every actor is, of course, but that's what fascinates me about being an actor. ~ Tom Hiddleston

I wasn't a class clown, I never developed this comedic flair as a kid. Even when I decided to become an actor, it was just to be an actor, not necessarily a comedic actor. I wasn't that guy who struck out with women so he became really funny, and that's when the women started to like him. ~ Steve Carell

Claude Rains was what we call an actor's actor. He was very involved with himself and his performance. ~ Gloria Stuart

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Prerequisite for Laziness: Creativity, award winning actor/actress, convincing speech ~ Kamil Ali

I have no problem having any actor from anywhere play a role. I'm excited for any actor that gets a job, I truly am. Even if it's a role that I'm up for and I don't get it, I never begrudge any actor having it work out for them. ~ William Fichtner

As an actor, I'm always just so pumped when I get any job. To be a working actor takes a lot of luck. ~ Elden Henson

I think when you're a mom and an actor, it forces you to leave any actor neuroses behind and just concentrate on the work. ~ Anna Silk

I didn't grow up really wanting to be an actor. I don't remember ever not being an actor. ~ Jodie Foster

There's always down time when you're an actor, especially a character actor. ~ John Cariani

If you're a leading actor you don't work with another actor. You work with a lady. ~ Michael Caine

One of my favourite sorts of actors ... the rat actor. The rat actor knows his job and gets it done. ~ Joss Whedon

I'm an actor and I love to find new collaborations and new characters where I can grow as an actor and human being. ~ Alexander Skarsgard

I certainly want to establish myself as an actor in my own right, rather than being just the actor who plays Harry Potter. ~ Daniel Radcliffe

It's easier to see in someone else, another actor, how they kind of disappear and then this other persona appears. A great actor is a thing of mystery. ~ Annette Bening

Anytime you get to work with an actor who is beyond you in experience and talent, I feel like they make you a better actor. You really bring up your game. ~ Malin Akerman

Great acting is as much about the choices a performer makes as it is about their ability. ~ Stewart Stafford

People are more willing to accept a singer as an actor, than an actor as a singer. ~ Zachary Levi

Are you genuine? or just a play-actor? A representative? it the actual thing represented?-Ultimately you are even just an imitation play-actor ... Second question for the conscience. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

It's not easy being an actor, and having said that, everybody's an actor. Do you know what I mean? Paris Hilton's an actor, which is kind of scary. But if you want to honor your craft and yourself, strive for the nobler instincts. ~ Patti LuPone

I just think the less you know about an actor, the more serious you'll take them as an actor because they will disappear a little bit. ~ Peter Dinklage

The great exception to that, of course, is Johnny Depp, who is absolutely the ultimate character actor. Johnny Depp is the future of the character actor and thanks to his success maybe we will see the return of an era when my sort of actor is back in vogue. It's not in vogue for me to be in Hollywood movies as lots of different people. ~ David Suchet

Very often the Group actor is a critic when he's acting and an actor when he's criticizing. ~ Elia Kazan

I would define a Coarse Actor as one who can remember the lines but not the order in which they come. it is perhaps not an entirely satisfactory definition, and a close friend whom I regard as easily the most desperately bad actor in West Bromwich suggests that a Coarse Actor is one who can remember the pauses but not the lines. ~ Michael Frederick Green

Only a great actor finds the difficulties of the actor's art infinite. ~ Ellen Terry

A lot of people are surprised to hear that an actor studied for two or three years. They take the craft for granted and wanna just wake up and be an actor. ~ Taylor Kitsch

Growing up, I was always adamant that I would never do 'Home and Away' or 'Neighbours,' because as an actor you want to set your path as that serious kind of actor. ~ Brenton Thwaites

I'm an international actor, but at the same time, I'm also a Bollywood actor, even though most of my career has been abroad. However, I've always kept in touch with Hindi cinema. ~ Kabir Bedi

I'm like a circus standing on two legs. ~ Nuno Roque

The good thing about being an actor, and the gift of being an actor, is that you are beautifully forced to see the world with different eyes. ~ Javier Bardem

You always absorb a lot from a great actor. What you want, as an actor, no matter where you are in your career, is a partner who's going to bring everything they have to the scene. ~ Julianne Moore

I started off as an actor thinking that I would be this Romeo, this dashing leading man. It turns out that I'm a character actor. ~ Alessandro Nivola