Ludgate Actor Quotes

A female's career as an actor is very different from a male's career as an actor. That's just the way it is. So, I'm fascinated by really strong male careers that have inspired me, and also really incredible male roles. ~ Abbie Cornish

That's where everything starts, as an actor: you've gotta have great writing and great character development, and then you have really great materials to work from. ~ Matt Lauria

Essentially, I'm a small-part actor who's been lucky enough to play leading roles for most of his life. ~ Alec Guinness

I always try to be careful when an actor who is like 70 walks onto my set at work, I don't want them to get called in five hours early or block shoot something. I think you need to treat them with respect and dignity. ~ Robin Tunney

Being an actor is wonderful and it's a lot of fun, but eventually you look old and you can't fit this or that. It's important to have other skills, be able to do other things, and to really learn how this business works and what it thrives on. ~ Gabourey Sidibe

When I was seven, I had been very vocal about wanting to be an actor. And my mom decided that we would try it out for a couple weeks and come to L.A. from Sacramento. ~ Brie Larson

As an actor, I've always found that my job is not to judge the content in which I've agreed to perform in. What I try to do is just find the truth in every moment that they've written. ~ David Zayas

The Baha'i celebrity, or the Belebrity, is a character actor with a big head playing an annoying creep on a TV show. ~ Rainn Wilson

It's like an athlete. He has a string of hot years, and then he fades into nothingness. The actor doesn't necessarily fade into nothingness. After his hot years, he fades into a different category. ~ Ed Asner

I want to stretch myself as an actor. ~ Victoria Justice

I'm not partial to any system, but at the same time, I'm a Korean actor, so I expect to work mainly on Korean projects. ~ Bae Doona

Being an actor is about having the courage to follow your instincts, and also having the discipline and dedication to sacrifice the things in your life that you need to sacrifice to get the best out of yourself artistically. ~ Matt Smith

[My mother] is the greatest hero I'll ever know because she kept us all together, she made sure we all graduated college. She always believed in us no matter what we do. My older brother Joel became an art teacher; my brother Rip ultimately became a television producer and singer and actor himself. ~ Billy Crystal

I'm a factory-floor actor: I learn the lines, I get there on time. ~ Rhys Ifans

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

In the end of the day, you are human. Film is a job which is not an individual job; you have tons and tons of people behind you - you have a whole crew of people working. But, an actor is the face of a film, so you get all of the good things, but you get the bad things, also. ~ Preity Zinta

You should've heard the crowd, though, when he was finished. You would've puked. They went mad. They were exactly the same morons that laugh like hyenas in the movies at stuff that isn't funny. I swear to God, if I were a piano player or an actor or something and all those dopes thought I was terrific, I'd hate it. I wouldn't even want them to clap for me. People always clap for the wrong things. If I were a piano player, I'd play in the goddam closet. ~ J.D. Salinger

I grew up in a family of strong women and I owe any capacity I have to understand women to my mother and big sister. They taught me to respect women in a way where I've always felt a strong emotional connection to women, which has also helped me in the way I approach my work as an actor. ~ Ryan Gosling

I definitely don't see myself as an actor. I don't even have it on my passport. I've got 'writer and electrician' on my passport. I don't want anyone to think I'm an actor. ~ John Gordon Sinclair

When an acting teacher tells a student 'that wasn't honest work' or 'that didn't seem real,' what does this mean? In life, we are rarely 'truthful' or 'honest' or 'real'. And characters in plays are almost never 'truthful' or 'honest' or 'real'. What exactly do teachers even mean by these words? A more useful question is: What is the story the actor was telling in their work? An actor is always telling a story. We all are telling stories, all the time. Story: that is what it is all about. ~ Stella Adler

The actor passed him his cigarette case. "No, you must tell us all about it. One should always be reminded of the fact that even in this best of worlds the blood still flows freely."

"The Dead Jew ~ Hanns Heinz Ewers

I think that an actor is more likely to be forgiven in the public's eye than an actress. ~ Mila Kunis

It is hard to be an actor on a TV show, because you don't know what's coming and you sort of find out very last minute sort of what's happening. ~ Elizabeth Meriwether

I came from a very different sort of background and pedigree from the people who were on "The Daily Show". I was an actor. I was sort of - the irony is that I've done as much dramatic work in my career as comedic work and I don't really think of myself as a comedian. ~ Aasif Mandvi

I'm not a comedian, I'm an actor. ~ Chris Diamantopoulos

I feel that in order to truly be an actor, you have to differentiate yourself and your roles. ~ Michelle Trachtenberg

I was never tortured over whether I wanted to become an actor. There was never another option in my mind. ~ Stephanie Courtney

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

It's a pretty good job being an actor, but it's work sometimes. And when I say work, I mean it's a job. You're going to a job. ~ Matt Dillon

An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation. ~ Billy Wilder

I never wanted to be an actor. I got stuck in it and kind of liked what I was doing. ~ James Garner

I think there's a deep impulse in most humans to do creative stuff, whether that's music or art, photography or writing. Most people at some point in their life say they want to do something creative - they want to be an actor, a director, a writer, a poet, a painter or whatever. ~ Stewart Butterfield

Doing 'Prometheus' was what you imagine being an actor is like when you're five. In a spacesuit, on another planet, getting killed by an alien. It was a real treat; it felt like being a part of movie history. ~ Rafe Spall

Ang Lee just allowed me to make what we would call mistakes and had no judgment of them. He also empowered me. You know, he's like, "You're my actor. I chose you. Whatever you do is right." Right? "I made the decision, I'm complicit in choosing you. And I went through everything I could to choose you, so I feel good and whatever you're going to do I'm going to give you this space." And so it was very empowering. ~ Jake Gyllenhaal

I always find that it's when a script is not detailed, then I have to do more work as an actor. ~ Steve Buscemi

I never saw myself so much as an actor. I wanted to be a cartoonist like Charles M. Schulz and create my own world and be able to have a studio at home and not commute and be able to be with my family. ~ Mark Hamill

When I was 18 and not sure whether I wanted to be an actor, I realised that a playwright has no voice without an actor. That's my reason for acting: to get that character as right as possible for my writer. And I have never changed my philosophy. ~ David Suchet

Rajni Sir is very dedicated and punctual. It was great experience acting with him both as a person and as an actor. The way he maintains himself is amazing. ~ Nayantara

To want to be an actor is enough - you don't need to tell us about it. The interesting person who comes with some life experience is always the person who is going to be chosen by me. ~ Kenny Ortega

It is very important for an actor or actress to look around at everything and everyone and never forget about real life. ~ Sophia Loren

I think every actor wants a certain amount of control. Maybe not control, as such, but just to be part of the process. But it's not necessary, I guess. ~ Aidan Turner

I would love to work with Johnny Depp. I really admire him as an actor, and personally, in my opinion, his portrayal of Captain Jack Sparrow is one of greatest performances given by an actor. I love his creative sense and the way he creates a character, so it would be a dream come true to work with him. ~ Caroline Sunshine