Rappaport Actor Quotes

I taught for a semester, but couldn't work out my teaching schedule with my acting schedule because they just didn't jive. So, I had to make a decision. And by sheer luck, I'm sure, I have not stopped working as an actor. ~ Danny Burstein

I'm happy being an actor, it's what I have always wanted to do. I'm just lucky I got to do it so early. ~ Charlie Hunnam

As an actor to watch an audience of people howl together in a single mind as a result of work you've done together with friends is a privilege. ~ Tommy Lee Jones

Adolescence is a tough one to be a child actor. ~ Jodie Foster

I had to paint the picture that I was never scared, otherwise I couldn't do my job. But now, as an actor, I'm literally paid to look emotionally accessible. ~ Zoe Bell

The actor must be full of passion. If he's too cool he's better off as the manager of a company, not someone who appears on the stage. ~ Stella Adler

When I'm working with Red One, we all have to do everything, from making sets and costumes to tearing tickets. Forget about craft services! So when I get on a film set, it's a thrill to be just working as an actor. ~ Joe Dinicol

The biggest spur to my interest in art came when I played van Gogh in the biographical film Lust For Life. The role affected me deeply. I was haunted by this talented genius who took his own life, thinking he was a failure. How terrible to paint pictures and feel that no one wants them. How awful it would be to write music that no one wants to hear. Books that no one wants to read. And how would you like to be an actor with no part to play, and no audience to watch you. Poor Vincent - he wrestled with his soul in the wheat field of Auvers-sur-Oise, stacks of his unsold paintings collecting dust in his brother's house. It was all too much for him, and he pulled the trigger and ended it all. My heart ached for van Gogh the afternoon that I played that scene. As I write this, I look up at a poster of his "Irises" - a poster from the Getty Museum. It's a beautiful piece of art with one white iris sticking up among a field of blue ones. They paid a fortune for it, reportedly $53 million. And poor Vincent, in his lifetime, sold only one painting for 400 francs or $80 dollars today. This is what stimulated my interest in buying works of art from living artists. I want them to know while they are alive that I enjoy their paintings hanging on my walls, or their sculptures decorating my garden ~ Kirk Douglas

I don't have to be a leading man. I can be a character actor. That's really what interests me anyway. ~ Mark Ruffalo

To me, a lot of what makes a good actor is not what a teacher tells you to do but how you respond when you're on your own. ~ Glenne Headly

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

You spend enough time on set as an actor and it's great when a director was at some point an actor or understands acting. They're able to finesse performances out of you that a lot directors can't get. ~ Ian Somerhalder

As an actor, it's more interesting to play a nerd than anything else. It's a lot more fun - you don't worry about 'what's my hair like?' in the morning or 'which is my great angle?' ~ Nicholas Brendon

One of the things about being a minority actor is that you don't have that opportunity as some of your counterparts to keep that flow, to constantly be going from one thing to the other, so when you see really great performances out there by some black folks, you know it's coming from somewhere deep, because they just don't work as much. ~ Georg Stanford Brown

Do you think he's the murderer?"
"It's worse than that
he's an actor! ~ Julian Fellowes

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

I don't love the business. I never wanted to be a part of it. I don't think any actor does. Most of the time, I've been really fortunate to work with people who are really fun to work with. It doesn't mean we don't take it seriously, but no one is under the delusion (that we're) bringing world peace. ~ Alan Arkin

I began my comedy as its only actor and I come to the end as its only spectator. ~ Antonio Porchia

One tries to be an observer as an actor and indeed as a director because the small things, the give-away things are what are really interesting to a performer. ~ Janet Suzman

I was a child actor in radio, and there's not many of us left. ~ Dick Van Patten

Every actor wants to direct. ~ Theodore Bikel

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

Because work takes up a lot of time, you have to choose your moments for really letting rip. I hang out with my friends and my family and I spend time with my kids when I'm not working. They don't see my being an actor as exotic. For them, it's just an everyday thing. Sometimes it's amusing to them and other times, embarrassing. ~ Aidan Gillen

As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of time with the music. ~ Sam Palladio

An actor is a man with an infinite capacity for taking praise. ~ Evan Esar

We have the best driver in the world in drifting and best guy in rally racing and stuff like that. So obviously there's a lot of stuff that I didn't do, but there's a lot of really incredible things that I don't think we've ever seen an actor do. ~ Sean William Scott

As an actor, you always want to find a piece of who you are in every role you take on. ~ Larenz Tate

I was working in computers when this stranger approached me out of the blue, saying I should become an actor. I took it as a gift from God, because I had been praying for clarity about what He wanted me to do, since I wasn't happy in computers. ~ Nate Parker

The only way to be an actor is to find ways to work as an actor, even if that means doing a one-man show by a river. ~ Chiwetel Ejiofor

I'm a much better singer than actor, which doesn't really say a whole lot. ~ Seann William Scott

Every actor wants to win an Oscar, full stop. It doesn't mean you try to design things around how to accomplish that because that's impossible. ~ Julia Roberts

I'm more than an actor. I'm an icon, an industry. ~ Corey Feldman

I love working with the right actor, and if the right actor happens to be unknown, that should be allowed, too, I think. ~ J.J. Abrams

It surely gives you a high to be an international actor with quality work. ~ Irrfan Khan

I mean, its hard to be an actor in the city - trying to make it as an actor - because you waitress all night, you get home really late and you're super tired and your feet hurt. ~ Piper Perabo

Whoa," says Michael.
"What is it?" I ask.
Michael shakes his head in disbelief. He points at the screen. "Wil Wheaton saw an I Kill the Mockingbird flyer and tweeted about it."
"Wil Wheaton?" I say.
"Wil Wheaton!" Michael says again. "Wil Wheaton!"
"Who is Wil Wheaton?"
"Wil Wheaton!"
"Michael," says Elena, "no matter how many times you say his name we still don't know who you're talking about."
"He's a gamer!" Michael takes the mouse from Elena and clicks on Wil Wheaton's profile. "He's a total geek hero! He's an author and an actor. He used to be on STAR TREK."
I point to the description that Wil Wheaton has written about himself. "It says here that he's just a guy."
"Just a guy who used to be on STAR TREK!" says Michael. ~ Paul Acampora

My grandmother raised me for a good portion of my life. She moved to Los Angeles with me to be an actor, so I've always had a connection with an older generation. ~ Britt Robertson

The performance is created by the director. The actor is the material. And I think that has to be true. ~ Ian McKellen

An actor stands in front of a camera onstage, and he controls time and space for the audience. He tells them how long this will take, where to look, when to look, what to think about it. And good performers should be able to do their part with the sound off. ~ John Michael Higgins

As an actor, I felt I couldn't compete. I wasn't as cute as the leading man; I wasn't as brilliant as Robin Williams. ~ Phil Hartman

First of all, computer animation is certainly a tremendous and viable medium today. But the warmth and personality derived from 2-D animation, in my opinion, cannot be surpassed. Certain stories lend themselves well to 3-D animation and I won't labor this with naming them, but in my bones, I still respond more emotionally to the artists feel in 2-D. You feel the 'actor' in the animator more personally ... it's hard to explain. ~ Richard Sherman

I had interest in acting. I started as a drama major in college. I got to school and said, "What am I going to do with this?" But I didn't know anybody in the business, and it seemed like - I don't know. I had a teacher who said "Less than 1 percent of you will ever make a living being an actor." That was how we opened the semester. ~ Greg Kinnear

I want to be an actor who always tries the best regardless of roles. ~ Rain