The audience perceives only what the actor wants to do to the other actor.
As an actor I am always waiting for my luck to run out.
It was being young and sensitive and an actor. There was a lot of pressure, everything was a hurdle.
An actor knows two important things - to be honest in what he is doing and to be in touch with the audience. That's not bad advice for a politician either.
You have to put your ego aside as an actor. Or you're using your ego to tell the story. Your body is a part of a tool to tell the story. So if you feel something, it's wrong. It means you're not inside of the character.
Every actor wants to change things up a bit. You don't want to be pigeonholed, and not just because of what the industry might think.
As an actor, you want as much variety as you can muster up. Otherwise you just keep playing the same chord over and over again.
What’s the difference between and actor and a movie star. An actor is someone who pretends to be somebody else. A movie star is somebody who pretends that somebody else is them.
I am a human being. I am not an actor.
An actor is an instrument. One needs to control them.
The goal is always just trying to stretch yourself as an actor.
When you're training as an actor, a lot of the big work you're learning is to treat fictional characters like real people. You don't have the problem of discovering a backstory with real people, but there's always a mystery which is common to both fictional and factual characters. They are never quite the person you think they are.
I wanted to be an actor ever since I was five. My grandparents - my mom's parents in New York - were stage actors. I think indirectly I wanted to do it because of them. My grandfather would tell me stories about Tennessee Williams and actors he worked with in New York. He had such a respect for acting and such a love for storytelling about that world. I grew up hearing him tell tales of it. They were never encouraging me or discouraging me to take part. They were always feeding me with theater.
Well, I'm not able to work anymore as an actor and still at the level I would want to. . . you start to lose your memory, you start to lose your confidence, you start to lose your invention. So, that's pretty much a closed book for me. And I'm grateful for the other things that have come into my life: grandkids, and restaurants and charity. . . I've been doing it for 50 years. That's enough.
I was a B student in math, simply because my teachers liked me, as an actor.
I'm so blessed to have been a working actor. If they still would like to make me a superstar, I'm available, but so far, being a working actor has been great. It's taken me everywhere.
I'm still an actor who wants to work all the time.
Growing up an only child with a single parent is probably why I'm an actor.
There's nothing better than an actor who is really, really hungry to show everything they've got.
I love acting. I'm actually a very emotional actor.
