top of page
More

"Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part."
Author Name
Personal Development

"My approach to acting is that I am totally intuitive. I read the script and I get it. If I don't get it, I can't do it."
Author Name
Personal Development

"I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting."
Author Name
Personal Development

"There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane."
Author Name
Personal Development

"Acting is happy agony."
Author Name
Personal Development

"The thing I hate most in acting is asking permission to do things. What you really want to do is say, 'This is my need; this is what's going to get me further; this is what's going to be alive. I don't ever say, 'Do you mind if...?' I just come in and do it."
Author Name
Personal Development

"Acting is something different to everybody. I just know that if you watch an actor or actress getting better and better, I think that's them just understanding themselves better and better."
Author Name
Personal Development

"I really think that effective acting has to do literally with the movement of molecules."
Author Name
Personal Development

"I was just a cheap little starlet hardly acting at all in a very mediocre film."
Author Name
Personal Development

"Well, I'm never happier than when I'm acting."
Author Name
Personal Development
More

"I've been acting for 25 years, living out of suitcases on theater tours or film locations."
Acting

"I do remember being a fan of the Marvel characters and not liking the DC characters at all."
Being

"I love playing villains."
Love

"Every job is different. I don't think that I've ever had that wonderful feeling when you've finished a job or where you feel like you've mastered it or sort of nailed it... You can never be satisfied. If you're satisfied, it's time to retire."
Time

"My father was a waiter basically, and when I got my first professional job as an actor, I left a job that he found me for half the amount of money. So anyone would think that they're stupid, that that would be a stupid move."
Money

"The worst thing that an actor can do is go into any project with a lack of respect for the material. You can have an opinion about it, but you have to respect yourself in doing it."
Actor

"I'm not qualified to do anything else. So there better be another job. I'm kind of stuck now. I'm enjoying my life and I'm enjoying my work, and I'm enjoying the fact that the work I'm doing is garnering some interest and that's great. I just hope that it continues."
Life

"You're suspended sixty feet up in the air, you've been up there for three hours, and all the shot requires is that you have to sort of react to getting punched in the head."
Feet

"I've always been terrified about being bored. I always think being bored is the worst thing. The only strategic decision I ever made as an actor was to try and make each job as different as possible."
Decision
bottom of page