"Every year or so, I try to do something; it keeps me refreshed as to what's going on in front of the lens, and I understand what the actor is going through."

Actor,

16

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"Every year or so, I try to do something; it keeps me refreshed as to what's going on in front of the lens, and I understand what the actor is going through."

Exlpore more Actor quotes

"I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be."

Milan Kundera, Czechoslovakian Writer

Actor,

"It's very difficult for me to speak about being an actor."

Catherine Deneuve, French Actress

Actor, Being

"My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

Actor, College, Eye, Theatre

"James Ivory comes close to the actors for the first rehearsal. He more or less lets you direct yourself and then will only correct you if he finds it incorrect."

Leslie Caron, French Actress

Actor, Actors, First, Will

"Eventually though, I'd like to have my own production company. Then I could create great opportunities not only for myself, but for other actors as well."

Mario Lopez, American Actor

Actor, Actors, Company, Production

"I'm a working actor so I never really pick a film because of a genre, and I don't really turn them down because of genre. Anything that's unlike the picture I just finished is always more interesting."

David Keith, American Actor

Actor, Film

"My cameraman and I devised a method, which we started using from my second film, which applies mainly to day scenes shot in the studio, where we used bounced light instead of direct light. We agreed with this thing of four or five shadows following the actors is dreadful."

Satyajit Ray, Indian Director

Actor, Actors, Day, Film, Light

"Suddenly I was the man who got the part that every actor in the English language was trying to get. I was really scared. I had talked the talk, and now I had to walk the walk. For three days, I couldn't answer the phone."

F. Murray Abraham, American Actor

Actor, English, Language, Man

"One of the pleasures of being an actor is quite simply taking a walk in someone else's shoes. And when I look at the roles I've played, I'm kind of amazed at all the wonderful adventures I've had and the different things I've learned."

Willem Dafoe, American Actor

Actor, Being

"Think of Frank Capra and Preston Sturges. They used the same actors over and over again."

Matthew Modine, American Actor

Actor, Actors

Explore more quotes by Martin Scorsese

"Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this."

Cinema

"I don't agree with everything he did in his life, but we're dealing with this Howard Hughes, at this point. And also ultimately the flaw in Howard Hughes, the curse so to speak."

Life

"I always say that I've been in a bad mood for maybe 35 years now. I try to lighten it up, but that's what comes out when you get me on camera."

Now

"I think what happened there was just the budget would be too big to build these sets because nothing really exists here in New York of that period; you have to build it all."

Nothing

"It seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world and if it does, then only temporarily."

Change

"I certainly wasn't able to get it when I was a kid growing up on the Lower East Side; it was very hard at that time for me to balance what I really believed was the right way to live with the violence I saw all around me - I saw too much of it among the people I knew."

Time

"I do know that some Buddhists are able to attain peace of mind."

Peace

"The term 'giant' is used too often to describe artists. But in the case of Akira Kurosawa, we have one of the rare instances where the term fits."

Cinema

"I love the look of planes and the idea of how a plane flies. The more I learn about it the better I feel; while I still may not like it, I have a sense of what is really happening."

Love

"Eradicating a religion of kindness is, I think, a terrible thing for the Chinese to attempt."

Religion