"I've always tried to kind of stretch my wings as an actor and do things that are different."

Actor,

32

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"I've always tried to kind of stretch my wings as an actor and do things that are different."

Exlpore more Actor quotes

"What we do as actors is we go through phases where you superficially learn all this information."

Cillian Murphy, Irish Actor

Actor, Actors, Information

"You know, for an actor to come into the midst of that, it's - It can either be difficult and somewhat unnerving, or it can be very embracing and like, kind of stepping into a nice hot tub."

Keith Carradine, American Actor

Actor,

"There are certain actors who are very good at improvising, like Dustin Hoffman and Glenda Jackson."

John Schlesinger, British Director

Actor, Actors

"As actors, we went where we wanted to, and the camera followed us: it was like having another person in the room. There was no formal structure to the process. It was very liberating."

Emily Watson, English Actress

Actor, Actors

"I might have a guitar or a piano on set to play something for the actors."

Mike Figgis, English Director

Actor, Actors, Guitar, Play

"It's a scary thing going into the workforce with a $50,000 debt and you've been trained as a classical theatre actor. There's always a depression in the theatre."

Frances McDormand, American Actress

Actor, Debt, Depression, Theatre

"A lot of actors don't like to see how they've done every day."

Catherine Deneuve, French Actress

Actor, Actors, Day

"I think it's hard to know. Feeling fulfilled, because actors face periods of unemployment, there is nothing worse than being at the top of your game; you have so much to give but do not have the platform to do this."

Michael York, British Actor

Actor, Actors, Being, Feeling, Nothing

"Being an actor means being an instrument for someone else. I want to give myself completely."

Catherine Deneuve, French Actress

Actor, Being, Want

"Most of my career up until the last couple of years has basically been a training ground for me. Actors that came up in the '50s and '60s, they had the theater, and television was in its infancy."

Thomas Jane, American Actor

Actor, Actors, Career, Television, Theater

Explore more quotes by Michael Douglas

"I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work."

Work

"For an actor, it's great fun to play one of these hungry white sharks. Audiences love to hate them."

Love

"A lot of actors get concerned about their own image, even going so far as to rewrite a movie to best serve that image. All I want to do is be in good movies."

Movies

"It's difficult for me to meet women because my crowd is much older. I know that for some of the young women I do meet, a relationship with me can be envisioned as a benefit to their career."

Woman

"The one thing that men and women have in common - they both like the company of men."

Men

"Actresses have more fear of being disliked. I, on the other hand, revel in it."

Fear

"Everything's so repressive now - it's the No generation. You can't do anything, you can't eat anything, you have to abstain."

Now

"I don't know about Brad Pitt leaving that beautiful woman to go hold orphans for Angelina. I mean how long is that going to last?"

Woman

"When you're making pictures out of heartfelt passion, it hurts when someone calls them a calculated business move."

Business

"There's nothing like a family crisis, especially a divorce, to force a person to re-evaluate his life."

Family