"Some actors need to be rattled and some need to be focused."

Actor, Actors

67

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"Some actors need to be rattled and some need to be focused."

Exlpore more Actor quotes

"The worst thing for an actor is a director that gets on your nerves and says things that actually confuse you."

Stephen Rea, Irish Actor

Actor, Nerves

"I've always seen it as the role of an artist to drag his inside out, give the audience all you've got. Writers, actors, singers, all good artists do the same. It isn't supposed to be easy."

Henry Rollins, American Musician

Actor, Actors, Artist, Artists, Writers

"We want the best actor, and that's why Matt Damon worked so well in this role, because he's a great actor."

Bobby Farrelly, American Director

Actor, Want

"The only thing we don't do together is get in front of an actor and show any indecision at all about what we think. We don't always agree, so we meet privately, then one or the other will approach the actor."

Bobby Farrelly, American Director

Actor, Indecision, Will

"I was an actor... or, at least, I was trying to be an actor."

Richard Donner, American Director

Actor, Trying

"For a child actor, it's a matter of listening, reacting, and being able to put yourself in a new place without being scared."

Jena Malone, American Actress

Actor, Being, Listening

"A lot of actors just do whatever they do, and wherever the camera is, it is. They don't pay much attention, but I always did. I was always very close to the camera crew. They were my best buddies, no matter what movie or show I was doing."

Donna Mills, American Actress

Actor, Actors, Attention

"I'm a rapper trying to be an actor."

Method Man, American Musician

Actor, Trying

"The thing about Canada is, you're not really considered a Canadian actor unless you do something with the CBC."

Lexa Doig, Canadian Actress

Actor, Canada

"I do think that good actors can do any part. It doesn't mean that they are the best ones to do it."

Richard Gere, American Actor

Actor, Actors

Explore more quotes by Liev Schreiber

"As soon as you know what you're doing, you're doing it wrong."

Wrong

"If I'm doing my job as an actor, the audience knows everything I know about the character."

Character

"I manage to hide in my movies."

Movies

"You can think about your career or you can think about your job. I like to think about my job."

Career

"There's the private persona and the public persona and the two shall never meet."

Public

"I live with an 18-month-old Jack Russell named Chicken. He moved in about 15 months ago, and it was very hard at first because I work a lot and he doesn't."

Work

"I was a writer. I just wasn't a very good one. I was lucky enough to have a playwriting teacher who told me that I'd be a better actor than I would a playwright."

Actor

"You should never ask actors about politics."

Politics

"Hamlet is a remarkably easy role. Physically it's hard because it tends to be about three hours long and you're talking the whole time. But it's a simple role and it adapts itself very well, because the thing about Hamlet is, we all are Hamlet."

Time

"My publicist told me not to talk about politics but, yes, I think we have a president who stole the election."

Politics