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Actor Quotes
"You grow up in a Sicilian household, becoming an actor is not a big leap."
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"As a director, I've been able to combine with what I've learned as an actor and as a producer: it melds quite nicely into what I feel like I should have been doing all along."
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"Once during a taping there was an actor who kept blowing his lines. It happened again and again. Finally Norman Fell came out-he wasn't even in that scene. But Norman came out and you know what he did? He killed the guy with a hammer."
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"I was very pleased you know, and I was afraid that I might stick out, but I didn't. My happiest thing about that picture is that I proved that American actors can speak as well and also fit in with an ensemble like that."
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"What we do as actors is we go through phases where you superficially learn all this information."
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"When you know what an actor has, you can reach in and arouse it. If you don't know what he has, you don't know what the hell is going on."
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"Now, when I started my theater, the modus operandi was having the actors stare right into the audience."
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"To be a good actor you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules to strive for something new."
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"The actor's popularity is evanescent; applauded today, forgotten tomorrow."
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"I am not a long-run actor. I admire actors who can do that."
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"I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I had to decide early on whether I was to be an actor or a personality."
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"I weren't an actor, I'd be a wildlife biologist or forest ranger."
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"I think some actors thrive on working at a much greater pace than I do."
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"I think I did have fantasies about being an actor. In fact, I know I did."
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"Ordinarily if an actor gets chosen for the lead in a film, he or she has already built up a repertoire, and everyone knows what he or she is capable of."
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"Ross Hunter was my assistant on Take Me to Town, He was a young man, an actor before that, and learned a lot on the picture. During shooting, Goldstein left, and Ross was most pleasant. He never interfered."
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"I'm used to working alone. Frankly with some of the actors I've worked with, I've felt like I was working alone."
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"It wasn't a mission to be a rock star. It wasn't a mission of mine to even be a movie star. I just intended to be a good actor."
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"I ended up an actor, did my first professional union gig in 1974, and I've been doing it ever since."
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"It was like there's got to be some way to stay working and stay productive in Los Angeles. TV is that kind of thing for an actor. Unless you get stuck in one of these shows where you have to go to Vancouver."
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"But actors at a certain point take the best of what's available to them."
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"You are always damned by things that you do well as an actor."
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"A good actor is somebody who can be truthful and fascinating and interesting and enlightening."
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"I often think that could we creep behind the actor's eyes, we would find an attic of forgotten toys and a copy of the Domesday Book."
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"It has given me an insight into what it's like as an actor to come into a show in the middle of a production and fit into a group that's already established."
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"I think the show does better with newsmakers and politicians than it does with actors."
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"I read the script, and I knew it was a good part. It was written for a white actor. That's what I'm up against - I have to try to make roles happen for me that aren't written black."
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"Before 1972, no actors got residuals. They just got paid. No residuals."
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