I’m probably the most pessimistic actor I know. I’m always sure I’ll never work again.
My job as an actor is to just tell the story as best I can from my character’s point of view and let the audience decide.
It is easier to get an actor to be a cowboy than to get a cowboy to be an actor.
For me it is important to mould myself as the director wants. That’s my challenge as an actor.
An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer.
I think trust is the most important thing. If the actors and the director and the crew trust each other and you set up perimeters and boundaries, you give everyone space to do great work.
It’s difficult because nothing’s preordained by plan and you can’t control it. That’s one of those joys and thrills and nerve-racking realities of being an actor. A lot has to do with luck, no matter what your talent or contribution can be.
Actors have to have conversations not just with dialogue but with silences.
I didn’t become an actor to be famous. I genuinely love acting and never expected to make a penny at it.
Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that’s all you have.
You never really know as an actor; it’s completely out of your control, in terms of editing, and music, and film stock, shot selection, and what takes they use.
My older brother Joel became an art teacher; my brother Rip ultimately became a television producer and singer and actor himself.
Movie-making is serious business. The director and the crew are already under a lot of pressure to give their best to the audience. Therefore, the best part for me as an actor is to act well in the movies and make a jolly atmosphere with the co-stars on the sets.
I know what my talents are, and at the end of the day I’m an actor who can dance.
A rapper is about being completely true to yourself. Being an actor is about changing who you are.
More than an actor, I am a performer… I’m a great believer – honestly so, shamelessly so, vulgarly so – that cinema is for entertainment. If you want to send messages, there’s the postal service.
I’m an actor. Actors are supposed to act.
With actors, all our ages are out there for all to see – you can’t hide anything, really. And it’s kind of a relief. This is my age, this is what I look like without makeup on – who cares? That youth culture – that lying about your age – it’s all denial of death anyway.
I’ve always basically done everything that’s been offered to me. I’m one of the few actors who enjoy working a lot.
I’ve always been a bit of an orphan, because actors say, ‘Well, he’s more of a dancer.’ And dancers say, ‘No. He’s really a singer.’ And singers say, ‘No. He’s an actor.’
I don’t do stunts and I don’t think many actors do. For an actor to say they do their own stunts I don’t think is very respectful of the profession of stunt men and women.
Being an actor on a movie set is like going to the playground at recess.
Simple formula for the actor: prove you’re creative enough to get the job, sane enough to keep the job, and hungry enough to give up everything else to keep them happy.
Actors in general have become very spoiled in the roles they choose these days. When I first started in this profession – about a hundred years ago in the last century – it was all about taking risks, it was about doing the job and honing the craft.
My gut told me ‘Kanaa’ was worth taking up, and it’s a dream role for any actor.
You know, young actors say all the time, ‘Should I use my own life experience?’ And my response is, ‘What choice do you have?’
I actually went to college with Adam Sandler. He was a dramatic actor, too!
Musical types tend to combine the burden of the author with the burden of the actor.
I like Ryan Gosling as an actor. I watch all of his movies, and he’s Canadian and I just like his swag. I read his interviews and I’m a big fan of his.
Hollywood likes to put actors in boxes, and it likes to put Asian actors in really small boxes.
My father Kamran Khan was a successful producer, director and actor in B-grade films.
In other words, I wouldn’t like to be an actor if I could only be real. I like to get wild, behaviorally wild, and it’s crazy to think of any form where it’s just one way.
I don’t think I’m a neck actor in otherthings. But in Bridgerton,’ particularly with the way the corset sits andthe attentionon the neck, it makes you hold yourshouldersacertain way.
I think what makes a good actor’s director is somebody who understands what I’m doing and is respectful of it, but who also has a vision and is directing me toward their vision in a way that feels productive.
Being an actor really, really strengthens me as a director. There’s just a certain type of understanding that comes from having been there and knowing how much is really being asked of actors that helps me.
Jokes apart, people are constantly asking me, ‘What are you doing for the industry?’ When one makes a blockbuster, you plough back money into the industry. If my film makes 100 crore, I’m not taking the entire sum home! It gets distributed between the exhibitors, distributors, producers and actors.
I ran away from three different boarding schools before joining a circus school, and eventually I became an actor. The only thing I learned at boarding school was never to send my child to one.
I am a method actor, but I’m also a film actor as well as a method actor. Characters that don’t have humility, whether they are heroes or villains, are hard to relate to. All characters in every aspect of what we do should have humility. If they don’t, then they’re a cartoon character.
I always thought I was a pretty terrible actor.
I look at smoking as a crutch, and as an actor I would like strip away as many crutches as possible.
Unlike other young actors I’ve worked with who will remain nameless, Zoey Deutch and Lucy Fry would never go out partying after work, but would immediately hunker down to start working on the reams of labyrinthine dialogue they had to navigate for the next day’s work.
I got really into Martin Scorsese as a teenager, so then it was kind of the whole reason I wanted to be an actor. Just like tons of young actors, I think, get freaked out by the Scorsese/DeNiro movies. I loved all his movies in the ’90s, too. Then I got a part in ‘The Aviator’ and couldn’t believe it.
Black or white good parts are hard to come by. A good actor with a good opportunity has a shot; without the opportunity it doesn’t matter how good you are.
I can’t think of anything worse than trying to schmooze someone with the idea that you’re an actor.
If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn’t be an actor. You’re in the wrong profession.
I’m identified as a New York actor, I sound like I’m from New York, and I couldn’t be more proud of it.
When an actor even after ten years of experience puts in effort and treats every day of her work as the first day in her career, she becomes an asset.
There are many good-looking actors.
As a director, it is important to understand the actor’s process.
I don’t mean to criticize anyone in any way that I wouldn’t criticize myself. I think people should have fun, and have a good time, and enjoy the luck that we have to be lazy and dwell in consumerism. But I think that it’s a balance. And our job as actors is empathy.
I was in a movie called ‘Flirting With Disaster’ with Ben Stiller. I realized that I am really not a good actor and not something I wanted to pursue.
The truth is that to enjoy acting one must be an exhibitionist at heart, one must revel in those exposures of the emotions which would be agonizing to a shy or reserved person. All the great actors have been and are exhibitionists.
It’s a full time job – trying to be at peace in my life, trying to be a better person and be best in every way I can be, be a good brother, be a good actor and a good human being.
I do think you are mainly thrown into one medium as an actor, and then hopefully you grow from there.
I don’t want to be the stupid blond. I want to be an actor.
I can’t take on all the worries of the world, you know. I can only talk about being gay and being an actor. I’ll have to leave those other battles to somebody else.
All my life, I have taken inventory at intervals. For example, when I became a movie actor and suddenly I had to deal with fame, money and playing so many roles, I lost myself. I said, ‘Who am I?’ And I wrote my first book to deal with that, ‘The Ragman’s Son.’
It’s good for an actor to have, well, a big gob.
Our job as actors is to just try to be as accurate and as mindful of what the audience is going through and receiving and processing.
There is a lot of struggle in being an actor; you need so much emotional strength, no matter what level of stardom you have, that it’s nice to have something steady.
I can imagine Dad joking about how hard it’d be to get an actor to give back when it’s hard enough to ask them to give a good performance.
I don’t get jobs in films by auditioning. I’m not blonde. You can’t place me in movies the way you can with certain actors. It’s very difficult for my agents.
I liked ‘Scream of the Banshee’ because it was a real challenge. I thought, ‘How am I going to pull off this character?’ But, I also thought, ‘Oh, man, I’m going to go for it.’ He’s got all the defects of character that an actor loves to play. So, I had a really great time.
