Actor Quotes

To be an actor you have to have a certain amount of madness in you. That’s why, when people meet you and you seem very together, they are quite surprised – they don’t see you behind closed doors.

That’s your job as the actor, to understand the human part of the character, to make it real.

I didn’t want to be an actress; I never thought of being an actress because, as children, there were three of us – I was the middle child – and we spent our time in church from Sunday morning to Saturday night.

It’s just people should realize that the celebrity aspect of being an actor is very rarely enjoyable for people like me who would always rather go unnoticed and disappear into the crowd.

I don’t read reviews, but I do get feedback from my peers and people I know, like other actors and directors and producers.

Method actors are like hams.

In other words, I wouldn’t like to be an actor if I could only be real. I like to get wild, behaviourally wild, and it’s crazy to think of any form where it’s just one way.

If two actors have an equal creative give and take between them, it translates beautifully on the screen.

As an actor, you think you know your craft, you know the conflicts in your character, but often you don’t.

Clark Gable was the only real he-man I’ve ever known, of all the actors I’ve met.