While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
There is but one stage for the peasant and the actor.
How can a president not be an actor?
An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument.
An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What if everybody jumped on his violin?
I have had acupuncture regularly, and I engage in visualization, which is actually an actor's tool, visualizing myself kicking out the cancer, making up scenarios.
I actually went to college with Adam Sandler. He was a dramatic actor, too!
The energy released by it is enormous and it becomes quite addictive, the power between the audience and the actor.
I was a child actor. I was this spaz kid diagnosed with ADHD, and I worked all the time.
I like Michael Bay a whole lot. And Jerry Bruckheimer. But I love Ben Affleck as a person, as a director, as an actor.
I find that all great directors, and I would include Ben Affleck and Clint Eastwood in that, they have great confidence. And with great confidence comes great freedom for the actor.
Acting was my after-school activity. I never planned on growing up and becoming an actor.
An agent is a person who is sore because an actor gets 90% of what they make.
I always wanted to be an actor, but my top three favorite actors of all time are Al Pacino, James Dean and Philip Seymour Hoffman.
There's an alchemy that happens in my eyes when you mix it up, when you have a seasoned actor on set and your first-timer.
I like the Baldwin boys a great deal. Alec is super-smart, super-articulate, almost too smart to be an actor.
All my friends were going off to be professionals, and I said I wanted to be an actor.
I think any good actor is an anarchist. They have to be.
I was an anguished little girl with just one wish: to become an actor. I debuted in live theater at 14 with Dario Niccodemi's 'La Nemica.'
I'd love to work with Sir Anthony Hopkins, but if that doesn't happen, I'd sneak on to a film set and watch him at work. He is a compelling actor.
