205 Quotes About Actor

We’re only ever playing fifty percent of a character. The rest is us, and we’re afraid to show people who we really are. We’re afraid of looking foolish if we reveal the full force of our emotions.

Love, like acting, is a lonely pursuit.

Compassion, in its essence, is neutral. It’s holistic that way, and powerful because it yields a much wider perspective free of judgment or stress of any kind. We use it all the time in our work the way we’re always studying humanity intensely — always walking in someone else’s shoes, feeling the seams in their socks, wounds and elations in their souls.

Generally, a film reflects life but it looks unreal when the actors do not look at the camera while speaking, thinking or doing anything. In real life, we see in every direction but the performers do not do so in the movies. Indeed, the actors should not look at the camera repeatedly but they can do so in a natural way. So, though there are certain exceptions where the actors talk or think by facing the camera directly, the films cannot be called a perfect reflection of life.

As a beginning actor, your focus should be on developing as an artist. An artist expresses original ideas. Or he expresses old ideas in an original way.

I love it when you go to see something, and you enter as an individual, and you leave as a group. Because you've all been bound together by the same experience.

Life made me an actor from birth. The world, darling, is not my stage but my audience.

If you want to be an actor, don’t. If you need to be an actor, do.

Whatever genre you deem suitable for your taste – romance, comedy, action, mystery, sci-fi or anything else, make sure it has the plain everyday human kindness.