An actor really is a kind of intermediary between an audience and the piece, whether it's a play or movie.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be.
An actor is an actor is an actor. The less personality an actor has off stage the better. A blank canvas on which to draw the characters he plays.
An actor is someone who pretends to be somebody else. A movie star is somebody who pretends that somebody else is them.
An actor is an impersonator; he plays many different roles. If you played the same role all the time, God - that'd be a boring career. When you take on different roles and become a different person, that's called acting... It's a challenge.
Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.
As an actor, you're always at the service of somebody else's vision. In a play, it's more of the director's vision, and he or she's got their hands on you all the way up to opening night, and if it's a film, there are even more people.
Well, an actor is an actor is actor, to paraphrase someone or other and the opportunity to work, to have a steady engagement, certainly seemed like an appealing concept to me.
Sometimes I think being an actor is like being a dog for a director; it's like they throw a stick, and you want to fetch it and bring it back to them. You want a pat on the head for it.
Actors are actors, and there should be a complete fluidity for anyone to play anything.
There's nothing like a play. It's so immediate and every performance is different. As an actor, you have the most control over what the audience is seeing.