Actor Quotes (page 49)

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• hard
• writing
• week

I have to work really hard, eight shows a week, to get a nice check as an actor. But when I write a play, and it's a - knock wood - hit, the checks come in for many years. Harvey Fierstein

• feeling
• may
• wellness

I don't feel particularly comfortable about actors using whatever power they may have to push their beliefs, unless they're extremely well informed. Ralph Fiennes

• job
• world
• looking at you

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. Ralph Fiennes

• running
• look
• watch

As an actor, there's a bit of you that's decided you want to be looked at and watched, but there's a paradoxical bit that wants to run away. Ralph Fiennes

• husband
• devil
• great

Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil. Otis Criblecoblis

• understanding
• people
• doings

You know, people really don't understand what actors do. Sally Field

• look
• congratulations
• doctor

When I was born, the doctor looked at my mother and said, 'Congratulations, you have an actor!' Sally Field

• film
• placing
• series

There are not a lot of places for an actor to explore what it's like to be a woman in her 60s. There aren't any films about it and there very few TV series about it. Sally Field

• motivational
• motivation
• people

I really have no ulterior motive in taking on certain roles. I have no larger issue that I really want to show people. I'm an actor, that's all. I just do what I do. Sally Field

• change
• work
• began

I joined the Actors Studio and began to work with Lee Strasberg, and that changed my work. Sally Field

• great
• greatness
• always

I always wanted to be a great actor. Sally Field

• saying
• improvisational
• improviser

I'm more of a writer than an actor, and I used to say that I'm mostly an improviser, though I haven't improvised in awhile. Tina Fey

• imagination
• thinking
• good

I think if you're a competent actor with a good imagination, and if it's on the page, it makes your job a lot easier. Miguel Ferrer

• small
• real
• character

Any actor who is being honest will admit there's always a small or large part of the real you in every character. It's impossible not to have that. Jerry Ferrara

• love
• work
• hard

The actors that I love to work with, they're hard on me. They're pushing me. Abel Ferrara