Actors Quotes (page 78)

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• time
• childhood
• drawing

You draw on your own childhood every time you tee it up as an actor. Ron Perlman

• kindness
• camera
• philosophy

I've never been pigeonholed and I've experienced so many different kinds of skin - what man will do and won't do, what you should do and shouldn't do. This is what's exciting about being an actor; where philosophy majors sit in classrooms or write books about human behavior, we're actually acting them out in front of cameras. Ron Perlman

• professional
• professionalism
• almost

I've been a professional actor for almost 40 years. Ron Perlman

• thinking
• career
• liking

I don't think that I've had a career like anyone else's, but there are hosts and hosts of actors whose careers I admire. Ron Perlman

• people
• saying
• fear

I was horrified when Richard Chamberlain and Rupert Everett said gay actors should stay in the closet. They were saying to people that they should live a lie and not be liberated, to live in fear of being found out. Alan Cumming

• thinking
• americanized
• intimidated

I think American actors are much more intimidated by Shakespeare. Alan Cumming

• ifs
• wanted
• escapes

We all want to escape our circumstances, don't we? Especially if you are an actor. Benedict Cumberbatch

• work
• opportunity
• choose

I had the privilege of being able to choose, or at least have the opportunity to work at, being anything but an actor. Benedict Cumberbatch

• look
• england
• whatever

Being a posh actor in England you cannot escape the class-typing from whatever side you look at it. Benedict Cumberbatch

• work
• may
• little

As I've always said, preproduction is so important. When you cast the actors, you've done much of the work. Now, you may need to guide them a little, take it up or down, have them go faster or slower, but the casting process is crucial. Robert Wise

• actor
• two years
• living

I'm the most out-of-work actor I know. In the last two years I've basically taken meetings for a living. Macaulay Culkin

• happy
• time
• feeling

I'm not one of those actors who needs the media spotlight all the time to feel gratified. I'm happy to do one project a year and take the rest of the year off as long as that project is special. Macaulay Culkin

• old
• gone
• years

I could have gone the route of a lot of these former child actors, but I didn't want that for myself. Like I said, when I was 14 years old, I decided to quit. I didn't ever want to do it again. Macaulay Culkin

• best
• good
• learning

Watching a good actor is the best way to learn. Kieran Culkin

• waiting
• producers
• directed

My oldest step-son wants to direct or produce. As far as being an actor, I've already told them they have to wait until they're 18; I won't take them to auditions. Elizabeth Perkins