Actors Quotes (page 85)

• 
• 
• 

• joy
• evening
• really good

It is my greatest joy to live a really good part, even though it imposes great strain. An artist is tired but proud when he has created a great work of art. So it is with the actor who really lives a great role and is proud of the part he played. Conrad Veidt

• study
• wishes
• desirable

I was appalled at the amount of study necessary in order to qualify in medicine, and gradually my desire was blunted by a keener - and secret - wish to become an actor. Conrad Veidt

• heart
• hearts
• his

An actor remembers his first piece of published praise. It is written on his heart. Conrad Veidt

• strong
• background
• look

I really look up to actors like Gwyneth Paltrow and Cate Blanchett who have a strong background in theatre. Alexa Vega

• adult
• personal
• universe

You're an actor, are you? Well, all that means is: you are irresponsible, irrational, romantic, and incapable of handling an adult emotion or a universal concept without first reducing it to something personal, material, sensational - and probably sexual! George Herman

• view
• light
• lost

I think I've always had that bird's-eye view of myself. I think it's an actor trait... Sometimes it's best just to get lost out there, but other times you have to be aware of where the light's hitting you. Allison Williams

• war
• opposites
• speaking out

My opposition to the Vietnam War. I was the first Hollywood actor to speak out against it. Robert Vaughn

• my man
• life
• god

My belief in God is responsible for what I am... How can I refuse to talk about something which is so much a prt of my life both as a man and as a actor? Robert Vaughn

• good
• chance
• no chance

I'll never be a good writer, and no chance of being a good actor. Matthew Vaughn

• expectation
• expecting more
• ever

I expect I should be more calloused by now, but I am so sensitive about not ever living up to anybody's worst idea about an actor who is well-known. Sarah Jessica Parker

• look
• likeness
• looked

When you're an actor you don't really know what you have to do until you see what you look like. Tom Wilkinson

• good
• work
• difficult

All good actors are easy to work with. It's the ones that aren't very good who tend to be very difficult. Tom Wilkinson

• work
• movie
• character

I'm probably an actor that tends to, instead of putting things on, think about it more in terms of taking away what's not in the character, until I'm left with what is. If that makes sense. That's probably a particularly American way of working, but maybe not. The end of any movie is a readjustment. Molly Parker

• personality
• thinking
• personal

I think it's damaging to know too much about a person, about an actor. Molly Parker

• thinking
• play
• wellness

I think a lot of actors are overly concerned about being well liked in the parts they play. Molly Parker