#actor

The most important thing for me as an actor playing a character is to make you laugh. That's my No. 1 goal. ↗

— Eric Stonestreet

#character #goal #important #important thing #laugh

All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene. ↗

— Meryl Streep

#any #blind #blind faith #faith #say

The progression of roles you take strings together a portrait of an actor, but it's a completely random process. ↗

— Meryl Streep

#completely #portrait #process #progression #random

Marlon Brando. The finest actor who ever lived. He was my idol when I was 13. He's done enough work to last two lifetimes. Everything I do, I think: Can Brando play this with me? ↗

— Barbra Streisand

#brando #done #enough #ever #everything

I spent so many years of my life as a stage actor and when you do all these plays, a lot of really great plays are very politically driven. They deal with deep social issues, and that's the kind of stuff that I love, as an audience member. ↗

— Danny Strong

#audience #audience member #deal #deep #driven

This whole thing about winning and losing is muddy waters. But I can remember, as a young actor, just walking around this city and not being able to get arrested. ↗

— Jeffrey Tambor

#about #actor #around #arrested #being

My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor. ↗

— Quentin Tarantino

#director #going #i #oh #parents

But I'm not a tough guy or a street fighter for real. I'm just an actor. ↗

— Channing Tatum

#fighter #guy #i #just #real

It's not like I had big dreams to go to California and become an actor. I loved doing my shows at school and community theater, and I probably would have settled in New York because it was closer. I was going to go to NYU. ↗

— Christine Taylor

#because #become #big #california #closer

I see my job as an actor to be as good a channel as I can be. Acting is a gift, and I have respect for it. ↗

— Lili Taylor

#actor #channel #gift #good #i