#actor

An actor is only merchandise. ↗

— Chow Yun-Fat

#merchandise #only

Being an actor is mostly about rejection and being out of work. It was a fast lesson in all of that stuff. ↗

— Rose Byrne

#actor #being #fast #lesson #mostly

TV is very much a producer and writer or creator-driven machine in the States. And I'm the kind of actor that needs to be pushed and have someone on my case a little bit, so I suffer from that. ↗

— Rose Byrne

#bit #case #i #kind #little

To be a good actor you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules to strive for something new. ↗

— Nicolas Cage

#break #criminal #good #good actor #like

As I got older, with my work, I became aware of the responsibility of film, and I feel one of the best ways I can apply myself as an actor, is to go beyond movie stardom and celebrity. ↗

— Nicolas Cage

#apply #aware #became #best #beyond

I try to do as many stunts as they'll let me do. I think it's important for an audience to feel that the actor's really doing it. ↗

— Nicolas Cage

#audience #doing #feel #i #i think

You know, the period of World War I and the Roaring Twenties were really just about the same as today. You worked, and you made a living if you could, and you tired to make the best of things. For an actor or a dancer, it was no different then than today. It was a struggle. ↗

— James Cagney

#actor #best #could #dancer #different

I think I may have become an actor to hide from myself. You can escape into a character. ↗

— John Candy

#become #character #escape #hide #i

You know, for an actor to come into the midst of that, it's - It can either be difficult and somewhat unnerving, or it can be very embracing and like, kind of stepping into a nice hot tub. ↗

— Keith Carradine

#come #difficult #either #embracing #hot

You have no idea how fragile an actor's self-worth is. ↗

— Elia Kazan

#fragile #how #idea #no idea #self-worth