Ridley Scott Quotes

What I love to do requires portraying different characters, and you have to separate your life from the role.

To be an actor, a true actor, you have to be brokenhearted.

I think anybody can be a good actor.

You can always tell an actor by the bored look in their eye whenever someone else is talking.

It's very hard to tell an actor, 'Stop acting.' It's easy to tell a non-actor, because they're embarrassed when they act. They get ashamed when they do something cliche, whereas an actor is happy.

As an actress, emotions are my business, my stock-in-trade. As such, I've dealt with them nearly all my life.

Maybe I can't act, but I know the gimmicks. I studied acting all my life and know what's good for me.

Acting isn't that hard, really. I mean, I think that people make a big deal about it, but you just kind of try to say your lines naturally.

The thing about being an actor is that you're acting. It's not that big of a deal of to play someone different from yourself.

In the end, I'm an actor. I'm paid for what I bring to the screen.

There are two main jobs in acting - the first one is to be a good actor, and the second one is to convince everyone that you're a good actor.

An actor's job is to embrace emotions and situations that in real life we spend all of our time running away from.

Acting is very much an all-or-nothing job.

Actors take risks all the time. We put ourselves on the line. It is creative to be able to interpret someone's words and breathe life into them.

I'm a trained actress and I can do it, but I think that you have to prove yourself.

I think there's a lot of mythos about what's required in acting.

I guess every actor has certain emotions they can access easier than others.

Actors don't really sit around discussing the parts they've played - just in case someone says, 'That was crap!'

It's very hard to be a good actor, you know. It's easy to be cute.

Actors are sensitive freaks, but it amazes me that it is something that I haven't improved on over the years.

As an actor, I love a challenge.

Acting is the most difficult job in the world.

As an actor, I draw from myself.

An actor has to act irrespective of the camera or location.

I believe an actor should be shameless.