Michael Horse Quotes

When you are an actor, you have to stay inside this world, but when you are with the crew, on the outside, you are in the dirt, working through all the issues. It's just a different way of working, and I think I preferred it.

At the end of the day, an actor is only a cog in the wheel.

I've worked for 27 years nonstop in theater and films. That's a lot of work.

People think actors have such glamorous lives, but the truth is actors go where nobody wants to go.

All I ever cared about was actors - toughest job in this business.

I would love to do some straight drama. A lot of times it's not up to the actor, it's up to the producer. It's up to the powers that be.

When you are an actor you are a very small part of a very large scheme of things.

People need to understand that whatever they see us saying on screen, we are not doing it on our own.

I'm an actor, and I love the art of creating a character.

You might have, as a character, 30 pages of dialogue a day if you're what they call a 'front-burner story.' So you go home, you learn your lines for the next day, you get up, you're there at 7 in the morning, you do a quick rehearsal, you're on camera, you might leave, you know, at 7 at night and start the whole thing over again.

I'm not interested in going after a part. I think if someone wants me for a part and approaches me then I'll take it on a case-by-case basis and see what that part is.

I had done my first picture and I didn't have anything to do for awhile. I was asked to come back to New York and do Bus Stop in the role of the cowboy opposite Kim Stanley.

I cannot be a character in a bad movie. I can't be.

In 2005, I had the great honor of playing Shailene Woodley's mother in 'Felicity: An American Girl Adventure.' I was immediately impressed by her work ethic, both on and off set.

Working with actors is something I've never done before. I find it tremendous. It's hard work.

Most of the film directors expect their actors to want to work fast.

For everybody, the tide comes in, the tide goes out - if you're an actor, particularly.

Casting, to me, is always the same. It's a very important part of a director's job. I pick people that I sense I'd like to be in a room with and will enjoy the rehearsal process with because that's the best part.

I'm always looking for a good role.

It's my job in Hollywood to find roles where I get to be a character not a bathing suit.

There's no better training than working on a soap opera because of the amount of hours, the amount of pages you do a day are unbelievable. It's the best training I had in terms of discipline.

Definitely as an actor, the experience you have, at least I'm talking for me, my experience as an actor is you go to the set and know what you're going to do, know your lines, you rehearse, you do your scene, you go back home. As a producer, for the first time I saw the whole picture in a completely different way.

I'm an actor, and when I close the door at home I'm kind of off-duty.

When I'm working, I don't wake up and say, 'OK, time to go be intense.' I just look at whatever scenes we're working on that day and break them down - just real intense everyday work.

You get used to being lazy doing films, but classical theatre's going to finish me off.