Amy Ryan Quotes

As an actor, I love working with directors. As much as I love working with other actors.

I just love working with actors in general.

I don't think I had a script on 'King Kong.' But usually you read a script and then you go and audition for it. It's rare when there's no script. I sort of like the latter better, because I'm more successful at it.

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.

All actors do that. Should do that and do that. For the most part. I say all actors. I'm exaggerating, but you know who does and who doesn't. Vince is a wonderful young actor who knows his work and did a beautiful job on this film.

That's the great thing about being an actor, you get to try out lots of things for your roles.

As an actor, it's amazing to get to create different characters.

When I do film, I really take on roles and I take on characters.

I started out wanting to be an actor and I like to give actors as much as possible. I love writing stuff where they can really lose control.

I'm definitely one of those actresses who comes to a set knowing how I want to do a scene, and I definitely love input from my directors and my writers.

So I just play the character, I play the lines.

If you're a movie actor, you're on your own - you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.

As an actor, you can steer a scene in another direction by playing it a little differently. And honestly? I like being an actor, and I want to keep having a career.

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

I walk into a scene, and I do the scene. That's my job. I don't have an objective. I have the words, and I have whoever I'm playing with.

My experience has been that actors always want to be directed.

My first time in front of a camera, I said, 'Wonder Woman, I'm so glad you're here.' That's how I made a living.

Being an actor is actually pretty easy if you can memorize lines.

'End of Watch' was 98-percent written, and I work really hard to make it look like it's the first time I'm saying it.

Everything feels so personal when you're an actor because you're so open and vulnerable, and you have to trust your director to guide you to where the storytelling needs to go.

You cannot sit at home at act. You need a story, a director, you need people to believe in you, to put you through that journey. It is not something you can attain within yourself.

I had done maybe three lines of dialogue, ever, before doing 'Death Proof.'

Like every actor, I am always on the lookout for interesting characters.

I really respect actors much more now that I am one because I realise what hard work goes into being part of the industry.

I am an actor, and that's the most important thing to me. I cannot imagine a life where I would be anything else but an actor, so putting all my energy into a shot comes naturally to me.