Laurence Fox Quotes

It's no accident that Tony Hopkins is a wonderful film actor.

I do believe all actors are smart.

I've never tried to learn the art of acting. I have been in the business for years but I still can't tell what acting is or how it's done.

As far as actors go, you're not going to find many ballplayers better than me.

I mean everyone, from Al Pacino to Murphy Guyer, are phenomenal actors.

I do a pretty good job at casting actually.

I'd love to work with Sir Anthony Hopkins, but if that doesn't happen, I'd sneak on to a film set and watch him at work. He is a compelling actor.

I will never be a Robert De Niro or Meryl Streep, the kind of actor that disappears into a role.

I'm the sort of actor who likes to talk about what we're going to do.

I should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods, feeding on the caviar of Shakespeare. An actor must act.

If you catch me saying 'I am a serious actor', I beg you to slap me.

I'm not, like, Daniel Day Lewis. Yet. I will get there!

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.

When you drop your guard in films, the acting process compensates. You get lazy and you start acting.

I have a background in theater. At the time I read 'The Loved Ones' script, I was playing Catherine the Great of Russia onstage. Straight after that, I played Stella in 'A Streetcar Named Desire' and Isabella in 'Measure for Measure.'

I really don't know what I'm doing... I don't. It's terrible. I go in there and I learn how to be like the character and do the best I can, and that's all I really do.

So from an actor's perspective, you really have no idea how you're acting.

Acting to me is always reacting.

They did cast me as an ingenue once, and the novelty was nice. But I said, 'There is nothing here to play!' I really like getting into the meat of a role.

If I were to play somebody who ran a fish and chip shop, I would not work in a fish and chip shop for three months. Staring at chips is not going to help me in my performance.

Acting is reacting, and it's always easier to react when someone is doing a good job.

Acting is about acting, not about being a movie star.

On the stage you develop a character that's different from yourself. In a film they're always saying, 'Walk over here. Say this line. Be you.'

In acting, you have to pull from real-life situations, from people, to help develop a character.

I've always been a material-based actor. That's what I've done, the choices I've made - like a heat-seeking missile.