Martin Scorsese Quotes

I love working with actors. I love to see what they're going to do. There's just something very thrilling and satisfying with being involved with something, all the way through the process [making movie].

I do whatever I need to do to get into character. Sometimes it's being incredibly quiet, and sometimes it's being loose and goofy.

I'm not an instinctive actor.

I've always been very comfortable in a set environment. All the collaborating going on, seeing how actors work - it all excites me.

It's a funny thing. You sort of never figure it out with acting. You're always learning.

There's nothing more boring than actors talking about acting.

I don't do method acting. If I play a farmer, I'm not gonna spend 3 weeks on a chicken farm. That's a bit too much for me.

It's a dream to be in a company of actors.

To be honest with you, there's nothing that bores me more than sitting around with a bunch of actors talking shop. I love actors and I've got friends that are actors. They're interesting people. But for some reason, usually when it comes round to talking shop, there's a part of me that doesn't like it.

Writing and directing might be a red herring, and really I'm just re-examining what it is to act, to do it well and do it properly.

I love acting, every job is a dream job when you're an actor. I'd like to do eventually more film work and to collaborate with the best actors and directors in film.

When I audition, I understand what it takes and the insecurities that come with it. If I do anything, I put actors at ease. I used to tell directors who weren't actors, the best thing they could do was take an acting class for a couple of months. Just to understand.

It was only when I realized how actors have the power to move people that I decided to pursue acting as a career.

I'm interested in the acting and staging of specific emotions, and so I work with actors. It's a small proportion of what I do, but it's always what people seem to focus on.

The idea for actors is to make a living telling stories, so if you can do that, then you're way ahead of the game.

I try to create as many circumstances outside of set that help me fall into character when I get onto set.

I consider myself an actor that tries to have as many tools as possible in the bag. And I think that includes the method, then of course it includes some improv techniques, and includes all kinds of different things, because you never know when you're going to have to work on something and in what way.

I want to discover more things about acting.

I don't think I've ever watched a movie to prepare for a role.

Every actor comes with their own experience, method, methodology.

I feel very privileged working with other actors. Actors tend to be the best company I know.

Actors are observers of human life, of human behavior.

As an actor, a lot of things you do, people don't see it.

I learn from Kevin Spacey and Tom Hardy, watching these guys work, the things they all do differently. Tom never stops exploring and discovering, take after take. His mind never turns off.

Actors are adults playing hide-and-ego-seek.