Morgan Freeman Quotes

I love doing costumes. The costume is an actor's first line, so it's gotta be right!

Wardrobe is - in films, I could say it's a good half of the acting. You get the right rags on, they'll talk for you.

Costumes are the first impression that you have of the character before they open their mouth-it really does establish who they are.

The right costume determines the character, helps the actor feel who he is, and serves the story.

I had an awful lot to say in what I wore as Romana.

We are actors. We can adapt to any different look for the sake of the story and the character.

I have always donned different looks going with the requirement of the roles I played.

When we think of an actor, we think of a tanned, frosted-tipped, model-looking guy. We don't think of a plumber.

I'm Irish and very proud of being Irish, but as an actor, your extraction should be secondary, really. You should be able to embody whatever character it is, wherever the character comes from. That's always been important, for me. I'm an actor who's Irish, not an Irish actor.

Actors are professionals who deal with people's emotions and their thoughts.

There's nothing wrong with being an actor, if that's what a man wants. But there's everything wrong with achieving an exalted status simply because one photographs well and is able to handle dialogue".

I'm the kind of person who, as much as I like clothes in real life because it's a fun expression of who you are and everybody kind of enjoys wearing things that make them...well, in movies you're wearing things that aren't necessarily the things you would choose to put on or wear.

I don't have any [favourite role]. I'm just a working actor.

I wanted to be an actor to act, and now, being an actor, you have to dress up, you have to be nice, you have to be smart, you have to be sexy, you have to be ready.

At the end of the day, what actors really want to do is act a lot and not wait around in the trailer.

You always have to make positive choices as an actor, even when you're playing someone who may not be doing the best things.

As an actor, you can't judge. A great actress from Spain said, "We, the actors, are lawyers of the characters we play. We have to defend them, no matter what."

The clothes, the shoes, the gold belts and the necklaces always click me into the character, for sure. You could not feel the character, and then you put on the shoes and get the walk.

Characterization in a play is like a blank check which the dramatist accords to the actor for him to fill in.

I feel very secure about the role of the actor in the future. They need us, because stories are about people.

Actors want to do Shakespeare again and again, or want to do Hamlet. When you hear one guy do Hamlet and another guy do it, it's going to be a whole different experience.

All actors are whores. They want only one thing: to seduce you.

One of the reasons a lot of actors go into the business is that for a short period of time, you get to be other people who you can only fantasize about being, by and large.

People forget that actors are actors, who are looking to put on the clothes and the character, and then shed it just as easily.

As actors we're supposed to be our character's advocate.