Anthony Edwards Quotes

I want to be an actor who always tries the best regardless of roles.

I think acting for sure takes a lot of dedication, especially when you're starting out, because it's so much rejection and it's so important to really study and know your craft.

The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.

Being an actor is about having the courage to follow your instincts, and also having the discipline and dedication to sacrifice the things in your life that you need to sacrifice to get the best out of yourself artistically.

I have a constant sort of melancholy approach to acting that fuels me. I want to do everything.

I'm a geeky actor, in the way that I like the craft of acting. I trained as a stage actor and was given a lot of technical tools to play with. I like the craft of acting. It sounds geeky when I say it, but it's true.

I take acting very seriously. I put everything I have and know into it.

I don't get a rush from anything. I did music as hard as I could. Acting for me at least, is a far more restrained performance than music. It requires a lot of skill and discipline. I'm not any good at it but I enjoy trying to be good at it.

I've been in front of the camera a million times as a musician, and even directed a few music videos. So, I know a lot about spacing, focus, blocking, etcetera. So, acting isn't totally new for me. Still, I find it fascinating, because you actually get to be another person.

I love the creative end of acting. But I hate fame.

I like actors. I like their insecurities, their humor and their intelligence.

I knew how to act and had studied acting and enjoyed it, but I'd never pushed myself to really perform as an actor, and create a role, and have the whole character's backstory.

The most interesting part of filming is what the actors do. That's the primary link between the story and the audience.

Only do acting, if you don't want to do anything else. And know that it's a tough journey with a lot of rejection along the way. You have to have a lot of self-belief.

I want to continue growing as an actress. There are ways that I can reach quicker, or deeper, with acting.

There are two different kinds of actors. There are people who take it just so damn seriously. Then there are guys like me that just get up and love doing it.

As an actor, the last thing you ever want to end up on is just a procedural show where you're just a talking head. There's nothing worse than just spitting out words. Words interrupt performance. Performance is king in my world, when it comes to why I'm in this business.

I'm just an instinctive actress, I've never had a lesson in my life.

I am very passionate about being an actor, and I allow my passion to find its outlet in the work I do. I don't believe that it can be called perfection. It is true that when I am intensely passionate about my films, which I am, I don't leave any stone unturned and I put every ounce of my energy into that project.

If you work with amazing actors, you've got a master class happening in front of you. But [also] it's just acting at the end of the day.

Acting is a weird thing. You've gotta do it to get better, and you've gotta try things to grow.

I love actors, regardless of where they are in their skill level. There's something terribly satisfying about working with someone who's really learning.

Uta Hagen is our greatest living actor; she is, moreover, interested and mystified by the presence of talent and its workings; her third gift is a passion to communicate the mysteries of the craft to which she has given her life. There are almost no American actors uninfluenced by her.

I started doing roles and working with people that I really respected and became passionate about the art form of acting. And I'm still trying to figure it out. Still learning.

Work for the actor lies essentially in two areas: the ability to consistently create reality and the ability to express that reality.