Bret Easton Ellis Quotes

I do think I'm a character actor.

I don't think I really have a talent for movie acting.

With some actors, you can tell when they're acting all by themselves, no matter who else is in the screen.

Actors are real. It's a real skill, and it exists, and talent really exists.

I'm a good actor.

I don't think I will be able act; I am not talented in that area.

I think the better you know yourself as a person, the better an actor you can be.

Once you look past the hype, actors are nothing more than fugitives from reality who specialize in contradiction: we are both children and hardened adults—wide-eyed pupils and jaded working stiffs.

Actors are not made, they are born.

I couldn't remember ever having seen a young man with such power, so many facets of expression, so much sheer invention as an actor.

Sometimes you can do Shakespeare and you're still not an actor.

Allison Janney is the best actor on the series.Allison is one of the few actors I ever worked with who is incapable of hitting a false note.

I guess George Clooney would be a wonderful silent actor, and Leonardo DiCaprio is such a wonderful actor he certainly could do it.

There's a myth about actors saying, 'Oh no, that's not me on screen at all. I'm just acting.' OK, if I were to say to you that's not me, that's fine. And I would tell you that I don't behave like a villain everyday, and that's true, I don't. But to say there's absolutely none of me in there is ridiculous.

There are actors that are really fine actors but not good auditioners. There are really good auditioners that may not be great actors. There are great actors that are really good auditioners, too. I happen to be someone who's not a great auditioner, but usually on a set can hold my own.

Bill Murray I always liked. I'm not as good as him, but there's a quality in him that I like. And then there's DeNiro, I'll never be that.

I would almost say that the best screen actor is the man who can do nothing extremely well.

The close-up says everything, it's then that an actor's learned, rehearsed behavior becomes most obvious to an audience and chips away, unconsciously, at its experience of reality. In a close-up, the audience is only inches away, and your face becomes the stage.

I think a good actor will always know the character better than anybody.

You have to find actors who have the ability to display a wide range of emotion effectively. That's so much harder than it seems.

Viola [Davis] is one of the great actors of her generation. She has one of these moments in the theater that I don't even know how to describe.

The thing with Ryan, you can look at him for hours. Very few actors have that. It's a gift.

I never will believe there is such a thing as a great actor.

...an actor is exactly as big as his imagination.

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