Marlon Brando Quotes

I love talking about acting. I'm just such a fan of actors and filmmakers, and I try to choose roles where I get to talk to great actors about acting and learn.

The actors make the film. They're the ones that take this theoretical movie that's in your head and make it real. The success of a film is entirely on their shoulders. I admire them, because acting is such a difficult thing to do, and I personally can't understand it.

Being an actor is really odd. So, don't take that as your reality - take your family, take your friends, take your relationships - that's your reality. And hang on to them.

Actors are always looking for ways to build a character.

I've always been an actor. That's my job — I can be anything you want me to be.

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.

Denzel [Washington] just knows the actor. He knows the process, and you don't often get that.

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

Acting is different all the time. When you're on set, different films, or just even in between, it's never the same. I think that's one of the things I love about it.

It certainly helps, I think, with some actors to understand the process of acting. You see what extraordinary pressure they're under, there's a huge circus dedicated to a particular moment and they're got to deliver and it can help that you, even if empathetically alone, understand what they're doing.

I have some friends who are actors. I've watched them work. And I would say that of all the arts, acting is the most grueling, thankless. Never apologize for your work.

There's nothing hard about acting except the long hours.

[On being an actor] .nothing more than a worker in a service occupation . It's like being a waiter or a gas station attendant, but I'm waiting on 6 million people in a week if I'm lucky.

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 never thought about being an actor. I was just going to play music and baseball. That’s all I was going to do. To this day, that’s what I do. I just added movies to it.

Movie actors earn their living and learn their craft through listening and reacting.

People say, "Why is it that you love to act?" And you want to say, "Well, most of acting is sitting in your trailer, either bored or worried about the scene coming up." A lot of it is about things you don't really like, so it's a wonder why acting is such a huge draw, why everyone loves it so much.

Marlon once said to me about being an actor: Can you imagine going to work every day and pretending to be someone else?

I love actors, and I'm passionate about the creative process of acting and filmmaking.

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.

Look, I'm an actor, I don't profess to understand much of anything

Acting is a strange business; one day it's there, and the next day nowhere to be seen.

Actors are easy to like. They are generally sociable, thoughtful people.

I love acting, and doing it well matters to me.

Actors love to act all those death scenes.