Mark Hamill Quotes

Of all the stars whom I worked with, I think Steve knew better what worked for him on the screen than any other. He had such a sense of what he could register, and that helped a lot in terms of shaping the character and the script.

There are actors who can pull of a writer's lines; I am not competent enough to do that.

Every actor has a strength, and sometimes you just respond to things that you see yourself better at. I'm aware of what I can and can't do.

I don't really know what kind of actor I am.

To me, there are things you're good at and things you're not so good at. For some reason, I'm good at darker characters. It has to do with how you look.

A lot of acting, and I believe this, is either you can do it or you can't.

Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.

Very few ideas are better than Catherine O'Hara's ideas when it comes to acting.

I want to be known as an actor who can do all kinds of roles.

I don't think talent or an instinct for acting is something you can teach.

I feel whatever an actor does on screen is something the actor 'does,' and what the director can do is to tell, talk or instruct. So, all the credit for an actor's performance goes to the actor alone.

Some people said my acting was a cross between Euell Gibbons, Rodney Allen Rippy and Sheena, Queen of the Jungle.

I'm not one of these actors who can make a bad script good. Some actors, a script can be terrible, and they can bring something to it and make it really special. I can't.

I never pretended to be a great actor.

I think the only thing I've got going for me as an actor specifically is the fact that I can change.

To be honest, if people thought my performance in 'The Office' was the same as my performance in 'The Hobbit,' it would tell me everything I needed to know about what they know about acting.

To be a good actor, you have to be very smart. But to be a great actor, you also have to have a streak of, 'I'm an idiot, a complete lunatic.'

I consider myself a character actor.

It's funny, because in drama school, my greatest strength was my range. So my early career was like that: I played all kinds of different characters.

When I was a young actor... the more different you were from the part you played, the more talent it reflected.

I'm a character actress. I'm the girl next door, the aunt, the quirky cousin. You have to innately know who you are and be happy with that.

I don't think I really have a talent for movie acting. I'm not bad at it, but I don't think I really have a talent for it.

All you have to do is to look like crap on film and everyone thinks you're a brilliant actress. Actually, all you've done is look like crap.

There are lots of great actresses who are great because they'll do anything.

I don't need to convince anybody that I know kung fu, but maybe somebody needs to know that I really can act, without doing a Chinese accent or a funny walk.