Actor's Personality Quotes

Laura from The Mysteries Of Laura is the most different from me personally that I've ever played. I'm a very thoughtful, forward-thinking, planner kind of person. I love Excel spreadsheets and five-year-plans, and I love to review every year how my New Year's resolutions went. I'm like that, and that is not Laura at all.

Alfre Woodard is a powerhouse, master actor, but she's also someone that you want to interact with, someone that you want to talk to.

If you're lucky enough to work with great actors and creative people, they're always just going to be who they are, so I don't think there's a difference between the Brits and the Americans.

I guess I prefer to be quite private. It's a myth that actors are exhibitionists.

The characters I've played have been mostly violent, and I'm so far from being violent or aggressive. I spend a lot of time watching 'Fireman Sam' with my three-year-old son Louis.

An actor is an actor is an actor. The less personality an actor has off stage the better. A blank canvas on which to draw the characters he plays.

I couldn't have ever married an actor. They have a childishness carried into an age when maturity should have set in.

I'm just not one of those naturally funny, relaxed actors who enjoy the spotlight and are so good at it.

I think every actor injects some of his own personality into his parts. There's a great deal of myself in McCoy, a great deal of Bill in Kirk, and a great deal of Leonard in Spock!

Anyone who has that weird volition to become an actor probably has a weird volition to do lots of other creative things - to write, to play music, to paint, to cook.

Hugh Jackman is just as friendly as everyone says.

If I had even the tiniest scrap of advice to give to a young actor who was figuring out how to audition, I would say don't memorize the script... The reality about auditions is that 98 percent of the results has to do with what you are, not with what you did in the audition.

Tony Curtis was a joy to work with. He had a curious innocence that is very young and wise at the same time.

The most clear way to decide the actor is to watch them doing stuff during their downtime. When they do something that's making both of you laugh, you see if there's a character or situation that could be written into.

John Malkovich is such an interesting person and such a fun actor to work with.

There are directors who don't cast you for the way you act but for the way you are, the way you behave around the dinner table.

I might play characters that are loud in the movies, but in real life, I'm not loud in terms of personality.

I never came with a conscious plan to replace anyone else. Stallone does feel that way. He is a real tough guy in real life, and he gets to act that out. If you meet him and work with him, he is what he is. He is a guy that works out every day.

Sigourney Weaver was one of the nicest lady actors I have ever met. So friendly about everything.