Actor Quotes

God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time.

Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.

As an actor, there's a bit of you that's decided you want to be looked at and watched, but there's a paradoxical bit that wants to run away.

And although I've been very fortunate in the film work that's come my way, I need to get back to the stage. If I'm away for a maximum of two years, I feel something's wrong.

Actors use who they are to be someone else, but I would hate to ever think I'm playing myself. It's imagining being someone else that is the key motivating thing for me. So when people want to know about me, it makes me a bit unnerved.

You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling.

We'd all like to believe that perhaps people could stop killing each other.

The film depends on the audience's belief in this relationship.

So much of movie acting is in the lighting. And in loving your characters. I try to know them, and with that intimacy comes love. And now, I love Voldemort.

Little moments can have a feeling and a texture that is very real.

Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent.

Within the process of filming, unexpected situations occur.

I guess I'd love to be surprised by something I had never thought of.

I'm sure acting is a deeply neurotic thing to do.

I admire the world of the books and the characters that she's created, but I'm not an addict of Harry Potter. I don't feel possessive about it.

There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.

He's really sort of the devil. He's completely emotionally detached. He has no empathy. You find that in psychopaths. It's about power with Voldemort. It's an aphrodisiac for him. Power makes him feel alive.

One of the things that binds us as a family is a shared sense of humor.

You know what? Joy is the only guide. I'm going to have fun regardless.

There is a bit of me if I'm pushed in one way I might bounce back and go the opposite.

There are always going to be times when it doesn't flow as much as you were hoping. So of course I'm going to fail. And when I do fail I hope I fail better and better, again and again. I am happy to fail.

The great thing about films is that you have access to this whole world of experts who teach you the skills your character's supposed to have.

It all felt like a terribly long time. It would have meant that I had to make five movies in five years and if you don't like the movies, too bad. I guess I just wanted my freedom, and I think my life has been incredibly enhanced as a result.

I think everything I do is my early work. I can't wait to get on to the later stuff.

I love new writing, new blood, modern works by unknown writers.

I love life. I'm fascinated by human behavior because that feeds back into my work.

I fall in love with contradictions without understanding. I can't really portray them unless I do. So in a roundabout way I have to fall in love, it's my duty. If love is about understanding and understanding is compassion and compassion is love, I have to have compassion towards the world.

I don't know what my limitations are until I reach them. I look for the challenge.

I can only put myself in the process and try to learn through the process. Sometimes it will go well and sometimes it won't.

Give me a sword fight any day.