Albert Brooks Quotes

I do enjoy acting, but it is such a game. So for that reason, I don't think I'll ever leave London.

More than an actor, I am a performer... I'm a great believer - honestly so, shamelessly so, vulgarly so - that cinema is for entertainment. If you want to send messages, there's the postal service.

I love telling stories. I like the challenges presented to me on a daily basis. There's nothing resting about acting.

I have fun on stage, so people think maybe they should, too.

Apart from being interested in a good role, I think it's necessary to make up your mind as to whether it will make a movie that will entertain an audience all over the world and not just in your own backyard.

I guess I'm just good at playing repressed individuals. I'm lucky because those are often the roles that catch people's eyes.

If I'm bringing joy to people and entertaining people as an actor, then I should be grateful for that and act accordingly, you know?

I'm just a stage actress. I'm very comfortable onstage.

Acting for me is not that quid pro quo.

I'm interested in human nature. That's why I chose to become an actor.

Living out a story eight times a week is difficult and draining emotionally but very fulfilling.

Being an actor, I've thought about being in the male gaze.

My dream role would be a role that is entertaining and 'massy,' and it should be able to make people laugh and cry and make the audience scared of me and then make them fall in love with me again.

I never look at how many songs I have or how many girls are there in a movie. If I like my character, I play it.

As an actor, I like my films to be believable.

I want to entertain viewers as much as possible.

I wish to continue to essay roles that will help me find my place in the audience's hearts.

Wrestling and sports entertainment is not about the moves, it really isn't. It's about being able to evoke emotion in one facet or another.

I found a way into the acting business because I thought, well, it beats working for a living, and so that's what I do. But I still feel like a bit of a stranger in it all. I've never really belonged anywhere.

I actually tell lies for a living. Exactly. I mean, that's what acting is, really.

Acting definitely makes me feel so remarkably alive.

Acting is not a state of being ... but a state of appearing to be. You can't be eight times a week without going stark staring mad. You've got to be in control.

My criterion for accepting a role isn't based on what I would like to do. I try to consider what the audience would like to see me do and I thought kids would adore Star Wars.

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

We ask the public to believe that every time they see an actress or actor that they are a different person.