Actor Transition Quotes

The most dramatic moves I have made as an actor have been from stage to screen and from sitcom to drama.

Punjabi film industry is not yet ready to give change to new actors, but if Punjabi singers, who already have a fan following, enter the industry, it will be a great help to uplift the industry.

There are so many stage actors on TV but you wouldn't know they were stage actors. And film and TV actors are going to the stage as well, so the crossover is great now.

It's kind of hard coming from 'Saturday Night Live,' which is a sketch-driven show, to a movie.

All the big actors are now on TV, and all the big actors have come from TV. It's a great platform.

Before he became 'a working actor,' as he now proudly calls himself, Jamie Dornan initially caught the public's attention as a model - you may remember him from those greasy underwear ads with Eva Mendes, among many others.

After working in a number of films as a child actor, I took a break so that people could forget me as a child actor and relate to me as a hero.

Not a lot of people make that transition from child actor to bigger, better roles.

It's incredible to be going from the Shondaland universe to 'Big Bang' creator Chuck Lorre.

I've always said the one advantage an actor has of converting to a director is that he's been in front of the camera. He doesn't have to get in front of the camera again, subliminally or otherwise.

A kid actor to an adult actor is a tricky one.

Many actors in films are willing to go to Broadway, and screenwriters are writing plays. It's almost commonplace.

I've made the transition from star to character actor and I'm thoroughly enjoying it.

I like Edward G. Robinson - he started as a character actor and became a lead, which is probably why I like him.

Honestly, I actually would really love to see more musical theatre actors do the movie adaptations of shows - I think that would be really great to see.

I think a lot of theater actors that were great, like Walken or Glenn Close, later became film actors.

For actors coming out of long-running soaps, it's really important to have a little break from the screen and look for roles that are removed from the ones they have played.

I lost 90 pounds and my blood pressure went down to a normal level and the salt in my urine disappeared. And that was when I had to make the transition from fat character actor to thin character actor.

When someone who is known as a comedic actor goes to drama, it often doesn't work out, because they really just chose wrong, I think - or maybe they're just not good actors. For me it's important making that transition seamless, and not a huge shock and jumping into cold water. It doesn't feel like I'm trying to shock you or anything. I'm just saying, "I'm a different actor than you thought I was. Don't put me in a box. I'm not just some kid running around screaming curse words." I have other tastes besides comedy. I love comedy, but I love dramatic movies just as much.

I always think it's hard for any young actor to make that transition to more grown-up roles. Because you don't want to alienate your audience who has been supportive of you for so many years, so you kind of have to tiptoe through that process.

When I got out of school, it used to be that it was theater actors that ended up doing film and television, and you had to come from the theater to be taken seriously in that world.

The way that TV is set up is very helpful for when a show comes to an end because as an actor, you've got acting, but as a showrunner you still get to edit for three months and after that ends you get to do a sound mix. So, as a writer-performer in television, it's a very nurturing, gradual environment to say goodbye to a show.

It's funny, like 15 years ago when I was a kid doing all the John Hughes movies, I remember Bruce Willis was the only guy who was transitioning from television into film.

More and more good actors are now transmigrating into the videogame space and playing roles there because it's where my generation of kids get stories from.