Actors' quotes about art

“To put what you see on paper is the same as funneling what you feel through yourself as a performer.”
Rod Taylor

“The music I make and the process of acting, for me, are both about trying to understand people and get inside what makes us tick. That's the main thing that excites me. Our sense of who we really are and what drives us.”
Riz Ahmed

“I'm not embarrassed by any of my music. I'll even own up to the old Backstreet Boys albums.”
Jessie T. Usher

“I like both music and acting, and they both have a lot in common - timing, immediacy, stuff like that. But acting is more regimented. You wait around for hours, you don't get to write the script, you get hired.”
Lukas Haas

“Music represents me better. I'm not acting; I'm just expressing myself.”
Lukas Haas

“Writing is a very strenuous thing - it's like banging your head against a wall. At the end of the day, acting is better, just because nobody ever asked me if I wanted a Pellegrino in the writer's room.”
Donald Glover

“I think all art - if it's good - is a result of really trying to create something that you can't put into words. Where language ends is where good art begins.”
James Ransone

“Cinema will always have an important role to play in society.”
Leslie Caron

“A true artist, in my mind, is willing to fail sometimes, because if you're not brave enough to say yes and follow your gut, it's never going to be good.”
Bill Skarsgård

“Fashion is a funny thing to talk about. I think what you wear is definitely an extension of you, but I also think it's totally arbitrary.”
Tessa Thompson

“I need to listen to chill music when I'm driving. It prevents road rage.”
Aaron Paul

“People chase illusions and these illusions are created by the movies. I want to make things concrete and real and to break down the illusion.”
Robert De Niro

“Movies are fun, but they're not a cure for cancer.”
Warren Beatty

“I suppose the reason the studios got so powerful is that lots of directors think they don't know anything about business. I'm not sure if I know anything about business or not, but I do believe that they don't know anything about art.”
Dennis Hopper

“Travelers are like poets. They are mostly an angry race.”
Richard Burton

“When archaeologists discover the missing arms of Venus de Milo, they will find she was wearing boxing gloves.”
John Barrymore

“Romantic comedies tend to be, for me, an oxymoron.”
Christian Bale

“Art is something to be proud of. Art is no compromise.”
Christian Bale

“I don't go to the movies. Maybe it's the same as not eating hot dogs after you've worked in a slaughterhouse. You know it's all made from ears and ass parts.”
Harrison Ford

“Dance is about movement and can be an art, but it's also about communication - with yourself, as much as with other people.”
Jan Murray

“I believe in the relation between photography and music; And thats my inspiration.”
Man Ray

“To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.”
Man Ray

“Music is an element that should be part and parcel of every child's life via the education system.”
Victoria Wood

“Cerebration is the enemy of originality in art.”
Martin Ritt

“A lot of music is mathematics. It's balance. ”
Mel Brooks