Actors Quotes

Just listening to Pac, ain't gon' make it stop A rebel in your thoughts, ain't gon' make it halt If you don't become an actor, you'll never be a factor

My hunger and desperation, being an actor, an out of work actor - my memory of that is as fresh as an open wound.

An actor is part illusionist, part artist, part ham.

The best thing about switching from being an actor to being a director is that you dont have to shave or hold your stomach in anymore.

The big thing for actors is the level of commitment.

As actors, we were fighting that tooth and nail because of fear, because language is a crutch and dialogue is a crutch, and it's so easy to just have a great writer write you a line.

Clark Gable was the only real he-man I've ever known, of all the actors I've met.

I was able to capture on film things the actors didn't even know they were doing.

To save the Theatre, the Theatre must be destroyed, and actors and actresses all die of the Plague ... they make art impossible.

Because ultimately only the witness -- and not the actors -- knows the truth (Vyasa to Draupadi)

From my experience as an actor, choreographer, action director, and producer, I understand the elements and the dynamics of being a film maker.

Out of all the actors I have worked with, I love working with Larry Hagman the most. We were very close and it was just a wonderful time.

The collaboration really begins once the rehearsal starts. This is when the actor takes his place, because he becomes the one who is going to bring the words of the author off the page.

The actor is merely a crude empiricist, a practitioner guided by vague instinct.

I have never liked Morrissey, and I still don't. I think it's hilarious, actually, what things I've heard about him, what he's really like, and his public persona is so different. He's such an actor.

Ryan Gosling. He was a good kid, good actor. I like him very much. What was the name of the movie? I've forgotten it. Fracture.

When they say I'm a great actor, I close my ears because it's not good for you to think that way.

There's an impression that actors make a lot of choices. I just take what's there.

When I write a play, my whole intent at bottom is to get the audience to be in the cast, to get that audience on stage with the actors and to get them thoroughly involved in what's going on.

Very difficult to understand American audience, what they like, what they don't like. Some movie I like very much, it doesn't work. Some movie I don't like, it gets big box office. Very difficult.

No matter how big a name you are, how many big series you've been in or how good looking you are, in the end, all actors are secondary to the writer.

I don't know one actor that became an actor for healthy reasons.

When you're a young actor, there's this pressure to rush. But I hope to be doing this into my sixties and seventies, so I'd prefer to take my time.

Modesty is the artifice of actors, similar to passion in call girls.

I am a better cook than I am an actor. If I have any ego, it's about cooking. I'm one of the best cooks... and I cook in any language.

I've had some ambivalent feelings about being an actor. I don't know that I've ever been totally and completely comfortable with it.

An actor without an audience is rehearsing.

As an actor, you should be willing to take challenges.

Behind the footlights there is always the applause, which stimulates the actors. On the screen it is a different matter.

The first thing you should do with an actor is not sign a contract with him. Take him to dinner. And take him for a walk afterwards.

More than an actor, I am a performer. I'm a great believer

The good writer and the good actor are always searching for what is essential. It is a never-ending task because what is essential is always elusive and, therefore, fascinating.

I have forgiven all the old actors for dying. A new one comes on with the same lines, like large white growths, in his mouth. The dancers come on from the wings, perfectly mated.

All that day she had had the feeling that she was playing in the theatre with actors better than herself and that her poor playing spoiled the whole thing.

As you get older, you suffer fools less easily. That's why there's all those cranky character actors. I'm an exception. I'm a sweetheart.

I am a flirt: I have no heart: I have an actor's nature.

Actors are athletes of the heart.

I always wanted to be a movie star. I thought it meant being famous and having breakfast in bed. I didn't know you had to be up at 4:00 a.m.

I always found something strangely paternal about the director-actor relationship. Actors want so much approval.

We're actors. We're the opposite of people.

I do some acting. And there's a difference between "I do some acting" and "I'm an actor."

I don't think I've ever been a huge target for the press, and I value that to a degree, because there's a certain value for actors staying beneath the radar so they can play characters.

As an actor, you use the things from yourself that you can apply to the character.

We start off wearing frilly shirts and britches and being good guys and the heroes. And then as time goes on, every English actor ends up playing bad guys. That's what we do.

Agents are still asking for millions of dollars for actors that don't sell one ticket.

Sometimes, I even recite the role to the actor if it's not clear. And I beg them not to imitate me, because I'm not a good actor.

Regeneration, however it is described, is a divine activity in us, in which we are not the actors but the recipients.

I have no personal interest or gain from this , I am just an actor

I'm an actor, I'm always looking for work. I was born to do that.

I'd love to do Broadway some day. Before I started doing television I was just a primarily a stage actor, but I haven't done it in a while.