Actors Quotes

a struggle with shyness is in every actor more than anyone can imagine.

In Europe, there is no television filmmaking legislation that could assist film production because private broadcasters are not interested in supporting Polish film.

I think all actors have a sadomasochistic streak, because acting is kind of brutal, you know.

Without chiropractic care, I couldn't have existed with my work as a TV and film actor.

With the films I've done, I've written on them, I've acted in some of them. And even ones I haven't acted in, I've acted them out just to be sure another actor can do them.

A kitten is the delight of a household. All day long, comedy is played by an incomparable actor.

The actor's popularity is evanescent; applauded today, forgotten tomorrow.

I still have the actor's disease. I always think I'll never get another job.

You've got Corey Feldman doing his thing, and the problem is, they're trying to be pop stars. You can't compare Salty to any of the other actors out there playing music

My career is very easy to interpret. It's about working. I'm a working actor, so that's how I see myself.

I just wanted to be an actor. It's better to be well-rounded.

It's a lot more fun for actors to cry and rant and rave, or have a drug problem or a drinking problem.

One of the things I love about acting is other actors, looking into their eyes, and working off them, and listening and responding to them.

I'm an actor. I can do whatever I want. As an actor, not everything has to be the most obvious choice. And sometimes, the best thing you can do is to defy expectations.

Working with any actor is like working with a monkey.

When becoming a character, you have to steal. Steal whatever you see. You can even steal from other actors' characterizations; but if you do, only steal from the best.

It's important to say that actors can't act alone, it's impossible. What we have to do is support each other.

I don't think a lot of actors talk about it, but there's usually a process where you essentially purge yourself of the character that you played prior to the movie.

People imagine that actors are being offered everything and you are not. So things come in and sometimes there are things that I want and can't get a meeting on, or go to a different actors.

We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold.

Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.

There's a constant flow of child actors. It's kind of funny to watch the new crew come through. I think, You poor little things. You're going to have to struggle for a long time.

Working with animals is always going to be tough because the animal doesn't know it's an actor.

I know what my talents are, and at the end of the day I'm an actor who can dance.

I've worked with a lot of really fine actors, both on stage and on screen. The level of their game lifts me up and brings the level of my game up to theirs. Always. It's like a constant upgrade.

As a director and an actor, I encourage improvisation but in character and in the moment of what it is.

I'm not an actor, I'm a movie star!!!

I've never had a desire to be famous. Lots of actors are actually extremely shy. I have shy areas.

For me as an actor, daring is to tell the truth - to be yourself, no matter how the world interacts with that.

I want to do entertaining films, where a woman gets the respect of being an actor.

I have a great respect for actors like Clint Eastwood, who's a wonderful director. I think two pictures that I directed were not successful, so I decided not to make any more.

The actor side of me loves to get dressed up and I feel like Cinderella when I'm in diamonds.

When I told my parents, 'I'm going to be an actor,' they screamed and wept and freaked out.

I directed two films, not very successfully, and after that, I went back to being an actor and a producer.

I think I'm a better actress for having friends and interests outside the theatre. I wouldn't want to live my life surrounded by other actors all the time.

Everybody who is an actor has been acting since they were three.

If you want to be an actor, you have to do it because you love acting, not because you want to be a celebrity.

Be your own hero, it's cheaper than a movie ticket.

If I'm not on tour, I can run down to the comedy club and do a little stand-up. If you're an actor, you can't go - I guess there's forms of it.

This movie is a toupee made up to look like honest baldness.

I just want to do the best possible job with everything that I do. But I'm far more concerned with being a good father as opposed to being a good actor because that's what's really going to matter.

Cary Grant is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life.

The world 's a theatre, the earth a stage, Which God and Nature do with actors fill.

I think all those actors from that generation, like Bogart - they were wonderful actors. They didn't act. They just came on and they did it, and the characters were wonderful.

Any actor will tell you, as soon as your ego and your vanity come into the mix, it destroys your work. Completely destroys it.

I don't have the slightest desire to speak over my dead brother. It gets on my nerves to always be compared with him. My brother was a magnificent person and an outstanding actor.

I'm not interested in being a celebrity; I'm interested in being a better actor and a better director.

But I love filmmaking - I'm not ashamed of that. You're sort of vilified if you say that in England.

You can't stop being a citizen just because you have a Screen Actors' Guild card.

Being an actor sometimes requires that you ask yourself questions youd rather not know the answers to.