Actors Quotes

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.

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.

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

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.

Working with any actor is like working with a monkey.

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.

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.

Becoming an actor? If it's not a calling, don't do it. It's too hard.

I like the idea of up-and-coming actors nowadays being a little different and not necessarily the drama-school stereotype, being a bit more edgy.

If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.

If you make the right choice in casting, your work is nearly done already. You don't have to spend a lot of time directing the actors, because they're so well suited to the parts.

Most actors hate watching their own films because all you can see is the glaring mistakes, your own tricks and ticks.

It is interesting to be here and to see that for certain actors they have to live in a way that you think of nobody living anymore except for in small towns. They have such elaborate double lives.

As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I'm severed.

Some actors couldn't figure out how to withstand the constant rejection. They couldn't see the light at the end of the tunnel.

I feel like I've finally made it as an actor. I've been doing this for years and you don't always make a movie that everybody likes.

John Goodman is more that just a big guy, he's a wonderful actor.

As an artist, as an actor, as a writer, you have to use what's personal to you. You have to be personal about your work; otherwise, it doesn't ring true.

I don't enjoy being told what to do, I'm not that kind of actor, I'm a thinking actor.

Movie actors earn their living and learn their craft through listening and reacting.

The clergy is in the same business as actors, just a different department.

I don't like shows, I don't like to put on a show, I just really want to work intimately with my actors.

I'm still interested in perfecting whatever talents I have and continuing to grow as an actor and continuing to be useful to the telling of the story.

I figure there are a few actors like Marlon Brando, George C. Scott and Laurence Olivier who have been touched by the hand of God. I'm in the next bunch.

The great actors, like Cary Grant, and the gentlemanliness that they portray in the movies is something that I try to keep in mind.

In a collaborative environment directors hire actors because they want their input, not just their bodies.

When I was five, I always told my mom I would want to be an actor.

I was brought up in a house full of women; the first time I realised no one was interrupting me was when I was on stage - that's probably the subconscious reason I became an actor.

I depended on chiropractic care when I was an athlete. I depend on it now as a busy film and TV actor.

My motto is that the audience should notice the actors, not the clothes.

Being an actor you have a lot of expenses.

I try to carve my own way so the actors who come after me will say, "I want to do it like Columbus did it."

I'm an actor, that's my contribution.

The actor has a constant problem of personal identity.

There's nothing better than an actor who is really, really hungry to show everything they've got.

The comedians I liked were Bill Cosby and Steven Wright, like just always as a comedic actor. I always liked Gary Larson, who's really funny for a cartoonist, obviously.

I am not a long-run actor. I admire actors who can do that.

As an actor, you want to keep your demons to some extent, but you also have to exorcise them so you can use them instead of them using you.

Page one of the script, I launch into, "How would I feel if I were in this position?" That's an actor's job.

When I think about actors I know, I'd much rather hear about who they're shagging than what film they're doing next.

I think you can't be really posh and be an interesting actor. I'm a bit of a posh rough.

I think most actors . . . We are insecure, in general. I think to be an actor, you need to have an ego, but then, our ego is our worst enemy.

I think actors always retain one foot in the cradle. We're switched on to our youth, to our childhood. We have to be because we're in the business of transferring emotions to other people.

Excesses are essentially gestures. It is easy to be extremely cruel, magnanimous, humble or self-sacrificing when we see ourselves as actors in a performance.

A White House dinner is the American family assembled, from labor leaders to billionaires, actors, architects, academicians and athletes.

I think most actors are shy. I really do. The greatest actors can disappear. I had friends call me the Blend-In Man.

I guess I work well with others I handle younger actors well.

An actor without a playwright is like a hole without a doughnut.

Emotional power is maybe the most valuable thing that an actor can have.

The theatre is not the place for the musician. When the curtain is up the music interrupts the actor, and when it is down the music interrupts the audience.