Actors Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

The actor has a constant problem of personal identity.

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

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."

Being an actor you have a lot of expenses.

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

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

I don't remember what made me want to be an actor. In fact, I'm always curious.

Inside I never said I wanted to do theatre or be an actor.

I like celluloid, I like film, I like the way that when a movie is projected it sort of breathes a little in the gate. That's the magic of it to me.

I really feel like indie films are where I learn to be a better actor, especially because they always give you a bit more freedom to collaborate.

I'm not a leading man. I'm a character actor. That's what I want to be.

We don't have a lot of class-conscious filmmaking.

I love directing because you get to see your film come to life. You get to work with the actors. There's something magical about each piece of it.

Actors who perhaps are super-confident and have absolute belief in themselves I always admire, because I can't really be like that.

Method actors are like hams.

My sexual nature is irrelevant. I'm an actor, I play roles, fragments of myself.

I've been wanting to go into music ever since I can remember. I mean even before I became an actor. I just thought it would be a tough field to break into, so I became an actor instead.

I try to encourage actors to work harder off screen because that's where you find things.

I was trained to be an actor, not a star.

I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I had to decide early on whether I was to be an actor or a personality.

I don't like actors who try to talk directors into making their part bigger and that's really lame.

The most important thing you can teach actors is to understand plays.

I weren't an actor, I'd be a wildlife biologist or forest ranger.

Filmmaking is such a collaborative medium.

Casting a film, you can have the greatest actors in a film and it doesn't work. It's a combination of all of the elements.

I was really disappointed that Warner Bros. didn't think highly enough of my film or my filmmaking to ask me to make the new Superman.

But I've always been hard to cast, I've never been an ingenue, I've never been the romantic lead. I'm an actor; give me the script and I do what I do and hope it's good.

I never had any backlash from the model-turned-actor thing.

Most actors go, I read the script and fell in love with it; I fall in love with the directors.

I was very intense. I think it's a privilege to be an actor.

I'm not like one of those actors who's a frustrated director.

I don't have any particular excitement about working with any specific director or actor at this point.

Actors love mental disorders, dialects, and corsets. Give them one of the three and they're happy

There are some actors that are so gifted, that move you in such a way that every time you see their names again, you go and pay another ticket because you want to have that experience again.

Fonda and Gary Cooper had the best sense of timing of all the actors I knew.

Well, Mom and Dad are both actors, and Ive spent a lot of time watching my mom on stage and a lot of time on set with my dad, so it was very much a part of my growing up.

Even when you're making a movie about life, death is a presence, and I guess it's part of my dramatic viewpoint. I'm not sure why exactly.

As a filmmaker you get typecast just as much as an actor does, so I'm trapped in a genre that I love, but I'm trapped in it!

I try not to have high expectations of people because it just sets you up for disappointment, but it's great to work with actors who are that talented and accomplished.

I really respond to diversity, a broader landscape, with actors of different ages and races and backgrounds.

So many singers want to act, and so many actors try to sing.

I love a lot of comedy actors and actresses like Kristen Wiig and Tina Fey and all those women who are really brilliant and funny.

God felt sorry for actors, so he gave them a place in the sun and a lot of money. All they had to sacrifice was their talent.

There is only one thing I respect in so-called Broadway actors... and that is their competitive sense.