Actors Quotes

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.

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

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

I guess George Clooney would be a wonderful silent actor, and Leonardo DiCaprio is such a wonderful actor he certainly could do it.

Being an actor means being an instrument for someone else. I want to give myself completely.

I'm scared of actors with a scheme.

Hamid Gul is an actor who is definitely not in our good books. Hamid Gul is somebody who was never appreciated by our government.

I mean, the actors that I admired were Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, an actress named Barbara Harris. And Greta Garbo. They were great actors.

I've never been competitive with other actors. I've been competitive with myself and I'm my own worst critic, a terrible critic I am, and unless I get something right, I feel very unhappy.

I'm an actor, and everything about me - the way I perceive things, the way I have seen the world - has been in relation to characters and how I would want to play something or not play it.

Actors have an unusual perspective on clothing. You've really got to know the impact of what you're wearing on the character you're playing

I'm forever testing myself. As a person and as an actor, I have no sense of competition.

I was still thought of as a kid actor even though I was in my mid twenties.

The whole point of being an actor is to get satisfaction out of a role -- unless you're just vain about celebrity. You're always looking for the one thing that will surprise you.

When I decided I wanted to be an actor, I said I wanted to work with quality actors and directors.

Those offers come in now and again. They're not knocking down my door. I'm only an old character actor, and I'm not needed.

Actors may know how to act, but a lot of them don't know how to behave.

I'm just looking always for characters that change, because I want to get better, as an actor and as a person.

I like to do theater and hopefully be effective. Most actors, at least contemporary actors of my generation, can't do it. They don't have the chops.

I always had an actor within me.

I guess [Richard] Pryor was that good. I never saw him in a theater, but I imagine he was that good, because he was such a phenomenal actor.

I always thought I'd be a New York theater actor, riding my bicycle to rehearsal. That was all I ever wanted.

In the editing room, 20 percent of the time you're using stuff from before the actor knew the camera was rolling or you're taking a line from somewhere else and putting it in his mouth.

The dilemma of Brechtian performance is that, for all of Brecht's emphasis on rationality and the undermining of theatrical illusion, the actor must convincingly portray something that she is not.

Michael Caine is a movie star, but he's also a great actor. I can't say that about every movie star. It's the concentration he has.

The big issue with rock stars becoming actors is that sometimes it's not believable, and vice versa with actors becoming rock stars. Sometimes just doesn't fit.

I completely agree when there are actors who say, "Actors should stay out of politics. We're not politicians."

A brick layer, lays bricks... I'm an Actor, that's what I do.

Only one of us would usually sing lead. Which most of the time was, Mickey or Dave. They thought it was perfectly a natural routine, because Mickey and Dave saw themselves as TV actors.

Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.

I'm not one of those actors who needs the media spotlight all the time to feel gratified. I'm happy to do one project a year and take the rest of the year off as long as that project is special.

The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner.

I love involving actors at all levels - and they have to know that I want to hear their contributions, with dialogue, with story suggestions, with script changes, whatever.

I usually don't say anything to the actors. It works better for me because when they come to the set, they are at the same time scared and excited because they are not well aware of what will happen.

Unfortunately for the 'Tomorrow' series, I feel that for the actors that were in the first film, maybe our commitment to it is done.

What I hope is that I don't just become 'Peter from The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe.' I want to try and do something else to be a good actor and a respected actor.

I want to aspire to something like what Denzel Washington does, which is try to find scripts written for white actors - or Jodie Foster, who reads scripts for male actors.

I admire an actor that can do a lot with doing nothing really, for the most part. I like doing a lot by doing so little.

All of the younger actors keep coming up to me and asking me where all of the land mines are because they know I've stepped on them all.

It's a super super strange world when the actors are the less weird ones.

I think every actor wants to be an FBI or cop at one point.

For me, there is nothing more valuable than how people feel in a movie theater about a movie.

Directors, like actors, get typecast.

Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.

Characterization in a play is like a blank check which the dramatist accords to the actor for him to fill in.

I have the absolute utmost respect for soap opera actors now. They work harder than any actor I know in any other medium. And they don't get very much approbation for it.

I just crushed Stranger Things. It's got one of my favorite actors, David Harbour. And obviously Breaking Bad and stuff like that.

For an actor to go to work every day is an extreme blessing.

As actors, the thing we have to fight, more than even the business part of making movies, is boredom.

Acting with creatures that aren't there is kind like acting with an actor who refuses to come out of his trailer. You still have to go on and do the scene.