Actors Quotes

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

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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 had an actor within me.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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 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.

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

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'm scared of actors with a scheme.

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

As an actor, you most often play relatively average parts, so to get to play extreme versions of anything, those are the most exciting parts.

I now truly believe it is impossible for me to make a bad movie.

I haven't aged into a character actor. I'm an old leading man.

The process of filmmaking is very musical, you get into the rhythm and the rhythmics of how someone is, especially with Woody Allen who is very much into body language and body movement.

Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it.

Wanting to be in a Western film won't get me very far. Unless the opportunity arose, it doesn't matter how much I want to be in one. But if an opportunity did arise, no actor would pass it up.

I can understand why people get annoyed at being remembered for one thing, but a lot of actors aren't remembered for anything. I don't mind that.

During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.

A famous actor, Edmund Kean, on his deathbed, was reported to have said, "Dying is easy. Comedy is hard."

[To reporter who telephoned with news of her Oscar:] If you are joking me, I will get up immediately and kill you wherever you are.

It's really important for actors to feel that they're more than something for hire.

I like to let the actors work the way they want to.

I was really surprised when I started working and realized that you're actually on your own, a lot of the time. It makes you really responsible, as an actor.

One of the great things about being an actor is that you have a completely different challenge every few months.

Being an actor on a movie set is like going to the playground at recess.

I think the best actors are the most generous, the kindest, the greatest people and at their worst they are vain, greedy and insecure.

I think all actors - they'll hate me for saying this - but we are babies. We like to be loved, and we'll do anything if we're loved.

I don't have any expectations as an actor and being rich and famous is not my driving force.

It's true what people say - that actors are the closest thing there is to children. They play.

When people see an actor speak, they think they know him or her, whereas I'm just a face or a body to them.

I want everyone to feel as much as possible as if they inhabit the same space. They more fluid the relationship between actor and audience, the better.

Forgiveness is mental floss! Build the capacity to forgive slowly - start with little unkind acts, otherwise you'll sabotage yourself. When we forgive, we forgive the actor, not the action.

Two of an actress's greatest assets are love and pain. A great actress, even a good actress, must have plenty of both in her life.

It makes me feel good that I can now sit there and go, I've worked with Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, all the great actors that I've worked with... Sir Ben Kingsley.

An actor really is a kind of intermediary between an audience and the piece, whether it's a play or movie.

As an actor, I feel like I'm somebody who, when somebody gives me a mark, I don't want to hit it. I don't like that. But then, without even knowing it, I just hit it.