Actors Quotes

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.

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

Having secured my Indian actors, I started for Baltimore, where I organized my combination, and which was the largest troupe I had yet had on the road.

This was truly guerilla filmmaking. We shot out in the middle of nowhere in a place called Delta Flats, where basically every day was some new minor catastrophe.

The big turn in the late 90s was that I realized I was going to be doing this for a long time. I was fairly sure I was going to be an actor for the rest of my life, which I think calmed me down.

Actors are inherently self-centered.

I might have been curious about actors' lives when I was growing up. That's human nature.

Directors and producers were afraid of a Dumont actor while at the same time they admired him.

I'm really a director's actor. I rely heavily on a director.

To be a Dumont actor was considered to be a great honor for an actor, yet it also had its disadvantages.

A good actor is somebody who can be truthful and fascinating and interesting and enlightening.

I would rather be called a character actor than a star.

I'm constantly trying to find something that's different from me, whereas some actors do the same thing, again and again. That's not for me.

It would be great to be able to follow in the footsteps of Bill Murray. I really respect his ability as a comedian, obviously, but even more so as an actor.

I would love to get great performances from actors as a director, because that's what I'm always looking for, a director that's going to help me go places I've never been before.

I think people will be curious to see what I can do as a dramatic actor.

Whatever talent I had, I'm sure it helped that my parents were in the business and that I grew up around actors, comedians and directors.

I love independent films, it's the only place as an actor you're totally allowed to breathe.

There's no shame in stealing - any actor who says he doesn't is lying. You steal from everything.

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.

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

I'm a character actor so I've jumped around to all kinds of things.

So I find the fascination, the love, the incredible skill and everything to do with acting, writing plays, and doing them, just darling. Lovely. I love actors.

I'd made these experimental films but I thought the major chore of a filmmaker was to relate to actors.

All that back-story stuff doesn't help. What you get paid for is to stand toe-to-toe with the other actor and get him to do your will.

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.

Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

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

People say I'm a one-note actor, but the way I figure it, those other guys are just looking for that one right note.

We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.

Starting with a party scene for 600 cast and end up singing on top of a giant elephant...does it get any better than this?

Any actress who appears in public without being well-groomed is digging her own grave.

In all aspects of life, we take on a part and an appearance to seem to be what we wish to be--and thus the world is merely composed of actors.

I'm not one of those actors who romanticizes his trials working out and brags that he can bench press a panda now.

I'm not a method actor, but I'm affected by the life I share my life with during shooting. It's always a very strange and special period for me.