Actors Quotes

I admired Marlon Brando as I grew up. I though he was one of the finest screen actors around.

It's difficult working with very rich actors, because inevitably they become a little spoilt, and the managers and agents tend to control things more than is healthy.

You are exposing yourself all the time as an actor. There's the risk of being thought of as bad or boring or unattractive.

I was a terrible actor, and that's why I got the job: I would allow myself to be so bad that I lowered and got down to WWF standards.

It's very important to be able to distinguish the actors from the characters they play.

I had admired Richard Burton for years and years before I had ever worked with him. He was a great, great actor. It was a joy to get to know him as a person.

I did well as an actor in Australia, and then Paramount invited me over... to have a look at me.

As actors, we went where we wanted to, and the camera followed us: it was like having another person in the room. There was no formal structure to the process. It was very liberating.

the role of the Do-Gooder is not what actors call a fat part.

For aspiring actors out there, I would say stay focused and don't let anyone pull you away from your goals. Shoot for the stars so that if you ever fall short you can land on the clouds.

When you work with directors who really love actors, who love their contribution, it feels amazing. But sometimes when you work with directors, you feel like youre in the way.

The three actors I admire the most are all dead. Humphrey Bogart, Spencer Tracy and the French actor, Jean Gabin. They're all very natural, sort of masculine without being overly macho.

I was mainly a stage actor. I found film acting mechanical, because it was so technical - there was so much technique with the lamps and the movements of the camera.

It's an enormous relief to go to work and be an actor and not be worried about writing.

You draw on your own childhood every time you tee it up as an actor.

You know, Tupac is very near and dear to my heart. He started my career as an actor.

I knew an actor's career goes up and down and back up again. Your standing in this business can't be your whole identity; otherwise, you're doomed

I've always like sort of, as an actor, I'm drawn to exploring how we are as human beings in given situations and how we act and how we react and what makes us tick.

I like being very busy. I think that's the definition of stardom, really. It's energy. It really is.

When actors give their input, it can be very ego-driven, and directors are scared of that.

I still do commercial work as an actor, which I love, because it's very quick, and it definitely pays my bills.

Think of Frank Capra and Preston Sturges. They used the same actors over and over again.

I love actors. I married one. OK, I married a fantastic one.

The thing about Canada is, you're not really considered a Canadian actor unless you do something with the CBC.

Are we not like the actor of old times, who wore his mask so long his face took its likeness?

I think actors have to have clear goals in term of fitness, I think it is very important. I did yoga very seriously and I think that is a wonderful exercise. I take tennis lessons, and I swim a lot.

A lot of the films now are more focused on the visuals than on the actors. I think all directors should go to drama school.

James Ivory comes close to the actors for the first rehearsal. He more or less lets you direct yourself and then will only correct you if he finds it incorrect.

When you're a short actor you stand on apple boxes, you walk on a ramp. When you're a short star everybody else walks in a ditch.

Being an actor is really odd. So, don't take that as your reality - take your family, take your friends, take your relationships - that's your reality. And hang on to them.

I ended up an actor, did my first professional union gig in 1974, and I've been doing it ever since.

I've seen many actors go awry by making the wrong choices early on.

The only power an actor has is the ability to say "no."

But my favorite period for actors is the 70s. I think so many great movies were made in the 70s. The 90s just seem to be a confused decade. Nobody knows, really, what's going on.

I'm a director's actor; I'm a storyteller's actor.

I've always wanted to be an actor that explores different genres and different characters.

I'm a character actress, plain and simple... Who can worry about a career? Have a life. Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.

I don't need a director who's 'good with actors.'...A master manipulator is heaven.

It's a scary thing going into the workforce with a $50,000 debt and you've been trained as a classical theatre actor. There's always a depression in the theatre.

Some actors get fired up by the sound of the audience. I just want to retreat.

Every actor I know wants to be a pop star.

It's no good being the best actor in the world if nobody sees you because you didn't happen to be there at the right day when a part was being cast.

As far as my dreams go, all I want to do is be a working actor, and I happily achieved that.

Like a heartbeat. Something inside me. Some dream. I think it's being a dreamer as a child. Dreamy kids become actors, don't they?

We [black actors] are more respected in Europe, because in Europe, I'm not a black actor - I'm an action star. In America, I'm a black actor.

An actor has no more right to be temperamental than a bank clerk.

You try to pick good stories, and that's pretty much all the control you have as an actor.

There's always an imbalance with actors and actresses in the industry. And I think because there are just fewer movies overall being made, it's that trickle down effect.

Of course, people told me, 'Mikey, you will never be an actor. You don't have the look. You're ugly.'

It is unfortunate that the poor judgment shown by a small group of young actors has tarnished the reputation of every child who has ever appeared before a camera.