Actors Quotes

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 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 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.

If it sounds good as you say it, likely as not it'll sound good when an actor's saying it.

The way an actor is trained doesn't ultimately have much bearing on my work. I'm interested in the actor as artist.

I have had the occasion to meet child actors from the '60s and '70s at various functions, and everyone's gone on to various different lives - they're real-estate agents or surfers.

Actors are pretending for you, but they're not lying. They are not putting on a guise instead of themselves. They are finding things inside that they have experienced.

A theater is such a revealing form of art, such a transparent and good actors, they're such powerful individuals. I always kind of dreamt that one day I will open my mouth on stage.

I don't think that there's much hiding that actors can do. If you're doing good work, you're showing a part of yourself to someone.

As an actor it's like, go with whatever excites you as an actor. What are you're going to invest yourself in as a character? What are you going to get into? Have a variety of characters to play.

Since first starting my career, I've grown accustomed to working with actors older than me. I'm always the youngest.

I remember that Jack Lemmon, who is one of my favorite actors of all time, says that the day he stops being nervous is the day he should leave the business.

I've been around where I knew other actors were going to steal the scene, and I don't compete with them.

There's the most resistance to an actor singing. It's like I'm being disloyal to my industry.

With a lot of actors, you've got to chip through the surface to see who the real person is.

Im a firm believer that actors take to work who they arent at home. People show their other self in their art or in their work.

I feel like my responsibility as an actor is to make characters as compelling and believable as possible.

Actors are the best and the worst of people. They're like kids. When they're good, they're very very good. When they're bad they're very very naughty.

The long version of the play is actually an easier version to follow. In all of the cut versions the intense speeches are cut too close together for the audience and the actors.

Actors are no strangers to self-doubt, fear, and rejection.

In terms of being Australian, I think a big part of it is the determination to prove yourself, just like Aussie actors.

Most child actors go through that. Unless you can transition into an adult star, your career is over.

Playwrights are the most gregarious writers - to get our work done, we need actors, directors, set designers.

People should realize that I shot a Coke commercial back in 1986. So, you know, I've been around a long time. I carry my Screen Actors Guild Card.

Bogart was like Henry Fonda - proud and happy to be an actor.

I don't think I know a Scientologist except when I see one or two of their actors on the Hollywood screen.

It is an actor's defect. I want everybody to like me, so I'll say what I think will please them.

Everything I learned as an actor, I have basically applied to writing.

The moral of filmmaking in Britain is that you will be screwed by the weather.

I am a genre lover - everything from spaghetti western to samurai movie.

Other actors like to rehearse on film-they like 30 or 40 takes. When you get an actor like that, it becomes difficult for me because I'm ready to quit after number two.

I've said this so many times but there's a magic when you have a really good actor in a really good makeup.

Nowadays, in the contract that actors sign, you have to agree that you're going to do a certain amount of publicity-the hard part they don't pay you for.

I believe that the kids, young people should have an opportunity to have Oscar nominated actors in their movies too.

When you're rapping, you do have to perform to a certain degree, but not every rapper is necessarily a gifted actor.

The actual process of filmmaking, the many hours out of your life- it is very slow and boring. I'm not interested in that now unless an opportunity was provided for me.

For a child actor, its a matter of listening, reacting, and being able to put yourself in a new place without being scared.

In L.A., if you're an actor, your personal and professional lives are too intertwined.

I found that golf saved me from going to the pub every day so instead I play golf with other unemployed actors. I'm a member of the Stage Golfing Society and I play golf with all sorts of people.

Every actor wants to break out of the box that they put you in and that's where I'm heading, out of the box as fast as I can.

August, the summer's last messenger of misery, is a hollow actor.

Actors often behave like children, and so we're taken for children. I want to be grown up.

I've always seen it as the role of an artist to drag his inside out, give the audience all you've got. Writers, actors, singers, all good artists do the same. It isn't supposed to be easy.

In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor.

There is but one stage for the peasant and the actor.

I've wanted to be an actor ever since I was a little boy.

Mine is an actor's voice, not a singer's voice, but the part was written for an actor (Richard Burton), not a singer.

We become actors without realizing it, and actors without wanting to.

When it comes to acting, people talk about the suspension of disbelief that you ask of the audience. Before that starts, you have to, as an actor, suspend your own disbelief.

The difference between me and American-born actors is that I came here with the expectation of not being treated fairly.