Actors Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I do not welcome advice from actors, they are here to act.

I wanted to be the best actor possible. I worked very hard at the craft of it.

Through all permutations and youthful poetry, I came to believe that the film actor was the great "literateur" of his time.

I believe in making all movies at their most reasonable. That I get a lot of money as an actor is because nobody else will get it if I don't.

In a way, a lot of my work is in the re-writing once it is cast, as I adapt to the rhythms of how the roles are played out by the actors.

You know I hate watching myself on TV, I know a lot of actors say that, but it's true for me.

When you're doing the same scene over and over, all day long, you need to keep your levels up for your own performance and for the other actors.

One film critic back in the early days said "It's a pity Mr. Harryhausen didn't animated the actors, too."

At the end of the day, an actor is only a cog in the wheel.

What I do quite honestly and seriously and not in any way being humble is not as important as what the garbage collector does. People make actors important.

As a character actor, I've learned that you have to watch yourself because nobody else is watching. Nobody is concerned with you.

Maybe they say they do but I don't think many actors really enjoy trying to do a Shakespearean play.

It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.

To my way of thinking, an actor's course is set even before he's out of the cradle.

When the major studios flourished many years ago, an actor was groomed, developed, and worked frequently at his craft. The studios really took care of their actors.

You know, as I do, actors who, having become worldwide celebrities thanks to a TV series, complain of their lot and declare themselves ready to drop it all.

How was I going to make a man fly? How was I going to convince the public that an actor could fly?

Actors are their own worst enemies. They quite often will get in their own way, and I have to be encouraged, endlessly, not to get in my own way.

Actors tend to get better with age. You start cutting away the useless stuff and achieving a point of effortlessness and simplicity, which is all you want to do, with any art at all.

As an actor, you're trained to do the right thing, be politically correct, say your lines, say the right thing about the people you're working with...

Actors geek out over athletes. Everyone knows that.

I grind my teeth and keep my thumbs in so tight that I've dislocated them, just not to scream. Sometimes as an actor one is lucky enough to be asked to scream.

We all, in fact, carry so many people inside us; the only difference is that actors get paid for it, and we sort of spruce it up a bit.

As I told you, from the time I was fifteen, I thought the theater was too much involved with actors trying to make the audience love them, being over emotional.

You're spoilt as an actor if you are in that small percentage that works regularly.

I'm not sure I'm the sort of actor people are hugely interested in finding out an awful lot about.

I've been aware of the work I do as an actor being directorial in feel.

I've had a year out of work, more, and just toughed it out. There are those who think that all actors are overpaid. I beg to differ.