Actors Quotes

I have made decisions based from purely an actor's point of view.

I had never done Shakespeare before, but I don't think you can be an actor and not do it. There were moments when I thought, I'm just not going to be able to pull this off.

Once a film gets into production, the actors sometimes begin to have more input than a writer does.

Americans are very good at animating voices. I don't know why. They have a freedom with them that we British actors find more difficult to get to.

I could be making a lot more money now if I had chosen a different kind of movie, but none of that matters to me... I've done the parts I wanted to do.

As an actor, you’ve got to live and learn, and you gotta just kind of form a hard shell and be confident in yourself.

I think, being an actor, it's just a relief every time you get a part.

You can't please everyone... If you make a good movie, that's all that matters.

I have a theory. An audience doesn't need to get wrapped up in blackness every time they see a Negro actor. And a movie doesn't have to be about race just because there's a Negro in it.

Crazy is so hard to play, there's nothing you can really tell an actor.

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

One of the rules about being an actor or an actress is that you never diss other actors or actresses, particularly when you don't know them.

It wasn't as though I really made a commitment to it; there wasn't anything else around. So I wasn't driven to become an actor.. it just seemed to be the thing that I managed to do best.

A writer can write in an attic, or on top of a bus. Or with a sharp stick in some wet cement. To act, an actor has to have words. A stage. a camera turning.

First of all, I never make a movie for awards consideration.

I don't want to be a star. If you have to label me anything, I'm an actor - I guess. A journeyman actor. I think 'star' is what you call actors who can't act.

C'mon, we're actors. We love the attention. We love the applause. We sure don't like to be rejected.

Actors always have opinions.

I've worked with Steven Spielberg three times. I'm proud to say that I'm one of those actors that continues to get hired by the same directors.

Personally speaking there's only so long you can go from film to film to film. There's an inspiration an actor gets from the stage.

A lot of American actors I work with are in character all day long. You can't talk to them. It's Method and the whole thing.

The shelf life of a movie actor or actress is so short, it's like milk.

Seven actors have played Batman on the big screen, and if you can name all seven without reading any further, your youth has been wasted.

I think Star Trek has been very double-edged for all of us - as actors, writers, directors.

I think, frankly, that I'm a better director than I was an actor.

I'm an actor. Whether I'm on stage, in front of a camera or a microphone, what I do is the same - although with videogames it requires a lot of imagination.

I was a failed actor but I still wanted to show off, so I ended up doing live comedy.

It's always hard as an actor I think to be just on the set and have the kind of confidence to be like, 'Yeah, I did that. That went perfectly. That's great.' That's more confidence than I have.

We can make ourselves actors, but only the audience can make a star.

I was convinced there as only one actor to play Templeton the Rat, and that was Tony Randall.

In the scenes of moral life the soul is at once actor and spectator.

My dad didn't often bring me to the set, being an actor himself, so my infancy as an actor was wracked with a lot of giggles and nervousness.

I did seven indies because the independent market used to be a lot better before all the stars were doing independents. As a beginning actor, that's where you started.

If you want to be an actor, you need to learn how to act first, even in sketch comedy.

Actors want to do Shakespeare again and again, or want to do Hamlet. When you hear one guy do Hamlet and another guy do it, it's going to be a whole different experience.

We have to be vulnerable as actors, but we have to protect ourselves.

Many great horror stories are period pieces and English actors have a facility for historic characters.

Actors wait tables, directors work at video stores.

My path was to be an actor and it’s been very good to me in life. It’s broadened my horizons and given me a lot of gifts.

What is it in the actor, the stage, that casts so powerful a spell on the young imagination?

A lot of my friends are struggling musicians. Being a struggling actor, it's just frustrating because you're not allowed to do what you want to do.

A market is not politically neutral; its existence creates economic power which one actor can use against another.

Part of the reason of being an actor is you like playing other people's lives and exploring all the psychologies in that and the emotions.

I'd say working on television is much, much tougher than films. But television has a great connect with a live audience, which is a refreshing change for us actors.

People think actors have such glamorous lives, but the truth is actors go where nobody wants to go.

Everybody has his own theatre, in which he is manager, actor, prompter, playwright, sceneshifter, boxkeeper, doorkeeper, all in one, and audience into the bargain.

The stock actor is a stage calamity

In my collection, to me at least, the theatre of the past lives again and those long-dead playwrights and actors have in me an enthralled audience of one, and I applaud them across the centuries.

I'm living in Los Angeles, I'm in films and I'm on television, and I'm working with actors and telling stories. I'm living the fantasy. My worst day is a great day.

But history is a faithless teller whose cruel recourse to hindsight makes fools of its actors.