Actors Quotes

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

You get a different kick out of all aspects of filmmaking.

Have you ever talked to someone, and you're not even really talking to them? Actors are the worst for that.

I know every actor says this, but the people behind the camera are great. They always have answers.

You hear this story that we're all on the left, but when there's a demonstration, you count how many actors actually come out. If there's a half dozen, that would be a big day.

I don't consider myself a very interesting person. I have the mentality of a supporting actor.

The camera is the slave to the actor.

I look at actors very closely. It's not an accident when the actors excel.

It is very hard to cast a number of plays adequately from the same company of actors without several parts being miscast.

I am not an enormous believer in research being the be-all and end-all. I get suspicious when I read about actors spending six months in a clinic, say, in order to play someone who is sick.

I get to play a great character while working with great actors and great directors on a great show.

My journey has been that of a character actor.

When I first started out, I was a bad actor.

An actor only has his own understanding and experience to work with.

For some directors, I'm the actor from hell.

I like most of the Humphrey Bogart movies because they had to act then, and they acted very well. Edward G. Robinson is probably the best actor I've ever seen on the movies.

But here I am today recording this and I'm in the studio with all the others on a clean mic. It's extraordinary, the actor's found a way of doing it for himself.

No, I'm at full height, I'm in the studio, I can actually catch actors by the eye, it's fantastic.

I consider myself a very lucky actor that, approaching 60, I'm still employed and employable.

I guess I'm used to seeing actors, but rock musicians still hold a special magic for me.

I'm not intimidated by other actors at all - or directors. I don't care who they are. But I am intimidated by writers. I hold them in the highest esteem.

Actors always have to fight for the good parts. There are so few good roles written for women each year, and when one is written like this every actress in town covets the role.

Ronnie Barker will forever be remembered as one of the great comic actors.

Quite often - a lot of the work I had done had been extensively with women. Most especially in the theater, but also quite often in the movies. That has its own delights, and maybe pitfalls too.

When I made 'Hard Boiled,' I had no idea that it would be released to an international audience. I just wanted to make a film to team up my two favorite actors, Tony Leung and Chow Yun-Fat.

An actor's career relies on a lot of luck. Being in the right place at the right time.

Actors are professionals who deal with people's emotions and their thoughts.

Hollywood will accept actresses playing ten years older, but actors can play ten years younger.

Theatre is a sacred space for actors. You are responsible; you are in the driving-seat.

What I ended up doing was becoming an actor who didn't mind doing other people's words.

I don't consider a lot of actors that I really admire movie stars.

For the actor, The Lee Strasberg Notes are an indispensable companion.

An actor needs to be not remotely anywhere close to in control, and a filmmaker has to be totally in control.

As a director, I've been able to combine with what I've learned as an actor and as a producer: it melds quite nicely into what I feel like I should have been doing all along.

When you are an actor, you bring a tool in your craft but you are not that person.