Actors Quotes

People told me, when I was coming through the ranks, that a mark of a great actor is one who deals with the period of unemployment as well as they deal with the period of employment

You have to trust your instincts. There is a moment when an actor has it, and he knows it.

You're always dealing with emotions as an actor.

I'm not the kind of actor who goes into exhaustive research for each role.

However good a communicator a director is, unless they've been actors, it's just not the same as the shorthand you get with someone who's been an actor.

Actors are embracing a new aesthetic, which is leaning more toward truthful and simple and direct, as opposed to what we would normally call sitcom acting.

Ninety percent of the preparation we do as actors is just jive. It doesn't do anything.

Nobody became an actor because he had a good childhood.

I'm more than an actor. I'm an icon, an industry.

David Cronenberg knows what we actors do as artists.

If you're lucky, and not a lot of actors are these days, you get the chance to create a character

Comedians... they're different from actors. There's more ego there. They create the whole thing, I guess, so they're more precious.

Actors never retire, they just get less and less work.

I'm sure one reason I became an actor is my basic unwillingness to live one life.

They say God looks after kids and idiots, and I think actors are probably a combination of the two.

I am an actor and I live in the world of pretend in my working capacity. I live in the world of my imagination.

Sir Larry could be very strict and a disciplinarian, too. He had many faces; he wore many hats. But, ultimately, he loved the theater and he loved actors.

Dakota Fanning is a child, but she is a wonderful actor. I don't know what a child actor is. She's an actor who's a child.

When you're doing a play you get to go full speed ahead, all night, in front of an audience. It's a roller-coaster ride, responding to other actors, it feeds you.

I was a Shakespearean actor, I had preconceived ideas, line readings - everything was a gesture, everything was conscious.

As an actor, you have no control really.

I appreciate film actors who respect the film making process.

There's a whole catalogue of actors that never went to acting school.

I love acting, truly my favorite people are actors.

As a young actor, I booked a movie in the U.S. I didn't speak any English at the time, so I learned my lines phonetically when I auditioned for it.

I have considered myself a mature actor.

Work is good when people are responsible, and in low-budget movies a lot of the actors don't want to be there. They're there to build a resume.

I really believe great actors, even with disease and age, can be great.

I do think that good actors can do any part. It doesn't mean that they are the best ones to do it.

What great comedians, great comic writers, great comic actors do is that they just read the headlines with the right eyebrow position and it's funny.

It's just people should realize that the celebrity aspect of being an actor is very rarely enjoyable for people like me who would always rather go unnoticed and disappear into the crowd.

Good actors, you always know what they're thinking. That's why they're good actors.

There's a nimble quality to the way a television actor can work. When that muscle gets strong it's a very valuable thing.

That's where I'd like to be: when the business says here's a good actor who is marketable so we can use him. Just that.

A great actor is simply just seeing him or herself, and reacting to what exists around them.

Condemn the fault and not the actor of it?

I don't take myself too seriously. I think that's something so many actors and people in general tend to do.

What's the classical moment that every actor or actress deals with? A tragic thing. They get that blank, faraway look in their eyes. But in life, it's not that way.

I pick out young people and teach them in less time than it would take me to alter the methods of people from the boards, and I get actors who look the parts they have to fill.

I'm an actor, coming from New York theater.

I think some actors thrive on working at a much greater pace than I do.

I certainly want to establish myself as an actor in my own right, rather than being just the actor who plays Harry Potter.

There's no blueprint for where I should be. I see myself as a young, good actor who still has a lot to learn. There's nobody at any point in their career who is the finished article.

Both of my parents have been actors; there were a lot of show tunes on in the car all of the time. I grew up with that.

I want to prove to people that I'm an actor and not just a character.

If I could change on thing about myself, I would: Have better knees. Mine are shot because of injuries. You're only as good as your legs, whether you're an athlete or an actor.

I'm always amazed at the way some actors' behaviour is truly disgusting. That's one thing that will never happen on one of my sets if I ever direct.

I loved working on Of Mice and Men. It was a wonderful group of people. John Malkovich is to me one of the best actors around right now-and a lot of fun to work with.

I spent about a year and a half doing technical post work on 'The Fountain'. Although I do like the process, I think my favorite part of filmmaking is the actors.

I've learned a great deal about a certain type of filmmaking. But I have ambitions toward another type of filmmaking that I haven't been allowed to engage in yet.