Actors Quotes

I just wanted to be in show business. I didn't care if I was going to be an actor or a magician or what. Comedy was a point of the least resistance, really. And on the simplest level, I loved comedy.

An actor is only merchandise.

As an actor we're just like workers in a factory, we provide our services to directors.

I started working as an actor, semi-professionally, when I was 16, and got my first professional gig at 19. I guess I've kind of worked pretty consistently since then.

A real explosion is not only much more fun to shoot, it also helps the actors and creates an energy on set and ultimately in the scene.

I'm very used to working with first time actors - you can just look back at 'E.T.' with Drew Barrymore, and Christian Bale from 'Empire of the Sun,' who'd never made a movie before.

You can take wonderfully talented actors, wonderfully talented writers and producers, and, uh, do a wonderful show!... but if it doesn't hit with the public in two minutes, it's bye-bye.

I'm happy being an actor, it's what I have always wanted to do. I'm just lucky I got to do it so early.

They say that theater is the actor's medium, television is the writer's medium and film is the director's medium, and it's really true.

Nothing else is as fulfilling as playing a part in which you are able to have a significant say in the creative process all the way through. How many actors get to do that? It's extremely rare.

I was about 6 or 7, I would have said I wanted to be an actor and an artist. And that just kind of kept honing itself around film and getting closer to film.

Some directors hardly talk to the actors at all.

I do think that's so much a part of what being a director is - in working with actors - to really try and be sensitive to what each actor needs to get to where he wants to be.

Don Knotts won five Emmy Awards for Outstanding Performance in a Supporting Role by an Actor or Actress in a Series [in Andy Griffith Show] in 1961, 1962, 1963, 1966 and 1967.

I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don't remember ever having seen one weep.

If you watch the show and the characters don't look at each other while they're talking, the actors probably aren't getting along.

I got to talking to an old actor, and he had a bunch of stories about the Rough Riders

Dustin Hoffman was the greatest. He had so much information to give and he mesmerized me. He really feels for actors who are just starting out and remembers his early days like they were yesterday.

When you are an actor every day kind of morphs into one as there is no set structure to my job.

Being on 'Batman' allowed me to do something we actors are taught never to do: overact.

If one story becomes too hot, then you can't forget it. As an actor, you want to remain fluid.

It is better for me to serve a charity as an actor or a voice, rather than at a luncheon being just a celebrity.

I don't want to be like the actor who rehearses everything in the bathroom, then comes to the set and carries on completely uninterrupted while the other actors tiptoe away.

I'm so dependent on reacting to the other actors on the set, and to the director. I'm very responsive. I react. And I treasure the energy that reaction gives.

However, that old mode of Polish filmmaking virtually disappeared.

some actors seek parts similar to their personalities. But, I prefer undergoing a metamorphosis that depends on the role .

A novelty in Polish filmmaking was that it was possible to find funds for a big production. However, at the same time, the state budget committed less and less money to filmmaking.

But actors with political views are a dime a dozen.

Most actors are drawn towards historical tellings because it's one of the most simple forms of storytelling.

Performance capture is a tool that young actors will need in the next 10, 20 years. It's on the increase, as you say. It's not going away.

Every single director-actor I talked to, from Warren Beatty to Clint Eastwood to George Clooney, said the biggest mistake they made is not shooting enough footage of themselves.

It's like playing tennis, you play a different rally with different people. Every actor is different and the chemistry between actors is different.

I'm an eternal realist and the success rate for being an actor is pretty low.

I didn't even know my bra size until I made a movie.

I don't just act, and that's really important to me. I don't want to just be an actor forever. I want to score movies. I could be an actor first, but I don't only want to be an actor.

I'm not a comedian. I'm an actor who just happens to be funny on occasion.

Any actor will tell you, anybody in the public eye, that the tabloids are the worst kind of ramification of being a celebrity.

Oh yes. I'm an actor, so I just learn my lines, and show up and do it. I gave it a little bit of thought.

Actors are trusting souls, and we must go by gut-level instinct, even after our agents and business managers weigh all the odds.

I became an actor because I didn't know what else to do. Academically, I wasn't good.

I have no illusions about my position in this world as an actor or anything like that. I'm very realistic. Reality is a very liberating thing.

I like the Baldwin boys a great deal. Alec is super-smart, super-articulate, almost too smart to be an actor.

I've always wanted to work with Blair, and finally the timing was right. I have a tremendous amount of respect for him. I think he's a hugely underrated actor in Hollywood.

When an actor has money he doesn't send letters, he sends telegrams.

An actor definitely has to be in the past a well as the present; an actor must react to past experiences every minute, every second.

I love it when you ask actors, 'What are you Doing now?' and they say 'I'm between roles'. To be living 'life between roles' that's my favorite

I know actors come around and they always talk like that, but I don't do publicity if I don't like the film.

Craig Nelson who is an actor and is in a show called Coach in the United States. We began to do some improvisational stuff and we used to get laughs and things.

I didn't come to Hollywood to drink or get high, and I don't want to be considered a cool actor - I want to be a great actor.

My mom is many times responsible for getting us all together, but we trade off at each other's houses. My brother and I are actors and are traveling a lot of our job.