Actors Quotes

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

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

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 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.

Some directors hardly talk to the actors at all.

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.

I always think politicians and even my dentist have more egos than actors.

Part of the work is determining through what instrument you are playing. Actors are physical, olympian storytellers and we should be able to create entire landscapes with nothing.

I still make more money as I do as an actor than director, however I don't want to be a commercial director.

I hope to see more programming, more shows, more actors of mixed ethnicity, more young kids of mixed ethnicity choosing to be in the entertainment industry.

Actors are always outsiders. It's necessary to be able to interpret - and that gets distorted when you become famous.

I never started out to be an action actor. I was an ensemble actor.

As a painter you're responsible yourself, 100 percent. In film, you have the editor, the director, the other actors. It has the advantage of not being solitary.

While great leaders may be as rare as great runners, great actors, or great painters, everyone has leadership potential, just as everyone has some ability at running, acting, and painting.

All the things that happen to people in the industry today, the actors, what they have to put up with, all the people wanting to know every single moment of their lives - I think it's really sad.

Well, an actor is an actor is actor, to paraphrase someone or other and the opportunity to work, to have a steady engagement, certainly seemed like an appealing concept to me.

Being a working actor, you're going to do a Spelling show. It's hard not to.

I admire a lot of actors; I think a lot of them have so much talent.

That's the worst thing for an actor: when you say to someone, "Yeah, I was in that movie," and they say, "You were?"

In sha Allah, God willing, must be the expression of humility of the active actors and it must never be the justification of the passive observers

It's really hard for actors to cross over and get any respect as a singer, and if I could just keep it separate and not use my music in movies, it's cool.

The Oscar nomination made me a recognizable name to other actors and people in general.

The genuine artist is never 'true to life.' He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life.

I've worked on shows where the lead actor doesn't know their lines, doesn't care, and it affects everybody - the crew, the director, the other actors. It's definitely a responsibility.

I never had posters on my wall and when I meet actors that I really admire, it's exciting because I get to work with them.

Script for an actor is like a bible. You carry it with you, you read it over and over, you go to your passages.

If a director can find the exact combination between the written word as a guideline and improvisational input from his actors, I think that's where you'll find the most successful work being done.

It was funny on '24' because I'm a Scots-Canadian, and I was working with the great Scottish actor Tony Curran, and we were both playing Russian gangsters.

I want to keep working with the best, keep going and be a better actor each time I go and dive into something.

You have actors who begin at a certain young age and there's very little change in their technique and the depth of their performances; they're the same 30 years later.

Harrison Ford - one of my favorite actors - has a wonderful sense of character and depth and uniqueness to him, yet he's able to just deliver the lines without putting any English on it.

Eventually, if something pops up, that's cool, but I still wanna continue the process of learning how to be a good actor.

I never expected to be a movie star. It's not that I didn't want to be, I didn't think about it. I wanted to be an actor.

There's a very small group of elite actresses who are my age, who people want to work with. It's not easy to get a good job with good actors.

Being an actor: that's a pretty big net. That's a big playing field. The Screen Actors' Guild is filled with many, many, many, many people and vastly different careers.

There are dumb actors. But there are dumb politicians and dumb bakers.

I wouldn't say I'm a method actor. I do research when I feel I don't have enough experience for the part I'm playing.

Jack Nicholson is a textbook actor who's very intuitive. He is absolutely brilliant at going as far as you can go, always pushing to the edge, but still making it seem real.

Everyone the world over talks about British actors and British talent and I think thats because we were trained - until now - in theatre.

As sophisticated as the technology gets, the less sophisticated you have to become as an actor.

I feel like I'm the most well-adjusted character on the show, even though I'm sure the other actors would tell you the same thing about their characters.

And when I was a kid being an actor was not cool. I'm thirty now and when I was a kid in the 80s that wasn't a cool thing to be.

The big reason why I became an actor in the first place was to communicate. I never acted in high school...I was desperate to communicate.

One of the ingredients that made Cheers work so well was the great ensemble of actors we had. That's the case with any good series.

One person goes off and works in Houston the other person goes off to London and you're on the phone to each other and somebody is paying you to kiss somebody else. It's very bizarre being an actor.

I work primarily for the camera-it's not something I really talk about a lot, but it's part of the way I am as a movie actor. The camera is my girl, as it were.

The actors are the greatest executors of tone in a film. They're the most important cinematic component.

The difference between my generation of actors and their generation is that they were bigger than life. We are not bigger than life

A storyteller is basically what actors and writers are.