Actors Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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

I want to work with great filmmakers and great actors and get better as an actor.

I think actors are at the mercy of the opportunities presented to them. So you kind of have to wait for them to choose you. My music is insular - I can choose that.

Well, Ive always been a character actor, you know, and you always get your share of character actors who are bad guys.

Generally speaking, actors are allowed NO input. Actors are dumb.

Id just love to have an audience and its the most fun in the world to get a new script every week and have the audience come in, and work with those actors.

Ordinarily if an actor gets chosen for the lead in a film, he or she has already built up a repertoire, and everyone knows what he or she is capable of.

I got to New York when I was eighteen. I was knocking around, trying to be an actor, writer, musician, whatever happened.

A movie has its own fate, which often doesn’t depend on the performances of the director and actors.

I always thought that Bill Murray was one of the great actors that I've worked with. And I've worked with all kinds of people who are known primarily for their dramatic work.

I don't get the point in a lot of biopics, they're boring. You know what's gonna happen. You're just watching actors show off.

I think when you get on with the actors that you're working with, even if you do have really intimate scenes, as long as you get on well, and have a bit of a laugh while doing it, then it's fine.

Good actors never use the script unless it's amazing writing. All the good actors I've worked with, they all say whatever they want to say.

Actors are crazy or we wouldn't be doing this.

[Stand-up] might be ballsy, but I'd rather not be an actor. Actors are tools.

I think the show does better with newsmakers and politicians than it does with actors.

Directors say that you should get actors before they are recognized. They will be a pain in the...or have an opinion.

I love talking about acting. I'm just such a fan of actors and filmmakers, and I try to choose roles where I get to talk to great actors about acting and learn.

Working at BBC, at the head of one of the top dramas, is a tradition for great actors.

I can tell when an actor's forcing tears, and it's tricky because you then have to film it and edit in a certain way to skirt around the issue.

As an actor, I am meant to dabble with different themes and genres.

The actor is too prone to exaggerate his powers; he wants to play Hamlet when his appearance is more suitable to King Lear.

Woody is so musical in his filmmaking. I've never worked with anyone I've trusted so completely. He won't let you hit a false note.

Young actors are pretty fantastic. I can't even imagine doing stuff like that when I was a kid.

I don't think actors get good training today. I put my training to use in everything I do.

Young girls of 13 or 12 are great actors.

I love physical comedy. Comedy that comes from an emotional place is amazing too and lets me develop in a new way as an actor.

My first review for the TV movie The Bionic Showdown said I was as interesting as a bus ride.

I don't really think of myself as an actor.

I don't know why British actors are getting big parts in American TV shows. Maybe it's because we're cheap.

Kelsey Grammer is one of the best actors I've ever worked with.

I'm not a very methodologically pure actor. Almost every time that I start, I feel completely at sea. Always at the beginning I feel like a fraud, really, because I'm never sure how to get started.

I imagine it was much different in the 1970s. That was the Renaissance for black actors, albeit in blaxploitation movies. There was a much greater preponderance of work then than there is now.

I consider myself a character actor.

Every actor wants more offers, but I get enough and I do like to be busy.

It wasn't like a "I know I wanted to do this," I was sort of just - I was five and my dad kinda said hey, you wanna be an actor and I said sure.

It makes me proud, and it makes me scared. More than anything, I want to be an actor and I want to keep working, and I think there's a danger in being perceived as a poster boy for something.

It took me a long time to realize that you have to have a bit of an interlanguage with actors. You have to give them something that they can act with.

My life's a sequel to a movie where the actors' names have changed.

[This kind of strange mythology about me.] I've pulled a huge steamboat over a mountain; I've done a feature film with all the actors acting under hypnosis - things that are very unusual.

I want to do a musical movie. Like Evita, but with good music.

Daniel Day-Lewis is one of the greatest actors of our age; he's like Olivier. He's one of those people who can take you into a place where no one else can take you.

There is some sadness for me now about acting because it used to be that there was a reverence for actors.

Character actors are becoming a thing of the past. They're just going by the wayside. They're just cutting through that caliber of acting.

Only a certain breed of actor should ever even try to work for Orson Welles. I'm glad I'm one of that breed.

If you have the right actors and you can give them the freedom to explore, you've done a lot of your work as a director.