Actors Quotes

Anyone who hears enough laughter and applause at a young age will become an actor, whether they intend to or not.

I'm a working actor, so I do pretty much whatever comes along because it's my job.

A lot of American actors when they do Shakespeare put on a phoney English accent and it drives me crazy. You're always fighting against the idea that only the British know how to do Shakespeare.

I'm a Methodist, but not as an actor.

When I was a kid, I thought I was going to be an actor.

I think as an actor, you're constantly putting yourself out there, and a lot of times failing - and failing in front of a bunch of people - and sometimes you have a good moment and something clicks.

I think having healthy relationships makes me feel much more confident and available to do good work as an actor.

Actors never discuss future plans.

As an actor there are no drawbacks.

I consider myself a novice film actor.

I get asked all the time if I want to do more dramatic acting, and I really doubt that dramatic actors get asked if they want to do more comedies. I don't really know why that is.

If you try to make a silent movie with a normal script and you just pull out the dialogue, you will have big problems with the actors because you will ask them to tell a story that you don't know.

I'm a professional singer. I have a theory that all actors want to be rock stars, and all rock stars want to be actors. I spent my whole school life forming boy bands.

I'm not sure people even think of me as an actor at all.

There's a level of confidence in the actor you're working with that really helps a lot. It makes all the difference.

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.

You can't ignore the system and the power you acquire as an actor if you're in films that are successful.

Like the actor, authority has faith in its false whiskers. But its deepest faith is in the human illusion. People will hang on to illusion as eagerly as life itself.

People are ready to be actors in making the world a better place.

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.

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.

What really enthralls me is working with the actor and seeing where you can go with that. It's in that exchange and that relationship.

Before 1972, no actors got residuals. They just got paid. No residuals.

As an actor, I feel that my work makes me very vulnerable. I have to be emotionally available to serve the scene I'm doing. You never quite know where your emotions will take you.

That takes a lot of confidence to let your actors come up with something that could be theoretically funnier than what you had envisioned originally.

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.

Some actors are supposed to be very difficult, but I've not found that to be the situation.

Certainly there have been better actors than me who have had no careers. Why? I don't know.

On a movie set that works, you have your father figure, the director, you have your siblings, your other actors.

How can a president not be an actor?

Our heritage as actors goes back thousands of years, and we have to feel as comfortable in the clothes, and the language of Sophocles as we do in our sneakers.

When you make many films with the same actors you can develop a special understanding with them. I love working with people I know and that I trust.

As an actor, your text is your bible, so you're not making a documentary, but you still have to follow the choices made by your writer.

For old actors, just remember that inside you're only 14. Acting is for kids. You poor old grown-ups, you've forgotten how to do what kids know automatically.

I don't think it was a surprise that I ended up as an actor, and it was anything but a disappointment.

I think it helps, as an actor, to never know when you're going to get that next script and you're done.

Maybe I'm a better actor when I know there's going to be an older woman involved.

Awards are meaningless for actors, unless they all play the same part.

I made more lousy pictures than any actor in history.

Know what it is the emotional statement to convey, and use taste and judgement to help the actors give their best possible performance.

I just enjoy working with really wonderful actors and amazing creative people and I hope to keep doing that, no matter where.

I've seen some of my favorite actors give bad performances, and I have to tell myself that failure is a part of success.

In this country, you have movie actors and theatre actors and television actors

Thinking back to those earlier days, I felt I was weak when I wasn't making movies, and then when I was, I thought I was weak as a family member.

What use is there for a biography of myself? I'm just a movie actor.

There are certain stars who are not actors. I don't want to be that type.