Actors Quotes

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

[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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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 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.

I consider myself a novice film actor.

As an actor there are no drawbacks.

Actors never discuss future plans.

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

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

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

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

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

Emma Watson is my kids' favorite actor on the planet. They never took me more seriously than when I was working with her.

I'd like to be the role model to teach other people who have Down's syndrome to be actors and actresses and to be themselves and not try to be a big shot.

Next year, if no one gives me any work, that's fine. I'm not going to do well anyway. I'm not an actor, I'm just exploiting this industry.

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

William Hartnell was one of the great unsung character actors of his time

I really do want to just be able to sit in the corner of the pub with my friends... to just be an actor and still go to the supermarket and not get bothered.

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.

I love theatre, and you learn too much as an actor and enjoy too much of it not to want to go back a lot.

I don't think there's a lot of actors out there right now who really know what they're doing at all.

I knew I wanted to be an actor. I just kept saying, "Until somebody tells me to stop, until I have to go get a real job, and until I'm practically homeless, I'm not gonna get one."

You know, I've kind of been lucky enough to always work with established actors or big names or people that are really popular or infamous for doing what they do and doing it well, I guess.

He's hard-core, but I think he's actually more of an actor.

I think filmmakers are always interested in getting the best actor that they can find, the person who's the most right for it.

By the time an actor knows how to act any sort of part he is often too old to act any but a few.

Because I'm now successful, what I'm being offered as an actor is more and more of the same.

A totally healthy actor is a paradox.

I'm not one of those actors that goes to watch the playback, after every take. I really don't like it, and I don't want to see it.

I have only really gotten by with playing versions of myself as most young actors do.

And I had a lot to play, which is what you want as an actor.

The thing about many celebrities - not all - is that they're fantastic actors.

Well, I made an announcement to my family at 8 that I wanted to be an actor, and I focused like a laser beam on it. I never had a fallback plan.

My height can be a problem. A lot of directors and photographers are sometimes not happy because I'm pretty tall and especially if I work with short actors the difference can be pretty massive.