Actors Quotes
A rapper is about being completely true to yourself. Being an actor is about changing who you are.
I think the best comedic actors don't play it for comedy, they play it for reality. Then you find it funny because it's real. Playing the genre is the worst thing you can do - it's embarrassing.
I would like to see fewer actors modeling, or if they're going to model to the extent that they are modeling, then I think that models should be actors.
I love actors who are wonderful - like John Cusack and Russell Crowe, and wouldn't it be a treat to eventually direct them one day.
I really feel actors should try and do as much diverse work as possible to try and keep it interesting.
Whenever you read interviews with actors, they always seem to be given three months to do something - get fat, get skinny, learn card tricks.
It is joyous for any actor to enter other grounds of consciousness and thought. At the end of the day, we just all like dressing up and playing around.
I can't think of a more pathetic situation for an actor than to do a film and not connect to it. And I pray to God that I never face that situation.
I've always felt that actors in my experience have a very good and accurate instinct about whether something feels right or not. They just have a sense because they have to literally do it.
Sure, I have a lot of friends that are actors. Just because I guess I run into a lot of actors in my work.
I've never understood the notion that actors and actresses should look great on-screen just because they're on-screen. That doesn't make sense to me.
The stage is actor's country. You have to get your passport stamped every so often or they take away your citizenship.
Most actors are either a shower of bloody scruffs or think they should dress like Hamlet off stage.
Are there differences between black actors’ opportunities and white actors’ opportunities? Yes, there are. It’s been said.
I only really watch my own films, I don't watch any other films and I don't particularly like any other actors.
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.
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.
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.
Some actors are supposed to be very difficult, but I've not found that to be the situation.
There is a lot lacking on the intellectual side and on the values side when being an actor.
I saw and I met a lot of people who were in the field. It also provided a context in which I came to respect what the actor did, because I saw how difficult it actually was to do.
It may sound cliché, but it really was an honor to be nominated. As an actor, nothing is guaranteed.
A lot of actors said they hated the studio system, but I loved it. It was like a college; it was a great place to learn.
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.
I've seen some of my favorite actors give bad performances, and I have to tell myself that failure is a part of success.
If you decide to become a political actor, then the things that you say and you do become subject of public scrutiny and comment.
I don't think that I've had a career like anyone else's, but there are hosts and hosts of actors whose careers I admire.
I know some really great actors who are pretty judgmental people, pretty critical people. But they're great actors. When they're acting, that's the craft.
