Actors Quotes

Billy Campbell who is... I... truly one of the most talented actors today.

As far as I can tell, most actors' main motivation is self-doubt and neuroses.

The knighthood was a tremendous honour, I don't dismiss it. But I feel embarrassed by the flowery, theatrical stuff that goes with being an actor.

I mean I've seen 3D films so far and I think it's a long way to go before they replace actors. It's a funny thing with 3D, I haven't quite got it yet. Yet.

Chadwick Boseman work as an actor, I think, is truly remarkable, and I had a great time working with him.

It often strikes me that the actors in high school movies look too old.

The only ambition I ever had going into and committing to wanting to be an actor was to live my life.

When actors aren't filming they just go to their dressing rooms and relax.

I'm the sort of actor who likes to talk about what we're going to do.

The great difference between screen acting and theatre acting is that screen acting is about reacting - 75% of the time, great screen actors are great reactors.

In my experience of doing physical scenes, half of your energy is spent on trying to get the other actor to enter into it physically with you. Most actors don't want to hurt each other.

If I don't have a script I adore, I do one I like. If I don't have one I like, I do one that has an actor I like or that presents some technical challenge.

Every actor has a production company already. It's just a matter of producing your own films under the label of your own production company.

I'd love to do another television series. I really love the writing process, and as an actor I really like how much you get to examine in television.

Other actors dont get asked about their brothers or sisters, so why do I have to always answer questions about having a twin brother? I suppose its interesting for everybody other than me.

If I had had to struggle at the beginning like most actors... Id never have stuck it out. But having such complete success at the beginning, I was stuck with being an actor for life.

I've come to this conclusion: What makes a great actor is great need. A huge need of acting.

I studied movies for many years, but I am professionally an actor because I, my background is actually a stage actor and acting.

He[John Cassavetes] was just being an actor. A very successful actor, especially in live TV. He did many wonderful performances.

I love being around great actors and film-makers, and I try to hide the fact that I'm in awe of them.

I want to prove a point. That point is, actors are artists, not narcissists necessarily.

Actors between plays are like ghosts looking for bodies to inhabit.

While I'm not a celebrity, it's such a weird concept that society has cooked up for us. Astronauts and teachers are much more amazing than actors.

Who could have asked for anything better? I was cast in movies with great actors, with great leading men.

I think audiences, producers and directors included, develop crushes on actors (actresses in particular) and then lose interest and move on to the next one.

I try to always be open to what the actors want to try. I don't storyboard and try to be intuitive and open on the day of filming.

I call this book The Intent to Live because great actors don't seem to be acting, they seem to be actually living.

As far as actors go, you're not going to find many ballplayers better than me.

I like to give my actors a lot of room.

I think there's that weird bastardization where musical theatre actors are treated as almost like vaudevillians or circus performers - that we're somehow not good actors because we sing and dance.

I studied at the Piccolo Teatro di Milano: I was a theatre actor.

I've always thought that actors wanted to be pop musicians and pop musicians wanted to be actors.

To me, a lot of what makes a good actor is not what a teacher tells you to do but how you respond when youre on your own.

I want to make a clear distinction between people who take acting seriously and people who call themselves actors because theyve been on reality TV or something.

I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big movies.

I think it's very important not to grow up with the unhealthy amount of attention that is sometimes put on people because they are 'actors'.

There is no racial or religious prejudice among people in the theater. The only prejudice is against bad actors, especially successful ones.

That's what I tell young actors. "You don't have to compromise. Go do some theater and wait for an appropriate role."

All actors are on the run from some demon or other.

As an actor, you're a color of paint on someone else's palette. But as a director, it's your canvas and you make the painting you want to make.

Actors are greedy. They can never be satisfied. I want praise as well as box office returns.

I don't consider myself an actor, for me it's employment. Like the actor who's a waiter a lot, I'm an actor when I'm not on tour, in that that's a job I can do.

Actors, politicians, and writers-all of us are but creatures of the hour. Long-lasting fame comes to but few.

In terms of cinema and filmmaking, there are certainly the unexpected gifts that the actors bestow on you. Film is always a question of compromises with respect to what you originally intended.

As an actor or anybody as a human being, I feel more and more like I want to spend time doing something significant. Because what's the alternative? Spend your life wasting your time.

We're actors in our lives, pretendin' to be who we want people to think we are.

Difficult for actors to extemporise in nineteenth-century English. Except for Robert Hardy and Elizabeth Spriggs, who speak that way anyway.

The most talented people are always the nicest.

As an actor - like an artist - you have to ask, "Why do I choose a certain moment to play something a certain way?" It's organic to who we are.

I always thought that Elvis could have been a great actor, and that he was put in a lot of unimportant movies when he could have done a lot of great ones.