Actors Quotes

We call my son's role in the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy Sean's little independent movie.

The crew, the actors and the writers all work the same way. We always want to do the best job.

Most of the time, actors respond to the thing thats so far from who they are. We all want to play the serial killer and the ex-con.

So often actors only mix with actors, which is quite incestuous, and doesn't give them the insight into how other people work.

And I realized that directing actors is really important because that's what ends up on screen.

All my characters are me. I'm not a good enough actor to become a character. I hear about actors who become the role and I think 'I wonder what that feels like.' Because for me, they're all me.

I didn't want to be a former child actor for the rest of my life, although in some ways I suppose I am. I am going to be that.

I was never a struggling actor, for which I feel very blessed.

Johnny Depp is probably the best actor.

I will say nothing to an actor that cannot be translated into action.

One of the things that made me want to be an actor more than ever was seeing a Chekhov play, "The Sea Gull," when was 14 in the Bronx.

As actors, the great thing about our career is we get to change from role to role. I don't want to be known as "put him in the movie because he has nice abs" guy.

I've never wanted an Oscar, although they are reassuring to an actor who doesn't know how really great he is.

I don't consider myself much of an actor. I have a face and a voice that allows me to do certain things, but there are people who are way better at it than I am.

One incredible tool to accomplish bringing a product to the public is to put a face on TV shows, movies, and the actors in them by using good PR.

I don't get jobs in films by auditioning. I'm not blonde. You can't place me in movies the way you can with certain actors. It's very difficult for my agents.

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.

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.

For me as an actor, it's really fun to play someone who's not human.

The difference between film and theater is that in film, an actor is sort of under a magnifying glass and everything that they do, just the smallest movement, is very detectible.

I knew the President would run for reelection in 1984. Why not? Actors love sequels ... and returns.

George [Lucas] wanted to know whether we'd be interested. He did say that if we didn't want to do it, they wouldn't cast another actor in our parts - they would write us out.

If I could, I want to take a page from the George Clooney-like actors of the world. They do things that are relevant, things that don't necessarily have huge box office appeal, but they matter.

I think most actors jump at the chance to do something where the camera's on them all the time.

If you're a serious actor, it's when you know you're going to die tomorrow that you really start to feel it.

For us, as actors, and even for the director, it gave us a sense of authenticity to what we were doing because we were talking about Hollywood and we were in Hollywood.

There's a reason people love watching blooper reels of actors falling about laughing.

I know certain actors are totally screwed up on drugs, yet it gets covered up. Why wasn't I excused for 'exhaustion' or 'the flu'?

When I was a child actor, I had the fear that I was going to be cast as the tree.

Once you've gotten the job, there's nothing to it. If you're an actor, you're an actor. Doing it is not the hard part. The hard part is getting to do it.

There are so many talented people in film today. There seem to be poor scripts, but the actors and actresses are very talented.

Every industry, there are rogues and bad actors. There could be rogues and bad actors in journalism. Rogues and bad actors in medicine. Rogues and bad actors in the legal community.

Actors should shut up about politics. They tend to be ill-informed finger-pointers who just cosy up to some flavour of-the-month liberal.

I didn't become an actor to have power, but it just happens that I have it and so I have a lot of opportunities.

People want to see realism in action now. People want the actors to perform than the computers performing. Though I have done both, I enjoy the realism of action more.

The deepest change begins with men raising children as much as women do and women being equal actors in the world outside the home.

It's nice to have people interested about a show that you're involved in. It's what actors want.

I love to watch good actors who surprise and amuse me.

The greatest thing an actor can experience is discovery. The greatest thing an artist can walk away with is to learn something about themselves and the world and this was one of those.

Seriously, I would go in a second. I'd be the first actor in space and I'd love to do it.

Reason is an historian, but the passions are actors.

I'm an actor. I love to act. That's my job. I'll leave the politicking to others.

Actors never say they're poor. They're always broke. It's always just temporary. 'Broke' is 'poor with hope'.

You have to be a great storyteller. And you have to master the tools that you have to tell the story which are, inorder of importance, the script, the actors and then thetechnical means.

The best type of government comes from a government that is scrutinized by the people when they have true information about our governments, major corporations, other power actors in society.

I didn't become an actor because I wanted to act. Actually, I wanted to become a marine biologist. But most of all, I wanted to be accepted.

Concept is what makes actors raise their game.

I'm as interested in photographing the film crew as much as the actors and actresses.

I approach directing from an actor's standpoint.

FDR used to say, 'You and I are the two best actors in America'.