Actors Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

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

Thats the great thing about being an actor, you get to try out lots of things for your roles.

There's so much I want to do as an actor. I feel like there's so much more that I want to achieve and that I can achieve.

My preference is live performance, because you get the feedback. There's an energy. It's live theater. That's why I think actors like that.

I was a serious method actor until I visited this site.

I think even probably the people we look up to the most, and think are on the Mount Olympus of actors - they're still experiencing nervousness.

I can make a better living as an actor than I can as a director. Though I certainly would prefer to be directing movies.

Actors have to stay optimistic. The moment we start thinking otherwise, we're dead.

I was not a trained actor.

Actors don't listen to each other. You're so obsessed with what you're saying or doing that the other person could be talking in Swahili and you wouldn't know.

For me as an actor, I use a lot of music. Music is a huge part of developing and getting into a certain mindset.

Initially, before I came to Hollywood, I thought that the language barrier would be the biggest challenge, but I realized that actors all around the world, regardless of language, are all the same.

I hate watching myself, as do a lot of actors.

My whole family is very artistic - my uncles are all actors and theatre directors.

I just wanted to be a guy who could earn a living as an actor, and I did that for a long time.

I trained as a stage actor and was given a lot of technical tools to play with.

My curiosity and my appetite for evolving as an actor is one of the main components of me still working today in the business.

Even as an actor, when you have a kissing scene it's still weird.

I'm doing what I love, and then I get months and months of rest. I have a lot of money for a 21-year-old. I can't stand it when actors complain.

I have a lot of actors I want to work with; Brad Pitt, Keanu Reeves, and Uma Thurman.

I don't call myself an actor, I call myself an entertainer, because I don't just do one thing.

I played a role. That is what actors do. But I played it too well. I went too far. And by the time I wanted to stop, to take a bow and leave the stage, it was too late.

You look for those actors or actresses that fit the personality to populate the film.

I think the wonderful thing about doing theater is that it's more of an actor's medium. I think that film is more of a director's medium. You can't edit something out on stage. It's there.

When you're an actress, there are only a few times you can really get paid. One of them is doing a sequel. They can't fake you or hire another actor to play you.

It's sacred for an actor to keep their personal life personal.

About the best thing an actor can do when all is said and done is to make people laugh.

I don't consider myself a good actor at all. I just do what I want to do, and I'm just having fun doing it.

On a movie, it's always better to stay invisible as much as you can to keep things calm. I like to whisper to my cameraman, I like to whisper to my actors, and whoever else I've gotten to whisper to.

Large-budget movies start to lose focus on the story and the actors, and it becomes purely about the visual, or CGI, or framing with the cranes, or whatever it may be.

When you know what an actor has, you can reach in and arouse it. If you don't know what he has, you don't know what the hell is going on.

Actors pull from their own experiences to bring reality to the characters. I wouldn't want to play someone who's a lot like me. There would be no turning it on or off.

As an actor, most of the time, you only have so much say in how, what and where things go. As a director, you really get to paint a bigger picture. You have many more brushes to use.

I'm just an actor, that's nothing special.

When I grew up, the only way a lad like me would maybe escape was playing football. Not being an actor.

I don't think actors ever retire, they just stop being asked to work.

I'm not a great actor in the sense that I can't fake it if I'm going through something difficult.

Honestly, I look at the project and I look at the people attached and I look at the director. If it's a role that I feel will help me, as an actor, then I'll definitely take it.

I feel that I am a good actor.

In Manhattan, every flat surface is a potential stage and every inattentive waiter an unemployed, possibly unemployable, actor.

After I began to explore what an actor actually is, I studied for three years before I had the guts to go on an audition.

I'm a self-confessed genre nerd. I'm a very serious actor, but a genre nerd, all the same.

I'm used to watching old movies of myself.

I would prefer just to be an actor for hire rather than struggling with something like Higher Ground, that I had a lot of emotion attached to.

I realized that I was a really, really terrible actor. I was like, "I'd better be myself."

My biggest problem in my life is I'm cheap and I didn't hire a publicist. In every awkward interview, normally actors get these things scripted.