Actors Quotes

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.

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.

You know, working as an actor, I'm always working within my own imagination.

I grew up being fascinated by accents and dialects. One of the things that interested me were actors that were doing different characters, or sort of more caricatures.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

A young actor once asked me, What do you do between jobs? I said, Hobbies, hobbies, and more hobbies.

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'?

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.

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.

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

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.

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 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 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.

If any child of mine becomes an actor I will turn in my grave.

I'm an actor, I worry about everything.

To create a situation where each new episode has to start in the exact same place as the previous one, with the actors' hair in the exact same place, seemed crazy.

My dad and me were incredibly close. He was an actor, and so him and I shared this whole movie-world thing closer than anyone else in the family.

I'm an actor who loves doing comedy.

I don't have fights with actors. In absolute honesty, I've never fought with any actor ever.

The life of an actor is a bit easier to take if you admit you're bonkers.

If I can make a career for myself after Harry Potter, and it goes well, and is varied and with longevity, then that puts to bed the 'child actors argument'.

I've always been a people-watcher, and as an actor, later, I just mined all those little details.

I've always wanted to act and I grew up a little on film sets when my dad was working as an actor.

I think if actors don't think of themselves as funny in real life they think they can't do comedy.

Most actors will tell you that villains are the most interesting to play.

I think male actors get confused by their own vanity.

When an actor asks you to read his script, your heart sinks. The number of scripts I've been given by actors that are so unbelievably terrible!

An actress' best friend is a body which responds instinctively to thought.

Authentic stardom ... is a gift which, if it is to have any permanent significance, must be bestowed by a public rather than a manager.

Somehow even tragedies seem less tragical, when you are the actors in them, than they look to outsiders

As an actor ... at some point you've got to forget that the crew's there in order to do your job.

It was very clear to me I wanted to be an actor when I got out into civilian life.

Basically, I got into stand-up because I'm too egocentric to be an actor and not disciplined enough to be a writer.

I think that most actors, and they're a very strange lot actors, very strange people, but I think that they attempt to keep in touch with the child.

You cannot combine being a movie star with not being a movie star.

Even in my dreams of being an actor, my dream was not in the celebrity. My dream was in the work that I wanted to do.

Every time I work with real Southern actors... we immediately go into white trash and we just get along really well within one night.

I knew what I wanted to be at 8 years old - an actor!

I would love to do some straight drama. A lot of times it's not up to the actor, it's up to the producer. It's up to the powers that be.

With acting, you have to take it seriously because the other actors are putting in a lot of effort - and if you say, 'I'm just bullshitting here', it's like dissing 'em.

I never wanted to be one of those actors with a political agenda.

Models-turned-actors are a bit of a cliché... It is a huge cliché but you have to look at the positive aspects. I learned a lot about the world and took a lot of knowledge away from it.