Actors Quotes
Actors want to work. Give them characters they want to play, or a story they want to tell, and hopefully the budget will follow.
I grew up in the theater with my mom and that's how I knew I wanted to be an actor in the first place.
In every shoot, between the actor and the director there is manipulation. I'm not saying that negatively. It's healthy.
Only a fool does not fear actors, but you can't beat them, and if you can't beat them, join them, as they say. As I've got older I've become very interested in that part of the work
It's just unfair that talent of color aren't given the same opportunities as white and male actors, directors, producers, writers, et cetera.
Mystery makes movie stars! If you see someone on the cover of the weeklies all the time, why would you want to pay to see them in a movie?
As an actor, your motives and your own crazy psyche is really all you're responsible for in the movie.
I have a reputation for being an improvisational actor, which is true, but I also know what I'm doing so that if the improvisational strand doesn't work I can go back to what I know's already there.
It's just an impulse, in some actors. You want to make the audience like you. That's the aim of the exercise.
If you're an English actor and turn up in America, they don't have an opinion about where you sit. They have no idea what auditions to send you to, so they send you to everything.
I've dealt with a few method actors, and I don't know if should say this, but I think it's a bunch of nonsense. I think it's film acting and you just have to be on when the camera is rolling.
I wasn't one of those people who went to see a play and said, 'I want to be an actor.' I fell into it.
I was fortunate as a young actor, to go straight to the RSC, where I learned that being an actor can bring with it wonderful responsibilities.
I'm not just an actor born in L.A. I was born in the Griffith Park Hospital. You can't get any more clichéd than that.
American actors are all muscular, tanned, white teeth and they have this indestructible confidence. We British are all... Dare I say it? Pessimistic.
One of the perks of being an actor is to get to meet athletes that you respect. Especially who played before my time. Brooks Robinson is one of those athletes; they just don't make them any nicer.
I mean, I hate when actors talk about how hard their job is. It's ridiculous, because we have the best job in the world.
I like Edward G. Robinson - he started as a character actor and became a lead, which is probably why I like him.
Girls' feels very active and stirring a conversation and controversial, and you can't really ask for more as an actor.
The actors I looked up to when I was a teenager, they all just disappeared into different characters.
As an actor, when you're doing comedies, you're around fantastic, funny people and you hopefully have a really good time doing it.
You know, whatever happens between the two of us that's created when we come together as actors is not something I think we can explain.
Actors always have things that they're not thrilled about on a show and have a hobby of bellyaching about those things.
The reason I wanted to be an actor is that I don't want to play me for the rest of my life and make money out of that.
I wouldn't say that going into a weekly television series is actually stepping away from anything. It's another medium in which to work as an actor.
I love working on 'Glee,' and I hope that there are more and more parts for me and other actors with Down syndrome in television and in movies so I can keep working for a long, long time.
If the audience knows what's behind the door and the actor does not, that's comedy. If both the audience and the actor do not know, that's mystery!
I'm practically an actor. Even when you do an interview, it's like you're performing a little bit, so yeah, I'm enjoying it, it's fun.
It is a weird thing that actors have people applaud when they're done working. I still find that entertaining.
The other death for an actor is comparing yourself to other people: Forget someone else's path. Concentrate on your path. Otherwise, you get lost, and if you don't have joy in the work, forget it.
I think people take their behavioural tips from everyone else. So, if the director is calm and the lead actors are calm, no one wants to be the sore thumb. And I've remained friendly with everyone.
You don't need qualifications as an actor or a politician. And I didn't want to be a politician.
Many actors, I've read, are introverts, and many introverts, when socializing, feel like actors.
It's the way the business works, you're not just an actor, you're a diplomat and a publicist and a politician, and there are certain expectations.
Actors are the jockeys of literature. Others supply the horses, the plays, and we simply make them run.
As a film director I like to have the actors create their own close-ups. It's an older style of filmmaking.
I have made 70 or so films. In all my films not a single actor, a single extra, was hurt. Not one. So statistics are on my side when I say I'm clinically sane.
The main reason for choosing a project is not really the renown of the director that's making the project. I feel like it's the fact of an actor to constantly want to do different things.
I was certainly a child of the '60s, and I came out of that era, and as a young actor, I got cast as a lot of counterculture hippie types.
Anyone who thinks impressions of old movie actors is funny absolutely cannot be trusted. I think it's like a law of nature.