Actors Quotes

I got married because I fell in love with this woman. I had a baby with her because we wanted to have children. But that's not because of some philosophical ideal at all, no.

He's quite extraordinary with his moves and spins. I think he was a baton girl in a past life [on his co-star Hayden Christensen].

Ultimately, you have to not worry about people thinking you should have played him differently. You're the one playing the part so it has to be yours.

I won't buy into the Hollywood thing...I want to be in good movies.

I don't see the point of being an actor and doing the same thing, all the time. Where's the challenge there?

I was a B student in math, simply because my teachers liked me, as an actor.

High-level actors can be all about their close-ups and the size of their trailers. I'd heard these horror stories of how a really powerful actor can come in and change your script.

I think it's damaging to know too much about a person, about an actor.

Believe me, you can be in the middle of a beautiful take and the next thing you know you're awash in people crossing the street. You can't even find your actors.

Unfortunately, in Hollywood, there are those directors that have some contempt for actors. We've all experienced that, in one way or another.

Growing up I was involved in children's theater, so I was definitely on the path to be an actor and a singer.

Someone's going to put the clothes on you, and part of being an actor is wearing costumes. Costumes tell you an awful lot about who you are, so you just, it's nothing.

I think any actor in their right mind is afraid of getting pigeonholed.

I get to choose things that interest me as opposed to trying to get any job that will have me, which for a vast majority of actors is the case.

I've just never been the kind of actor that things have stayed with. I've never needed to carry a character off stage.

As an actor you have to wait for someone to cast you, so you're relying on the business.

I've been working steadily as an actor since around 1998. I wasn't well known in the public, but I was a dependable working journeyman.

Hollywood is more concerned about its male actors being in shape than its female actors.

There are lots of actors who are awful people, but nobody talks about them being awful because they've made billions.

When we think of an actor, we think of a tanned, frosted-tipped, model-looking guy. We don't think of a plumber.

John Wayne is not just an actor, and a very fine actor - John Wayne is the United States of America.

I was always ambitious. I always wanted to be more than I was....I always wanted to be a movie actor.

I had a feeling about Shakespeare's soliloquies, that there should be a real exchange between the actor and the audience.

The most important thing, when playing characters with chemistry, is being able to work off the other actor and be supported.

It seems to me that I never grow unless I'm actually working with other actors who have shed whatever shell it is that keeps them insulated from each other.

As an actor, Sean [Penn] is brilliant. And he's really an excellent director, as well. We got along really well.

I'm getting to the point where they see me as a good actor, rather than just a good guy who can act.

I think there are a lot of other actors that are just talented, it's just about this opportunity - it's just about when are we going to be put in those positions where we can shine.

I think when average-size people start taking roles that were meant for dwarfs, that's a little frustrating because there aren't that many roles out there for height-challenged actors.

I started off as a director, so when I see other actors directing, it gives me hope that maybe they'll put me into that position at some point, too.

Actors don't have real value.

There are so many examples of talented actors working today, no matter how they live their private lives. I'm lucky that people believe me when I'm in character.

I'm an actor. I started as an actor. I started on Broadway doing 'Hair' and Shakespeare in the Park.

As an actor, you're putting yourself out there when you perform. You're bound to experience feelings of vulnerability because of this.

Most actors don't grow up with sweet, vanilla parents.

I'm no actor. And I have sixty-four pictures to prove it.

I started to act in highschool and became a professional actor at 19.

Yes, The Persuaders, that was great fun because one of my favourite actors is Roger Moore.

As an actor, you've got to maintain a bit of mystery and at least part of your private life, otherwise the game is up.

The actors I respect are the ones who see it as a career and manage to live reasonably normal lives, like Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman.

Some actors go, 'Bing!' and suddenly they're being paid huge sums. Me, I seem to get screwed every time.

I love Woody Allen. He's very clever, always thinking, and he's great with actors. He lets actors do what they want to do and occasionally he'll give them a specific kind of direction.

By the time I was 14, I was about six foot. I remember going into auditions, and they'd look at how tall I was and say, 'Well, you're taller than the lead actor, so there's no way we can cast you.

Editing is not a part of the filmmaking process I've ever been privy to as an actress.

A lot of child actors keep acting for the wrong reasons.

I'm constantly intimidated by Shakespeare's work. Trying to decipher what he's saying and holding on to that thought - not just as an actor, but as a human being - is a rigour.

I think a lot of actors are overly concerned about being well liked in the parts they play.

I doubt I'm more secure than Meryl Streep... I guess actors just never feel secure.

We have some really, really wonderful actors on the horizon.

I just want to be a better actor. You can always get better.