Actors Quotes

Getting the correct writer is simply like casting. You wouldn't hire an actor in order to tell him how to work. He knows how to work, which is why you hired him.

If I have to wear a hat as a producer to do that, then I'm willing to do that. An actor's, producer's and director's point-of-view is all the same to me, as long as the story's being told.

I honestly think I'm just an actor. It doesn't matter the medium. I can go on stage and be happy, I can be on TV and be happy.

I never write with particular actors in mind.

I think it's always good when you're able to, as an actor, allow your work to be some kind of a conduit for social discourse, and an examination of where we are, as a society.

I've always tried to kind of stretch my wings as an actor and do things that are different.

Actors are players and if they're hot, or onto something, you let them go, or you and the actor can both get on to something. I always run out with lines as I think of them.

When I got out of school, it used to be that it was theater actors that ended up doing film and television, and you had to come from the theater to be taken seriously in that world.

For some reason, I seem to work well with actors. I love working with them.

The history of second-generation actors isn't great in our industry.

If you held a pistol at my head, I couldn't tell you who they're going to vote for Best Actor.

I think the better you know yourself as a person, the better an actor you can be.

Acting really suited me because I could connect as an actor to emotion.

I'm sure lots of actors and creative people go through this, where you have some weeks where it's all going according to plan and some weeks where you're super frustrated.

I blame Walt Disney; well he has to find voice actors better than me somehow doesn't he?

Working with [Kyle Chandler] in the scene was like playing tennis. You work with really talented actors, I think they make other actors look really, really good.

I don't even like the show that much, I mean, it's about doctors. It's not like doctors are as important as actors anyway, I bet I've saved more lives with my acting talent then any doctor has.

I think in a play it's wise to just sit back and watch other actors and be able to shape it from the audience.

Some people just can't handle that they will never be a better actor than me

My co-stars aren't bad actors, but they're no Zach Braff.

If I weren't doing what I'm doing now, the actress thing, the star business, if you want to call it that, whatever it is, I'd be in an asylum. I'm sure of it.

In many ways for black actors there's been two leading guys: It's Will Smith vs. Denzel [Washington].

That's one of the fun parts of becoming an actor: You can become whoever you want to be.

Honestly, I want to do films. I want to make that move from actor to producer, like Will Smith.

As an actor I'm always interested in dialogue, the way the characters speak to each other. I also enjoy a bit of humor, especially when it's unexpected.

Most of the film directors expect their actors to want to work fast.

I have a list in my mind and in my heart of actors who have been extraordinarily kind, and Hugh Laurie is near the top.

It's very rare, as an actor, to be someplace - to have an address, so to speak.

I acted when I was a real little kid. My mother was an actress in a Miami theater company comprised of actors from Cuba like her and I was the default kid.

I don't really see myself as an actor.

I just work in order to improve myself as an actor which is what I've always done.

Glen Cove. [Referring to Glenn Close on a movie review television show]

As an actor you're used to being the focus of attention.

My working history as an actor is definitely in the theatre; it certainly was in Australia.

If some actors were more realistic and others bordering on caricature, that would have been imbalanced. It would be as if we saw an airplane in a 3 Musketeers movie.

Actors do these really gross, gun-'em-down movies, and I always wonder why. They're not good movies. And it's like, "Why are you doing them? Aren't you rich enough?"

As an actor, I'll play anything.

The actors that I do know are people who I think have souls, you know?

I don't meet stockbrokers or carpenters or coal miners; I spend all day with actors, composers and photographers.

Some of the greatest love affairs I've known have involved one actor-unassisted.

When you're an actor and there's no music, you have to sort of bring it all yourself.

We can only use British actors because everybody's got to talk exactly the same.

I really don't have favorites; I'm just a fan of movies, period.

If you're working with a director you trust, you can turn that part of you off that wants to direct other actors in a certain way.

I would say, don't smoke. I'm kidding, but yeah, I did smoke in college and as a young actor and it's stupid.

A stage actor has to be 10% aware of the audience as he's performing.

I did a movie in Esperanto.

I enjoy being an actor largely; in part at least, because you get to walk a mile in another person's shoes, you get to see what their skin is like. The other good thing is you get to leave it.

The idea of being a professional actor never occurred to anybody, including myself, for a long time.

People are more willing to accept a singer as an actor, than an actor as a singer.