Actors Quotes

My first instinct was to cast as close to the short story as possible, but then I realized that I needed actors who could go for it and that they had to function well as a couple in a love story.

You become the movie you are making.

Actors are not made, they are born.

As a director, I hoped that I was able to help the actors by giving them the space and the respect they need and the trust. I gave them what I always felt I needed when I was working.

Working with [Robert] De Niro taught me a lot about being an actor's director.

I think actors, because we're in the world of the characters and the movie, are more isolated, and it always really fun to wake up and be a family with the entire crew.

We actors can't say every line as if it has weight, but what we want to do is be true to the meaning of each line, whatever it is. Even the lines that are throwaway may come back later.

Athletes and actors do really crazy things and we do them under weird circumstances because we love what we do and because we take things in an extreme manner.

I think there needs to be more care taken for the actor. You know, we are not props!

The work for the actor is always the same. We're looking for a human being. We're looking for believable human behavior.

In the theatre, if you say 'Macbeth', all the actors will start looking very anxious. I'm so well-trained not to say it in the theatre that I can hardly say it in normal life.

There is always a half-malicious curiosity amongst actors to witness the shortcomings of a novice. They invariably experience strong inclinations to prophesy failure.

You hang around actors, or dancers, the minute you sneeze, everybody has a remedy, and we're all on a million different kinds of diets, and different kinds of things that we do for exercise.

The most brilliant actor that I have ever worked with. I've liked others very much more.

There's nothing more exciting as an actor than getting to do something that you're not entirely sure that anyone would let you do, and getting to take a big jump in a completely different direction.

I think when you're a mom and an actor, it forces you to leave any actor neuroses behind and just concentrate on the work.

I'd like to be a working actor. It sounds really trite, but there really are no small parts, only small actors. And so as long as I'm a working actor, I can improve.

I'm always curious about how actors cry on film.

That's probably the most boring conversation you could hear - an actor talk about politics. I won't go there.

Actors should be timeless and impersonal.

In theatre, there's the director, the writer, and below them the actor. In film, it's the actors who are most important. That goes against the grain for me.

Romeo Must Die was the first film that I did where I was able to just be free as an actor.

There isn't a switch that I turn on. I'm an actor. This is what I do.

I've worked with some actors who can't act.

I became an actor because I love solving problems. I'm a big crossword puzzle person. I love doing research. One of the reasons I became Jewish is because I love text study.

I don't have any [favourite role]. I'm just a working actor.

When I was a younger actor, I was very immersed in it, very "method" and all that. Now, I don't give a hoot.

We're all different. Some people are musicians, some people are actors, some people are agents and some people are accountants... We're all different.

So I built my entire career in the United States and that's why it feels like I'm an American actor.

There are a lot of limitations and stigmas that are placed on young actors, specifically young black actors.

Instead of becoming an engineer like my brother, I moved to New York to be an actor.

I wanted really to make it moment to moment, partly because I'm an actor and that's how I operate - actors are all about creating the moment.

We're very good friends, we have a very honest relationship. He keeps me honest, I keep him honest. He's an incredible actor and when you have an actor like Denzel action becomes drama.

I'm sure there are directors who don't like to work with actors and don't know how to be sensitive to actors.

When I do a political movie, I do a political movie.

When you're feeling very comfortable with an actor, you are doing nothing.

Hollywood is a very strong machine that needs, and in... especially with female actors, fresh flesh. It's that cruel. But that's the way it is.

It's good for actors to confront those things we have to act: panic, pain and death.

I feel so sorry for younger actors who aren't able to have the opportunities that I had, starting out in repertory theatre. It's really tough on young actors now.

I love Back Stage. I have lots of theater friends and actors who depend on Back Stage.

I think casting a show is an art form in and of itself. We're all so different - the cast is made up partly of real stand-ups, partly of actors, and then partly of just legendary actors.

The best and most talented directors - and I think it goes for people too - are the most confident in giving room to their actors and trusting them.

The Internet is an actor's best friend.

I didn't really have any aspirations to do TV when I first decided to be an actor.

Jason Alexander is a committed actor, he went from working on a show about nothing to actually doing nothing.

My first job was a film called 'Storm Damage' for the BBC. I was 16 and working with really respected British actors. I didn't have an agent at the time, and it kind of threw me into real acting.

I just think I love the process of making films. It's not tortuous for me at all. I love being with my crew. I love actors. There's a joy to the process.

The Internet kept the joke going. Abevigoda.com was devoted to updating the actor's status, as was @AbeVigodaUpdate, a Twitter account.

I like actors who are themselves. I know in America you like actors who change their nose or wear a lot of wigs, and they like to take pretty girls and make them super ugly.

Soap Actors are fun and interesting. They all have something special that you want to be around.