Actors Quotes

As an actor, that's the best thing you can do, really take people along on a story and tell them something.

Morgan Freeman is a very giving actor.

I do tend to like movies that challenge me, professionally. That's mostly on a smaller scale, when you have one or two or five actors, and it's all about the acting and not the camera.

Even in the big movies, if the scenes are very big, I'm not fond of them as much as I'm fond of small actor scenes.

My music doesn't exist in a vacuum; there's a script and there's an actor and it's about to come together.

Johnny Depp is one of my favorite actors because he takes chances.

We know that ISIL and other terrorist groups are actively encouraging people, around the world and in our country, to commit terrible acts of violence, oftentimes as lone-wolf actors.

I always give one actor an emotion to make it very easy so he or she can root to it.

I watch the energy between the actors. That's the most thrilling and interesting thing to me about watching a movie, what the actors are doing.

Every ten years there is a new generation of actors.

In the 60s, if you wanted to be an actor, you couldn't do just one thing.

I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a writer on a television show.

To have a songwriter that wrote so specifically what I felt to be true... I've never been much of an actor either. If something is real for me, then I can do it.

I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.

Some of my oldest friends are actors. But that's not the only place my friends come from.

When you're creating new roles out of scratch in my opinion working with the actors is a great asset. You can learn a lot from that.

Studios are used to have an investment in you, an actual, literal investment in an actor. You paid them some money, you had a contract with them and you were almost like a commodity.

I try to cast really good actors and give them a chance to do their very best work, give them as much time and space as they need.

One guy told me I was a great actor, I just would never be on the cover of a magazine.

I do the same thing for myself (as an actor) that I do for others.

As an actor, you can steer a scene in another direction by playing it a little differently. And honestly? I like being an actor, and I want to keep having a career.

I know plenty of actors smarter than me with better taste than me who love horror movies and love sci-fi and it just doesn't make sense to me.

We actors don't travel as tourists with a camera, we really get to enter the life of a place and get to know it.

I think that most actors attempt to keep in touch with the child.

I don't even want to think of myself as an actor because it's such an insecure place to go.

Keats himself spoke about how Shakespeare was capable of erasing himself completely from the characters he had created. As an actor, that is what I'm trying to do.

When I finished my A-levels, I assumed I'd be able to get work as an actor. But I couldn't. I didn't get an audition. Nothing. So I thought I'd better train and then the parts would come.

Kevin Feige said to me: "I don't think we've ever put an actor through quite as much as this, physically and mentally." I'll wear that as a badge of honour. It was endless.

I feel that TV and film feed off each other well. It's more in the perception of the viewer than it is of the actor.

There's a huge raft of roles that actors in our culture perform, and you can see any one of about three Hamlets in a year. It's not something to be completely daunted by.

I like getting carried away by what is happening and then decide each scene based on the actors, the set and the light.

Your job as an actor is to stay employed.

I have always been of the mind that good work is good work, whether performed on stage, on television or in film and, like any reasonable actor, I keep my options open.

I find that most of us actors can't stand ourselves in any form.

Part of my aspiration as a film actor is to bring subtlety to everything I do - honesty but subtlety.

I think all actors are on the constant search for a real challenge just to keep things interesting.

Even the greatest actors have had dry spells where they've wondered if they were going to work again.

It was always my intention to direct. I went to film school. And then I wanted to know how to work with actors, so I went to acting school. And then by the end of that, I caught the bug.

I guess I'm the perfect young lead actress. I'm not Chloe Sevigny - I'm not really a character actress. Some actors have "character" faces.

As an actor, you think you have to go really far and deep and cry and yell to be good in a scene. Sometimes that's not the point.

It might sound glib, but in a sense, as an actor Im a journalist and a psychologist recording life and truth.

As actors, we have to be able to keep ourselves open to feel, and that's a life lesson I think many people don't get a chance to learn. In my personal life, I've learned to carry this lesson with me.

We actors can't take the credit. We love to try to claim the credit.

I was into writing and directing. I was a bit of a reluctant actor. I would always ask friends to shoot or direct their movies, but then they'd want me to be in them.

There are a lot of actors that are more talented than me at Second City who quit it before they even got to a paying status. Weird luck. I had no other option.

Actors always talk about taking their work home and I always think: 'What are you on? You just turn it off. You are at work and then you go home.'

You can ruin your life wanting to be an actor.

I'm always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long!

One of the things that is assumed about actors is that they are extrovert, which is almost never the case, in my experience.

If you ask any actor "What single thing would make you really, really happy?" Among the top five things they'd say is not having to audition anymore.