Actors Quotes

All you have to do to be a camera actor is tell the truth.

All the actors I've worked with as a director over the years I really love and I thought they were all right for the part.

I've been largely an improvisational actor for most of my career.

If you want anybody to have a different voice, you really have to visualize and hear the voices of all these people. Sometimes when I write with specific actors in mind, it helps.

For me, what makes great actors, always is how truthful they are to the character and the story and the emotion that they're trying to tell.

Acting, music, painting... it's very subjective. So what I might think is a great actor, you might think is not a very good actor at all.

I don't think actors should have to do anything but come in and act.

I started out as a very traditional actor. The first thing I ever did in terms of performance was singing.

I never fully committed to the child actor thing. I also liked being a regular kid and being a student.

Every actor-performer says this, and it sounds so irritating, but I'm not the most outgoing person.

I did not want to be an actor because my whole family did it-going into the family business was the last thing I wanted to do.

Actors are very generous.

I feel a little guilty only being an actor.

For people who want to get into the voiceover industry, even if you want to get into commercial, you need to become a really, really good actor.

At the Academy Award Dinners all the actors and actresses in Hollywood gather around to see what someone else thinks about their acting besides their press agents.

What would I have done if I wasn't an actor? Probably rob banks.

Before Michael Caine you had to have been in the RAF to be an actor.

I've been a very lucky actor.

When you work as actors in this business, you spend a lot of time apart. That's why a lot of marriages fail. It's not because of Hollywood, it's because you don't spend time together.

Colloquialism is the toughest part of what we do, as foreign actors, because there are certain sayings that you guys have that absolutely don't make any sense.

You don't really have to dress a ton of actors. You don't really have to spend a bunch of money lining up extras to look the time period.

Any great character is the combination of a brilliant actor and the right writing.

Broadway was without doubt the hardest I ever worked in my life and the highest highs I've ever had as an actor. The unadulterated fear was on a level that was hard to explain.

I went to school to be an actor in Canada and realized I hated auditions once I left, which is a huge problem if you want to get a part.

You hear stories of intense actors who can't shed their character and who don't know who they are for a week or two after. I'm not that guy, man.

I got into [producing] to be part of stories that wouldn't necessarily be right for me as an actor.

The fame of an actor is won in minutes and seconds, not in years.

There's a great legacy before me. Many, many fantastic actors, artists, writers have come before me and created Superman. I'm very honored to be able to be a part of it.

I took a gamble in becoming an actor and my dream job has been realised.

You cant be a casual observer of something humorous - you have to engage, you have to find it funny for the relationship between actor and audience to work.

As an actor, it's exhausting being someone else. It's not physically demanding, but it's mentally demanding, if you do the job the way you should.

As an actor, to get a gift of a part like that is unusual. And then, to have the prospect of another one is always going to be interesting and exciting.

I think there is something like 90% unemployment in the Screen Actors Guild, so we are the exception.

And, you know, when you are a kid, everybody wants to be an actor. I think that everybody wants to be in show business, frankly.

I'm an actor. I've always been an actor. I've always approached all my comedy as an actor. I don't really care about jokes either. I tire of jokes.

I think that an actor who is working should be a happy actor.

I just always wanted to be an actor. I don't remember ever not wanting to be an actor. I did a lot of musical theater when I was younger, and I really hope to get back there someday.

I was home-schooled 'cause I wanted to be an actor. I would spend all day watching movies, trying to get through calculus.

I'm a character actor, so I don't take the hit if the movie's bad, the lead does. So, I don't want to be the lead. He takes the hit, I don't.

I think I am looking as an actor to find ways to push myself into places I haven't been before as a human being.

The most intoxicating thing about being an actor is to surrender to a story that you never would have come up with.

There are so many filmmakers who are so talented, and actors and writers who work so hard, and it's really hard to let your work enter the world.

Working is the best way to understand and grow, as an actor, in my opinion. That's been my experience.

And as much as I love the gritty characters, I like to play all sorts of characters. I'm an actor. I love to create.

You couldn't make a cheap drama. That would be too low-budget. Drama has to have good photography and well-known actors.

It's smart to have a set of younger actors. People don't always want to look at me. They want to look at other people.

That's always something that's really important for an actor - to find an opportunity to do a scene where there is a moment like that, where you manage to connect with everyone.

I love villains. You know, I am a character actor, and any chance to get to play a really outrageous villain. I like to play that.

I always made a living as an actor when I came to California. I never had to do anything else.

He was so good at everything he did. You can't call Ronnie Barker a comedian. He was an actor, and a great writer.