Actors Quotes

Hey, I think comic actors are the best actors.

Going out with other actors is never good; actresses are neurotic, and actors are horrendous egotists.

I love 'Capote.' Huge fan of Philip Seymour Hoffman; if he's not my all-time favorite actor he's definitely in my top five. I just love him so much.

Nick Offerman is my hero. He just cracks me up. He's so funny, but he's a true actor, too - he's bringing so much when he's onscreen.

Here's what I knew about doing a play: I knew it would make me a better actor.

Dude, I didn't say Jude Law can't act. I didn't say Jude Law was in bad movies. I just said he's in every movie.

Music is the soundtrack to the crappy movie that is my life.

As an actor, we are, in a way, a mirror of other people.

A lot of actors say that theater's the thing for them. And that's great, and I'm not one to speak with any authority about it because of not having done it properly. For me, movies are what I love.

I'm an actor I'm not a politician. I always kick myself when I talk too much about family, or personal things.

I think there's a limited amount of planning you can do, at least in the position I'm in. Maybe more successful actors can plan more than I'm able to.

My favorite actor is Steve McQueen, and he did his own stunts.

I am the only actor who ever had to lose weight to play Orson Welles.

Some actors play themselves, don't they?

The movies I made early on may not have been great, but they were all commercially successful.

I think that I need to work on being comfortable at being normal, everyday-ish on camera. Unlike a lot of actors, I think that's the thing that I'm not so comfortable with.

Unless it's a specific accent, or something about physicality you have to change, I am generally not such a conscious actor.

Jim Carrey is a consummate actor and professional. He comes on set, knows his lines and knows his moves

You are always damned by things that you do well as an actor.

Its only when you are a great actor and are recognised for your good work that you become famous. Unless you are in the news for the wrong reasons!

I demanded two weeks of rehearsal because to me as an actor, that's the most important time.

Typically, I like to talk and meet with actors face to face well before we start shooting.

The actors have confidence in me to let me lead them to unexpected things.

Your duty as an actor is to try to make it as real as possible.

Now I don't want to feel cornered as an actor, because I've got a wider range than that.

I'm just an actor, but if the extra part of it is that I'm helping people or people are being helped by the virtue of what we're doing, then that's just a really nice added extra.

It's what actors call a big, juicy part, when you're a leading man. I don't get a lot of those. I get a lot of supporting things.

One of the difficult things about being an actor is to stick around.

I have boxes full of stuff. Most actors do have a trunk full of stuff, paintings or scripts. It never comes to anything.

In England, and all over Europe, and all over the world, actors act until they die. They get old, really old, and they're still working. They just keep doing it.

There probably aren't a lot of actors my age who tap dance.

All actors do what they do differently, and it doesn't matter.

I certainly have never been an actor who can play the Everyman guy - or, I don't tend to get those parts. I've tended to play eccentrics. I've played a lot of villains, of course.

My background is in musical comedy. I didn't know I was going to be an actor. But all my points of reference have to do with musical comedy and in being kind of a showoff.

I became an actor by accident. I suppose I figured since I was in musical comedy from the time I was a teenager, I suppose I figured that I'd always been in that world to some extent.

I was never a child actor. I was a child performer.

I became an actor by accident.

As an actor I'm rather hit and miss, I throw a lot out there, and some of it works and some of it doesn't. But this is a nice part.

Both Averill and Bayar were like actors speaking lines for their audience and not to each other.

Oliver Stone's strategy is to unnerve the actors so as to make them alert and alive.

Actors want to surprise themselves. When it's really good, you kind of transcend yourself, and that happens infrequently. Very, very rarely.

There are ugly aspects to every single person's character. In being truthful, actors do have to show the ugly side of someone's character. We all behave like dicks sometimes.

I hate having to pose for photos. It's just so embarrassing. Everyone is expecting you to know what to do because you're an actor, but I haven't a clue.

If it's something that reaches out and grabs me, I want to do it. I have a lot of trouble doing things that don't grab me. So, I'm not a very good actor in that way. I can't fake it.

Sometimes you can do Shakespeare and you're still not an actor.

I'm just an actor who happened to love these [Marvel] comics when I was a kid, and got to rediscover them.

The more you live, the better an actor you are, but maybe I'd like to do something else on the side. Something to pay the bills as well.

Everybody always feels that they're right even if they're wrong and that's what a whole actor's career is built around rationalizing your way into whatever character you're playing.

Actors know what actors are insecure about - and they're all insecure.

If the director's a communist, whatever, he's a communist. All I care is that he directs. For the actor, the same thing. All you really care is that he comes in and performs.