Actors Quotes

There is also a distinct possibility that there are other actors ? whose names have not leaked to the press ? who may stand just as good a chance of landing the part.

Even the worst Bond movies, there's something to love about them.

Intimate scenes on a movie set are just dry, bizarre things; people standing around.

I know what I like in other actors: truth. That's the best. It makes you say, 'OK, I'll go with you on this.'

If you talk to any actor, they'll tell you that working is the best thing.

It must be hard interviewing actors.

I feel like I'm more of a physical actor than a voice actor.

I had never really done voice-over. If you've ever seen me, I'm more the communicator through body language and movement I'm a physical actor.

Someone asked me if I was a method actor - I loved that! I needed to know what it felt like to lose everything just to do the Bad Day video! I could really feel the angst!

Dane DeHaan, certainly, is kind of the best friend I've made through acting, in terms of another actor. He's fantastic.

Part of an actor's job is to find correlations between your own life and the life of the person you are playing.

I've always had, like, from the age of about 11, I've had such an intolerance for bad behaviour of actors that I don't think I was ever going to be that person.

One of the things that I cannot fathom is young actors who will not audition and won't read.

I think being on a film set for such a long time made me a technical actor without realizing it.

And the people I'm best friends with on the films are not generally the actors.

There are so many young talented actors today whose work I respect and admire - Ryan Gosling is probably primary among them. I take inspiration from so many amazing actors.

I'm not a good actor, I can play myself and a much gayer version of myself. That's my range.

I really want to work in a movie with Quentin Tarantino. I think he makes fantastic movies. I love people that create a different reality for the actors to live in.

Most child actors were lucky enough to get the part in the first place.

Actors want to impress at the beginning, so you take advantage of that by suddenly saying, 'Right, you're here for two weeks.' What you're doing is creating a siege mentality.

I never thought I actually could be an actor. I was always pretty shy and quiet.

In a way, all actors are gypsies, or much like a traveling circus.

I had no ambition to become an actor at all.

When you have another actor as your boss, they understand how to communicate easier sometimes than just a writer.

As an actor, you don't want to be typecast, because Hollywood is so quick to put you in things that you've succeeded in before.

I think there are a lot more writers who are actors than you know; they just don't have roles on famous TV shows that you recognize.

I really want my career to be as an actor-writer-director-producer, you know? I don't know what will be stronger than the other.

I understand the formula that producers hire directors and directors are hired to direct and actors are hired to act. I don't have any conflict with any directors because I know they're the boss.

Most TV shows are about strong characters and strong actors, and we certainly have those.

It's rough to feel creatively satisfied, as an actor, for the most part, because you don't initiate your own work.

Whenever I'm looking for actors, I'm always looking for actors who are intelligent and who feel fresh and who feel authentic to the world.

I like doing stand-up and I love putting out TV specials. I'm not an actor though, so I don't really have much choice in the matter.

Actors are insanely competitive and they hold back on each other. They are like magicians and none of them want to show their tricks.

In the writing phase, normally I try not to envisage any particular actors because I like to let the characters sort of reveal themselves in that process.

Actors are hard to photograph because they never want to reveal who they are. You don't know if you're getting a character from a Chekhov play or a Polanski film. It depends what mood they're in.

The only thing approaching art in a movie is the script.

I didn't grow up as child actor.

My father wanted to be an actor, dreamed about being an actor, but he gave it up because my mom and his family told him, "You're never going to make it; it's too tough out there."

I don't want to know what happens in any movie that I go to see.

Part of being an actor is letting things come about organically as opposed to forcing them.

Becoming an actor made me way more interested in plot.

The only problem with Mitch [Pileggi, the actor who plays Skinner] is that his bald head means there's nothing to hold onto when he starts to buck.

If young actors ask me things, I always tell them to get on set and watch how it's done. If you can, watch the people that you like, how they work.

Russell Crowe is normally an actor who disappears so far into his characters you'd swear his DNA has been altered.

As a model you have to convey something with one look - and actors will have a scene and they can sort of do it, but models have to convey what photographers want. It's a bit of an art.

I'm not sure I enjoyed doing [Gigi Does It]. I'm cool with just being an actor. If anything, I learned to be proud of being an actor.

Sunday is the Academy Awards. Every time an actor says, 'I didn't expect this,' Ruth Bader Ginsburg will do a shot.

I let the actors work out their ideas before shooting, then tell them what attitudes I want. If a scene isn't honest, it stands out like a sore thumb.

When I started out I was a failed actor.

All actors think every job will be their last.