Actors Quotes

All my good friends are actors, really. It's different when you have a family, but they're still the people I meet most often. My best friend is Ian Hart, but then I've known him since I was five.

I don't like talking about myself. I'm not really interested in myself. One of the good things about being a supporting actor is that you get to talk about other people.

I really was a terrible actor. I did it for years in my twenties because it was like being at university again.

Actors don’t retire. They just get offered fewer roles.

I seem to be able to disassociate my insecurities. I know a lot of actors - some of the best actors in the world - can't bear to watch themselves and I have to say I can't relate to that.

You're always looking for roles and other creatives who are going to be challenging to you, because you're always a better actor after the experience.

One of the occupational hazards of being an actor, the reason why so many actors are insecure, is that the only way we know we're good is when other people tell us.

I like to think of myself as a physical actor.

There was a time when television was sort of frowned upon among people who wanted to be serious artists. John Travolta kind of exploded that. He was one of the actors who made that go away.

I think I'm a very very nice director. Very supportive, very nurturing. I definitely try to challenge my actors but I think I'm very supportive.

I'm really not interested in showing me or playing me. My gift as an actor, given to me, is to be able to become other people.

Inevitably, every part an actor plays contains some of himself.

Sometimes, if you leave yourself open, an actor can bring nice nuances to a character.

It'd be hard to be a lead actor if I didn't have lips. Those are tough to graft back on.

I think actors do make really, really wonderful directors.

I like to create an atmosphere where actors feel safe enough to take risks.

Part of an actors job, in my opinion, is adjust to the characteristics of the director and try to understand to how he tries to work.

For an actor, playing one character and transitioning to a completely different one is a dream come true.

I think actors who take things too far are funny.

Actors like to play bad guys because they're more fun. They also win more awards.

I didn't need the insurance. I do it again if my DP tells me it didn't look good in the camera or if the actors didn't hit their marks. But if everything was working why do it again?

I think when I work with actors it's all about a process of learning to be private in public, instead of performing in public. Which is what women do: we perform, especially our sexuality.

I'm thrilled because I think that, you know, everyone has gotten what they wanted. You know, I just wanted to be (there) surrounded with the best actors period.

There is a class system in acting just like in anything else. Black females fall in a category below black male actors.

Actors always want you to believe something else even though that's the truth and to do that well it's almost a dying art.

I became an actor because I couldn't not.

If you take every challenge everyone has in their life and multiply it in severity you get what it's like in the life of an actor.

And as far as actors go, Peter Sellers is my all-time favorite.

I'm too grateful that I continue to grow as an actor. I hope I get better. I feel like I am. But it's a roll of the dice every time you make a movie. Nobody knows.

Sometimes 'great acting' is just showing off - chewing up scenery and dialogue and other actors - the equivalent of a theatrical sugar rush.

The second season is generally easier do because you know the actors better and they know the characters better and if everybody likes each other you can really go all types of places.

I like to give the actors freedom to take what we have on the page and improve on it. And they do that quite a bit.

Every actor thinks he can do comedy, and it's not true.

The first movie I saw where it convinced me I could be an actor was 'Mean Streets,' so whenever I see Robert De Niro and he says, 'Hi, Denis,' it's still a really big deal.

With any actor, if you know your character well enough, you'll know pretty much what he would say under any circumstance, or whatever situation might rear its head.

With a screenwriter and with the actors there is always an environment of trust. You can say anything, all your secrets, and you know that it won't get out of that room.

Of course, when you work with actors and when you work on a script everything that you know about the human experience can't possibly go in.

I'm not one of these actors who feels a pressing need to direct, and I have no plans to do it.

I wanted to be an actor. I decided when I was very young, when I first saw movies, that I wanted to be an actor.

I've always considered myself a character actor. That's the way I was trained, really.

It's tricky with monologues, and I never like to use that word. Like I told the actors, you are talking to somebody; there is no such thing as a monologue.

I know, as an actor, I don't like sharing everything with the director. And it's fine if they don't with me.

What's a celebrity anyway? Paris Hilton's a celebrity. I'm just a working actor.

The number one reason for the death of young actors' careers is people get so used to seeing them playing that one character that they can't accept them as anyone else.

The beauty of being an actor in a horror film is that you know what to expect and what's coming.

I always say writing is like dreaming, shooting is like living, and editing is like murder, because you take all these gifts that actors give you, and you cut them.

I tell the actors that the biggest gift they can give me is to fail. And that the second gift they can give me is to surprise me.

Actors, I don't think, ever really grow up. I'm hoping that that rejuvenating process applies to me, too. It has so far. I've been very lucky.

I loved B.I.G., but not like I liked Tupac, because he was an actor, so I related to him.

I want what's mine. I see other actors who are doing very interesting roles, and I just want to continue to do things that are interesting, and things that people will go see in theaters.