Actors Quotes

I think everything keeps changing. There was a time when television was a bad thing for actors and it meant that you could only do television, and now we see everyone does television.

I can't see how I'd learn to be a better actor from reading reviews.

I am not a method actor, though I studied for a year with Lee Strasburg.

I'm not a wealthy person because I was never a star. I was a working actor and a supporting actor.

My job isn't about pursuing fame and then becoming an actor. It's about becoming an actor and if fame follows suit, that's fine.

There are a lot of great young actors coming out of England who have maybe not gone to drama school, but I wish I had.

A challenge is always important; as an actor, as a human, it's good to face challenges and it's good to push your boundaries.

To be respected as an actor it doesn't help to be seen out in the clubs.

It's a very fascinating thing for an actor to play somebody who is suffering, and you have to express the suffering, but in an inarticulate way and sometimes a dysfunctional way, through violence.

I want to be respected as an actor. There's my ego. But I don't have a great need to be liked by an audience.

I consciously decided not to be a 'London' actor. Those gangster movies made a lot of East End actors think they were movie stars. And I was very aware that they were going to go out of fashion.

I'm not one of these actors who can make a bad script good. Some actors, a script can be terrible, and they can bring something to it and make it really special. I can't.

I’m a comedian who got into movies, so I don’t really think of myself as an actor.

The only reason I did Showtime was Robert De Niro. I definitely consider him to be in the top 5 all time actors.

I think that different actors go about their preparation differently, but when it comes to acting, I use my imagination.

There is no question that sobriety has made me a better actor, made me a better person.

If you're an actor, a real actor, you've got to be on the stage. But you mustn't go on the stage unless it's absolutely the only thing you can do.

We ask the public to believe that every time they see an actress or actor that they are a different person.

Imported actors, like certain wines, sometimes do not stand the ocean trip. This can be as true of American actors in Europe as it is of European actors in America.

There are always going to be more actors than anybody can ever use.

Trust your actors. That's why I work with the same actors time and time again. I encourage them to change the dialogue to achieve one thing: keep the characters honest.

The way I see it, when I go out as an actor, it should be on a type of film I'm never going to do as a director.

Newlyweds shooting budget: 5k for actors, 2k insurance, 2k food and drink. 9k in the can. We only shot 12 days. That's how to make an independent film.

Actors are con men and con men are actors.

Spielberg gave us three takes before saying anything to us. Since then, I do that, three takes, to let the actors find their rhythm.

I don't think you should sit around and wait for people to give you an opportunity to express yourself or do your work, or whatever. Actors have to be producers and writers have to be producers.

There's a lot of romanticisation of the intuitive actor and method acting and all kinds of notions about getting inside a character and coming out from there.

No, I'm not a very methodologically pure actor.

I'm not a movie guy. I don't know all this stuff that comes with celebrity. I don't know who the actors will be and stuff like that. But anybody who wants to talk about the issues - that's great.

When you use any kind of internet based capability, any kind of electronic capability, to cause damage to a private entity or a foreign nation or a foreign actor, these are potential acts of war.

Woody Allen is a better actor than anybody from the Actors Studio, and he can be anybody he says he is.

I don't wear a wig. I'd feel terrible onstage with a wig. I hate to be so 'Actors Studio'-ish, but I like to feel it's me out there.

I haven't done any training. I come from a family of actors, but I haven't done any training.

First one works alone through the mind, then before the public through experience.

I always think that when we actors talk about the films that we've done we run the risk of destroying everything.

I think filmmakers, in general... There are some awesome, really great filmmakers - but on the whole, filmmakers, actors, I think they are the biggest bunch of whiny, over-paid babies on the planet.

Horror audiences don't need to see some TV actor they're familiar with.

I was an original member of the Actors' Studio.

Sometimes there are certain things that you gotta grow into. Sometimes, for some actors, they know it spiritually at a young age. Others need to grow into it.

It's always nice when you get a chance to actually work with the other actor. It just brings the scene to life, in a way that's not as easy to replicate on your own.

I credit my mom Debbie for creating a solid family base, ... She gave me a strong sense of reality so I could avoid falling into the normal pitfalls of child actors.

As an actor myself, the opportunity to sing and dance and be dramatic and be funny - it's really irresistible to actors. You get to show all sides of your talent.

The comforting thing for Australian actors is that there's a strong community in L.A. as well - it's almost like you swap one home for another. I didn't feel any pressure.

Living in L.A., I was embarrassed to say that I wanted to be an actor.

My oldest step-son wants to direct or produce. As far as being an actor, I've already told them they have to wait until they're 18; I won't take them to auditions.

I love theater. I love sitting in an audience and having the actors right there, playing out what it means to be a human being.

'Normal Heart' was my most transcendent moment as an actor.

I'm an actor and a playwright, and I don't earn much.

Scientists and religious leaders, activists and first nation leaders, CEOs of corporations and actors, all of us need to come together right now, because the planet is in a lot of pain.

But I've never been really rebellious. I've got a lot of support and I'm not pushed so hard that I feel like I'm going to burn out, which is what happens to a lot of actors in their early twenties.