Actors Quotes

I started acting when I was 13 years old and I feel like I really admire actors who are these kind of amazing shape-changing people, that they almost can turn themselves into other people.

I'm not a comedian. I don't do stand-up. I don't tell jokes. I'm a comedic actor, and approach my work that way. The comedy comes through the character.

If an actor is bored, then they are boring to an audience. I definitely don't want to ever be that.

In this business actors who have Botox or surgery make you very aware of age. It's awful.

I didn't grow up wanting to become an actor at all. I wanted to be a sports trainer and I was actually an aerobics instructor.

I used to love fast food because I had no money, and I was a struggling actor.

Yet in the celebrity-obsessed culture, where everything of you is a shot on the red carpet, I don't want that to dominate my image. First and foremost, I am an actor. I want great roles.

Many an actor does the stage more ham than good.

But I always see myself as the filmmaker. I wonder if everybody else sees me more as an actor.

Just look at the messages today's media are sending everybody, from TV and commercials to actors and singers. Kids are just drowning in that 24-7 and it's getting really bad.

I wanted to be an actor since I was nine years old.

Don't worry about telling your actor what to do.

I love exploring in a rehearsal room with other actors, scenes and you know, stuff you are scared of.

I'm not really attracted to action sequences, because my experience is that it's quite a slow process to shoot them, and often we're not involved as actors.

Actors don't like to read what they're supposed to do.

I would encourage you as a screenwriter to trust your story and don't make notes for the actors or don't make notes for the reader.

For the actors, there's something very important about that first showing of the scene to the crew, becomes like a little performance.

Arnold Schwarzenegger, I don't know if you'd call him a great actor, but he's amazing in terms of his presence, and he is interesting enough that you want to watch him.

I'm a very proud actor.

I think there's a big misconception out there about actors and the choices they have.

Every single time when you act in a film, and there's a different director, which of course as actors we're used to experiencing that's what we do, it's a different experience.

If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film.

I like it when actors depart from the script to find their characters.

Once I start shooting I forget the scriptwriter in me. I like things flowing. If you have talented actors who bring their own ideas, it can be much better than what you have worked out.

I think a good actor will always know the character better than anybody.

I prefer, and it turns out to be the truth, that I always have in my movies an ensemble of actors, but not just one individual doing the whole movie.

It can be very intense being an actor; it can be quite a small world. Then you speak to your friend who is a scientist and they have a completely different perspective.

I've never done a superhero movie. It's very nice to you as an actor in several worlds to go and to experiment.

I have been portrayed by actors in three television documentaries, two plays, one musical and a film. It's no fun watching yourself being traduced and imitated by an actor.

As an actor, you look at some people and know if they're there with you or not.

As a professional actor, I don't have much choice about what I've gotten into. I tend to be cast in comedies and I'm fine with that.

I've been offered lots of movies. There's always some actor who's doing a project and would like to have me do it.

The process of finding an actor is always difficult and there's always so many variables that come into play. Also, actors sometimes carry baggage, fans associate actors with certain parts.

My job as an actor is to serve the script. If I'm looking at it as to see what the best character is, then it's not really looking at the big picture.

And the test for any actor is whether you stay at the table or go away.

Actors want to show off and dance in front of you and get your love, because they don't think they're worthy of it in any other way.

I watch actors destroy themselves by trying to get it right.

The actor doesn't merely command the stage, he seems to own it by divine right.

I have worked alone and with a cast and enjoy the process both ways. There is more back-and-forth with a full cast, and you can feed off the other actors' performance.

I don't have a problem with big name actors coming into animation. It actually has been done for years and we are after all actors, it is just a different medium that requires a different technique.

I think actors are divided into two groups: one that wants to be an actor to become famous and rich, and the other that wants to be an actor because they have to be. I'm more in the second group.

I'm an actor's director. I love it when talented actors can bring characters to life.

We are in constant danger of being not actors in the drama of our lives but reactors, to go where the world takes us, to drift with whatever current happens to be running the strongest.

I think digital. I think digital and I was terrified about it for a long time. But I think digital because it gives so much more freedom to work with the actors.

When a doctor is performing an operation, his mind cannot be somewhere else. And it's the same with actors. You have to commit yourself mind, body and soul to a project in order to do justice to it.

I guess confidence is the only thing that I take from project to project, but I'm always open to learning everybody's style - the director, the actor I'm working with.

The most dangerous physicians are those born actors who imitate born physicians with a perfectly deceptive guile.

For me as an actor because I've been at it so long, it becomes much harder to watch movies because you really see the seams of everything.

I would love to write and produce. I feel as if as an actor I'm just a small part you have to multi-task to survive in the entertainment industry.

I like directors who have worked as actors. They know the experience.