Actors Quotes

You really have to get out of an actor's head to write because actors only care about their part and it revolves around their part so "This is the important part because this is the part where..." .

Being an actor is a much more structured life than being a musician.

If you give a scene enough room to breathe, actors will hopefully find those magical moments.

Of course, actors look forward to the day when they can do a big courtroom scene.

I never know what to call the subjects in my pictures because I'm uncomfortable with the word actor. I think maybe subjects might be more accurate - or maybe even more accurate is objects.

Getting bad reviews or doing something thats not great is also really good for you as an actor. It also makes me feel as an actor that Ive earned my stripes a bit.

I came to New York to be an actor and I became a film producer first.

I don't have any money to hire actors. I just need to get people who are going to do a good job being themselves.

Directing remains very psychological, and it takes a lot of time and reflection. When you're an actor, it takes less time, and you can express yourself physically.

My department is to get actors to do stuff.

If a movie isn't released, it's one thing, but if you know it will be, it's nice to have closure and see it come out.

I try to get to know the actors as much as I can. I feel like I'm friends with them for starters and for a week or two, we rehearse when they're getting the costumes together.

I think a lot of actors take on fun roles and then they're lazy or flippant with them. I just can't do that.

When I go to a movie, I'm always thrilled if I've seen an actor do something and I didn't realize until the end of the movie that that was that person. I love that.

I don't understand the actor that chooses to play the same role in everything all the time.

I want to bring something different to every film. I get a bit tired of actors who kind of are the same character in every film that they do.

I didn't know what the path was that I wanted to be as an actor, to be honest. I've been doing a lot of theater since I was a kid, so I was just sort of taking opportunities.

There's something that sort of weirds me out about actors who want to be rock stars, and the other way around too.

Child actors come off as work being their life and doing it 24/7, but I still have those days where it's totally, like, whatever: shopping, movies, adventures.

Please don't refer to me as "channeling Mark Twain." I'm an actor. Not a channeler. That word is an iPhone shortcut. Acting is more eloquent than that.

I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.

I'm a pretty cliché actor in that I hate watching myself on film.

I think I'm a pretty cliché actor in that I hate watching myself on film. I don't know why it should be humbling to see yourself on film.

In my ideal world there would be 99% unemployment for actors, and I would be the 1% that's employed. I hear about somebody getting a job at Starbucks and I get jealous.

That's a true actor's nightmare: "Improvise in British sign language. Go."

Even trying it as an actor, I never thought I'd actually make it.

Canada has been a breeding ground for great comedic actors, sketch artists and stand-up comedians. We grew up with a different perspective on the world.

When someone's an actor and you're an actor, you meet them and you feel like you know them. We're in the same business, and we all speak the same comedy language.

At a certain point, you have to convince the actors that you've done the right thing. The way I work, if I can't convince them, I've got to move on. I can't coerce them or browbeat them.

[ Chadwick Boseman] is a remarkable actor, and he's a remarkable person.

All my friends were going off to be professionals, and I said I wanted to be an actor.

Peter Mullan is the least method actor around.

I can now shed the child-actor thing, like the fat, and start a new career, because no one sees me as Dudley.

An actors most important responsibility is to know lines well.

I look for something that grabs me and that's heartfelt, and that's coming from a good place. I want to work with good actors and with directors that I can learn from.

It's always a pleasure to see John. I'm fond of telling people that when I was a young actor in NY and had no work ,no money, you know the story because you're heard it before.

If I was just considered a looker and wasn't considered an actor, where would I be in 10 or 20 years from now?

So often when you meet child actors, they're weird - they're freaks. No, I mean it, they're really odd people.

I resent having witnessed the survival of some very mediocre male actors and the professional demise of the very brilliant female ones.

I have done film, television and theatre - all at a pretty substantial level - I don't think it's possible for American actors to do that.

I certainly think that he [Alan Rickman] was a kind of actor who needed to grow into his maturity to realize the potential, the huge potential that he had.

When on the set of a film, you have to play natural for entire scenes in a very unnatural environment. You have to express emotions and interact with other actors and also use your voice.

If you're a good actor, then you channel enough of yourself into the character so that you do get that other thing.

With Superman, there are certain limitations for an actor. You can't go past certain boundaries because then you cease to be what the character is.

It's difficult to judge other actors, because as an actor you're looking at different things than what an audience is looking at.

I resisted being an actor for some time.

There's no rule that you have to like Henry Rollins the musician or the actor.

I will take the acting work when I can get it. I am not really an actor, that's always apparent but it's work and I'll take it and am always glad for it.

The job is nothing but a twenty-ring circus-with a whole lot of bad actors.

I think every actor is looking for a challenge, and to play something different, and to be a part of a project with other great actors.