Actors Quotes

Some of the best dramatic actors have started in comedy.

They didn't act like people and they didn't act like actors. It's hard to explain. They acted more like they knew they were celebrities and all. I mean they were good, but they were too good.

As a director/writer/producer, all you ever want is to work with actors who make you look better, who make the work you do seem as good as it can be and even better than it is.

I love working with the right actor, and if the right actor happens to be unknown, that should be allowed, too, I think.

Actors! They travel the world and all they see is a mirror.

Interviews are good if you want to be an actor because they raise your profile.

I don't want people to know what I'm actually like. It's not good for an actor.

I never thought in terms of typing myself, because I wasn't that successful. After an actor has done a few pieces of work, his naïveté is the part of the craft he has to nurture most.

I have never felt brutalized as an actor. Many actors do, some times, but I've never had that experience. If I'm not happy with the balance, I just won't work with that person again.

For an actor, style comes last. You first have to implement the whole thing, but your style comes from the subconscious, which is the best part an actor brings to his work.

I don't remember if I've been asked seriously to direct a picture. I understand that. I'm very good business for people as an actor and perhaps they'd rather I didn't.

Most of the early part of an actor's career, you do the jobs you get.

I suppose I can do more for a script as an actor than as a writer - in the film sense.

I'm an actor who they said was wrinkled and balding and everything else when I was in my early 30's. Most of the people who wrote that who thought they were younger than me are now bald and wrinkled.

You can't be an actor in a small town-you have to go to New York or L.A.

I know that Philadelphians hate New York actors passing off New York accents as Philadelphian when they are quite different.

In every movie I do have a dialogue.

To me, the series was the end of the actor, when the series ended.

I always love watching those natural actors like Bill Cosby, Raven-Symone and Shia LaBeouf - just effortless actors.

Truthfully, I wish I had a daily routine. It's hard being an actor because you never have a set schedule.

I knew that I always wanted to be a filmmaker, an actor, a writer and a director, that was always my plan.

The truth is, I just love to work. I love being on set. I love being around crews. I love being around my fellow actors. Anything that can keep that going is a joy for me.

Im always envious of the actors who get to come to work every day and really grow deep roots there, but it is really fun playing lots of different characters.

I admire actors and artists who devote just as much time to their life as they do to their work.

Uta Hagen would say, there's the representational actor and the presentational actor.

As an actor, no matter what, you're at the whim of so many other people all the time.

I've decided as an actor the only, the power I have really is in the performance. It's the only real place I get to sort of communicate.

Violence is used to portray what happens in a film. It only helps portray the actors and what they do. I think it is more about the story, when you have something to play off of.

I'm a grinding actor. That's how I've always viewed myself. You go from one job to the next.

It's a really weird feeling when you write something and you really know it and then you watch actors come in and do it.

Some actors pride themselves on disappearing into a role. I'm into the game because I like experiencing and exploring themes, so I put a lot of myself into the person.

My experience as a young actor on network television was that I couldn't make it work. I was drowning as an actor.

In a weird way, I live vicariously through the characters I play as an actor.

I grew up in a crazy, gypsy-like household of actors, dancers and loony Broadway people. It was their way of life, and I didn't know anything else.

Honestly, puppets themselves are actors effectively. The joy of puppetry is that it is very simple and low-fi, which I love.

Sure, I want to be the best actor in the world. But my life is my family, my son, my friends. I don't know how anyone can find fault with that.

In comedy, beware the split focus. The audience should focus on the face of the actor. The audience must see the setup. If there is action elsewhere on the stage, the comic line can be lost.

All of them - my father, mother, step-mother, and grandmother - were all wonderful actors and performers and they are an inspiration to me, both in their craft and in their humanity.

My definition of a character actor is - they never get the girl.

Usually, I'm the kind of actor where you show me once or twice, I can do it. I don't do it creatively, but I know how to do the process.

I've never done anything comedic. In all the years I've been an actor, I've never delivered one comedic line.

I love to see actors' work. I love to surf channels late at night and accidentally run into movies I hadn't seen before. It makes me very proud of the profession.

I do not know if it is true that all actors want to direct and all directors want to act, but in 1972 I tried directing and decided I had better stick to acting.

Directing, editing, and everything about filmmaking has definitely changed me as an actor.

I've never worked with an actor that I did not like.

Actors will say, 'My character wouldn't say that.' Who said it was your character?

Actors want to work with you but they want you to do their thing. Actors, whom I love with a blind partiality, sometimes they want to be soloists in the symphony, not a part of the orchestra.

I'd been on all the television programs as an actor, as a writer, as a director, as a producer.

I became an actor by accident, not by design.

I became a professional actor in Detroit and I was able to earn some money. It was a good job because it permitted me to study. It fit perfectly with school.