Actors Quotes

Ronald Reagan was unusual in being an authentic personality. Unlike many professional actors - and politicians - he was much the same behind the curtain as in front.

I always believed that I never wanted to be an actor. I only did it because I was allowed to do it and I had to do something.

As an actor sometimes you can be a bit emotional and forceful, and that's not always the way to be.

One of the reasons a lot of actors go into the business is that for a short period of time, you get to be other people who you can only fantasize about being, by and large.

Whenever you're making a dark comedy, you're always looking for the yin and yang in an actor.

Hamlet' is obviously a role a lot of actors want to portray or be involved with in some way and that I'd like to be involved in.

I've been a musician longer than I've been an actor.

It's not unlike the movies for human actors. Once a dog stars in a movie, they don't work very much anymore. It's kind of heartbreaking.

Being an actor, you are recognized for being somebody else, whereas these books are distilled from me.

The dog actors and the relationship they have with their trainers is one of the most beautiful things I've ever watched happen in front of me.

The challenge, and also what I like most about a big ensemble movie, is that all actors have completely different processes and all of them prefer scenes to be done a different way.

As an actor, your life experience is just as important as studying.

I love it when actors come to you with a problem and you have to listen. You'd like them to just get on with it, but it often means that there's a problem with the script.

So many actors are not open in front of the camera - they have a persona.

One of the wonderful things about being an actor is that every director is different.

Successful actors and actresses have to get themselves into their roles before acting. Therefore, you need to really care about what you are saying.

I am really attracted to films. It's nice to do something new, all the time. That's why I like being an actor.

I'm like a weird actor. I feel like I'm vastly uneducated when it comes to the cinema.

I haven't even watched that many movies, I'm like a weird actor.

As an actor, you realize that your whole life is about arrivals and departures. You're always meeting people, you get really close, and then you all have to leave.

Music informs my work so intensely. The better actor I become, the better pianist I become, and vice versa.

I've always done a few things at once. I've always been a musician and an actor, at the same time.

I, also, found the opportunity to work with the actors extremely gratifying and rewarding.

I'm a huge movie buff, so I'm a fan of a lot of actors and actresses.

The most dramatic moves I have made as an actor have been from stage to screen and from sitcom to drama.

As an actor, you get hired for what you last did. And I guess it just becomes your choice or obligation to do different things.

I really like to work with theater actors. Theater actors tend to do lots of independent movies, and those are the actors that I like.

I'm sort lucky in that for me, I'm a writer now. I started as an actor but I'm a writer and so things like 'Wilfred' and shows like that are where I escape to.

It's great to write for actors when you know who they are. I think I prefer it.

I'm much more a writer than an actor. Although I have a great respect for that and I enjoy acting still, it really is about the world that I'm creating. That's where my future is.

I see something that seems like standard fare, that I can imagine any number of actors playing, and I'm generally not interested.

I always found it really funny when actors would come offstage, smoking cigarettes and swearing at each other.

Yeah, the actors really come in as lumps of clay. We're ready to work with the directors and find our way. These guys really come in having done their work.

God, I hate interviews with actors pouncing on. Who wants to know about their lives? I don't want to know about Al Pacino's life.

Parenthood has been the beneficiary of wonderful performances by child actors.

When actors talk about research, they're just patting themselves on the back.

One of the fun things about being an actor is stepping outside yourself and outside of your own experience. It's challenging yourself to totally commit to something that in your core is so wrong.

When it comes to casting, I've been so lucky. I've worked with unbelievable actors who make me look better than I am and take the written word and make it honest.

I admire the actors that truly can impersonate someone - become someone, inhabit someone. It's amazing when you see it done.

I like letting takes play out, beginning to end. I don't like doing pick-ups of one line or another. I like letting the actors discover the flow of the scene, inside the scene as a whole.

You know how hard it is to swim take after take and perform the next day swimming again? Me, I'm a terrible swimmer, but most actors with that tight schedule would be sick pretty quick.

My concern is to continue respecting my work as I've done since I began as an actor and I could only do that if I'm strong enough to keep on doing what I think best in an artistic way.

We actors always say how difficult and physically demanding a role was. But give me a break, it's only a movie.

My first part was in a film where I played a sadomasochist who killed people and created fun orgies. I'm a method actor. I went to every orgy in the world.

As an actor, you can't judge. A great actress from Spain said, "We, the actors, are lawyers of the characters we play. We have to defend them, no matter what."

The good thing about being an actor, and the gift of being an actor, is that you are beautifully forced to see the world with different eyes.

Arnold Schwarzenegger made his tax returns public, [and] now there's a problem about him stretching the truth. Apparently under occupation he put down 'actor.'

If you were an actor, anybody could go on Broadway and take a George Carlin hour and do it on stage as a one man show. They're all stand alone essays.

In many cases for an actor it's a comfortable position to be in. But it's harder to fail as a director.

OSS 117 and maybe Un Balcon Sur La Mer directed by Nicole Garcia. It's a typical French movie with typical French themes with French actors, a French director.