Actors Quotes

I'm not an American actor. I'm a French actor. I'll continue in France. If I could make another silent movie in America, I'd like to!

What I promise to my actors, and to my director, is to give them the salary and everything they need.

Now at my age I understand how sad it must have been for some directors or actors at the time the talkies began. Because, really, a whole continent disappeared.

Acting isn't a profession, it's a way of living.

I could live without acting.... Acting is a gift I've received. And I'm grateful for it and I enjoy it. But it's not the main point of my life. It never was.

The Russians and rogue actors, including ISIS - this is a serious part of the 21st century security challenge that we face.

I don't have one movie that is my favorite, I have about 25-30 favorites.

It gives me more breadth as an actor and as an artist to not be pigeonholed.

I'd maybe done about 12 movies when I decided that this was what I was going to do.

I hate it when there's a good movie, someone overhypes it and I'm disappointed that I don't like it more.

I like to think of myself as a character actor, though there's some redundancy in that...

I don't really consider myself one of those actors who takes his work home with him.

Unlike a lot of actors, my father encouraged all his kids to go into show business.

Basically, I composed the musical structure in one pass. The rest was editing and small adjustments. And when the play was read by actors with the music, the sequence timed-out perfectly.

The biggest compliment I think an actor can get is I can't imagine anyone else in the role.

I never said, 'I'm going to be a big star.' I said, 'I'm going to be a good actor.' And that took the pressure off.

Well, the music industry is littered with actors who belatedly came to singing.

On cable now, the writer is king. Any actor chases that.

Every actor just wants good writing.

And the actors tend not to want to watch themselves very often. I'm one of those guys.

We actors are an especially superstitious lot.

I also sort of find the idea that not only do actors want to please when they're onstage, I find actors really want to please off stage a lot of the time, don't they?

I wanted to be an actor. My parents were not too keen on that.

I would like to feel that I have a range and that it's not just a matter of being a comic actor or a serious actor, because those are really artificial classifications, I think.

Every actor wants to have a character that changes, that has some kind of movement, that gets from point A to point B, that doesn't just supply one note.

You can tell when an actor or actress cares about their work. It's really clear.

All actors are looking for that role that's going to define who they are. When it happens, it's a good thing.

I really loved my dad. I was very, very close to my dad. He - you know, he was very, very nervous about my being an actor.

I don't have the passion for acting that actors might have.

Most actors and actresses are consumed by careers and getting ahead.

With "The Office," they said, "We don't want anyone we recognize, so give us unknown actors," and I think that was the break that I needed. Because I went in and I got the role.

Cause it's really hard, it's hard to be an actor.

I know so many amazing actors who don't get work... and then there are a bunch of real duds that work all the time. The industry is just not fair in that way.

If you say, 'You've made it,' then you kind of come to a standstill, and I don't think any actor wants to do that.

I wasn't a huge fan of reality shows, because I'm like 'they're taking away from the actors,' but sometimes mindless is just wonderful.

There are a lot of movies that are unbelievable successes that I would be mortified to be a part of.

I love acting, but being an actor for hire only serves so much, and then you want to fill your well up again and be charged by something else.

I have been pregnant in so many movies it's ridiculous.

As young, hot actors living in Hollywood, you get even more attractive.

I mean, I didn't ever watch 'Gilligan's Island' and think, 'Those people are actors.' I lived in West Virginia. Hollywood just felt like this total other universe.

Children accept their world as the world. I grew up like kids that I went to school with. Their parents were either shrinks or actors.

I think the biggest reason that actors are complete a-holes as soon as they become famous is because they forget that this a job. They think that it's about them, and it's not.

There's this freshness that happens within the first few takes of the actors actually listening to each other and actually really reacting.

As an actor, I've always been interested in making sure I can perform the role and the lines in the way the writer intended.

The part that I felt most comfortable with going in was just working with actors and trying to make them feel comfortable and safe so they could find the performance. That part felt organic to me.

Talking to actors is the same as talking to any other artists; it's getting into the moment for them, and making sure they can lose themselves in the performance!

I think most actors will tell you the same thing; when you're not working you put 100 percent into every audition.

All actors have to change their name.

On the whole, British actors star in theater, and I think there's something quite grounding about that.

Most of my friends aren't actors - and not one of them is overly impressed with what I do.