Actors Quotes

As an actor, you ask yourself what you can do to put yourself in a position where you can play that role.

For the record, if you're not a stage actor, climbing onto Broadway and tackling something like David Mamet is not an easy thing to do.

I've been on the stage my entire life as an actor.

I'm acting with the best actors in the world.

The reality is that I'm an actor from the Midwest and I was 40 movies into it before I started 'Entourage'.

It's your job as an actor to fill out the blanks. I love doing that. To fill in the bones.

I'm an actor for hire, and I go do a job.

Don [ Handfield] was actually one of the first guys I met in town back in '94. He was an actor and a writer and all this stuff.

I was always a singer. But I was always focused on being an actor as my trade. Music I do just for me. The movie business is very difficult but the music business is just impossible.

There's a lot of actors out there or people who want to be actors. It's unique to find somebody that, you know, needs to be an actor.

Casting is so important, with any film you do. You have to get actors that you believe will fulfill the promise of the characters that are on the page.

Any actor who is being honest will admit there's always a small or large part of the real you in every character. It's impossible not to have that.

As an actor, you get to live out many professions. I just want to continue to evolve. My one goal in this business is just longevity and respect, and that's something I'll always have to work toward.

You can feel yourself trying too hard, doing too much. Nobody wants to watch somebody when they're needy, and actors are in the unfortunate position of needing to be cast and needing to be liked.

I know some amazing actors who are not mortified every moment of the day, so my feeling is that maybe you don't have to be a wreck to be good.

As an actor, you are in a unique position because you’re not only memorizing dialogue but really embodying it. You naturally feel the rhythm of good writing.

As an actor, you have to be open to doing things where you look stupid, to be experimental.

Nothing is harder than working with an actor who doesn't take it seriously or show up in the same way that you are.

You can tell when you watch a movie, usually, what the actors' experience was on the movie, because even the smallest of roles were interesting.

Actors dread working with studios because they dictate what you do in a way that independent movies can't.

As an actor, if I show up late somewhere or I say something that's eccentric, it's totally acceptable - not only that, it's lauded in some perverse way.

The frustrating part of being a movie actor is waiting in your trailer to do two takes of a scene you've prepared for two months.

It's really, really, really difficult to have the same occupation as the person you're with - especially when you're both actors.

As an actor, you wouldn't be able to play a character if you were worried about the reaction to what you're doing.

I'm going to ask what is correct, what I deserve, especially in relation to male actors.

It's easier to do an action scene than a love scene. I love fighting. When the camera's not rolling, I'll usually punch some of the actors, just for fun.

It was easier to do Shakespeare than a lot of modern movie scripts that are so poorly written.

An actor will use every piece of information at their disposal, or a good actor will.

I know that I'm a decent actor, but it's another thing to be in a scene with Jon Hamm and hold your own.

For me as an actor, it's absolutely so thrilling to hear anybody talk about the character that I play.

When you're an actor working in the theater, you would never say anything to the writer, never alter the dialogue, never dream to ask for changes.

I'm a method actor as well as a method singer.

We film in front of a live audience, and I was a theater actor before I got into television, so I like that.

I'm not that comfortable with actors receiving honours, partly because I think they ought to go to those who really help others.

But I refuse to believe that I am a better actor than myself.

I want to be the greatest actor that ever lived, frankly. I'd love that. But I don't need to be. I just want to be here. That's it.

You know, my point in being an actor is to get people to believe that this is not about me, but something else.

I really enjoy talking to actors or filmmakers that enjoy that process of creating and how they go about doing it.

At the worst it was eight hours of makeup, and I couldn't sit down; I was in this crouched position. [on the traumas of being an actor in full make up]

I didn't want to be an actor.

What actor wouldn't want to work with Mel Gibson?

As an actor, you deal with so much rejection and humiliation. When the good things come around, you tend not to trust your instincts.

Yeah, I am a character actor.

I've always wanted to be an actor. I've never planned on the acting and the stand-up feeding each other; they've always been separate desires.

To have a job you can count on as an actor is so rare, whether that means belonging to a regional theater company or being on TV.

I think of myself more as a character actor than that ingenue leading lady, who started out something like Michelle Pfeiffer, or Jessica Lange. I'm a bit quirkier than that.

I can't imagine writing if I didn't have a reader. Any more than an actor can imagine acting without an audience.

I was in drama, wanted to be an actor.

Tonight I'll be interviewing Ken Watanabe, Keisha Castle Hughes, Benecio Del Toro and Djimon Honsou - and yes, those are actors, not caterers.

The writer creates the role on the page and then the actor takes it and makes it their own.