Actors Quotes

Sometimes it's harder to play good tennis with a bad tennis player - the same way it's hard to be a good actor with a bad actor. It's just an unpleasant experience.

I want to be so strong as an actor that people wouldn't say... eh, that's Josh Lucas

The best notes are action-based and less, I don't know, heady, theoretical, because, as actors, we're too much in our heads anyway.

When you're an actor or any kind of artist, you use your life as something to draw from in every experience.

My favorite actor is Sir Ben Kingsley - nobody is as good as him, in my opinion. I think he's so good as an artist.

I think as working actors, it's like sales. You're only as good as your last sale, so you put your all into something and you just hope that from that you can get your next job.

If my kids decide to be actors and really, truly love it and are passionate about it, then I would definitely want to help them along their way, but it's a tough business.

One of my favourite sorts of actors...the rat actor. The rat actor knows his job and gets it done.

I love comics, very much, and I love being alone, but I also love the other part. I love actors, and I love filmed entertainment, and that is not something I plan to turn my back on.

Every once in a while in an actor's life, a cast comes together.

I'm a big Pacino fan. He's a great actor: so much passion and intensity.

The great thing about Eminem is, he's just hysterical. You forget, people like Eminem because he is riotously funny. And he's a great actor.

There are only so many hilarious actors so when they cross-pollinate, people assume it's always the same actors and directors.

I start casting early in the writing process, so I can tailor the script to the gifts of the actors.

My closest friend is canine. I have precious few close friends, and most of them are not actors

If you are asking whether states and state actors can only respond through revenge, then you are suggesting that diplomatic solutions are hopeless.

I am not an 'instant' actor... to really do anything, I've got to try it five or six or a dozen times.

Also a good director and good dialogue. That's very important because you're bringing the words to life. So it's very important for an actor to have good dialogue.

It's dangerous to think too much about how a film will be received. Filmmaking is not a popularity contest. Some would disagree.

Well to me the most interesting things can be an actor's facial expression, a gesture, the movement of a body - all those things that we are saying to each other in-between the words.

For me cinema is image, sound, and the faces and bodies and, yes, voices, of my actors, and sometimes the words that they are saying, but not only the words.

I am an actor and of course I respond very positively to flattery.

Sometimes people think of actors as marionettes - everybody else makes the decisions for us - and, you know, really, making this decision [of which roles to take] is the only thing you lay claim to.

Actors think they're far more important than they are, and that can only lead to hurt. People with colossal self-importance have very far to fall.

I never think of myself as an actor who takes work home with them.

Theater is like going to the gym for actors.

There are a handful of actors who sustain interest because it's exciting to watch them get better at what they do. I want to be one of those actors.

Ninety-eight per cent of actors who actually make a living do so in front of a camera.

I think Americans are wonderful film actors - the best in the world - but they are a very contemporary race and they look forward all the time.

There's so much energy that's needed, for every stage of the process, so I don't want to do something that I'm bored by with characters that I don't like or actors that aren't going to surprise you.

As a fortysomething actor, you reach a plateau of maturity from which you can really get stuck in.

Actors have a magic gene within them - I think they're the finest descendants of rogues and vagabonds - and it's all too easily forgotten what the acting legacy is.

Keanu Reeves is, like, the worst actor I've ever seen. I can't believe he's a movie star.

If life is a performance, and I am not an actor, am I supposed to lie down and die?

You never stop learning your craft. That's the key to success within yourself as an actor.

It's one thing in this business to actually work. 5 percent of the Screen Actors' Guild works. It's another thing to do work that's satisfying and that people are loving.

I think that power comes in numbers, and we're in an industry where the actors need to have a bigger voice.

The room is full of such talent. It's a beautiful thing about the SAG Awards. It's the most rewarding room to be in as an actor.

I'm always shocked when actors have diva-esque behavior.

You hear about actors who were doing five years on a series as lovers and actually hated each other. I don't know if I could pull it off.

I've always wanted to be like the Hollywood Golden Age actors.

Movie studios aren't making too many dramas anymore; they're in the superhero business. Material for television is much, much stronger for actors now.

For me, the most important thing is that I feel comfortable with the actor that I'm working with and I'm able to talk to them.

[John Larroquette] is very generous as the star of a show. He always made sure that if we had a joke that didn't work or something, he'd fight for the other actors.

The hardest thing to do as an actor is to be simplistic, and to just be.

The camera can move, you can make the shots, blah blah blah, but as long as the actors are good, you have something.

I think actors really like to know what does a casting agent really think or what does a composer really think.

I love directing Shakespeare on film. It's fantastic that the actors would do exactly the same thing and be true to their part.

I often wrangle with myself as an actor, and wrestle with the process. In striving for authenticity I often have the feeling I am falling short.

I wouldn't even begin to presume that the talent of an able actor is anything like the talents of a prodigious musician.