Actors Quotes

As actors, we are so privileged to do what we do and to give to the world and to choose the subject we want to say to the world.

I never felt being an actor or making a movie was an easy thing to do.

As actors, we want to go find the humanity and make it more nuanced and fill in the colors, rather than just being suit people who crack cases, 'cause they aren't that.

I had three influential teachers. The first was Uta Hagen. The second two, Bobby Lewis and my late husband, Charles Kakatsakis, were both from the Actors Studio.

I've been really lucky to work with a lot of really great actors, so watching the films back, it's really important to admire the people that you were working with and see their full performance.

When I first started acting in movies - as probably a lot of naive young actors do - I made a list of directors that I wanted to work with and sent it to my agent at the time.

It's not often as an actor you get to be involved with a project that seems to be on the right side of history.

Actors are limited by their appearance and while it has cost me some roles, it has got me some very important roles too.

Being an international actor, I always had to keep moving.

Mostly I've just worked with actors and actresses that are fun and easy to talk to and had nothing but great experiences.

I'm not really a Method actor. I'm always afraid of working with someone who's afraid to [break character] and won't talk to anyone because they're in character.

Usually I don't get specific advice from certain actors or actresses I work with.

If all the actors are in the recording session at the same time, you can record all voices for one episode in an hour. Of course, the animation takes longer but the voice acting is done very quickly.

There's something so wonderful about being an actor in New York.

There is a difference when you work with actors who have worked on the stage. When we're out there in front of an audience eight times a week, you can't do it on your own.

Unfortunately, I feel as actors we have to fight for the right to really go in as many directions as possible.

I like the timeframe involved in being an actor.

I think you can tell when someone is being dishonest as an actor.

Actors make less than you think.

I think actors always like to think they don't bring the character home, and then their family all laugh and tell you otherwise.

I am a total sucker for an actor's autobiography/biography. I have probably read most of them.

We are talking about someone who has lived. It must be honored in every respect. The fictional can take any kind of channel - according to the actor's marriage to the character.

It's a very, very rare moment when another actor hurts you. I mean, that's not normal.

I work with all these amazing voice actors that do a kajillion voices.

I've never worked on a lawyer show for a long time, but I imagine the actors all start acting like lawyers.

One of an actor's fears is that your current project could be your last project.

If I spread myself too thin, I'm not a good actor, I'm not a good mother, and I'm just really high-strung - and everybody hates me.

Many times, when a director reads a script and wants somebody who says 'Far out', then they let me do what I want with it and that's usually more interesting for an actor.

When not much is happening and there seems to be nothing you can do to change that, you do wonder. But I am an actor, like it or not. I stuck with it and took what was offered.

I didn't think I was an actor and fought it for a long time. Nobody paid for that but me.

Some people are born gardeners, some are politicians. I was an actor. It took a great deal of pain before I figured that out. I didn't relate to most of it.

The best role is always ahead.

Did I think I'd ever be in television shows that people would see or movies? No. But I knew that I was going to be an actor.

Taking on an iconic character is difficult, sure, people associate different actors with a character that you're playing, but there's something in rehearsing and developing a new character.

As an actor, you know, I love not being pigeonholed, which is great. No one really knows who I am. So that's a positive.

A lot of actors are like, 'Why do I do this? My character wouldn't do this? This doesn't make sense.' And in a comedy, you kind of just need to walk into the door.

As soon as an actor has faith in a director, he just goes with it.

I like Joaquin Phoenix. He's an amazing actor and he's so buff.

It's just a whole different vibe with improv. As an actor I just kind of exercise within my environment and adjust depending on where I'm at.

I thought 'I can't be an actor, I can't'. Then this film came up and it was like someone saying to me, 'You can, don't give up'.

One of the wonderful things about the actor's life is that's what we have the opportunity to do; we bring all these aspects of ourselves and of our personal lives into the work that we do.

One can't help but bring one's own personality into what one is doing, and it's certainly true of us actors and it's true of writers.

As actors we're always trying to use our creative imagination.

My whole life, I always wanted to be an actor.

Actually, I wanted to be an actor when I was two years old.

Acting is really not what I'm interested in. I'm not an aspiring actor and you should be able to tell.

Actors strive to be part of something like 'Twilight' and what 'Twilight' is, is unbelievable.

I've got a lot to learn, and I'm very blessed to work with such talented actors. I'm nowhere near my goal. It's all about applying yourself and taking time to work and train.

I love stage actors. There's something special about all people who have to do a performance eight shows a week, and musical people, especially, are so much fun.

But actors at a certain point take the best of what's available to them.