Actors Quotes

Apparently Jamie is great at being soft and hard at the same time. Which is hard to do for an actor! He's going to get an Oscar!

It's like having children. You give birth, but then they take on a life of their own. That's what actors do for characters. It's pretty amazing.

Every project you do, you hope you learn something more as an actor.

I think a lot of comedic actors, on their close-up they can deliver. But when it comes to reacting to other people being funny, that's work in itself.

An actor has power, and their power is very simple: it's the power to say no.

Most parts that can be played by one actor can equally well be played by another, but not this.

There are some actor secrets you keep sometimes, and you want to keep.

I think of myself more as a workhorse actor. It will be hot and cold and up and down, but no one will kick me out of the business.

I didn't get into this so I could talk about my work, my movies. You become an actor to act.

Gary Oldman is impossible to steal a movie from. He's such a great actor, he's off the hook. I love him.

I think that different actors bring different qualities to the character.

I think that different actors bring different qualities to the Batman character. It's such a wonderful mantle to put on that I think it's a lot of fun for different actors to see how they play it.

Inspiration can come from anywhere. But I do love actors. I wish I could drop a bunch of names, but there are just too many.

I am a really writer-oriented actor.

Nothing makes an actor feel freer and more inventive and more creative than being trusted.

You know, actors are fans, too. And talent is very attractive to me.

As an actor, you're always reading scripts looking for something good.

I'm probably more of a stand-up comedian than an actor.

If I have anything to offer as an actor, it's only my ability to make the person real.

If there is one thing I object to, its actors talking about how tough their jobs are.

The Old Vic has always been first and foremost an actors theatre, a home for great talent and memorable performances.

In film, movies schedules are based on three things: actors availabilities, when are sets being built, when you can rent the place youre going to film in.

Clarence Darrow was a unique and courageous man. Several of my favourite actors have played Darrow... Henry Fonda, Orson Welles and Spencer Tracy.

Cable TV has become where the best actors, writers and directors have gone to work because they are allowed to do character-driven stories.

As an actor, youre always nervous as to what a director will do with something.

Have we become so celebrity-obsessed that there is no longer a difference between a character and an actor? I hope not.

The most important definition of an actor, the job of the actor, is to serve the writer, not yourself. Way too many actors serve themselves.

I wanted to be a stage actor but I got stuck on television. It took a couple of years to get used to.

I certainly know quite a few kid actors, but I'm not really friends with them. They're all very nice people, but I just don't run in the same circles.

Unfortunately, when you're an actor you're like 'Ah, if the only knew.'

The first time I had got an offer to come to Hollywood, I turned it down. I said, "No, I'm an actor of the stage.

I think that certain directors are better at choosing actors that match well with each other. And I have feelings about actors and who I think I'd work well with better moreso than others.

What actor do you really take seriously who becomes a singer? It's kind of ridiculous. I can't think of anybody.

Like every actor, you get notorious for maybe one role and then get offered a lot of similar roles.

I can fill my cup up with real human interactions that allow me to be an actor. If I had no basis for relationships, as Kristen Bell, the human, I couldn't be an actress.

The fundamentals of what I'll do to prepare for a role don't really change. They evolve as you work with more actors and you pick up more tricks.

I don't want to be a movie star like Angelina Jolie. Nothing about being a celebrity is desirable. I'm an actor. It's bizarre to me that everybody's so obsessive.

I want to be an actor, I am just not very comfortable talking about myself.

You're literally being an actor - you're pretending - and that's not what I like to do.

When actresses play actresses, or actors play actors, they have to find another level.

I've done interviews with actors who I've worked with who I really like, and I'm like, "Wow, look at you. You're just going on . . . You don't even know what you're saying!"

With every project, you feel like you're trying to find your place to vent. For any actor, that's typically the feeling that drives you to do it.

It's not like I sit around watching my movies again and again, but I've never quite believed actors when they say they don't watch themselves.

I've actually always been interested in following a character more long term, but the only place to really do that as an actor is on a TV series.

I have some friends who are actors. I've watched them work. And I would say that of all the arts, acting is the most grueling, thankless. Never apologize for your work.

I think there are a lot of actors who act because they have an impulse to do it and they can't ignore it.

You don't always just have to do an indie movie to feel like you're controlling it with a few people that you really have connected with, creatively. You can do it on a bigger scale.

It's weird talking about projects as an actor because you're so in them. I would prefer to write a paper and deliver it to everyone via e-mail.

I think by default I wanted to be an actor because, on a movie set as a little kid, the only thing that you can do is be an actor. And I was really enthralled by the whole process.

As an actor, I look at first what I can borrow from what I really feel.