Actors Quotes

In silent films, quite complex plots are built around action, setting, and the actors gestures and facial expressions, with a very few storyboards to nail down specific plot points.

I just refuse to date actors. I've done that, and I don't want to do that anymore. It's just the stress of traveling and being away from each other so much.

Most actors are small, anyway - at least compared to me.

Trust is hard to get from actors, and for me to give to actors.

I don't work with fear, and I don't work with actors that are fearful.

I'm not tough when it comes to people criticizing the people that I protect, and those are the actors. It makes them scared to do it again for another director.

I don't want fame. I want to grow as an actor and a person while having my family and my life.

I was an actor for over a year before I ever saw a play.

I've never thought of myself as an actor, so somebody recognizing me for that would be a real shock.

I've always been someone who feels better, if I see what I'm going through in a movie.

I'm part of that generation that grew up watching TV, and being an actor was all about being on TV or being in films.

Acting is a form of deception, and actors can mesmerize themselves almost as easily as an audience.

This created world really helped me as an actor. It heightened everything, which made it more dangerous, more interesting and more liberating.

It's my first sort of commercial attempt, but it made sense for me because I'm not that kind of guy and I'm not going to continue to do that kind of movie.

When I was doing 'This Boy's Life' I wanted to be as old as Robert DeNiro and as experienced as him and have the same respect as he did in that movie.

I have to say as an actor I have been inspired by so many British actors throughout the years.

As an actor, you never know where the works going to come, so you have to be flexible about it.

I've been married for 17 years and you know how the actors say, "It's really technical. Those scenes are not sexy. They're just so technical. It's like work." And I'm like, "That's bullshit."

I'm a professional actor. If I was a plumber, I wouldn't just do my plumbing in Beverly Hills bathrooms; I'd like to install air conditioning units and a few other things.

At this point, I'm happy to be part of something special. As an actor I liked to choose scripts that I'm passionate about.

Every actor dreams of getting a big break, a big opportunity.

I think if you're the son or daughter of successful actors and actresses, it's a double pressure. More is expected of you.

If I'm doing my job as an actor, the audience knows everything I know about the character.

You are what you know, as an actor, so you gotta try to know as much as you possibly can.

I'm drawn to people who share that sense of loss. All actors are trying to repair damaged relationships. I think that might be why I've been drawn to other actors.

Some actors need to be rattled and some need to be focused

You should never ask actors about politics.

Actors, you know, they're often awkward people in real life.

I am so used to being able to express myself from being an actor. So when people don't understand me, I'm just completely lost.

I'm a typically lazy person. It is sort of characteristic of actors.

Actors are as good as they allow themselves to be, and to portray life, you have to have as broad an experience of it as you possibly can, so everything's worth it.

I wanted to be a stage actress. I wanted to be a New York actress and have a community with other actors. I didn't want to get famous; I always thought getting famous was a drag on you.

There are not that many jobs as an actor where you don't get to know what your character will be doing from episode to episode.

We're actors, we have to do what we have to do, and you have to be really solid within yourself.

I wanted to be a movie star. But movie stars are not what they used to be.

It was a very good experience. It wasnt just to make a movie, it was my life. I was employed at The Lord of the Rings for a year and a half.

I've got to see my movie to see how I'm acting, see what little things I can learn about my craft.

What you choose to do professionally is a reflection of yourself and I take that seriously as an actor. But even as a filmmaker, I take it even more seriously.

There's something really natural to me about being what they call in the business a "hyphenate." Being a musician-actor or writer-musician-actor.

No I don't really write thinking about specific actors because it can get in the way a little bit.

A piece of advice I would give to young actors - hang on to your family, and hang on to your reality - and hang on to your "real". Because you're going into the land of make believe.

The truth in acting is that we are all hired help. We are a commodity. There is no difference between being an actor and pork bellies.

I'm an actor first and foremost; it's my first love and passion.

I think there are enough professional actors to fill in for me in my absence. I enjoyed it, but I can't imagine a role that would be interesting beyond playing myself.

The Hulk was the beginning of me, a platform as an actor to grow.

I grew up watching all these crazy movies, European movies and stuff, and I guess that I always laughed at things that were a little more offbeat.

As an actor I've played a lot of gloomy, romantic leads and even though I might not want to recognize it, I actually really have a sense of humor.

Every actor is different so you cannot become best friends on Day One. You just have to learn to know each other.

I actually love actors.

I have like 10 actors and 100 aliens in the film [Valerian]. And they come from the four corners of the universe. Some of them are liquid. Some of them are just [so visually] crazy.