Actors Quotes

The body of an actor can be either his best friend or his worst enemy.

I'm best known as a stand-up comedian, but I'm a good actor in the right role.

Even in the tragedies, [William] Shakespeare always put in parts for the comic actors because his audience was mixed. He puts in people who talk like aristocrats. He puts in idiots and fools.

As an actor, I'll take any job.

Actors always want to be musicians, and musicians want to be actors

I like actors very much, but to marry one would be like marrying your brother. You look too much alike in the mirror.

An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument.

I like to consider myself an actor who just happens to be Hispanic

I haven't gotten labeled as a Hispanic actor

I've always known actors because my parents are actors on stage and so I lived in a very creative environment when I was a kid. All my life.

Im so lucky to have the opportunity to work with some directors and some actors I wouldnt have dared to think I would work with one day.

Acting is not a profession of competing with other actors, but rather a vocation of sharing with fellow human beings.

As an actor, you always want to try new things, so the fact that they set it up so that you can be doing different things each season is great.

For us, performance is everything. If we can get great actors in there who like us, and we really like, we feel pretty confident that we can make a movie work.

We allow the actors to do whatever they need to do or say to accomplish the goals that they want to accomplish.

As an actor, when you walk into a room to audition, you get five minutes with a casting director, who doesn't even look at you, most of the time.

These are extremely talented actors who are all putting their talents into the Lost in Space movie.

As an actor, you want to remain vulnerable. You don't want to always have all the answers and you want to be fine doing things in the moment with your fellow actors.

It's a point of pride that no one would treat me any differently because I'm an actor than if I was a gardener.

There's a misperception about actors that we actually choose the roles we end up doing - it's more that we're chosen for them.

I still feel like I'm trying to make it. It's hard to shed the struggling actor thing.

Actors, you kind of have these ebbs and flows. These moments where you're in your glory - where you're really cracking - and moments where you're not.

Artists have always been the front line; that's part of our responsibility. But a lot of the big actors come out, they get slammed, and then they retreat.

Most great parts for guys in wheelchairs tend to go to actors who walk.

You know, I don't think you need to be educated to be a great actor.

Being an actor is often very tedious, which is why it helps hugely if your fellow cast members are also good friends.

The important bit for an actor is the actual shooting of it, because the minute the shoot ends, it's got nothing to do with you anymore.

Working with talented people and challenging myself as an actor [excites me].

I don't intend to be insensitive to the victims and their families but, at the same time, as an actor, it's our job, and we are obligated to portray the characters in the most realistic way possible.

The first film I directed (Explicit Ills), I did when I was like 27 years old. I had been an actor for a certain amount of time, and then I was like, "I want to start directing."

Everyone thinks I'm a comedian - which I am and are. I was born into a comedic family but I'm trained as an actor.

In the theater, as an actor, you're welcoming people into your house.

Actors, they come and go, you know.

I went to college and stage school, and thought about acting, but... I just don't like actors very much! They're not as fun as musicians.

Actors are almost impossible to treat successfully.

I toyed with the notion of being an actor, and am so glad that this whim did not go any further.

I think most actors rarely get the opportunity to play something really close to you and speaks to something you deeply believe.

Whether arrogantly or what, I view myself simply as an actor.

I'm not one of those actors that hates press and gets really groan-y about it - I always like talking about films.

Some actors can draw from their own darkness.

I didn't even know what acting was at 11 years old. I truly believed that acting was hidden cameras everywhere. And I felt that these actors on the screen were somehow real people.

The most reliable pleasure afforded by theater is the intermission.

Arnaud Desplechin invented me as an actor. I never imagined Id be acting in movies.

My life as an actor has submerged me completely because I dont know why.

When you're an actor, you're very much exposed, but in a strange way you're totally protected behind a character, behind a script, behind a director.

In that Freak Show environment, I got to spend time with so many of the actors who were part of that world. I just had the best time ever.

It's so rare, especially as a younger actor, to find a role where it's not just one-dimensional and it's not just a stock leading man.

The better the actor, the less you know about his life. I mean, nobody's better than De Niro and you don't know anything about him, right?

As actors, we react to the material that's out there, and I probably just react more strongly to things that I feel will have some social value.

As an actor, you can't be off the market for too long.