Actors Quotes

I think anytime you can do something you haven't seen or done in a film before, it's always a great day as an actor.

Actors don't generally go asking other actors for advice too much, but I'll take suggestions wherever I can.

Heres the thing: If youre taking roles that arent intimidating you, and I think this is a cliche that a lot of actors say, but if its not intimidating you, then why are you doing it?

That's where everything starts, as an actor: you've gotta have great writing and great character development, and then you have really great materials to work from.

Obviously, everybody's favorite form of web content is more story with principal actors. But the economics of the web do not yet support.

Directing made me realise what I do as an actor that's extraneous, it focuses your mind on story, story, story.

Create your own path. Cultivate it. It'll take time. It doesn't happen overnight. I was an actor for many years before I got behind the camera.

My parents are proud of me being an actor.

As an actor you really want to push yourself, and there's no better way than to do an intense drama.

I'm very self-conscious as an actor, with performances and things, and I don't like watching my own stuff.

The great thing as an actor is that I don't know what my agent is going to call me with next.

I think as an actor you're always learning, you're always trying to experience more things.

There's not a comedy actor who doesn't want a chance to do drama, and vice versa. As actors, we're always looking to be pushed and to do the other side of the coin.

Being an actor, when you sign onto a project - whether it's good, bad, or indifferent - you kind of fall in love with it. You fall in love with the experience, you fall in love with the memories.

Every kid's dream is to be a great actor.

For better or worse, I take my acting seriously. I may not have been in the best movies ever made, but I take it deathly serious, and I love being an actor.

I'm not a broad comedy guy. I've been funny in movies, but I'm not a comedian. I'm an actor who's sometimes funny.

Actors have to remind people that they can do different things, not just the same style of one role.

I just loved the whole idea of being an actor.

People like to think that actors are terribly worried about ghosts of other actors in the parts they play. But you just have to get on with it.

Some British actors are snobby about telly, and I don't understand that.

As an actor, being on autopilot is the worst thing possible.

I play a guy who is 40. And I am a very good actor, because I'm 41.

I am one of those actors who does feel a change when a wig and fake nose are put on. Even the weird little things, like glasses - it's almost like having a mask on.

I'll never be a good writer, and no chance of being a good actor.

I'm very much a jobbing actor who's still trying to find a place to rent down the road.

Some actors go, 'Bing!' and suddenly they're being paid huge sums. Me, I seem to get screwed every time.

Then if the actor comes up with, "It's more logical to do this," I just change it [a scene] on the spot.

John Wayne is not just an actor, and a very fine actor - John Wayne is the United States of America.

As an actor, you've got to maintain a bit of mystery and at least part of your private life, otherwise the game is up.

I'm an actor - I want to be known for that.

George Wendt is a saint. And one of the finest American actors that we have.

Less so here, I’ve noticed. I can see why there’s a misconception that it’s easier when your parents are actors, but it doesn’t work out at all. In fact, it’s the reverse.

The actors I respect are the ones who see it as a career and manage to live reasonably normal lives, like Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman.

I'm an actor. I started as an actor. I started on Broadway doing 'Hair' and Shakespeare in the Park.

A lot of actors, they know the camera's there, and if somebody moves around or makes noise or whatever then they get all distracted, but I pretty much lock in. You can't distract me too much.

[On Lisa Kudrow:] She's like the best kind of jazz there is. You don't know what note she's going to hit and it's always a surprise.

As an actor, you are always looking for something fresh and interesting and not ordinary.

As an actor, at least from my standpoint, I can't not like who I'm playing.

There are many ups and downs in everyone's life and when you're an actor usually you're a very sensitive human being.

When I think it's good not to say the truth, I don't say anything. I don't like actors in general, they lie, they are liars, trust me.

It's good to feel tired at the end of the day. It's not often as an actor that you're like, "Oof. Ow. I feel like I've been out working."

As the lead actor, you naturally get involved with a show.

As actors, emotion is the sand in the sandbox for us. Without emotion, there's nothing to play - and we are playing. We know that. Whether you think we do or not, we know that.

I went to school for clothing and textiles and thought this is what I was going to do. Then I started working in costumes and literally said, 'I don't know if I can take the actors.'

Normally, if I'm being acknowledged it is for something in front of the camera. This puts the spotlight on the fact that there are opportunities other than just being an actor.

Acting has to reach everybody on some level - it's a communication of feeling - but as far as judging the work is concerned, it is, I think, something that actors know about.

I always feel like I can't do it, that I can't go through with a movie. But then I do go through with it after all.

I would say, don't smoke. I'm kidding, but yeah, I did smoke in college and as a young actor and it's stupid.

Chris Cooper is one of my favorite actors in the world. I've seen him in most everything he's done.