Actors Quotes

When you're an actor and there's no music, you have to sort of bring it all yourself.

If I weren't doing what I'm doing now, the actress thing, the star business, if you want to call it that, whatever it is, I'd be in an asylum. I'm sure of it.

Acting really suited me because I could connect as an actor to emotion.

As an actor you have to wait for someone to cast you, so you're relying on the business.

I think the better you know yourself as a person, the better an actor you can be.

Working with [Kyle Chandler] in the scene was like playing tennis. You work with really talented actors, I think they make other actors look really, really good.

In many ways for black actors there's been two leading guys: It's Will Smith vs. Denzel [Washington].

That's one of the fun parts of becoming an actor: You can become whoever you want to be.

Honestly, I want to do films. I want to make that move from actor to producer, like Will Smith.

As an actor I'm always interested in dialogue, the way the characters speak to each other. I also enjoy a bit of humor, especially when it's unexpected.

I just work in order to improve myself as an actor which is what I've always done.

As an actor, I'll play anything.

I don't meet stockbrokers or carpenters or coal miners; I spend all day with actors, composers and photographers.

We can only use British actors because everybody's got to talk exactly the same.

If you held a pistol at my head, I couldn't tell you who they're going to vote for Best Actor.

If I work with a bad actor, my reaction is to immediately become worse than they are.

I've been on movies where I literally couldn't hear what the other actor was saying. It's very awkward.

In England, I was a Cockney actor. In America, I was an actor.

And to Tom Cruise, for if you had won this, your asking price would have gone down so fast. Do you have any idea what supporting actors get paid? We get only one trailer, a small one, in the back.

A lot of movie stars are not great actors; they're just very good-looking. And when they start to age and they don't have the looks any more, then it's over.

I don't want to be an English actor doing the greatest American accent you've ever heard. I want to be an American doing nothing.

I'm not a betting man, and even if I was, I certainly wouldn't bet on this! I would not bet on the Best Actor.

If you're a leading actor you don't work with another actor. You work with a lady.

When you're a young actor you ring your agent every evening. It's not like when you're in Hollywood where you do one picture a year. You just hope you get a day on television.

My circle of friends are not actors at all. None of them are actors, really, because they're are not available. They're always off somewhere.

My view of actors is that basically they're all harmless lunatics who'd be on the psychiatrist's couch.

There are loads of black actors.You can't say: I'm going to vote for him, he's not very good but he's black, [so] I'll vote for him. You've got to give a good performance.

I heard Bob Weinstein actually likened actors to baseball players. You work for a while then all of a sudden you go through a dry spell.

If you're working with a director you trust, you can turn that part of you off that wants to direct other actors in a certain way.

I enjoy being an actor largely; in part at least, because you get to walk a mile in another person's shoes, you get to see what their skin is like. The other good thing is you get to leave it.

I really don't have favorites; I'm just a fan of movies, period.

Everybody works in a different way, and I've worked with actors that have no training whatsoever who are phenomenal.

I much prefer the company of the crew, the sort of 'blue-collar working person.' I much more have that sensibility than what the public perceives as what a typical actor would have.

As an actor, you try to put a little bit of yourself in everything you do.

Most people don't like challenges at work. Actors love challenges at work.

I thought I could never be the actor Dad was, so I avoided it for a while.

The history of second-generation actors isn't great in our industry.

I've always tried to kind of stretch my wings as an actor and do things that are different.

I honestly think I'm just an actor. It doesn't matter the medium. I can go on stage and be happy, I can be on TV and be happy.

If I have to wear a hat as a producer to do that, then I'm willing to do that. An actor's, producer's and director's point-of-view is all the same to me, as long as the story's being told.

It's a difficult thing as an actor not to repeat one's self.

As an actor, it's always been good to be working at all.

I just hate the idea of being well known. I know that is almost impossible if you're an actor who has done okay, but I've always fought against it.

I like to write for actors I know and with whom I've worked before. You can write to their strengths and weaknesses and write roles that are better suited to them.

It's more enjoyable to shoot in a studio on a single location with two actors... if they are good.

My goal is to work. That's the goal of most actors or performers: to work and keep working, and do the best you can, and keep growing and changing, trying to improve your craft.

I'll never admit that I'm an actor, because the next horrible follow-up question is always, "Oh, what have I seen you in?"

Television can become a bit of a treadmill for directors. You come in, nobody knows you, the actors are already doing what they're doing, and you're just one of a number of directors who comes in.

Only a few of us will admit it, but actors will sometimes read a script like this: bullshit...bullshit...my part...blah, blah, blah...my part...bullshit.

I always hated the world "acting" - to say, "I'm an actor." It should be more like a believer.