Actors Quotes

In the first place, I'm pretty thorough about whom I choose. I instinctively look for the kind of actor who is going to be trusting. There are all kinds of insecure people out there called actors.

My job apart from anything else is to build an ensemble composed of actors who all come from a secure place so that they can all work together to make the film.

The reason my films work is because every actor on set is very secure. They're able to fly.

The kind of acting that's wholly literary or cerebral is wrong. It's useless for me to have actors so much in their heads that they can't be organic.

The notion that acting is simply about intuitively responding to situations the way you feel couldn't be farther away from how I ask actors to work.

I definitely believe in the energy of the set and the energy of the actor, way more than your written word.

I came out wanting to be an actor. From my first view of the world, that's what I wanted to be. I'm made of 99 percent ham and 1 percent water. I was just cooked that way!

I - you know, I'm not an actor.

I think that an actor is more likely to be forgiven in the public's eye than an actress.

I wanted to just surround myself with people who I think are better than I am, whether they're actors or directors or producers, so that I could learn from them.

As an actor, you travel so much. It isn't great for a marriage.

I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be.

As an actor if you're working you're usually in three places, you're either prepping something, you're shooting something, or you're post on something or promoting something.

People forget that actors are actors, who are looking to put on the clothes and the character, and then shed it just as easily.

When I was a kid, I would always write down lists of my favorite things and keep them in my wallet, just in case someone ever needed to know what my 10 favorite foods were, or my 10 favorite actors.

Every day, I wake up and I'm like, "Oh, I'm the star of my own show that has my name in it and I get to write it and hire actors that I've loved for such a long time!" It's amazing!

I hope Hong Kong and Asia wants to hire American Asian actresses as much as Hollywood has been hiring Chinese actors from Asia.

...an actor is exactly as big as his imagination.

Bollywood actors are so set in what they want, and the way they want it. And why shouldn't they be? But it is not the same in Hollywood, because the love of the audience is not the same.

Whenever I mention Greg Kinnear's name to anyone, they always say, "Oh, love him!" He's a really terrific actor, and very funny.

As an actor, I would call it a role where you get to stretch out a bit.

It is hard sometimes to see how other actors are working when you are working with them.

Young actors are serious about their work and don't take any time out from it. I'm very serious about my work; there are probably only two films I've done where I had a really good time.

AMC has a track record for finding actors who have been working actors but not names yet and casting them.

I know as an actor there is a certain liberation auditioning for a role that has no beauty requirements.

When actors are the real deal, all that star whatever goes right out the window and you're there to tell a story.

I really love being a character actor.

The TV industry works in this crazy system where everybody's trying to get the same actors at the same time.

The world seems concerned with Pakistan primarily as an actor in global attempts to combat terrorism.

As an actor, you usually live your life with faith.

I think it's damaging to know too much about a person, about an actor.

I think a lot of actors are overly concerned about being well liked in the parts they play.

John Hughes had such a huge impact on filmmaking.

And to be honest, most actors are incredibly solipsistic.

I try to be a good, diligent actor.

I never wanted to be an actor.

The script is the foundation, but it's not the full story for the film, which only comes alive with the actors.

I can't complain. I'm making a living out of what I do, which is really rare for a lot of actors. The hard part is staying confident and staying with it.

I feel that I have grown so much as an actor being on 'Homeland'.

The better the actor, usually the safer you feel working with.

It seems to me that I never grow unless I'm actually working with other actors who have shed whatever shell it is that keeps them insulated from each other.

I was always ambitious. I always wanted to be more than I was....I always wanted to be a movie actor.

I've just never been the kind of actor that things have stayed with. I've never needed to carry a character off stage.

I was a B student in math, simply because my teachers liked me, as an actor.

Someone's going to put the clothes on you, and part of being an actor is wearing costumes. Costumes tell you an awful lot about who you are, so you just, it's nothing.

I'm getting to the point where they see me as a good actor, rather than just a good guy who can act.

As an actor, you're putting yourself out there when you perform. You're bound to experience feelings of vulnerability because of this.

Most actors don't grow up with sweet, vanilla parents.

Actors, after all, dream.

When I was a waiter I was fired twice from the same restaurant. I guess I was that good of an actor but that bad of a waiter.