Actors Quotes

I'll never look down on and I love running into actors who say 'Oh yeah, I did a soap.' I say 'Tell me which one!' It's like being a member of a secret society.

I'm not a big prop actor.

I think any actor should be aware of where they're starting to stretch into what's not truthful.

We have some really, really wonderful actors on the horizon.

There are so many examples of talented actors working today, no matter how they live their private lives. I'm lucky that people believe me when I'm in character.

I get to choose things that interest me as opposed to trying to get any job that will have me, which for a vast majority of actors is the case.

High-level actors can be all about their close-ups and the size of their trailers. I'd heard these horror stories of how a really powerful actor can come in and change your script.

I think there are a lot of other actors that are just talented, it's just about this opportunity - it's just about when are we going to be put in those positions where we can shine.

I started off as a director, so when I see other actors directing, it gives me hope that maybe they'll put me into that position at some point, too.

By the time I was 14, I was about six foot. I remember going into auditions, and they'd look at how tall I was and say, 'Well, you're taller than the lead actor, so there's no way we can cast you.

A lot of child actors keep acting for the wrong reasons.

I just want to be a better actor. You can always get better.

Actors will change their face, will change their hair, will change their voice, will disappear into the role. A movie star doesn't disappear.

What’s the difference between and actor and a movie star. An actor is someone who pretends to be somebody else. A movie star is somebody who pretends that somebody else is them.

I generally don't involve myself in giving the actors some tips on acting. At the same time, I don't do that with the director.

You have to find actors who have the ability to display a wide range of emotion effectively. That's so much harder than it seems.

I was able to bring my process of doing improv with actors into the animation world, which was fun.

I don't see the point of being an actor and doing the same thing, all the time. Where's the challenge there?

I started to act in highschool and became a professional actor at 19.

When we think of an actor, we think of a tanned, frosted-tipped, model-looking guy. We don't think of a plumber.

I've been working steadily as an actor since around 1998. I wasn't well known in the public, but I was a dependable working journeyman.

I'm not much of an actor, I'm realizing.

Big actors want to work in television because they see it as being new and different.

Its such a process to get a show off the ground initially. And then, to already have a second season announced is a dream come true for any actor.

I'm not a trained actor. I'm someone who is autodidactic and learned on my own.

Idris Elba is a grand actor. He's very larger than life; he's bigger than life.

I've really had good luck working with younger actors. Every younger actor that I have worked with has always been really on top of their game and fascinating to watch.

I do understand sometimes when actors say there's no one to talk to, or you can't react to, there's truth in that, but for me, I've always enjoyed green screen, and blue screen.

I love working with younger actors because they always come into the game full of energy and ideas that challenge me and keep me learning and stimulated.

I've always believed that the greatest actors are the ones that have the voices that are imitable.

[Reanu Reeves] is a very imaginative actor. He can have this wonderful balance of humor and fear. He's got these skills to be entertaining but also quite terrifying.

If an actor or actress is recognizable, that changes our perception of them.

The thing with Ryan, you can look at him for hours. Very few actors have that. It's a gift.

Any actor will tell you that you go where the work is, especially when you have children.

I did everything pretty cliche as an actor in New York. I read the trades, I sent out 'head shots.'

You look at somebody's work as an actor and you can see their emotional life being fed into it and you can kind of feel them through it.

You have to love, without judgment, every actor that you're working with to make beauty.

Sometimes as an actor you're struggling to make things work. That was never the case for me with [Big Little Lies script]. It just kind of flowed out.

Actors have to protect each other in a way. The idea of humiliating another actor or being humiliated myself is devastating.

It's a lot easier, I think, to be an actor in a movie than to spin a joke on a sitcom.

I'm pretty captivated by reality TV and I know that as an actor I probably shouldn't be saying that, but it's what I like to watch.

What makes an actor, I think, is a combination of a deep curiosity about life and a case of the crazies.

I didn't train in directing; I talk to actors the way I talk to anybody.

Some of the things I've been in are comedic, but I don't get considered for true comedies because I'm a 'dramatic' actor.

I was offered and accepted a part in 'A Few Best Men,' and then the Australian actor's union argued that there were too many British actors. And the director decided to lose me.

I allowed the actors to have freedom and sometimes change words if they needed to or thought that another word was more current.

My biggest fantasy as an actor is to be in situations that make me uncomfortable and force me out of my comfort zone.

I grew up watching American movies. My favorite movies have always been American, since as long as I can remember. I always had this huge respect for American filmmakers and American actors.

I always had this huge respect for American filmmakers and American actors. I always had this very strong love and respect for the American cinema. I always knew that I was going to leave Sweden.

As an actor, you have to have your history.