Actors Quotes

I don't have to meet actors. I'm really blessed that I don't have to do all that horseshit.

When you deal with a film that takes place in Europe, and you're going to work in English, you'd better work with European actors.

I do believe we are actors in our own dramas, which, moment by moment, we ourselves write; that we are characters in our own fictions or those devised for us by someone or something else.

I become an actor, a quick-change artist, as if I can trap the Prince of Truth in the act of switching a style.

Suicide is the most private and mysterious of acts, inexplicable because the chief actor is never there to explain it.

I'm a professional actor, not a celebrity.

I think I would have had trouble living with someone who didnt know what it was like to be an actor.

As an actor in these movies you get to fill up something so much, to its capacity, and once you get there you're like a horse running onto the racetrack.

I'm not one to dwell on rehearsal or preparation. I like to just go out and do it. Of course, that doesn't mean actors are free to do whatever they like, they're always being directed.

Sometimes it only takes three words, so long as they're the right words, to direct an actor in the right way.

A lot of being an actor is being something that people imagine you to be.

I know that I've had a very fortunate life, but also I think my job as an actor is to connect emotionally to human beings.

It's important for me as an actor to be able to make a living.

Actors are always the pawns. They're the last ones in the food chain.

When I left Maine, I always wanted to be a working actor. I never cared too much about being the star. I just wanted to do the work and get on with it.

I'm one of the lucky actors in television. I don't make a lot of big waves, but there's constant activity, and that's the way I prefer to live my life.

Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.

I'm so blessed to have been a working actor. If they still would like to make me a superstar, I'm available, but so far, being a working actor has been great. It's taken me everywhere.

Actors and preachers are people who stand up on stage and have no problem talking and they have no problem saying, "Listen to me. Follow me. I know what I'm talking about."

I come from the stage. I started my career as a stand-up comedian and then later on became an actor.

Some like to start from the inside and then go to the outside. I'm the other type of actor. First, I have to know how my character looks, how he walks, how he drives, how he eats.

As an actor, it doesn't happen often that somebody sends you a script that is first of all that good.

Where can I go that would give me the same level of satisfaction as an actor?

For me, I always have to establish a reality for the character. In very actor-y terms, you just have to understand his reality.

It's frustrating sometimes for actors because you slam it out and you have a great time, you think it's funny, and then for whatever reason the movie doesn't come together.

I wanted to know as the director how the actors wanted to tell this story I wanted to know what they thought.

I think that one of the strangest things about being an actor is, it's almost freelance work.

Being actors is a strange job. To try to go live that out, it's a very strange thing to want to do when you step back and think about it.

I feel like in a lot of ways I've gotten kind of soft as an actor, not doing stage stuff. In terms of being a better actor, it's really important.

I don't think film actors need training, really.

It is because my dad died suddenly that I became an actor. I thought, I'm going to make money doing this thing I enjoy.

As an actor, to have achieved financial stability is amazing. But I always have this weird fear that I'm not going to get any more work; it's about not having enough money.

The actor's job is to divine and embody the truth, and find it.

I try not to think of actors as I'm writing because I think you do them a disservice by writing for things they've already done.

I just love actors, and I've always loved actors. I empathize with their job. Everyone thinks it's easy, and it ain't. To be that vulnerable and brave on camera is tough.

I think basically an actor is a salesman.

Almost every actor goes into almost every picture very frightened. He is positive he really can't do it. The bigger the star, the more frightened he is.

As an actor, you get hired to repeat yourself. It wears you out.

I certainly never expected to be a professional actor. I never expected to be in movies. I thought I would probably become a teacher.

Almost everything I learned about being an actor came from those early years at the Actor's Studio.

I was terrorized by the emotional requirements of being an actor. Acting is like letting your pants down; you're exposed.

Well, the nice thing about animation, you don't even really have to account for yourself. All of the physical stuff that you work on as an actor, you just throw away.

How many impressionist painters painted the same damned thing? How many actors have played the same part in renditions of a play or dancers do the same dances.

I never thought of myself as a comedic actor. I didn't go to Second City, that's not my background, I'm not a comic, I studied theater and my career when I started was a lot of dramatic stuff.

Sightseeing was ... based on imaginative invention, like rehearsing your own play in stage sets from which all the actors had fled.

Usually I like to make my movies from start to finish in chronological order. As a filmmaker it lets me be able to direct my actors and tell them where exactly they are and go with progression.

I think that I just need to work with great directors and actors, people who are better than me, so that I am challenged.

As actors, we're a little faster than other people, with breaking down the walls.

Theater is an engagement between the actor and the audience. Film is a different sort of medium. It's not immediate, but in some ways it's more involving.

You have to go away to come back. That's just normal. That's with bands, actors, comedians, everything.