Actors Quotes

Being actors we are dealing with the beauty and complexity of human confusion, no? And we are always trying to get answers.

As an actor, being in a relationship you have this opportunity to have something really exceptional, because you don't have a regimented schedule or lifestyle.

Whence are we, and why are we? Of what scene The actors or spectators?

I think musicians oftentimes have the right skill set to be good actors. And with Rihanna, I noticed her and knew of her obviously, and was very taken with her charisma and her confidence.

I think good comedy is a commitment to the absurd in that the situation for the actors should be virtually played like a drama.

When I was younger I saw a movie called 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' with Paul Newman and Robert Redford. Those two actors and that movie was my inspiration to want to be an actor.

I spent so many years trying to become an actor, trying to be a person that I wasn't.

I don't know anything about directing, but if you love actors, know your story and hire a great company, then anyone can direct a film.

Every actor wants to do more, because you always think you can improve it.

I guess actors don't like to direct each other.

I love working with Liev [Schreiber]. I've known him for a long time. I just think he is a master. Few actors are so self-possessed and so focused and so confident.

You never get tired of making money, and you never get tired of a great acting gig, a same role that you can play for years, with wonderful writing and wonderful actors.

Why things get canceled or not is so unbelievably out of actors' hands that it's one of those things where you've just got to ride with it.

I think if I learned anything in graduate school, it was to not drool around other actors who would normally make you drool.

Richard Marquand, on Jedi, was very much an actor's director.

A script is utterly useless in and of itself; it's only of any worth the minute your actors, your designers, your directors come into being.

Nine out of ten delinquents are frustrated actors.

A lot of actors aren't particularly good directors. And they're not particularly good with other actors. That's kind of a fallacy.

I don't like the way some actors, when playing a nasty character, will try to grab hold of something good about them.

I like to work as an actor. Not just for money, but because I really enjoy acting.

If I want to keep working as an actor, I'm going to become a comedian who does fart jokes.

I see how people boss other actors around to try to get a scene favorable to them. I absolutely just never engage in doing that. If someone's going to do it to me, I just let them have it.

I think I did have fantasies about being an actor. In fact, I know I did.

There are two kinds of actors: those with one job too few, who have to take every one that comes along, and those with one job too many, who can always turn down the one they don't want.

I started as a director, but I was too bored with actors. I preferred to act.

I get on with actors, and when I'm doing a theatre show, it's great being with them all the time. But we're all alike, and it's much nicer being with people who are different.

I think the thing that interests most actors these days is the strength and the quality of the writing. I think that's the main thing.

You have to understand that crew members make movies so they're seeing a lot of actors all the time in their career acting.

I would never not work on the part without it playing. That's what being an actor is. You use everything that's influenced you to help you get out of yourself or be more creative.

There are a lot of actors out there who've made one or two films and who never work again.

I know actors who say acting is acting, but I love the live-ness of an audience. I love feeling the energy of a room and allowing them to sort of teach you how to do it better.

In all my documentaries I did all the camera work, but in fiction I didn't want to do it myself. I think the machinery is so heavy and demanding that you would leave the actors alone for a long time.

Everything makes me vulnerable, you just have to use it as an actor. It's a constant balance.

Maybe I'm secretly in my soul a method actor.

Deepika is one of my absolute favourite Bollywood actors. It is wonderful to have someone of her stature wearing my brand

Acting can truly take a toll on your nerves. I mean we have to be larger than life. Worse, I've seen actors acting off the sets too.

I don’t want to be an actor or nothing but if I have to, I’ll act if it’s the right thing.

As an actor, you don't become Meryl Streep by doing the same type of comedy. You get there by being challenged.

As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.

You work with seasoned actors, and sometimes you realize that they phone it in.

I think it's very rare, as an actor, that you get to a script, or an idea of a script, and you go, "Oh, I just have to do that!" It fell into place very quickly.

I think of myself as an actor.

The only thing I wanted to do when I was a young naive kid was to become a New York stage actor.

Each actor requires a different language.

I don't like the actors to work together beforehand. I trust my intuition, and I like when the actors are the same.

An actor cannot say no, it’s against his job. If he wants the part he has to say yes. [But] it’s very bad for you to say you can do something and then not do it, so you have to manage to do it.

To be on the set with the actors, with the location, every day changes; every day something can go wrong.

It is my first preference to do films with social significance. Art cinema has given me credibility and status as an actor, but commercial cinema has given me a comfortable living.

Actors are just soldiers who follow commands.

Fat noses have no place in the Hindi film industry. But it is not so in the West - otherwise, Anthony Quinn would have never been an actor.