Actors Quotes

In western countries, there are roles written for older actors. Films are made on them, including love stories.

I've been described as a smart actor because I've attended college. Or I've been called an artsy jock. And I am thinking, 'So, are actors supposed to be dumb?

Because of the way we let the actors improvise, it feels like you're watching people react rather than actors reading lines - so I think that's always going to be something I like.

I've done stuff to pay my dues and that's what actors are supposed to do, because I was a really bad actor when I was 18 or 20.

I'm an actor that likes to go to work. I like going to work every day. I'm a worker by nature. I'm not someone who does one film a year and feels satisfied by that.

It was never my goal to be an actor.

I guess I'm an actor - just human behaviour's just fascinating to me. I mean, I'd like to be.

New York is so full of the best unemployed actors on the planet.

I'm a storyteller, I'm an actor, an entertainer.

Now when I get auditions, I choose to believe that I am an amazing actor.

Most actors will tell you that it takes a while to figure out what you want to be because we just want to do everything we see on TV and don't know that 'actor' is a job yet.

I never wanted to be a movie star.

As an actor, you try and be cool, but one of the reasons you become an actor is because you're a film fan. And then you're like, 'Oh my god, Ridley Scott just spoke to me!'

I want to be an actor who always tries the best regardless of roles.

A lot of actors are just like la la la - they're never really connected and then they're in the scene and then boom. They're looking you in the eyes and they're just really focused.

Awards are like applause, and every actor likes to hear applause.

Just as theater has to be where people live, actors have to go out in the marketplace - not be cut off by a lens. Either an artist grows or he stagnates.

Each philosopher, each bard, each actor has only done for me, as by a delegate, what one day I can do for myself.

I like to give the actors the freedom, and they know they have the freedom, to change anything they want at any time.

The actors come and you start seeing things happen for real.

What I wish more than anything is that I could start getting press about my work as an actor. That is what I do. I'm not a criminal.

It's such a fortunate life, if you can work as an actor.

I never, ever wanted to be an actor.

There's a personal side to me of challenges as an actor that I like to take on myself.

I do certain things that, maybe, nobody else knows why I'm doing. But it's all - it all has to do with - to grow as an actor.

As an actor, that's nerve-wracking enough [drunk and doing coke] because you have to do it at the right level.

As an actor, I love working with directors. As much as I love working with other actors.

I think I became an actor because I couldn't sing.

I always wanted to be an actress. I always wanted to be a movie star.

Sometimes, the actors are thrilled to have visitors because they're just waiting most of the day. It's the directors that are a little busy.

To be a working actor in England is a life. I think it's harder in this country. Either you are a superstar or a starving actor.

I think acting can be very frustrating, and there's no experience that doesn't make you a better actor.

I can’t remember a time when I didn’t want to be an actor. It has just always been an inevitability on some level.

I hate watching myself on TV, I know a lot of actors say that, but it's true for me. It makes me sweat, I have to hide behind a cushion.

Sometimes when you walk onto a set, there are very clear delineations. The crew don't talk to the actors and I hate all that. Everyone is the same to me and I always treat everyone in the same way.

You work with each individual actor as you perceive their needs to be. It's something that you've figured out in the weeks of pre-production.

At best, I think of a director as a magnet. You get all the metal fillings in all the individual actors and crew, and get those filings moving toward your magnetic direction.

It is really hard when the actor you pictured can't do the film.

Movie making is really, it's a director's medium, it's not even so much an actor's medium.

I think Russell Crowe is a brilliant actor.

I thought I was going to go back to Stanford, and then I got Election. I loved being an actor.

And my father, being a good Swiss puritan, always really insisted that if I was going to be an actor, I shouldn't just be an actor, I should know about the whole process.

Well, I'm a character actor, and actually throughout my life I've... I have relatively speaking played few heroic leads, but I've done it.

And so I've always been fascinated by the technical end of theater, and a lot of my closest friends are not actors, but in the other end of the business.

Every actor hopes that the character that they're playing continues to be a challenge throughout their tenure of their show.

[My father did] advertising. That's why I got into this business. I think because we're really boxes of soap - actors and singers. You're artists, but in the public eye it's a matter of advertising.

That's the first time I've been involved in such a big way as a voice actor and this script [Voltron] is very matter of factly.

We remember Ronald Reagan as a man who maximized his gifts from an unknown to an actor to a Governor to the leader of the Free World.

I was an actor... or, at least, I was trying to be an actor.

In my experience, it's usually up to the actor how a character is portrayed.