Actors Quotes

I don't think it's the case that 'posh actors' get more work than others.

Actors always think that others are getting more work than them. In my case, they usually are.

It's well known that actors are lousy writers.

I do my work as an actor, but another part of my work goes to the piece as a whole. I can be fairly detached looking at my work and be brutal on myself.

When you work as an actor, you've got to feel safe even in what appears to be the simplest things.

Actors do have good and bad sides. It's because the passage down the birth canal distorts the face. People born by caesarean section are more symmetrical.

When an actor is offered a role, more often than not - maybe 90 percent of the time - you read it and you say, "I'll take it."

I'm very interested in directing actors - many directors direct cameras.

I had a very low voice for the character in the show. I said, "That's not actually my voice. That's the character's voice." I'm being such an actor.

As a young actor, I worked with Kevin McNally and have always thought him brilliant.

I can bring in experiences that other actors who only grew up in television do not have.

I mean everyone, from Al Pacino to Murphy Guyer, are phenomenal actors.

Most actors, unless they're big movie stars and can carve out huge chunks of time to focus on one movie that takes six months - the rest of us have to jump around to make ends meet.

The real tough thing is working with actors. I'm a designer and used to working with artists, so there is some familiarity with the personalities that come up, but actors are their own animal.

I know a lot of actors who started out as musicians and have very successful careers as actors, but most people don't know them as musicians.

I use people's real voices because I want realism. So often I mention the actors' physicality because I want it to be like a real documentary.

I never think of myself as a celebrity - or even an actor, actually. I think of myself as a writer-director.

I wouldn't want to try to make a living as an actor. I think actors... I give them a lot of credit for what they go through, but putting myself on the line like that would make me crazy.

I think the toughest thing about being an actor in a film is to be with a director who doesn't know what they want. And that can be really, really frustrating.

I know when an actor is giving it his/her all and when they're just phoning it in.

I'm very loving and supporting of my actors. I also expect them to show up prepared, happy to be there, and give their all as I do as an actor.

I can be tough on actors, but I also let them know early on in our relationship what I expect from them.

An actor is like an instrument, tune them, play them the right way.

Maybe that's my lot in life as an actor, to be the guy who gets crapped on everywhere he goes. Oh God...

There's a real separation between actors and all the other functions of Hollywood. If you're an actor you're somehow not a member of the crew. You're somehow more special. I hate that.

Some actors - you work with them once and don't even think about working with them again.

Everyone wants to label me, but I don't want to be labeled as a rapper or a movie actor.

I had to learn the image is not the word, which is a jolt for a literary soul. But it has served me well in terms of understanding plot, in terms of watching actors develop characters.

I've always wanted to be an actor. I didn't get into this game to be the best improviser in the world. I didn't choose improv as a stepping stone, it just happened to become one.

And there are lots of moments when I think, ‘What am I doing as an actor? I can’t act!’

My favorite thing in the whole is getting to work with the actors.

In the business of acting, those are the actors that make the trains run on time, you know? There's nothing without them.

[Jodie Foster] is one of my favorite actors and people in the business.

Allison Janney is the best actor on the series.Allison is one of the few actors I ever worked with who is incapable of hitting a false note.

As an actor, you deal in fantasy, imagination, and concentration. Those are your three weapons. Those are your bullets.

The press concentrates on a divorce an actor's going through and they ignore the good performances he gives, or the causes that he works for.

My great joy in working on anything is stepping out in front of the camera and working with the actors.

I'm one of those fortunate actors who gets to work pretty much every day. I've had a run of good fortune and work with some terrific people who have hired me.

The best voice actors all have a live performance background. And are competent, fearless, incredibly creative actors.

What was good was that I had friends who were actors and in theatre who were really good, because I think my strengths were visual, like pictorial.

Josh Brolin is an actor that I really, really like; he's fantastic. I worked with him once; he's a really great actor.

If there is a streak of ham anywhere in an actor, Shakespeare will bring it out.

The more people know about an actor the less convincing they become. A bit of mystery's a good thing.

I don't want to be a luvvie actor. It took a long time for me to accept I was an actor, a professional actor, and that, actually, I make a living out of this.

Anyone that knows me knows what I'm about, and I'm very much a British actor, a European actor.

Sometimes everything you need to know to be an actor in your mid-forties, you learn before you were 15 years old.

I think there are more good young actors now than ever. It's a medium that everyone wants to be connected with - it is such a hip medium going into the 21st century.

You obviously don't have to be a murderer to play a murderer or you don't have to be a dictator to play a dictator. So, you're an actor. You come up with whatever you come up with to play that part.

I've watched people who were better actors than me disappear, and they're selling insurance now.

I'm an actor. Actors are supposed to act.