Actors Quotes

I may be a B-movie star, but I work. I'm an actor.

I was quite a snob when I was a theatre actor earlier in my career.

I know actors that were on great television shows that got cancelled and they have never done anything that good since.

When you're an actor and you can set your arm on fire, you feel kind of magical.

There's a lot of egos with actors. We certainly don't like to be directed by other actors, or anything like that.

Most actors have been fired during their career.

Thats the worst thing, I don't really care if people say I'm a bad actor, I can like work on that, but if they just say that he's ugly thats just like “oh.. really?

I like being meticulous and it's quite difficult as an actor to have that much control.

As a director, I wouldn't like me as an actor. As an actor, I wouldn't like me as a director.

Like all actors, I was open to taking on new challenges, including those outside my comfort zone.

If you do a film with a studio, agents step in, they start saying, 'My actor has to get this amount of money', and it becomes about deals.

I think voiceover is an adjunct that actors have picked up that have given us some security.

There is a saying that every single person in the world has something to teach you. So the more people I get to work with, the more I can learn and the better actor I will become.

The critic is the duenna in the passionate affair between playwrights, actors and audiences - a figure dreaded, and occasionally comic, but never welcome, never loved.

every actor knows that tragedy, being linear and inevitable, is taxing - but comedy, which depends on the element of surprise, is the hardest act of all.

Most actors love to get to the point where they're not auditioning.

Film acting would be about 80 percent better than it has been lately if actors did their homework, if they didn't have egos that took the size of their talent for granted.

I pray and try every day to be a better actor.

When I said I no longer wanted to be a painter, that I wanted to be an actor, the first thing I did was get a stinking job in an insurance building.

So I went and did an audition and became the biggest radio actor in Sydney, and that's how it all started.

I can't say I was unhappy as a child actor in films. I had a particularly wonderful time.

I started to study, because I knew I had to learn a lot about myself as an actor; you can't act the same as you did as a child.

It's always fun to do action and explosion, but I really enjoyed directing the emotion of the actors.

TV writing is tricky to navigate because you have so many different personalities - the actors, multiple producers.

If you put anger in the writing, then it's like an actor crying on stage. The audience will not cry with the actor and in some way inure itself against the emotion.

I wasn't sure I wanted to be an actor.

I've worked with actors who tell everyone what to do in the scene - that makes me go pretty atomic.

It's hard for actors to have to deal with the fact that they pour so much into their character, but the audience might have a negative assessment of them.

I think with the best actors, emotion is something that has no kind of check in them.

Everybody thinks that actors would be really good at bluffing, but I think it's a little backward.

I'd wanted to be an actor from the age of five.

I've been a professional actor for almost 40 years.

I do believe all actors are smart.

Frankie [Avalon] ... was interested in eating everything so it didn't eat him first.

You know, it was only a generation ago that actors couldn't be buried in the churchyard.

How could an actor become president?

What does an actor know about politics?

I didn't really know exactly the point where I wanted to be an actor. But I know at this point, because I never went to college, I don't really have anything to fall back on.

Nothing can teach you what it's like to work on a film set, and the best education there can be for an actor is to walk up the street and observe human nature.

I have daughters who are writers and actors but no musicians.

As an artist I just think comedic actors are really underrated.

I think diversity for most actors is such a blessing. It's something definitely I've strived for.

Being an actor is mostly about rejection and being out of work. It was a fast lesson in all of that stuff.

I seldom meet actors, they are to me bright strange fishes swimming in an element alien to me; I feel that to meet them is to See Life.

I never started out trying to be an actor. That was not my passion, this was not my thing.

I don't know what another actor is going to give me, on the day, and I don't want to be so hard and fast in my technique that I'm not open to what's coming.

Actors are always weird about acting with their spouse or their boyfriend or girlfriend, but more because they think audiences will find it boring.

For me, there are a lot of things you can imagine as an actor, and then there are things that you know in your bones and in your cells once they happen to you.

I feel lucky to be an actor because you always learn something from each part you play.

I think actors always have that fear of unemployment so when the opportunities are there, you just jump on them.