Actors Quotes

You should be able to tell your child, "This is an actor. And she's older than Mommy!"

When I was an actor, I was part of a team, which I loved. You are a part inside something which is larger.

I'm not a method actor, but I'm a big research kind of actor.

I would not like to direct, I would be one of those terrible directors who can't help line reading the actors their lines, because I would just want to be doing their parts.

I think the only thing I've got going for me as an actor specifically is the fact that I can change.

I don't think many actors are that good, to be honest. I certainly don't think I am.

Honestly, I would not advise any actor necessarily, if he was really thinking of his career, to come out.

Actors make bad lovers. Their most important kiss is for the camera. Not in a superficial way, in a really deep way. They can only give everything if they know someone is going to shout cut!

I find there aren't that many options as an actor.

To me, casting is all about finding a character within the actor off the screen as much as on the screen.

Not every corporation is a great bunch of people. Like in any group of people, you're gonna have bad apples, bad actors here and there.

I can rely on me [being a director], unlike some actors. I never got anything less than what I needed from the lead actor.

As an actor, we spend so much putting the mask on and trying to be someone you're not.

Old actors never die, they don't even fade away. They're always available.

Black actors on the road, flying around the country working as poets. Those people are inspirations for millions of kids who write.

Every actor turns everything round to their character.

I think we just knew that we had a movie when Rachel walked in the room.

In some way, the relationship between a director and an actor is personal.

I really want to work with Tom Hardy. Christian Bale and Russell Crowe are also on my list. Those are my top three actors. As far as actresses go, Kate Beckinsale, because she's so smokin' hot.

I'm not one of those actors who asks for too many favours. So when I do, people tend to listen.

I'm not one of those actors who gets physically fit for a role and then loses it all again.

Thankfully I'm a better actor than football player, or at least I hope so.

At 27, it's great to get to a place where I'm not an actor for hire anymore.

I will no longer be an actor to hire, I have a passion for producing and making films.

I'm not one to mythologize other actors too much, but obviously Sandy Bullock is a gorgeous woman.

When scoring a film, empathy is the key. And it is just as important to use music to express the actors' emotions as it is to move the audience.

But actors should act. You should see them most often rather than just not.

You know, people really don't understand what actors do.

I joined the Actors Studio and began to work with Lee Strasberg, and that changed my work.

There are some actors who are my contemporaries who I think of as purebreds and I'm not.

I'm an actor. I'm trying to be the character and do what they're doing.

I have one friend that I've had since I was born, and she's from Coatzacoalcos. She's not really impressed or interested in the actor's life. My family isn't really either.

It's more fun to play a good character with a good director and good actors around you. That's what makes it fun, and the more variety, the better.

I'm picky, very picky. I wanted to be an actor since I was nine years old, and I figured that was only one way to ever have any longevity, and that's to be careful about what kind of work you do.

I read a lot of scripts. Most of 'em go to other actors.

I always learn something from every actor I've ever worked with. I always pick something from them.

I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.

I like actors. I like their insecurities, their humor and their intelligence.

Actors are easy to like. They are generally sociable, thoughtful people.

I like being around actors. Imagine not liking actors.

You never really know who you're going to be acting with, but that doesn't really matter. 99% of the actors I've worked with, and they number in the thousands, I've liked.

I've always worked with a team of actors and filmmakers ever since I was a kid in Michigan making Super-8 movies.

If you're going to be born ugly and be an actor - the least they can do is let you play Lincoln.

I think any actor who talks in beatings-up is just talking himself up. I tend to not bring them up.

My father Philip was an actor and appeared in everything from 'The Onedin Line' to 'Hedda Gabler' with Dame Diana Rigg.

I'm an actor. That's what I'm gifted at. It's what makes me breathe.

Actors are seen as celebrities, but they're just real people with families.

When St Genesius, the patron saint of actors, refused to act in a Roman play that ridiculed Christianity, the legend goes, the producers executed him. It reminds some people of Broadway today.

Certain comedians work with certain actors; like Adam Sandler worked with Jack Nicholson.

I've never considered myself a comedian. I'm a comedic actor.