Actors Quotes

What did my parents say when I told them I wanted to be an actor? 'Be a plumber.'

Most actors are socialists, aren't they?

I am an actor and fiction will always be my priority

It's the rare happening when actors get together and you have chemistry, connection, just something that works, that's bigger than what's on the page.

Anyone who has been given the gift of being opposite an actor who gives and gives, it just makes you better.

I think a lot of actors, comedians, musicians, artists are drawn to this world, because you're allowed to excavate whatever it is that you're struggling with, and hopefully turn it into art.

Michael Bates was a very funny actor; he'd served in India, could speak Urdu, and had great comic timing.

My family has always supported me completely and kept me grounded. I never got lost in child Hollywood actor weirdness.

I had spent my entire career not wanting to talk about weight, not wanting to deal with it, wanting to be an actor first.

As an actor, you want to push yourself.

Each action of the actor on the stage should be the visible concomitant of his thoughts.

... actors of the first water are not more plentiful than playwrights of genius.

Raving mad is quite easy. You just chew up the scenery or something. It's quiet mad that's hard.

My chosen occupation isn’t necessarily movie star; I see my chosen occupation as actor.

I've always been an actor. That's my job — I can be anything you want me to be.

When we were young people, all we ever wanted was to be good working actors. We didn't think of fame or money because, honestly, money was never part of the dream.

You want the actors to disappear into roles and stay under the radar, and that gets harder when someone is known for their actual personality, or who they seem to be.

As an actor, anything that you have to help get you into character is helpful.

I'm good with dialect. Some actors do it immediately; other actors never quite get it. It's something I've always really enjoyed and something I've always been pretty fast with.

There are two different kinds of actors. There are people who take it just so damn seriously. Then there are guys like me that just get up and love doing it.

The reason why most of actors got into acting was so that we could become other people and have fun with being somebody else.

I have always wanted to do a book about actors because I think that the death of a character is a tremendously emotional experience.

Not write, maybe develop. Direct, sure. As an actor, you work on so many films, you sort of start to see who directs well and who doesn't.

I'm just looking to be in the best movies possible and do the best work possible and try to become a better actor and make better movies.

I never understood actors who could just wait around.

Very rarely do actors, even with features, get to live with a part for that long and really dig into it.

I can't imagine myself not being an actor.

And once you cease to be a real person, you stop being a good actor.

I had no intention of being an actor. I was quite good at it. I was pretty capable at other things but never any good at anything.

Every actor wants to find a piece of work that's innovative and powerful and moving.

When I hire actors I believe in their abilities.

A big fear of working with an actor that's never been a lead in a film before is that you're going to have to work really hard to pull a performance out of her.

I always try to keep the confidence of the actors, and try my best to make them feel comfortable or confident.

Sometimes it feels weird being an actor surrounded by all these real fighters and you gotta keep your confidence high and do your best to learn it as quickly as possible.

You're always having to live more to fuel something new. It's an obligation to yourself and to the audience. The personal baggage that comes with being a known actor just adds to that struggle.

In between, I go broke because I seem to do movies where you're not paid a lot as an actor.

I'll tell you what I probably would prefer to happen less and less: actors that I know and respect in shampoo ads. Or modeling.

I live in New York, where people don't tend to go up to actors as much.

If I wasn't an actor and I watched my films, I could easily be like 'This guy's a clown,' you know?

There's a lot of us idiot actors that get tattoos and they cover them with makeup when you do a film.

Most actors feel only one way. We're just grateful to have a job.

I'm still trying to figure myself out as an actor.

I'm like this mercenary actor going from show to show - people love to hire me, but then don't want me around much.

I work with intuition. With interpreters. I have my own method. I know exactly what I want from actors. Sometimes, I even recite the role to the actor if it's not clear.

Sometimes what you lose in the time it takes to let an actor do something that you don't like as a director, you gain in not shutting them down creatively by telling them their idea sucks.

I didn't think I'd ever be an actor.

Recently an actor asked me to teach him how to speak fast. Wasn't I once criticised for speaking too fast? Now they're doing it my way.

I would tell the world that Shahrukh is the better actor

When you're on set and you professionally listen to what the other actors have to say, then the emotion is naturally evoked.

It's rare that you get to work with actors, female or not, where you all get along. Just because of the nature of humanity.