Actors Quotes

You create this situation where you are so dependent on each other. That's especially true for film. In theater, the actor has much more say, much more control, for better or worse.

Sometimes what happens is that, when you micromanage actors and moments, it just doesn't quite live.

I always knew I wanted to be an actor. I was talented in college but not the most talented. But I knew I wanted to do it, and that intention got me there and kept me there.

Authenticity is what I've always gone after in my work, and I understand what feels emotionally right, instinctively. Working with actors has just come with experience.

As actors, you meet people that you are working with and it's tricky. It's blurry... how do you decipher things? I have definitely dated [a co-star], oh yeah, multiple times. It's easy.

I didn't believe that I'd ever be lucky enough to be able to make a living as an actor.

I think I'm a much better painter than an actor.

I've had a lot of operations. I'm kind of like Franken-actor.

I never started out to be an action actor. I was an ensemble actor. "Rocky" was an ensemble film. "F.I.S.T." was an ensemble. "Paradise Alley" was an ensemble.

If I'd made it right away as an actor, I would've stopped at a certain level and stayed there, probably as a character actor.

We actors have it pretty easy and pretty hard. Easy cause we have a meal provided to us every 6 hours every day and craft services. The hard part is staying fit under those circumstances.

I don't have any room in my heart for that character [Kevin McCallister ]. I like the actor [Macaulay Culkin], but the character, no.

Being a TV comedian, actor, writer, columnist, and all that is quite helpful to me in acquiring wide varieties of knowledge, which is crucial for filmmaking.

I don't think any actors love taking their clothes off on film, unless you're an exhibitionist, which I'm certainly not.

I think actors should stay grounded and humble and open.

One of the gifts of being an actor is that you get to learn new things see the world through different eyes.

When you're an actor, you're mollycoddled and you're treated with kid gloves.

When you work in film, you have to be pretty fluent in explaining your vision, especially when speaking to actors, and I found speaking to actors to be so challenging and intimidating on set.

If I am not right for something there are many talented actors out there that will get it.

I've had ups and downs but always maintained I was a working actor, which is a beautiful thing.

As soon as you put an actor to a person who is real, that person comes to life through another person.

You learn from the actors that you're working with. I've taken a lot from all of them.

I'm an actor and I like having attention. There's a reason I like being on stage and in front of the camera, and it's that interaction.

I'm incredibly close to my family. I have two younger brothers; they're both artists and actors, and their work and the way they see the world inspires me.

An actor has to embody a role.

I try to get the best performance an actor can give.

To be honest, as an actor, job security is not a trait.

One of the things we're taught as actors is restraint - don't jump off the cliff.

I remember the actor Dale Robertson said he quit acting when he got tired of having to hold his stomach in. I feel that way sometimes.

Don't just view me as an actor.

When you feel betrayed by someone that you trust the most... As an actor, you look for something that's going to let you express some of your inner emotions and anger.

I plan on having the credibility and integrity of being a part of an entertainment news program like 'E!,' in addition to being on the actor side as well.

You've got to have a sense of different audiences. I'm a kind of performer manque - I come from a long line of failed actors!

I think it's worse for actors, though, because people have to choose you. As a director, I get to choose the actors, but most of the time, actors have to be chosen in order to work.

You have to let people find out who they are as actors and pull their strengths out based upon what they can actually do best.

We all hope we have something else to do. We're going to be unemployed actors. It's a consistent state of being a professional actor, in my experience.

Actors, said Granny, witheringly. As if the world weren't full of enough history without inventing more.

I'm exceedingly proud of being an actor, but I never recommend it to anyone.

Every actor wants to direct and produce, but I made a conscious decision when I was in college to understand the 'business' of 'show business.'

You can start a documentary with just a camera, as opposed to a fiction film where you need actors, a crew, a script, a lot more start-up resources. It may be self-perpetuating.

Actors speak of things imaginary as if they were real, while you preachers too often speak of things real as if they were imaginary.

Directing, you have to put yourself in a certain state, it's all about the energy you have and the energy you transmit to people, to the actors, to the crew. It's peculiar.

I certainly was an actor and then I drifted more towards writing and directing.

As an actor I kind of do. I started out doing voice overs in the mid 80s when I was in grad school.

I had a really great experience so far with film acting. And most experiences from most actors, I've heard, are not like this. But I want a career that has many disciplines and many options.

I think audiences like to see their favorite actor handle himself physically on screen, however he does it. He can wrestle, or box, or he can know karate.

Most actors have a process that they can go through, that they rely on, or that they've discovered, and that can evolve from project to project.

Some of the supporting roles that I've done as an actor, I took them because I knew that I would get to watch some of the leading guys in the movies, and also I'd get to work with them.

Great powers reserve the right to police bad actors in their neighborhoods.

That's why I like old monster movie actors, because they transform into different characters or creatures.