Actors Quotes

I like actors who like to change and transform to other things.

As actors, we do our best to keep things light and to encourage in the audience an openness to the changing atoms in the room.

As actors, if you get a pilot on HBO or on USA, your odds are good that it's going to get picked up.

I feel very fortunate to be an actor on a network whose tag line is Characters Welcome and not Procedurals Welcome.

I always wanted to be an actor. I was one of those lucky kids - or cursed kids - who always knew what he wanted to do.

As an actor and a director, I always let my actors go... assuming they have good ideas.

I started off on stage because it was the only work I could get. I haven't been back for 11 years. I think any stage experience is good experience, as far as being an actor is concerned.

I think actors, they maybe want more approval than I'm used to giving. Everybody does. Everybody needs a hug you know, all the time. I'm not very good at that. I could get better at that.

Every actor gets their due.

The Russian famous actors involved [into The Darkest Hour], they are very creative and they will create sympathetic characters.

We writers dream of a future where actors are mostly computer generated and their performances can be adjusted, by us, on a laptop, alone.

I'm more of a writer than an actor, and I used to say that I'm mostly an improviser, though I haven't improvised in awhile.

30 Rock is a little different from other current sitcoms, in that it's fast-paced, but the pace comes from the actors, not the editing.

But I think the children of actors share a certain pragmatic approach. One is denied some of that 'running away with the circus' element of being an actor.

All of these red carpet events may seem natural for you journalists, but it doesn't feel natural for actors.

We're blessed with, as we were on 'Harry Potter,' lead actors who are amazingly grounded people.

I love working with actors. I do.

I love working with actors. If you cast the right person in the right part at the right time, they make you look like a better writer and director than you really are.

I love being an actor and a job is a job, and I'm always happy to have a job.

Actors are able to trick themselves into treating anything as if it's fantastic. It's a kind of madness really.

I guess if I weren't an actor, I'd be a history professor

Matt Damon is a great actor, and he's from Boston, so we've got a few things in common. I've seen him throw a football, though. He definitely needs to work on that.

Both the old and young Karamakates are portrayed by indigenous men, neither of them professional actors. The old shaman is played by Antonio Bolivar Salvador.

This is something particular to actors, especially in plays, and in films, too - but in plays, it's like, don't get involved with anyone in the play.

I came to acting quite late. I tried not to be an actor.

I wanted to work on a cable show and with a writer/director because that's a much more fulfilling and freeing experience, as an actor.

I always wanted to do a Hollywood story. The thing about actors, though, is that they go through a streak of roles. The question is, what's in between?

All directors should have to act and all actors should have to direct, so that they can understand all these key things that come into play with whether you can meet your day.

The pleasure of working with somebody who's an actor is they don't waste time with stuff that doesn't matter.

As an actor, it's much, much easier to be really nasty to someone that you really like.

Actors enjoy being treated as ordinary people.

Actors are programmed to see the worst. If you're talking about an actor's TV series, you say, "I loved you last night." And they go, "What about the week before?" They immediately worry.

Thank you to my wonderful actors, the triangle of man-love which is Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush and me.

It's great to have actors who are often cast against type.

When you change a lead actor, everything's going to change - but you can rest assured he's going to absolutely smash it.

Television's grown up a lot. It's a little more adult, which I think is a good thing. It allows actors to tell more complex stories. I'm happy to see where it ends up.

Actors have to make you believe that it's happening for the first time and all that jazz and make it human and at the same time entertain you.

I'm a very fortunate actor. I'm blessed to be the position I'm in right now.

To be frank: the translations that often sound bad in the mouths of the actors, these have often been done by linguists.

You always like to learn from people as a young actor. I think every young actor says that, but its true.

If the actor has a problem, I can just go in and fix it right away. I think it speeds up the process.

I'm not a famous director yet, and I'm not into fame. I like to just work. As a director, as an actor, whatever people consider me is fine with me.

As a director, I have to feel realism from actors, and they can't be plastic.

I have a pretty fresh delivery. I feel that I am probably more of a dramatic actor, but I'm also a comedian. Every day I am polishing up my skills.

There are actors who are really fantastically talented at being natural on screen and appearing to be themselves, but I like the challenge of becoming somebody else.

I think it's exciting to see actors do new things.

Developing films with directors, developing films with actors, is a poor percentage play for a screenwriter.

God knows I've had productions where there were actors in my plays who were making more money per week than I was.

I think the love scenes are very powerful and they're not trying to simply show the bodies of the actors but trying to reflect the inner feelings of the character so it's easier in that way.

I really enjoy the process of making movies. The only thing that really concerns me is working with great directors and actors, and that is fun and exciting.