Actors Quotes

I never achieved my first goal in the National Actors Theatre, which is to have a permanent Acting Company

The young actors coming out of the Universities are well trained.

I would have started the National Actors Theatre 30 years earlier

I feel bad for young actors who become huge stars too quickly, because you haven't had a chance to practice your craft a lot.

I'm very social. It's just most of my friends are not actors.

I'm not just friends with fellow actors, but I find that a lot of people are out here in L.A. I go out of my way to make sure that's not the case, but I do have a lot of friends who are actors.

It was so much fun working with these young kid actors. We had a great time and those kids are truly amazing.

I've never been trained as an actor. I'm no Phillip Seymour Hoffman or Johnny Depp.

I love Ice Cube and Charlie Day. They're brilliant men, great actors and very funny people.

That's one of the things of being an actor. You have to push any knowledge of any future, at all, out of your mind. You never know what's going to happen where.

I just love working with actors in general.

I had a feeling about Shakespeare's soliloquies, that there should be a real exchange between the actor and the audience.

The most important thing, when playing characters with chemistry, is being able to work off the other actor and be supported.

I think actors' careers have highs and lows, and ups and downs. It just really all depends.

I've never revised my opinion of myself as an actor. I've always thought I was as good as my material.

Of course, at their best, movies are anti-literature and, as a medium, belong not to writers, not to actors, but to directors.

Even in the early '90s, I was already starting to mix professional actors with non-actors. I always enjoyed working with non-professionals, because their performances are very natural and unaffected.

Actors don't have real value.

So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.

Well, yes, as I was a rather bad actor then and I wasn't making enough money, I thought, to make enough money to not make money as an actor, I'd better do some writing.

Yes, The Persuaders, that was great fun because one of my favourite actors is Roger Moore.

There are lots of actors who are awful people, but nobody talks about them being awful because they've made billions.

Actors have to stay ready and be ready. They need to adjust things in their life, whether it be hair, teeth, take the time to do that.

Normally, I rely heavily on my director to massage me out of my actor comfort zones.

As an actor, you're sort of the court-appointed lawyer for the character.

Editing is not a part of the filmmaking process I've ever been privy to as an actress.

I think when average-size people start taking roles that were meant for dwarfs, that's a little frustrating because there aren't that many roles out there for height-challenged actors.

Growing up I was involved in children's theater, so I was definitely on the path to be an actor and a singer.

Believe me, you can be in the middle of a beautiful take and the next thing you know you're awash in people crossing the street. You can't even find your actors.

I'm no actor. And I have sixty-four pictures to prove it.

I hate hearing about actors who don't like the show. There are so many actors out there who'd give their right arm for what I'm getting to do.

Most actors can't make any kind of living.

Sometimes you look at a movie and you can see that the actor or actress said, 'I'm taking this onboard because I'm making a ton of money, and not because it's going to be something special.'

The best thing an actor can be is flexible, because all directors are different and all actors are different.

In the end, the actor's main power is the power to say, 'No.'

I love rehearsing, but a lot of directors don't, and some actors don't.

I have no idea what 'method actor' means.

I guess you could say I'm a model slash hotelier slash actor slash screenwriter.

I love Woody Allen. He's very clever, always thinking, and he's great with actors. He lets actors do what they want to do and occasionally he'll give them a specific kind of direction.

As an actor, Sean [Penn] is brilliant. And he's really an excellent director, as well. We got along really well.

Hollywood is more concerned about its male actors being in shape than its female actors.

Unfortunately, in Hollywood, there are those directors that have some contempt for actors. We've all experienced that, in one way or another.

I've imparted that philosophy to the writers, but some of them look stuff up while some don't. Same with the editors, directors and actors. To each their own.

All of us have a lot of sides to ourselves, but the fun thing about being actor is you make one side predominant for the character you're playing.

I really enjoy being an actor!

And I have been able to establish this sort of decent reputation as being a decent character actor.

When you are a character actor they trust you will go in and give them a full character and leave.

I'm just an actor. Just a stupid actor.

I don't really study television or how things do or don't change. So I don't know anything about that. I'm just a stupid actor.

Being an actor is like winning the lottery. It's not really about your talent, it's right time, right place, right face.