Actors Quotes

As an actor, I like as much time with the material as possible and given the opportunity, time spent with the other actors in the scene. But that is a rare luxury in working in any TV series.

That's why there's so much bad acting out there, because you could see actors watching themselves.

Cicely Tyson was my inspiration to become an actor.

Denzel [Washington] just knows the actor. He knows the process, and you don't often get that.

It's harder to work with people who are not as dedicated to their craft. It also leaves you a better actor when you finish the project, since you always feel like you've learned something.

I started a production company out of necessity, the need for great narratives for actors of color.

I've always seen myself for who I am, which is a lot of things. So, I guess that when I walk into a room, I bring all those things to a role, and I've always just simply seen myself as an actor.

I don't think most people understand acting, even the people who call themselves savvy, even actors.

Actor is just a strange profession, it really is, that you could be in front of the same people for years, and all of a sudden one thing happens, and it finally clicks.

My favorite newer movie is "Training Day." Denzel Washington is, to me, one of the greatest actors ever. The way he gets into those roles is ridiculous.

Human beings are, necessarily, actors who...can be divided...into the sane who know they are acting and the mad who do not.

The last thing you want is an injured actor. That, or having to use a stuntman too much.

I know that I am one and I've made a living as an actor and I enjoy being an actor, but when I'm not actually doing it, I forget that I do it.

I never planned to be an actor. It turned out I could make a living doing it.

In real life, every person is the leading man or woman. We don't think of ourselves as supporting or character actors.

The life of an actor can be very enviable.

The actor's role in the community is quite unlike anyone else's. Businessmen, for example, don't take their clothes off or cry in front of strangers in the course of their work. Actors do.

Since we've done that type of work [ voiceover], we know how isolating it can be, and we wanted to make the actors more comfortable.

Sometimes actors come in, you record them, and they do their role.

I'm convinced that theatre is a horrible business. Make this the headline. You have to be on the spot every night as an actor. You are damn lonesome standing out there.

Ok so there's no TV shows, no movies going on fine, but I love going on stage and performing stand up so my situation is a little better than someone who's strictly just an actor or actress.

I've never been one to shortchange the importance of actors.

As a film actor, you don't often get that opportunity to meet with your audience and take your applause on stage.

I'm an actor, and when I close the door at home I'm kind of off-duty.

I don't want to be just somebody short who happens to act. I hope my legacy will be Warwick Davis, Actor.

Very obsessed fans do ask actors to attend their weddings.

I run Willow Management, which is the biggest agency for other short actors. We look after performers who are either under five feet and over seven feet tall.

One good thing about TV Land is you're always surrounded by people who know what they're doing, in terms of your fellow actors.

I'm one of those actors who likes to do it wrong nine ways before I come to the tenth way, which is the way I think it should be.

I love to be in the position of not knowing what I'm gonna do, but having rehearsed all of those so when something happens with the others actors I go with whatever that is I'm getting.

There's no greater honor, as an actor, to be a part of a project that changes lives, and awakens and enlightens and entertains.

Whenever an actor was going to die, I tried to help them understand not to take it personally. It wasn't about them. It's the story.

Everything that I've done was prudent and never has anyone gotten hurt in my films - not a single actor, not a single extra, ever.

What I do not like, the kind of high-resolution cameras, 4K, 6K, for shooting dialogue, for having faces and close-ups of actors, and you see every single pore in the skin.

With actors, normally I don't like to have any conversation about background and about motivations and all this.

One of the things I enjoyed the most is just working as an actor.

Lot of the scripts I've been in with other non-white actors haven't been great. Lot of non-white actors ain't all that great.

I'm a physical type of actor and love projects in which I can get physical. The more action, the better.

It becomes a lot better for the actors when we're 'shooting, shooting, shooting,' instead of waiting around in a trailer for something to happen.

Everybody that's an actor leaves it for a while 'cause they ain't got a job.

When you're young, you kind of take yourself seriously, and you think, like, "People need to see what I can do." And it's so laughable, especially with actors.

The fictional work is a kind of actor that wears a satirical garb but can put on other costumes as well.

The first time that I performed as an actor was the first day on the set of 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.'

Each of the actors is quite different, but they're all living in the same world.

Central to being an actor is pretending, and the adventure of it all. That's why you become a junkie for different kinds of situations.

I was an activist long before I even entertained the possibility of being an actor.

Writers are not always right however, but then again, I've been on shows where the actors have complete control and change everything and it's terrible.

As far as the filmmaking process is concerned, stars are essentially worthless - and absolutely essential.

It's hard on an actor when you have to do a scene 45 times and you know damn well that three of the angles a director is shooting will never make it into the movie.

So many actors spend so much energy trying to remember the lines. It's so foolish. Guys are the worst.