Actors Quotes

What actors are good at doing is walking into a situation that should make you incredibly self-conscious and frightened and doing it anyway. That's the gig, pretending that you are comfortable.

I feel like a lot of the young actors that are just coming up are really good. I think directors are directing better.

At the end of the day, what actors really want to do is act a lot and not wait around in the trailer.

I don't watch rushes. My whole thing is to try to stay in the moment with the other actor, and to let it all hang. I'm not sure I'm right on that, though.

A good actor's director, first of all, is prepared, so there's not an exorbitant amount of wasted footage.

You know, actors lie all the time. 'Can I ride on the horse? Are you kidding? Of course! I was born on a horse!'... It's the same with motorcycles.

I have seen no men in life loving their profession so much as painters, except, perhaps, actors, who, when not engaged themselves, always go to the play.

I guess every actor has certain emotions they can access easier than others.

If you think about filmmaking as an entire spectrum, starting with the writer and ending with maybe the marketing department, the actor's contribution is a rather slender band.

Generally a wise actor will be very careful about the person to whom he gives that power.

I do like taking on responsibility, sometimes too much. But I was aware of that early on and it's something that came up in the previous set of interviews, and that is the actor‛s contribution.

Every actor has their own method, so I'm not suggesting what works for me will work for everybody else.

Getting the correct writer is simply like casting. You wouldn't hire an actor in order to tell him how to work. He knows how to work, which is why you hired him.

I never write with particular actors in mind.

Actors are players and if they're hot, or onto something, you let them go, or you and the actor can both get on to something. I always run out with lines as I think of them.

For some reason, I seem to work well with actors. I love working with them.

I'm probably the most pessimistic actor I know. I'm always sure I'll never work again.

I'm a journeyman actor, and I don't ever want to forget that. With romantic-lead dreams.

The idea of being a professional actor never occurred to anybody, including myself, for a long time.

I did a movie in Esperanto.

A stage actor has to be 10% aware of the audience as he's performing.

Gradually the live TV scene simmered out, replaced by film, and that took place in L.A. So many actors left New York.

For me, honestly, I'm an actor. There's one thing I know how to do - act. And that's all I know how to do. Through our work, [actors] can trigger awareness.

Some of the greatest love affairs I've known have involved one actor-unassisted.

The actors that I do know are people who I think have souls, you know?

Actors do these really gross, gun-'em-down movies, and I always wonder why. They're not good movies. And it's like, "Why are you doing them? Aren't you rich enough?"

If some actors were more realistic and others bordering on caricature, that would have been imbalanced. It would be as if we saw an airplane in a 3 Musketeers movie.

My working history as an actor is definitely in the theatre; it certainly was in Australia.

As an actor you're used to being the focus of attention.

Glen Cove. [Referring to Glenn Close on a movie review television show]

I don't really see myself as an actor.

I acted when I was a real little kid. My mother was an actress in a Miami theater company comprised of actors from Cuba like her and I was the default kid.

It's very rare, as an actor, to be someplace - to have an address, so to speak.

I have a list in my mind and in my heart of actors who have been extraordinarily kind, and Hugh Laurie is near the top.

Most of the film directors expect their actors to want to work fast.

Some people just can't handle that they will never be a better actor than me

I think in a play it's wise to just sit back and watch other actors and be able to shape it from the audience.

I don't even like the show that much, I mean, it's about doctors. It's not like doctors are as important as actors anyway, I bet I've saved more lives with my acting talent then any doctor has.

I blame Walt Disney; well he has to find voice actors better than me somehow doesn't he?

I'm sure lots of actors and creative people go through this, where you have some weeks where it's all going according to plan and some weeks where you're super frustrated.

My co-stars aren't bad actors, but they're no Zach Braff.

People are more willing to accept a singer as an actor, than an actor as a singer.

I think that it's much easier for a recording artist to become an actor than for an actor to become a recording artist.

When I got out of school, it used to be that it was theater actors that ended up doing film and television, and you had to come from the theater to be taken seriously in that world.

I think it's always good when you're able to, as an actor, allow your work to be some kind of a conduit for social discourse, and an examination of where we are, as a society.

Exercise is an important element of being an actor, on any level.

I recognized that I had a window of opportunity that had opened because of my exposure as an actor.

Other actors are not my concern, and that's their life and that's their journey. Everybody has to get to a point in their own time and their own way.

My job as a double was always to put [actors] at ease. My job was to make my character, or the actress that I was doubling, look as badass as possible by being there.

I had to paint the picture that I was never scared, otherwise I couldn't do my job. But now, as an actor, I'm literally paid to look emotionally accessible.