Actors Quotes

I love bad movies, whereas going to the theater for me is a painful experience. I think it's really hard to sit and watch actors do something live and have it not go well.

There's part of me that's grateful for the delusion, because it takes a very hard shell to get started as an actor, and I don't have a very hard shell.

Theater is a really exciting place to return to all the time because it's incredible training for an actor.

I guess actors are very sensitive people. We're porous.

Most actors and actresses are performative as people.

I doubt I'm more secure than Meryl Streep... I guess actors just never feel secure.

I know the responsibility that entails from telling a story. The one thing I despise the most is when I go to a movie and I see a whole bunch of lazy actors making me waste my time and money.

I'm constantly intimidated by Shakespeare's work. Trying to decipher what he's saying and holding on to that thought - not just as an actor, but as a human being - is a rigour.

I always wanted to be normal. I tried really hard, but it's like I try so hard and then people still say I'm offbeat. I've learnt to accept that and take advantage of it as an actor.

I've never pursued a role. I always hear stories about actors going after parts and I'm, like, 'How do they do that?' It seems so weird. It seems like a total myth or something.

I think any actor in their right mind is afraid of getting pigeonholed.

The secret of every durable ... social system is the recasting of 'functional prerequisites' into behavioral motives for actors.

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.

Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world. Don't let anything stand in the way of the light that shines through this form. Risk being seen in all of your glory.

Lindsay [Doran] goes round the table and introduces everyone -- making it clear that I am present in the capacity of writer rather than actress, therefore no one has to be too nice to me.

Some of them will, but most of them are willed. Some of them are genuine, but most of them are bad actors.

Paparazzi arrived for Hugh [Grant]. We had to stand under a tree and smile for them.Photographer: 'Hugh, could you look less -- um --'Hugh: 'Pained?

Jane reminds us that God is in his heaven, the monarch on his throne and the pelvis firmly beneath the ribcage. Apparently rock and roll liberated the pelvis and it hasn't been the same since.

(On period costume posture coaching:)"We all stand about like parboiled spaghetti being straightened out.

We're actors — we're the opposite of people!

Talent & skills are useless & won't get you anywhere, without lot of practise, commitment & prioritization.

Talent & Skills are useless & won’t get you anywhere, without lot of practice, commitment & prioritization

Use filmmaking to eliminate racism – use to it terminate misogyny – use it to destroy homophobia and all other primitiveness.

The art of filmmaking is the most influential form of art that has ever existed throughout the history of human artistic endeavors.

Filmmaking has the power to fortify the feeble, unify the divided, raise the abandoned and inspire the ignorant.

A movie is not a movie, it is a potential nuclear furnace of inspiration, courage and conscience.

Make movies my friend – make nice, inspiring and bold movies that will penetrate the darkest corners of the human mind and illuminate the soul.

Give people films, they will forget after a few weeks, but give people ideas, they will assimilate them into their consciousness.

Make films that purify the soul with the flow of rational, vigorous and compassionate thinking.

Take the clapper and become the alarm that the world so desperately needs.

Whatever genre you deem suitable for your taste – romance, comedy, action, mystery, sci-fi or anything else, make sure it has the plain everyday human kindness.

Once you drop a mask, you can never wear it again.

Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.

That's what I love most about writers--they're such lousy actors.

Aren't you tired from all that smiling that you do at the camera? Relax and come with me to the mountains. There is more to life than the cameras!

I'm like a circus standing on two legs.

I love the idea of reincarnation, so just in case it doesn't exist, I decided to be different people in the same lifetime.

I've lived all these years among those who create nothing and change nothing, ' I said. 'Actors and musicians-they're saints to me.

We are all actors, set on the stage of the world, as the curtains open we put on our best performance to this audience of life.

People never forget two things, their first love and the money they wasted watching a bad movie.

Audience can live without a movie but a movie cannot live without an audience.

Without writers, stories would not be written, Without actors, stories could not be brought to life.

We were on stage. We were supposed to speak our dialogues. But at times, a smile says more than words ever can!

The Earth Is My Stage And The Sun Is My Spotlight

You always do good ones. We trust you, Mr. Duke, " Says Dylan. Foolish lads, thinks Felix: never trust a professional ham.

Are we not all actors playing parts in another person's play?

Now that I think I know what I'm doing, I'm scared. Before this, I just didn't know any better.

Actors are good liars, writers are good liars with good memories.

Life is an intricate play with actors waiting for an explanation. Each added act confers a new interpretation of the story. ( "Waiting for the pieces to fall into place" )

Do you think he's the murderer?""It's worse than that -- he's an actor!