Actors Quotes

The nature of the video camera really makes you focus on the present. Since I have always been a diarist filmmaker, not one who stages scenes with actors, it has always been about the present moment.

Perhaps I'm not a good actor, but I would be even worse at doing anything else.

If the scene bores you when you read it, rest assured it WILL bore the actors, and will then bore the audience, and we're all going to be back in the breadline.

If you're an actor, you have to find a way to make peace with all the media attention.

A ham is simply any actor who has not been successful in repressing his natural instincts.

The varying physical characteristics of the actors may also necessitate changes. Sean Connery is six feet four. Dustin Hoffman isn't.

What matters most with any regimen, whether it's to lose weight or stop drinking or smoking, is your willingness to seek help and your desire to say 'no more.

I think the first British actor who really worked well in cinema was Albert Finney. He was a back-street Marlon Brando. He brought a great wittiness and power to the screen. The best actor we've had.

Um, musicians are funnier you know, than actors on the whole.

I wish it was a little easier for an actor to later go into singing and have it be accepted, but maybe I can still do it.

The most dangerous thing for an actor is to refuse to listen to anyone else, to feel you know more than anybody.

I actually don't hang out with any celebrities. My closest friends are old friends. And my real close friends, none of them are actors.

I'm always happier and a better actor when I can really lose myself in a character and become somebody else.

The problem for me is not that Schwarzenegger is governor, but the extent to which even politicians who are not actors are functioning like actors.

I don't really like actors. Actors are like terrible comedians with no punch lines. It's all about them. They talk about themselves all the time. They bore the sh - t out of you.

I'm a much better singer than actor, which doesn't really say a whole lot.

In film, other actors' performances really are not your concern. If the other actor isn't giving you what you want, act as though he were.

I'm constantly embarrassed at the level of attention actors get and the level of money that we get. It's completely disproportionate.

It's tricky playing people that you don't like and finding a way to empathise with them. It's challenging and very exciting for an actor.

More and more of our finest actors are finding room for themselves in the world of television - but I truly believe it's because some of the best stories are being told there.

I could care less about being an action actor like Stallone or Schwarzenegger.

The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage.

If you're a movie actor, you're on your own - you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.

I had this sort of idolatry for certain actors who preceded me, people who inspired me, so I'm honored to be that way for young actors.

If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.

When actors go onstage, you know immediately if they can do their job. You can be a lawyer or an accountant for years and not find out.

The reason actors, artists, writers have agents is because we'll do it for nothing. That's a basic fact - you gotta do it.

As an actor, of course, you want to be in something that's successful.

What I observed about my fellow actors was that most gave up very easily.

I like some of the early silent films because I love to watch how actors had to play then. What would interest me today is to do a silent film.

I've wanted recognition; I wanted success; I wanted appreciation; I love the perks of being in the movies. I love the fame that comes with it - but that's why I became an actor.

Working with big actors and realising that they were just normal people who've got an incredible talent was just a great experience.

I'm glad that I'm being acclaimed as an actor. Today, when my hard work has paid off I can chill out about it.

Showtime has given new, young filmmakers - black, white, across the board - an opportunity to make films, as well as actors who want to cross over into directing.

As an actor there's no autonomy, unless you're prepared to risk the possibility of starving.

An award doesn't necessarily make you a better actor.

For a lot of actors, our biggest fear is that we're going to start talking about things we don't fully understand and sound like idiots.

I think all good actors are personalities. If they're not, they're not stars. What makes you a star is horsepower.

You're not simply entitled to be an actor - you're not an actor just because you call yourself one - you earn it. You earn it by working.

Actors need steely determination. It's a tough profession with plenty of knocks along the way. You have to be very determined and never take 'no' for an answer.

I decided to become an actor because I was failing in school and I needed the credits.

Actors are intelligent. Yet, many of them do not communicate well. That's what makes it so hard to have a relationship with one.

I don't have a Twitter account. I don't go to fan club gatherings. I'm not one of those actors who spends a lot of time engaging with the audience.

It's a tiny industry. Actors all know each other to a point where you always know someone who knows the other person who worked with them.

Iran is a state sponsor of terrorism. And for them to be able to provide nuclear technology to non-state actors, that's unacceptable.

I didn't have a problem with rejection, because when you go into an audition, you're rejected already. There are hundreds of other actors. You're behind the eight ball when you go in there.

As an actor, there's a bit of you that's decided you want to be looked at and watched, but there's a paradoxical bit that wants to run away.

The fuss that actors began making about the difficulty of shifting to sound struck me as perfectly foolish.

I don’t like writing for comedians. I like writing for actors. The best comedians are the best actors.

I consider myself a method singer, not a method actor. I applied method acting to singing.