Actors Quotes

As an actor for hire, my job is to do some pre-production work for myself. Then my job is to show up and give the best performance I can.

I'm not the kind of actor that would know what my character had for breakfast last Tuesday.

I've waited my entire life to be busy. Whenever I hear actors complain about being busy, I think, 'shut up.' Because you do, you wait to be successful or to be able to work.

I have friends that are much better actors than I am that had to quit the business because they couldn't survive the auditions or the rejections, or people just didn't realize how good they were.

There's no such thing as a small part. There are just small actors.

Most actors nowadays are models turned actors. That's why a lot of young actors are terrible. You have to learn how to act. It is not something that you can just do.

The fact of the matter is that most actors are shy people.

It was only when I realized how actors have the power to move people that I decided to pursue acting as a career.

Never meddle with play-actors, for they're a favoured race.

When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away.

Like most actors, I've always been grateful for Chinese restaurants; they were often the only places that stayed open late enough for performers to get hot food after the show.

It is impossible to describe any human action if one does not refer to the meaning the actor sees in the stimulus as well as in the end his response is aiming at.

There are actors who can pull of a writer's lines; I am not competent enough to do that.

Just about every actor wants to be a Disney cartoon voice at some point.

The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.

All I want to see from an actor is the intensity and accuracy of their listening.

The key to every actor is deep, deep insecurity.

There is some mysterious thing that goes on whereby, in the process of playing Shakespeare continuously, actors are surprised by the way the language actually acts on them.

The reason I'm an actor is because I'll never be able to be perfect.

I'm used to working alone. Frankly with some of the actors I've worked with, I've felt like I was working alone.

Strength of character is already written. What we bring, as an actor, is an almost 3D-ness to it.

The marrying of an actor and his whimsical and theatrical vision is very enjoyable, because he wants it to be filled with something honest, truthful, human, soulful, substantial.

In America there's no way I can make the kind of movie I like to make.

Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

I will never date an actor or a model. My family will never accept her. We are a middle class family, and an actress will never be able to gel with us.

In order to be a good actor, I'm a firm believer that you need to bring something to the table.

Before becoming an actor I kind of just wanted to paint and live somewhere and do something low-key and artistic.

You need to be as clean of a slate as you can be, as an actor. You have to try to be open to every experience.

You find with the really great actors, the ones you really admire and look up to, very often they're very giving, generous, warm people.

I slowly came to realize that this job of being an actor, you spend most of your time looking for work. That is your job. Your job is auditioning. You spend very little of your time actually working.

When actors are too good-looking, I can’t memorize them. For example, I have never seen a picture of Sienna Miller where I didn’t say, “That girl’s pretty. Who is that?

No doubt, my role in 'Urumi' has been one of my best so far. It surprised me as an actor and made me more confident.

Being typecast is a great thing for an actor. I was considered one of the New York mob actors.

So many of these comics are just frustrated singers or actors - they want to get a gig doing a sitcom. It's paint-by-the-numbers comedy, lame joke-telling. They're drawn to it as a career move.

A lot of people say, "What's the worst part about being an actor?" And the worst part is that you're not a musician.

Being a star is an agent's dream, not an actor's.

Most dear actors, eat no onions nor garlic, for we are to utter sweet breath.

Too many actors have run for office. There's one difference between me and them: I know I'm not qualified.

But then there is the one who seems to have a hard time separating the actor's work from reality.

I'm an actor and I love to find new collaborations and new characters where I can grow as an actor and human being.

I think a good director casts a film so that the actors bring a lot to the table.

I didn't back into being an actor, I was born one.

I love working with actors. That's what the set really is, for me. It's my time with the actors.

I think a lot of great male comic actors are introspective, quiet personalities, which I really admire. But they are really able to turn it up when the camera's on.

An actors' tribute to me is in his work.

I fear other actors who are not prepared. And I fear directors who are afraid.

I don't actually drive trains. I'm an actor.

Actors I admire? Ed Harris, or course, I think he's terrific; because I know he always had to fight being what he looked like a lot, but I think he's a terrific actor.

I was never famous as a kid. That's the biggest difference between me and any other kid actor is that I wasn't famous as a kid.

Actors come up and just blatantly hit on my wife in front of me and don't even look at me.