Actors Quotes

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.

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

Well I'd really love to work with Robert De Niro, because he's still the most talented actor out there.

You make your own path as an actor. Nobody does it for you, so you have to invent yourself.

I can't remember ever staying for the end of a movie in which the actors wore togas.

Actors cannot choose the manner in which they are born. Consequently, it is the one gesture in their lives completely devoid of self-consciousness.

Whatever you do, make sure you want to write more than you want to be a writer. Make sure you want to act more than you want to be an actor. That is what will sustain you.

As an actor, if you want to while shooting, you can run back to your trailer and take a nap. But you cannot do that while directing.

Deadwood was a magical experience. It was an absolute culmination of everything Ive ever wanted to do as an actor as an artist, and I was enormously proud to have been involved with it.

Acting is a child's prerogative. Children are born to act. Usually, people grow up and out of it. Actors always seem to me to be people who never quite did grow out of it.

Good actors can sort of see into people and immediately you have a chemistry with them or not. It's like an affair with no mess.

As an actor, you always dream of having material that showcases what you can do.

As I got older, with my work, I became aware of the responsibility of film, and I feel one of the best ways I can apply myself as an actor, is to go beyond movie stardom and celebrity.

Every experience feeds an actor, and I've learned that depression is all around us.

Nobody deserves this much money - certainly not an actor.

If you're a boy, you always want to be in a western; and any actor I know would like to be in a horror.

Normally when people ask me what I do I say I'm an actor, and that's what I always wanted to be and that's the way I approach work even when I'm directing it.

As an actor, I still have to remind myself of daring to let go and not to repeat myself.

I'm an actor and a writer, that's how I think of myself. Sometimes my time is divided equally, sometimes less equally, but that's what I do.

I would love to play an unexpected character. Really raw and simple and not a cliche - something rugged. People like to put actors in boxes.

Actors who have tried to play Churchill and MacArthur have failed abysmally because each of those men was a great actor playing himself.

I could have gone the route of a lot of these former child actors, but I didn't want that for myself. Like I said, when I was 14 years old, I decided to quit. I didn't ever want to do it again.

I enjoy getting riled up, and nothing's gonna do that for you like a good scary movie.

For non-state terror actors, the United States must develop the ability, no matter how difficult, to track down and incapacitate those responsible and do it rapidly.

As actors we're like these vagabond artists, we have to be invited to perform so if you don't have a choice of options its very hard to define yourself.

I hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do

Actors are responsible to the people we play. I don't label or judge. I just play them as honestly and expressively and creatively as I can.

The movie business is a big gamble.

As a child, I always liked dressing up and getting into character, and actors are lucky in being able to retain that playfulness, though we do seem to find it hard to grow up.

Dysfunctional families have sired a number of pretty good actors.

The first draft is just a skeleton-just bare bones. It's like the very first rehearsal of a play, where the director moves the actors around mechanically to get a feel of the action.

I watch and listen to movies today and am shocked by the way actors deliver their lines. Everybody mumbles now and I don't understand why.

In that way, as an actor in particular, you're powerless. And so in that way as an actor in particular you can't make mistakes.

Conversely, the most powerful thing an actor can say is "no." If something is presented and it's a stereotypical role or something, you can say no to that, and that's very powerful.

Some actors, I think, want to feel that they are as creative as the writer. And the answer is, frankly, they're not.

Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference.

Being an actor lets me be a million different things.

As an audience member and as an actor I much prefer to find ambiguity.

It is easier to get an actor to be a cowboy than to get a cowboy to be an actor.

I'm sure there are actors out there who work with other actors on a consistent basis - I am not one of them.

A lot of actors talk about doing their homework, but very few of them do it.

My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.

What you're trying to do as an actor is somehow trick yourself into believing that these words have never been said, and so you've got to discover them for the first time.

If you're gonna let the character be the story, you better set a tone that allows the actors to do the best work they can do.

An actor who's a control freak, that doesn't work. We have to be malleable. We cannot come in and try to control or dominate.

I'm usually trying to react to what the actors are coming up with. And then the environment, and then the story.

You have to remember that Hollywood is in the business of making movies that they can sell tickets to, they're not in the business of finding great roles for actors.

Life-actors never rehearse and need no script. A life-actor uses whatever he has available, nothing more, nothing less.

Despair is your friend in show business. I don't believe you can act if happiness is your lot. It's the ups that keep you living and the downs that mete out talent.

I don't believe actors who say they don't bleed into their characters. It's absolutely impossible not to.