Actors Quotes

The part an actor played on stage was once written on a separate roll of paper.

There's nothing more boring than actors talking about acting.

Actors get pigeonholed very quickly, particularly movie actors. In the theater, one is more used to casting people against type and trusting that their talent and skill will get them through.

I want to be a great actor someday, and I've decided there's no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.

No one asked me to be an actor, so no one owed me. There was no entitlement.

The face and the actor is great, but if you were to start out and you said, "my name is Humphrey" somebody would punch you out, because that's a stupid name to have.

As a struggling actor, youre not looking for parts that define you; youre just looking for work.

I am selective, but at the same time, I want to be out there as an actor and show people my range.

It's OK if Tim McGraw goes and does a movie, and it's OK if Justin Timberlake does a movie, but it's not OK for an actor to become a singer. I never understood that.

You're an actor who's Irish, not an Irish actor. And you shouldn't be limited by your extraction.

People don't yell nasty things at actors - they let them continue.

Some of the most cutthroat auditions youll have as an actor are when youll have three words to say.

Forget the credit, they (male actors) take all the money as well. We don't get paid even one-third of what male actors get. It's not so much about the money, but it's about (being a) woman.

They say an actor is only as good as his parts. Well, my parts have done me pretty well, darling.

Most actors make themselves unhappy by searching for their sanity, by insisting on their normalcy; it's a grave mistake.

'Ides of March' I did for scale - scale as a director, scale as an actor, scale as a writer.

Auditioning is extremely bizarre. Just being an actor is extremely bizarre, but I wouldn't have it any other way.

There are a lot of actors who wish there was a next play, a next musical. As an actor, I guess that's all I can wish for - the next role, the next opportunity.

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

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

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.

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

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.

I've always just liked working. I like being a working actor.

I'd love to perform with other actors and act with actors, true actors. I would like to be in a movie and have full room for acting.

When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise. His whole behavior is so shocking.

I learned a lot about acting - watching not just myself but other actors and learning how to distinguish between two great takes. It's also about one's own taste in performance.

The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors.

I simply know what the actor's attitude should be and what he should say. He doesn't, because he can't see the relationship that begins to exist between his body and the other things in the scene.

If an actor tries to understand too much, he will act in an intellectual and unnatural manner.

As an actor I want to do as many takes as I can. I wanna shoot the scene... or shoot the shot 'til they make me quit.

I'm not bragging but my movies have grossed well over a billion dollars.

If you can mix Hilary Duff and Gary Oldman into the same actor, that's my goal. I know it's strange to think about, but that's the goal.

I always tell actors, "Don't think of it as unemployment when you don't have a job. You have to think of it as being in preparation for your next job." You have to be always preparing for success.

As an actor, I'm thankful I have lived not one life, but many.

As an actor in the theater you're taught that you never play a bad guy. You have to love who you are. You can't say, "Oh, I'm a bad guy." How do you play that?

I don't attribute an actor's great success to their own individual performance when it's something as collaborative as a movie.

It's only been a couple of times in my life that I've really locked horns with actors. It did not hurt the films, it just hurt the moment of the filmmaking.

I think if actors are successful at one thing, they paint themselves into a corner sometimes, and what's the fun in that?

There's something very interesting about the way each individual actor approaches stuff.

Great writing attracts great actors. It attracts money. Without a great script, you have nothing.

England produces the best fat actors.

I don't know, I find that honestly, the stand-up thing in some ways is a little bit of a cliché to carry around, because people don't consider stand-ups really actors.

I'm a craftsman. I'm an actor.

I really feel that if I did another [Narnia] film I'd just be repeating myself and I don't really want to do that as an actor.

Actors have these delicate appendages called Egos.

The technique's many benefits for actors include minimized tension, centeredness, vocal relaxation, and responsiveness, mind/body connection and about an inch and a half of additional height.

The only reason I'm an actor is that a lady pulled out of a parking space in front of a producer's office.

I found American actors quite scary because they're brilliant actors and brilliantly funny, and they never stopped once you wound them up... off they went and they just deliver fantastic stuff.

I don't feel particularly comfortable about actors using whatever power they may have to push their beliefs, unless they're extremely well informed.