Actors Quotes

The best part about the movie, and everybody seems to rave about it, is the boot camp part.

You ever spent eight hours acting in water? It's a lot easier to get in and out of a bath. Hot tubs are bad news for actors, man.

I have lost a brother and a best friend. The world has lost one of the greatest actors of all time.

There's a reason why actors are always dying to work with the Coens. They just set the stage for you to do their best work.

The ultimate aim of the training is to create an actor who can be responsible for his artistic development and achievement.

Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves.

The rehearsal is where it all happens for an actor.

You won't find a better young actor than Jaeden Lieberher. I ended up having one of the best times with him, really. Going to work with him every day was a treat.

I was born to stand out. I don't care whether or not people will find me attractive on screen. That's not why I became an actor. I know that more and more with each new role.

It's the formulaic studio movies the make money, and when they do, the actors in them are automatically movie stars.

My gosh, I love food. If I wasn't an actor, I could be a completely different body shape right now.

I might have a guitar or a piano on set to play something for the actors.

Drawing on the experience I have of now directing, to me, my one strength that I know is my ability to communicate with actors and therefore make characters really important.

Fame really works against actors, in a way, because our anonymity is a wonderful thing for us.

I was friends with President Ronald Reagan and he once said to me, 'I don't know how anybody can serve in public office without being an actor.

If there is something magic about the collaborations I have with actors it's because I put the character first.

I was trained as a dramatic actor. Im really excited to do some more dramatic stuff.

I always say that, if you have great actors and great storytelling and great monsters, and you mix them together, nine times out of 10, it explodes in your face.

I never dreamed that shooting a film would be so hard. There was less regulation then of child actors' hours. Even the concept of acting confused me.

There are lots of actors out there who are hugely, hugely talented and haven't got the breaks I've had.

I was very introverted. I had glasses and was kind of weird. A lot of actors are pretty weird people.

I've always been a bit of a self-doubter, I think a lot of actors are. I still am.

You really can't explain how you do the things you do. I can't, anyway. I love certain actors, but sometimes they say the stupidest things about technique. I don't want to say something stupid.

Timing: The alpha and omega of aerialists, jugglers, actors, diplomats, publicists, generals, prizefighters, revolutionists, financiers, dictators, lovers.

The theater has never been any good since the actors became gentlemen.

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 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.

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

Vivek Oberoi is the most over rated actor in Hindi cinema

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.

One's performance is often heightened by the brilliance and generosity of other actors.

A lot of talented actors still have to pay their bills.

Actors are always going to have a little bit of themselves in everything.

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

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.

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

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.

England produces the best fat actors.

Today's films are so technological that an actor becomes starved for roles that deal with human relationships.

I used to ask Sean questions about acting. He's a brilliant actor, but I could never digest his information. I work primarily on an intuitive level.

Music and language are a vital element. We, as actors and directors, offer it to people who want to experience it. Sometimes the actual meaning is less important than the words themselves.

Actors are born, good actors are trained. Dancers are born, good dancers are trained.

Money isn't a major motivating force in my life. Nor is my profession. There are other things that I care more about than being an actor.

The only thing I have never done is a Broadway play. I'm not sure I have the discipline necessary to do a Broadway play. I know it holds a fascination for certain actors.

Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.

I don't want to just be an actor my whole life. I mean I do want to be an actor my whole life but not only an actor, I want to be an artist.

I actually don't have a problem with shooting and then just walking away and forgetting about it. I'm not really like a Method actor or an old soul. It doesn't stay with me.

An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation.

I want to be an actor, maybe a comic actor but a real actor.