Actors Quotes

If you write interesting roles, you get interesting people to play them. If you write roles that are full of nuance and contradiction and have interesting dialog, actors are drawn to that.

Theater is the most enriching and thrilling thing to do as an actor.

I honestly have no interest in celebrity whatsoever. If anything, I always cringe at it because it takes away from what I am, which is an actor who wants to be better and do better things.

Hollywood likes to put actors in boxes, and it likes to put Asian actors in really small boxes.

I'm just not one of those naturally funny, relaxed actors who enjoy the spotlight and are so good at it.

Most actors are starving. Most of us are walking around with a flashlight and tweezers looking for evidence. When you have someone that actually writes an acting role, it's rare.

Seeing someone happy on set is just a very small slice of the reality of an actor's life.

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.

Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.

I can't say that I haven't done some bad acting in my time. I have. Usually that involves what we actors call indicating, when you twirl your mustache.

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

The offers were, like, a lot of money - maybe not for other actors, but definitely for me. But I don't want that power. I don't want $20-million power.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

I was an actor before becoming a comedian.

I never saw myself so much as an actor. I wanted to be a cartoonist like Charles Schulz and create my own world and be able to have a studio at home and not commute and be able to be with my family.

You always absorb a lot from a great actor. What you want, as an actor, no matter where you are in your career, is a partner who's going to bring everything they have to the scene.

I love independent filmmaking. I don't agree with a lot of it, but that's the point.

Actors tend to be quite good at getting on with people. If you’re an arsehole, people don’t want to work with you. You won’t get hired Well, there are a few arseholes.

[Making movies is] 80% script and 20% getting great actors. There's nothing else to it.

The best actors, I think, have a childlike quality. They have a sort of an ability to lose themselves. There's still some silliness.

I enjoy my work. I haven't been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession.

There are a lot of things that dancers can do that actors cannot and actors can do that dancers cannot.

An act cannot be defined by the end sought by the actor, for an identical system of behaviour may be adjustable to too many different ends without altering its nature.

The collaboration really begins once the rehearsal starts. This is when the actor takes his place, because he becomes the one who is going to bring the words of the author off the page.

I have the most fun writing and directing. And I always choose myself as the lead actor.

Out of all the actors I have worked with, I love working with Larry Hagman the most. We were very close and it was just a wonderful time.

From my experience as an actor, choreographer, action director, and producer, I understand the elements and the dynamics of being a film maker.

Because ultimately only the witness -- and not the actors -- knows the truth (Vyasa to Draupadi)

To save the Theatre, the Theatre must be destroyed, and actors and actresses all die of the Plague ... they make art impossible.

I was able to capture on film things the actors didn't even know they were doing.

Clark Gable was the only real he-man I've ever known, of all the actors I've met.

As actors, we were fighting that tooth and nail because of fear, because language is a crutch and dialogue is a crutch, and it's so easy to just have a great writer write you a line.

The big thing for actors is the level of commitment.

The best thing about switching from being an actor to being a director is that you dont have to shave or hold your stomach in anymore.

An actor is part illusionist, part artist, part ham.

The actor's popularity is evanescent; applauded today, forgotten tomorrow.

In Europe, there is no television filmmaking legislation that could assist film production because private broadcasters are not interested in supporting Polish film.

I think all actors have a sadomasochistic streak, because acting is kind of brutal, you know.

Without chiropractic care, I couldn't have existed with my work as a TV and film actor.

With the films I've done, I've written on them, I've acted in some of them. And even ones I haven't acted in, I've acted them out just to be sure another actor can do them.

A kitten is the delight of a household. All day long, comedy is played by an incomparable actor.

You've got Corey Feldman doing his thing, and the problem is, they're trying to be pop stars. You can't compare Salty to any of the other actors out there playing music

I just wanted to be an actor. It's better to be well-rounded.