Actors Quotes

I know this sounds kind of crazy, but I think we're all actors.

Jeff Bridges is one of my favorite actors in the history of ever.

For me, a play is a form of writing which isn't complete until it is interpreted by actors. But it's still a form of writing. And so most of my time is spent thinking about how to write a sentence.

Television allowed me to kick the Hollywood habit of typing an actor in certain roles.

You can't get an actor to do something that is beyond his range, so you have to be aware of the range of the actor and, if necessary, alter the part to suit the actor.

Only a great actor finds the difficulties of the actor's art infinite.

The Actor should make you forget the existence of author and director, and even forget the actor.

Actors are rogues and vagabonds. Or they ought to be.

I think any good actor is an anarchist. They have to be.

Acting is not being emotional, but being able to fully express emotion.

Actors need a kind of aggression, a kind of inner force. Don't be only one-sided, sweet, nice, good. Get rid of being average. Find the killer in you.

An actor works with their soul and their thought

Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull.

Actors should be overheard, not listened to, and the audience is 50 percent of the performance.

There's such good people out there where there filmmaking world is alive.

What is filmmaking but groping in the dark?

Film actors reach a certain level, but they don't get beyond it unless they work in the theater.

To me the recognition of the audience is part of the filmmaking process. When you make a movie, it's for them.

I never had any classes or went to theatre school like a lot of actors, so all of my training has been on stage with different directors. That was a pretty good school room.

A film is a director's vision... there is, however, much input an actor or actress can have.

When [actors] are talking, they are servants of the dramatist. It is what they can show the audience when they are not talking that reveals the fine actor.

You need three things in the theatre - the play, the actors and the audience, and each must give something.

Acting is a craft, and you need to study to be an actor.

The filmmaker's got to make it his story and the actors have got to make it their story.

Our demands are simple, normal, and therefore they are difficult to satisfy. All we ask is that an actor on the stage live in accordance with natural laws.

The main factor in any form of creativeness is the life of a human spirit, that of the actor and his part, their joint feelings and subconscious creation.

Eighty percent of a picture is writing, the other twenty percent is the execution, such as having the camera on the right spot and being able to afford to have good actors in all parts.

I don't think I”m a very good actor. Everything is very tentative and at a certain point you click in and just feel the spirit move you. I can be possessed really well.

At the end of the day, I'm not a model, I'm an actor. I didn't want to be a model for a brand - I wanted to be a spokesperson and to collaborate.

If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.

The world is full of actors pretending to be human

My goal was always to be recognized as a good actor but no one was interested in that, simply because society just wants to warm towards your appearance. This is the great blemish of society.

There's always a concern as an actor that you'll be boring unless your character is swinging from a chandelier.

You must be so thoroughly immersed in the given circumstances of the play, then you decide what it is at any given moment what that the actor wants.

I think the lawyers are such incredible actors. Can you imagine the performance they have to do every day?

Your face needs to have character if you're an actor - otherwise you're just a face.

City lights shine bright on my complexion, Self-reflection...red hairs flashing at the intersection. Life is a green light, one star, no script, Supporting actors...fresh peaches, no pit.

There are not a lot of places for an actor to explore what it's like to be a woman in her 60s. There aren't any films about it and there very few TV series about it.

When searching for harmony in life one must never forget that in the drama of existence we are ourselves both actors and spectators.

Well, we can skip childhood because I didn't have any. Not one goddam moment on the Good Ship Lollipop.

If two actors have an equal creative give and take between them, it translates beautifully on the screen.

People don't know and they shouldn't know that you work incredibly hard as an actor.

I don't use any techniques; I'm not trained to be an actor. I just enjoy working in films.

In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.

When kids look up to great scientists the way they do to great musicians and actors, civilization will jump to the next level

Nearly always when actors are approached by the beauticians, they try to avoid the dabs that the beauticians put on their faces. They dodge them.

I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.

All children are natural actors, and I'm still a kid. If you grow up completely, you can never be an actor.

To be a character actor is to be open, to be a chameleon.

Nobody is the author or producer of his own life story ... somebody began it and is its subject in the twofold sense, namely, its actor and sufferer ... but nobody is the author.