Actors Quotes

Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.

It's the actors who are prepared to make fools of themselves who are usually the ones who come to mean something to the audience.

It sometimes feels like a strange movie, you know, it's all so weird that sometimes I wonder if it is really happening.

I would never assume to tell another actor how to do his job!

There is a kind of invisible thread between the actor and the audience, and when it's there it's stunning, and there is nothing to match that.

I believe when actors say they can go crazy playing the same role, over and over again.

The beautiful thing about it is that no two directors or actors work the same way. You also learn not to be afraid of discussion and conflict.

A film director is not a creator, but a midwife. His business is to deliver the actor of a child that he did not know he had inside him.

In life we listen to other people. Listen with varying degrees of concentration and attention, right? Actors must learn to listen in a different way.

I'm the kind of actor who has ventured into escaping from me.

Somehow I got to be one of five or six actors that the directors would use as guinea pigs at this directing colloquium, where people pay to listen to and watch the directors direct.

I have never taken myself that seriously as an actor.

I provide the bricks and mortar with the words and situations - the director and the actors and the designers build the house.

The magic doesn't come from within the director's mind, it comes from within the hearts of the actors.

There are two types of actors: those who say they don't want to be famous and those who are liars.

The first actor I ever saw was The Lone Ranger. I thought: "That's what I want to do."

Mammootty is a great phenomenon.. If I was one among the jury for honourary award of Oscars, I would have definitely selected him as best actor for the film Dr.Baba Saheb Ambedkar

I'm a writer. An amateur photographer. An actor.

Not to belittle what we do as actors, but my wife Helen is a teacher, and she makes a real difference to kids. So it's unusual to see people thinking of us as something special.

Trust...trust your fellow actors to support you; trust them to come through if you lay something heavy on them; trust yourself.

My dad had been an actor... not only had my dad been an actor, but his dad had been an actor, and my great-grandfather had been an actor. And who knows before then?

I do this because I'm an observer of people. That's why I want to be an actor. I'm fascinated by human beings and the circumstances they find themselves in.

Maybe one of the only things I do well: I cook like a maniac! I would be a chef if I weren't an actor.

I feel much more comfortable as a writer than an actor. I feel like I am a much better writer than I am an actor.

Oh, those wonder-filled evenings when acting enables me for a short moment to have more life.

I used to work for a living. Then I became an actor.

Life experiences become acting experiences, which in turn become life experiences.

I don’t want kids to think it’s okay to drop out of school and get high, and they’ll be famous actors, too.

Not every actor gives their life to do this job. Some just do it as a job. Well, it's my life.

To my mind, the actor has this great responsability of playing another human being… it’s like taking on another person’s life and you have to do it as sincerely and honestly as you can.

Actors ought to be larger than life. You come across quite enough ordinary, nondescript people in daily life and I don't see why you should be subjected to them on the stage too.

Daniel Day-Lewis is my favorite actor walking the planet right now. He never ceases to amaze me.

What's important about an actor is his acting, not his life.

I was never a very dependable employee for anything. Perfect for the actor's life!

Actors are good liars; writers are good liars with good memories.

Jason Lee is the most famous actor from Hawaii I can think of.

You just can't take a crash course to be a tango dancer in a movie.

In a theater you can fool everyone past the tenth row if you're good, but on the screen you can't really fool anyone for a second.

I wanted to be a doctor when I was young. I also wanted to be a paramedic, but I always wanted to be an actor as well. I didn't have kids or something that I needed to provide for.

Directing has only increased my admiration and respect for what it is that actors do.

I don't know what else I could do but pretend to be an actor.

I always call myself a stuntman first and then an actor.

I'm one of the actors who really enjoys working with kids and animals, which is always a no go. There's something beautiful about it because you tend to forget yourself, as an actor.

If Chevy Chase had not been an actor, he might have been a very popular guy in advertising or whatever field he would have gone into, because of his charisma.

When I was a child, I wanted to be an actor, but I had really bad buck teeth. I didn't want to get braces, but my mom said I couldn't be an actor if I didn't get the braces. So, I got the braces.

Every time you start a movie is to explore with a director and if you can with the actors and with the other collaborators and try to figure out what's the best way to tell the specific story.

The lesson of history is rarely learned by the actors themselves.

When you're an actor, you're a slave to other people's visions.

An animator is an actor with a pencil.

I can remember when a good politician had to be 75 percent ability and 25 percent actor, but I can well see the day when the reverse could be true.