Actors Quotes

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

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

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

I know my career is going badly because I'm being quoted correctly.

I know how to be strong. I know how to be ruthless. It's part of my nature. I wouldn't be an actor if I wasn't.

There's a fine line between the Method actor and the schizophrenic.

You, the actor, must be aware of when you're being funny, but the character you're playing should always be oblivious to the fact.

Many actors want to play Hamlet and Macbeth. Ever since I became an actor, from the very beginning I just wanted to play a Shetland pony. I cannot explain why

I've been terrified of the water, and yet it seems I'm forced to go into in on every movie that I make.

Actors do like watching girls parade down the runway for some reason.

For me, film-making is combining images and sounds of real things in an order that makes them effective. What I disapprove of is photographing things that are not real. Sets and actors are not real.

Some members of Congress are among the best actors in the world.

I never enjoyed my work more than when I worked with William Powell. He was a brilliant actor, a delightful companion, a great friend and, above all, a true gentleman.

I understand that if you set out to be a celebrity, then you asked for it, but all I wanted to be was an actor.

A lot of comic actors derive their main force from childish behavior. Most great comics are doing such silly things; you'd say, 'That's what a child would do.

God is not a supporting actor in our life movie. We exist for his purposes, not the other way around.

It's destiny that pushed me towards showbiz. I wanted to start off as a technician, but out of compulsion, I became an actor.

Each actor is a very different person, and each one has to be directed very differently.

The same thing I applied to football, I applied to trying to be an actor and hopefully it came off well.

I had to make a living. I had the mortgage to pay, I had the school fees to pay. I had bread and butter to put on the table. You know your worth as an actor, but you have to get a job.

If you want to be an actor, my advice is to learn your lines and don't bump into the other actors.

There has got to be more to life than being a really, really, ridiculously good actor.

Life is boring. The weather is boring. Actors must not be boring.

For acting, darlings, is the world's most perilous trade. Compared with actors, steeple jacks and deep-sea divers lead snug and placid lives.

I hate actors who come and quote Nietzsche.

A lot of actors think that the more lines they have the more attention they get. That's bullshit. I make people look at me. I don't have to say a lot of words.

There's just such a premium on hurrying, and the camera is the be all and end all, and the actors had better hurry up and get it right and get it done.

You know what I would like to do: make a film with actors standing in empty space so that the spectator would have to imagine the background of the characters.

My job as an actor, and the part of my job that I love is the transforming-and-becoming aspect of it, and so it doesn't become about me anymore.

Becoming an actor is like becoming a father. It's not hard to become one. Making a life of it is the challenge.

To be a good actor... it is necessary to have a firmly tempered soul, to be surprised at nothing, to resume each minute the laborious task that has barely just been finished.

You ask any actor - they'll tell you they'd rather shoot on location because you don't have to invent the energy, the energy is there.

I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.

I always wanted to be a comedian and actor. I basically stumbled into the music medium, though. I'm OK, but that's about it. I like to think I'm good enough not to negatively affect the performance.

Growth as an actor and as a human being are synonymous.

Once you look past the hype, actors are nothing more than fugitives from reality who specialize in contradiction: we are both children and hardened adults—wide-eyed pupils and jaded working stiffs.

Paris is the playwright's delight. New York is the home of directors. London, however, is the actor's city, the only one in the world. In London, actors are given their head.

There are many ways to be a mother. I have a lot of young actors I mentor, and my nieces and my nephews need a lot of love.

In motion pictures, the actor rules. The camera served the actor.

I don't need a critic to tell me I'm an actor. I make my own way. Nobody's my boss. Nobody's ever been my boss.

General improvisations often give actors an insight beyond their words by helping them to 'see the word' and achieve a reality for the scene.

The actor becomes an emotional athlete.

An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be.

If you catch me saying 'I am a serious actor,' I beg you to slap me.

I've been given lots of great advice, in my life. As an actor, just being as honest and as present as you can be.

God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.

I wanted to give my actor a break. I wanted to live and to learn English. I wanted to be anything, a cabdriver, a busboy, anything to keep me away from acting for a while.

The only thing an actor owes his public is not to bore them.

I was born a character actor. I was never really a leading man type.

I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don't.