Actors Quotes

We have the Terminator as governor, and we had an actor as president, so why shouldn't we have a fashion designer as a senator?

As an actor, you need that constant change, or things will get stale.

An actor who is good at comedy can also be very good at drama, but not necessarily vice versa.

I am the most fortunate self-taught harpist and non-speaking actor who has ever lived.

The role of an actor is to make every character believable.

Acting itself is quite scary. Some people say that actors are show-offs, very egotistical and all that kind of stuff, but it is quite scary.

In a sense, I think a movie is really a little like a question and when you make it, that's when you get the answer.

The public must suffer untold pangs from the stiffness, the deliberate stifling of emotion, on the part of many British actors.

Actors are an insecure breed. It's hard to have your career depend upon other people's opinions of what you do.

Actors cannot work against each other. It's totally impossible.

What I find sometimes that is tricky is if actors are using too much of their own life in a picture, in a scene, they get locked into a particular way to play the scene, and it lacks an immediacy.

Ninety per cent of how you learn is watching great people. When you are surrounded by good actors it lifts your performance.

To be a good actor, you have to be very smart. But to be a great actor, you also have to have a streak of, 'I'm an idiot, a complete lunatic.'

As actors, you become an expert at starting over.

Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he'd be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.

A lot of actors get concerned about their own image, even going so far as to rewrite a movie to best serve that image. All I want to do is be in good movies.

They're a very strange lot actors, very strange people.

Because technically actors are just public servants really. They just tell stories because people need to be told stories. That's all it is. And yet we get treated as though we're important.

My biggest fear as an actor is being involved in something mediocre, or being mediocre myself.

I look at leading men because that's ultimately what I'm aspiring to do. But I also look at character actors and people that I'm just in awe by, just because I can relate to it.

I thought I was an actor playing a wizard. But really, I was a wizard playing an actor.

Some of the most intense affairs are between actors and characters. There's a fire in the human heart and we jump into it with the same obsession as we have with our lovers.

Is this film more interesting than a documentary of the same actors having lunch?

As actors, we're all encouraged to feel that each job is the last job. They plant some little electrode in your head at an early stage and you think, 'Be grateful, be grateful, be grateful.'

When they asked Jack Benny to do something for the Actor's Orphanage - he shot both his parents and moved in.

All actors bring something unexpected to the role because they have to translate what's on the page and make a real character out of the black-and-white text that's there in the script.

Actually, the most entitled people I've met are indie rockers and indie actors, because they really believe their press.

I never dreamed of being an actor, but I'm beginning to love it more and more because I like challenging myself. When I feel like I'm not learning or having fun anymore, then I'll stop.

So many people are called but few serve as actors, you know what I mean?

I was very young when I was in RNBDJ and that journey had enabled me as an actor. I am not very confident of my growth as an actor but I am very confident of my growth as a person.

Your job as actors is to understand the size of what you say, to understand what's beneath the word.

The staff, stage managers, ushers all behaved as if they respected the actors.

I was born an ordinary actor. I will die an ordinary actor. But I've persisted.

After every single take, I laugh. It's my own awkwardness and discomfort about being an actor.

There are too many stars and too few actors.

Against the background of this luminous and sparkling stage Bond stood in the sunshine and felt his mission to be incongruous and remote and his dark profession an affront to his fellow actors.

People think that the directors direct actors. No. Really, what the director's doing is directing the audience's eye through the film.

I really think music and movement - dance, you know - and literature inform my visuals. I think film is also based in dance. The relationship between me, the camera and the actor is always a dance.

As actors we give so much of ourselves away so I like to keep my personal life to myself.

I hope the perception is that I'm an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.

I became an actor because it was the only thing I could do. I didn't have any friends, I didn't fit in. But when I started acting everything in my life shifted and I felt happy.

My career was full of struggles and dreams, disappointments and peaks and valleys. But there was no Twitter, no Facebook or TMZ. Young actors could make mistakes and not become the focus of tabloids.

Regrets are something you can't really have as an actor, because ultimately you'll end up destroying yourself there's a lot of disappointment in this business.

The hardest job an actor can do is all this pretend, all this screaming and being scared for your life.

Dog movies nowadays are not what dog movies were 50 or even 10 years ago. For one thing, the dogs have become better actors.

A movie is not a book. If the source material is a book, you cannot be too respectful of the book. All you owe to the book is the spirit.

During my childhood, I was surrounded by actors and all I remember is they were fun to be around. That kind of sticks.

If a scene isn't well written they'll drop your neckline to fill the void.

As a director you want to have actors, not only surpassing themselves, but also going somewhere, going different places.

It's really important to draw the line on what we do as actors.