Actors Quotes

I'm the empty stage where various actors act out various plays.

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

I never will believe there is such a thing as a great actor.

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

To be an actor, a true actor, you have to be brokenhearted.

Every actor has his own identity. I don't aspire to be Bond. My quest is to do something new, something different.

maybe a certain amount of narcissism is as essential to an actress as muscles are to a football lineman.

Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that.

It was one of those plays in which all of the actors unfortunately enunciated very clearly.

When I was young I used to sit in the cinema thinking wouldn't it be great if you could have a film in which the characters were like real people instead of being like actors.

One of the grave dangers inherent in the various stages of any theatrical career-whether it be budding, quiescent or diminishing-is the advice of friends.

I know that I'm better as an actor when I'm working with a good actor. I think anytime you're working with a better actor, it makes you a better actor.

Mr. Hitchcock did not say actors are cattle. He said they should be treated like cattle.

When you're a lead role, I'm learning that you set a tone for the movie in a way, like a director does, or like other actors do. But it seems like you set a mood on set.

My favorite character on Friends was Joey, because we're both actors. I always thought that was so cool.

There are definitely reasons to do certain things, but I like to stick to good director, good actor, good script.

Actors will never be replaced. The thought that somehow a computer version of a character is going to be something people prefer to look at is a ludicrous idea.

Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself.

It's different when you're an actor and playing a part, but when it's just you, you feel immensely vulnerable have strangers prodding and prying.

The scenery in the play was beautiful, but the actors got in front of it.

...as an actor there's nothing better than a great moody moment to play with nothing to say. It's so much easier to do because you can really get inside your head.

I'm not a movie star like other actors in the way that I need to walk with a bodyguard.

A ham is simply any actor who has not been successful in repressing his natural instincts.

I am not born to just become an actor

I think, as an actor, you're always traveling. There's a sense of dislocation sometimes from home.

I would do 'John Carter' again tomorrow. I'm very proud of 'John Carter.' Box office doesn't validate me as a person, or as an actor.

If you're not good looking, you're considered a good actor, you know what I mean?

If you're an actor, you have to find a way to make peace with all the media attention.

Sisters, brothers and the whities, Blacks and the crackers, Police and their backers, They're all political actors

Now, what does an actor who can't talk do? Wait for silent pictures to come back?

I've never really felt like I was a child actor. Just an actor who happened to be quite young.

If the scene bores you when you read it, rest assured it WILL bore the actors, and will then bore the audience, and we're all going to be back in the breadline.

Actors must practice restraint, else think what might happen in a love scene.

I'm always excited to be around other actors. I sometimes only get to work with myself, and it's so tedious. I was so excited to go to work every day, and we ran into work every day.

Perhaps I'm not a good actor, but I would be even worse at doing anything else.

I would almost say that the best screen actor is the man who can do nothing extremely well.

It is often difficult to watch yourself onscreen, especially 60-feet high. As an actor, it is an uncomfortable experience.

Actors have bodyguards and entourages not because anybody wants to hurt them - who would want to hurt an actor? - but because they want to get recognized. God forbid someone doesn't recognize them.

The nature of the video camera really makes you focus on the present. Since I have always been a diarist filmmaker, not one who stages scenes with actors, it has always been about the present moment.

I was never a fanatical movie person.

You know when you watch old movies, it's always the small parts you remember, the character actors who come in like a breath of fresh air.

The actor must be full of passion. If he's too cool he's better off as the manager of a company, not someone who appears on the stage.

I don't hate being an actor. But if there's a choice, I prefer to direct.

It's what I learn from the great actors that I work with. Stillness. That's all and that's the hardest thing.

At one point you think, well, it's funny, I could just be a starving actor... So if somebody were to pull the plug right now, there'd be no room for complaint.

I always wanted to be an actor, but my top three favorite actors of all time are Al Pacino, James Dean and Philip Seymour Hoffman.

Actors are just entertainers, even the serious ones. That's all an actor is. He's like a serious Bruce Forsyth.

If you're not still learning and growing as an actor, then you have no backbone and no career

I came out of my mum's stomach going, 'I want to be an actor!'