Movie Actors Quotes

Movie Actors Quote of the day

Hollywood is still the mecca for good or bad, but it isn't the beginning or end for filmmaking.

When you do an animated movie - at least the ones that I've been a part of - you never see any of the other actors. It's all done separately with headphones in a voice booth.

Every time I go to a movie, it's magic, no matter what the movie's about.

I'm drawn to filmmaking that can transport me. Film can immerse you, put you there.

What is filmmaking but groping in the dark?

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

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

Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.

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

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

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

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

What's funny is that there's a lot of great Australian actors in American movies but you don't often hear them do their Australian, original accent.

It's OK if Tim McGraw goes and does a movie, and it's OK if Justin Timberlake does a movie, but it's not OK for an actor to become a singer. I never understood that.

Actors get pigeonholed very quickly, particularly movie actors. In the theater, one is more used to casting people against type and trusting that their talent and skill will get them through.

The best part about the movie, and everybody seems to rave about it, is the boot camp part.

In Europe, there is no television filmmaking legislation that could assist film production because private broadcasters are not interested in supporting Polish film.

Movie actors earn their living and learn their craft through listening and reacting.

Very difficult to understand American audience, what they like, what they don't like. Some movie I like very much, it doesn't work. Some movie I don't like, it gets big box office. Very difficult.

Ryan Gosling. He was a good kid, good actor. I like him very much. What was the name of the movie? I've forgotten it. Fracture.

During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.

This was truly guerilla filmmaking. We shot out in the middle of nowhere in a place called Delta Flats, where basically every day was some new minor catastrophe.

Even when you're making a movie about life, death is a presence, and I guess it's part of my dramatic viewpoint. I'm not sure why exactly.

Heart of America is a movie I'm very proud of. The young actors are great and the story has impact.

Filmmaking is such a collaborative medium.

An actor really is a kind of intermediary between an audience and the piece, whether it's a play or movie.

Being here allows me to make the case that not all aging, narcissistic movie actors whose children could be mistaken for their grandchildren necessarily act with the same motivation.

For me, there is nothing more valuable than how people feel in a movie theater about a movie.

The process of filmmaking is very musical, you get into the rhythm and the rhythmics of how someone is, especially with Woody Allen who is very much into body language and body movement.

My first review for the TV movie The Bionic Showdown said I was as interesting as a bus ride.

I am a genre lover - everything from spaghetti western to samurai movie.

I couldn't have left my career as an actor on a better note than to have done a cameo in the Lost In Space movie. Doing this part is the highlight of my career. What a way to leave the profession!

The Super Bowl is like a movie, and the quarterback is the leading man.

A novelty in Polish filmmaking was that it was possible to find funds for a big production. However, at the same time, the state budget committed less and less money to filmmaking.

The actual process of filmmaking, the many hours out of your life- it is very slow and boring. I'm not interested in that now unless an opportunity was provided for me.

I could be making a lot more money now if I had chosen a different kind of movie, but none of that matters to me... I've done the parts I wanted to do.

You can't please everyone... If you make a good movie, that's all that matters.

I don't have incredible knowledge about films or of filmmaking history; I'm not that kind of person.

Movie actors are just ordinary, mixed-up people - with agents.

The moral of filmmaking in Britain is that you will be screwed by the weather.

I'd come into filmmaking as a painter so, for me, making 'Good Will Hunting' was experimental because I didn't know how to do it.

Thinking back to those earlier days, I felt I was weak when I wasn't making movies, and then when I was, I thought I was weak as a family member.

Any actor should be grateful if he's remembered for one movie in their lifetime.

On a movie set that works, you have your father figure, the director, you have your siblings, your other actors.

In this country, you have movie actors and theatre actors and television actors

Not disown my past or upbringing, but I'd admired American actors, really American movie star - particularly the rebel heroes of the '50s.

I discovered shooting and filmmaking around the time all of the software became affordable to anyone with a PC.

It’s hard to market a movie when you’re at the mercy of critics and journalists.

Editing is not a part of the filmmaking process I've ever been privy to as an actress.

Stage actors look down on movie actors, movie actors look down on TV actors, and TV actors look down on... mass murderers.