Actors Quotes
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With both Caddyshack and Vacation, it's not like the subjects were serious enough that they engaged my interest for another round. I love the characters, and the actors were great, but I didn't see the need to make another Vacation movie.
Harold Ramis -
I don't get jobs in films by auditioning. I'm not blonde. You can't place me in movies the way you can with certain actors. It's very difficult for my agents.
Sandra Oh
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More than most people, the alcoholic leads a double life. He is very much the actor
William Griffith Wilson -
I love actors.
Cameron Crowe -
Actors are so fortunate. They can choose whether they will appear in tragedy or in comedy, whether they will suffer or make merry, laugh or shed tears. But in real life it is different. Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualifications. Our Guildensterns play Hamlet for us, and our Hamlets have to jest like Prince Hal. The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.
Oscar Wilde -
The actors I respect are the real character actors, who are the real chameleon actors that completely change from role to role. I love Peter Sellers, Alec Guinness and Gary Oldman. They tend to be British, I guess. People who really disappear and transform, I really like that.
Fran Kranz -
I fell in love with the whole process of making a movie. I loved the sets. I loved watching the actors and the crew.
Maika Monroe -
I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don't.
Uta Hagen
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Working with [Robert] De Niro taught me a lot about being an actor's director.
Angelina Jolie -
Some people are kind of themselves, and some people are straight-up actors that can meld into a lot of different parts.
Edward Furlong -
As a director you want to have actors, not only surpassing themselves, but also going somewhere, going different places.
Xavier Dolan -
I would love to get great performances from actors as a director, because that's what I'm always looking for, a director that's going to help me go places I've never been before.
Aaron Eckhart -
I love to be in the position of not knowing what I'm gonna do, but having rehearsed all of those so when something happens with the others actors I go with whatever that is I'm getting.
Wayne Rogers -
Economically, it’s more expensive to make movies. I hope digital movies change that.
Ang Lee
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It's weird talking about projects as an actor because you're so in them. I would prefer to write a paper and deliver it to everyone via e-mail.
Kristen Stewart -
Many casting directors won't hire aspiring actors because you might be burning some chick's headshot under the table so she doesn't get the part.
Olivia Wilde -
Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors.
Sam Worthington -
For most actors, it's such a struggle to get work. Once they have it, they feel that there's an enormous amount of pressure on them to make it work, and have everyone love them.
Kristen Stewart -
A hit film is what we work for as actors, as that goes to show that we have managed to entertain our audiences who shower us with their love and affection throughout the years.
Mahesh Babu -
I pick out young people and teach them in less time than it would take me to alter the methods of people from the boards, and I get actors who look the parts they have to fill.
D. W. Griffith
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Having been raised by actors who love moral ambiguity and flawed protagonists, I feel like it's sort of in the blood to want to take it on.
Laura Dern -
I knew that there were black people in Africa, of course, unfortunately because of movies such as 'Tarzan.'
Henry Louis Gates -
In western countries, there are roles written for older actors. Films are made on them, including love stories.
Om Puri -
I'm envious of actors. You shoot a movie or you do a season of 'Big Love,' and then you're on hiatus and you have a bunch of free time.
Jack McCollough