Actors Quotes
-
There are two kinds of actors: those with one job too few, who have to take every one that comes along, and those with one job too many, who can always turn down the one they don't want.
-
All actors are naughty. We're all troublemakers - horrible, attention-seeking children. 'Me, me, look at me!'
-
William Hartnell was one of the great unsung character actors of his time
-
Every actor has their own method, so I'm not suggesting what works for me will work for everybody else.
-
When I shoot actors, I have that dilemma. I want the actor to be good, and sometimes I have to push them to a place that isn't pleasant. I always think: 'Is it worth doing for the sake of the movie?' But I have to remember the bigger picture.
-
In film, movies schedules are based on three things: actors availabilities, when are sets being built, when you can rent the place youre going to film in.
-
A lot of actors said they hated the studio system, but I loved it. It was like a college; it was a great place to learn.
-
When actresses play actresses, or actors play actors, they have to find another level.
-
I don't think that anyone learns anything. Well, I mean, you do always learn something if you have your eyes and ears open. You do learn something from every outing, every time that you go for it. But for me what actors do is interact and that's why you have to do that.
-
The reason why most of actors got into acting was so that we could become other people and have fun with being somebody else.
-
Film has to be reflecting the world that we live in, and that's all you want to be a part of. Actors inhabit the same planet as everyone else. It's a weird thing that happens when you're an actor because people hold you up because you somehow embody in parts groups of people or people's hopes or something.
-
Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating. There is something to the repeats. I think that is part of what is healthy to young actors. Get out and learn something just through doing that, repeating.
-
All actors have to make the words fit in their mouths, and make the words the words fit to how you say it and how you make it life-like and make it look like what you're saying is just conversation that you're just thinking off the top of your head. That process is not quite improvisation.
-
Actors are always outsiders. It's necessary to be able to interpret - and that gets distorted when you become famous.
-
I think actors make the mistake of finding their little niche in the business and once they try to do something a little darker, boom, they get slapped across the face for it, so they go back to what they did before.
-
Showtime has given new, young filmmakers - black, white, across the board - an opportunity to make films, as well as actors who want to cross over into directing.
-
As an actor, it's your job to find the way to play a character. I think you can latch on to some things that might have happened.
-
The fictional work is a kind of actor that wears a satirical garb but can put on other costumes as well.
-
Even when I was young I wanted to be an actress. I knew the actors and the paparazzi. It was just kind of always in my landscape. It was never directed at me, but it was always somewhere so I could see how it operated and I could see it from afar and go 'Wow, that's not really glamorous, it's kind of exhausting not having any privacy.' So it was never something I pursued. The first time I saw the billboard for Pretty Little Liars I almost got into a car accident!
-
The best part is it's a dream come true. I've always wanted to be a working actor, and the good part of it... it's all good! I work long hours, but it's amazing. They pay me. That's amazing! I get to kiss Keri Russell, and that ain't too bad.
-
I had a lot of time before I actually got my break so to speak. I was building websites for other actors. I worked in a grocery store back in the little village where I grew up but I found it mind-numbingly boring.
-
It doesn't matter if you work with an Oscar winner or if you work with an unknown actor. There is always a collaboration between the director and the actors, and you always have to listen as the actors have to listen to you as a director.
-
It's the rare happening when actors get together and you have chemistry, connection, just something that works, that's bigger than what's on the page.
-
I was an activist long before I even entertained the possibility of being an actor.
