Actors Quotes

• There's no set designer like your own self; you furnish the mise-en-scène, the wardrobe, the physical proportions of the actor, and the setting. Then radio is doing something that television very rarely achieves.

  

  Norman Corwin
  • Achieve
  • Designer
  • Proportion

• The most important definition of an actor, the job of the actor, is to serve the writer, not yourself. Way too many actors serve themselves.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Important
  • Job
  • Way

• I have like 10 actors and 100 aliens in the film Valerian. And they come from the four corners of the universe. Some of them are liquid. Some of them are just so visually crazy.

  

  Luc Besson
  • Film
  • Aliens
  • Valerian

• An actors most important responsibility is to know lines well.

  

  Harry Morgan
  • Responsibility
  • Actors
  • Lines

• Actors are actually very supportive of each other.

  

  Alan Rickman
  • Actors
  • Supportive

• Inspiration can come from anywhere. But I do love actors. I wish I could drop a bunch of names, but there are just too many.

  

  Kevin Corrigan
  • Wish
  • Inspiration
  • Actors

• Im always trying to improve my skills as an actor. I think it shows in El Gringo; it shows in the new Universal Soldier. You cant rest on your laurels; youve got to keep improving.

  

  Scott Adkins
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • Shows

• Anyone who has been given the gift of being opposite an actor who gives and gives, it just makes you better.

  

  Sandra Bullock
  • Giving
  • Given
  • Opposites

• As an actor, I've learned to become a detective. You have to figure out who that person is. If the character is a thief, you have to figure out what makes them a thief. Whatever the prevailing idiosyncrasy is, I have to find it in the script.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Character
  • Actors
  • Thieves

• The big turn in the late 90s was that I realized I was going to be doing this for a long time. I was fairly sure I was going to be an actor for the rest of my life, which I think calmed me down.

  

  Michael Weatherly
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Realized

• The most dangerous physicians are those born actors who imitate born physicians with a perfectly deceptive guile.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Actors
  • Physicians
  • Guile

• I've been thinking lately about immortality. What it means to be remembered, what I want to be remembered for, certain questions concerning memory and fame. I love watching old movies. I watch the faces of long-dead actors on the screen, and I think about how they'll never truly die. I know that's a cliché but it happens to be true. Not just the famous ones who everyone knows, the Clark Gables, the Ava Gardners, but the bit players, the maid carrying the tray, the butler, the cowboys in the bar, the third girl from the left in the nightclub. They're all immortal to me. First we only want to be seen, but once we're seen, that's not enough anymore. After that, we want to be remembered.

  

  Emily St. John Mandel
  • Movies
  • Memory
  • Players

• When you get great actors like that turning up and not being paid, then they all come for the right reason. They all come to play and they all come to enjoy the characters.

  

  Paul McGuigan Oasis
  • Reason
  • Enjoy
  • Paid

• I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

  

  Adam Sandler
  • Guy
  • Excited
  • Comedian

• Most of the top actors and actresses may be working in ten or twelve films at the same time, so they will give one director two hours and maybe shoot in Bombay in the morning and Madras in the evening. It happens.

  

  Satyajit Ray
  • Giving
  • Morning
  • Film

• There is only one thing I respect in so-called Broadway actors... and that is their competitive sense.

  

  Elia Kazan
  • Respect
  • Actors
  • Broadway

• You project a version of yourself to the public to protect and insulate yourself a little bit. Actors come up with a version of themselves in order to protect the real person.

  

  Steve Carell
  • Actors
  • Protect
  • Version

• I think a movie is a media that is evoking feelings.

  

  Ang Lee
  • Thinking
  • Movie
  • Feelings

• I'm a task-oriented actor. A pretender. And I try to invent my process anew each time I make a new project. So I frown on any method.

  

  Willem Dafoe
  • Trying
  • Method
  • Pretender

• I was born and raised in New York and I'm of an age where I want to just be home. But, you know, when you sign up to be an actor it's like joining the circus and the circus is not always going to be in your hometown.

  

  Dean Winters
  • Up
  • Home
  • Age

• As an actor, I like as much time with the material as possible and given the opportunity, time spent with the other actors in the scene. But that is a rare luxury in working in any TV series.

  

  Vincent Piazza
  • Opportunity
  • Scene
  • Given

• I've done movies where I've had to cast actors and teach them to rap, and cast rappers and teach them to act.

  

  Craig Brewer
  • Done
  • Rap
  • Cast

• There is this thing called Actors Access, which is run by the breakdown services. What they do is they put up casting notices that are available to everyone. Because there's thousands and thousands of actors and there are student films and grad student films and, sometimes, some small independent projects that are on there.

  

  Bostin Christopher
  • Independent
  • Films
  • Services

• I think it's always good when you're able to, as an actor, allow your work to be some kind of a conduit for social discourse, and an examination of where we are, as a society.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Good
  • Work
  • Thinking

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