Actors Quotes

• Most people don't think of actors and people like us that are performers and out in the world as introverts, but I like to know I can trust someone first.

  

  Eric Stonestreet
  • Trust
  • Performer
  • Introverts

• I read about some movie where they did everything on blue screen, and the actors were not even connecting to each other.

  

  Michel Gondry
  • Blue
  • Screens
  • Connecting

• The performance is created by the director. The actor is the material. And I think that has to be true.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Thinking
  • True
  • Directors

• Most of actor's work is done at home, in your hotel room, in the wee hours of the morning thinking and reading and feeling, walking around and listening to music. It really just because an internal exercise, whatever skills. It's great if you have to learn something new for a gig and designing a character physically is always fun but it does become an internal exercise in separating the wheat from the chaff.

  

  Colin Farrell
  • Work
  • Great
  • Music

• When I was a kid, you went and saw movies. You knew very little about the actor's personal life except what would be, like, in Photoplay or something. We didn't hear "The Making of..." every single movie, and actors didn't have to put this tremendous piece of work that they'd done into a sound bite.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Life
  • Work
  • Done

• 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 only boring part of it is finding the fact that got you from point A to point B. Most actors, if they're being honest, are not going to say that that's the most stimulating acting work they've ever done. But the dynamics of staring into the face of evil and it looking back at you, and seeing yourself in that or not, is interesting.

  

  Benjamin McKenzie
  • Interesting
  • Dynamics
  • Face Of Evil

• When I was in New York, I was making a living. We had a summer house and a car that I could put in a garage. That's something for a stage actor.

  

  William H. Macy
  • House
  • Car
  • Summer

• There are a lot of things that dancers can do that actors cannot and actors can do that dancers cannot.

  

  Wim Wenders
  • Actors
  • Dancer

• Hollywood likes to put actors in boxes, and it likes to put Asian actors in really small boxes.

  

  Sandra Oh
  • Actors
  • Boxes
  • Asian

• There are actors that come in and do a fight sequence, but when they have to fall on the ground or take a tag to the belly a bit too hard, they're shocked at how real it is.

  

  Monique Ganderton
  • Real
  • Hard
  • Ground

• I do like taking on responsibility, sometimes too much. But I was aware of that early on and it's something that came up in the previous set of interviews, and that is the actor‛s contribution.

  

  William Mapother
  • Responsibility
  • Sometimes
  • Contribution

• Garrel has succeeded in filming something we have never seen before: the faces of actors in silent films during those moments when the black intertitles, with their paltry, illuminated words, filled the screen.

  

  Serge Daney
  • Moments
  • Film
  • Faces

• When I hire actors I believe in their abilities.

  

  Sean Durkin
  • Actors
  • Abilities

• I always call myself a stuntman first and then an actor.

  

  Akshay Kumar
  • Actors
  • Firsts
  • Stuntman

• I came to feel as protective of Elijah as Sam does of Frodo .. In turn, Elijah helped me discover a lot about myself and I literally might not have survived the journey had this young prince of an actor not taken me under his wing.

  

  Sean Astin
  • Taken
  • Journey
  • Elijah

• I find, surprisingly, that actors are liberated in their work if there's stuff going on around them, because they can't think too much about who they're supposed to be.

  

  Michel Gondry
  • Actors
  • Stuff
  • Liberated

• I just think there are a lot of celebrities who don't feel that they have a voice. A lot of actors come from a place of fear, and that's just a general statement about actors. You're terrified the casting director won't like you, you're terrified the producer won't like you, you're terrified the director won't like you, and on and on.

  

  George Clooney
  • Directors
  • Producers
  • Casting

• I have always wanted to do a book about actors because I think that the death of a character is a tremendously emotional experience.

  

  Scott Cohen
  • Character
  • Book
  • Experience

• I always tell actors, "Don't think of it as unemployment when you don't have a job. You have to think of it as being in preparation for your next job." You have to be always preparing for success.

  

  Virginia Madsen
  • Thinking
  • Jobs
  • Preparation

• I traveled and worked with amazing actors, like Andy Garcia, Alec Baldwin, Brendan Fraser, Forest Whitaker, Lee Pace. It was this great learning experience. And then, I started watching a lot of television. I was always in these foreign countries and I would get TV shows on DVD, and I started to realize that all of the amazing roles for women were on television. I was spoiled by Buffy because I thought that was the way it was everywhere, and it's not.

  

  Sarah Michelle Gellar
  • Country
  • Realizing
  • Roles

• I think Straight Outta Compton is one of the greatest biopics, but I am biased on that one, obviously. There are some things the Academy gets wrong and it's important to call them on it. But in other instances, there are simply just better actors. They're doing a better job than they've done, but there's still room for improvement.

  

  Bun B
  • Academy
  • Straight Outta Compton
  • Biopics

• Unfortunately, I feel as actors we have to fight for the right to really go in as many directions as possible.

  

  Karen Allen
  • Fight
  • Actors
  • Possible

• I sometimes listen to music to get into some place that I need to get. I don't think it's because I have a musician as a father that I do this - most actors do.

  

  Brigitte Michael Sumner
  • Music
  • Father
  • Place

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