Actors Quotes
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People order clothes out of a catalogue, put it on an actor and everything is generic.
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August, the summer's last messenger of misery, is a hollow actor.
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It's nice to have people interested about a show that you're involved in. It's what actors want.
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I don't even think of myself as particularly good looking, and not at all a typical kind of Hollywood leading man sort of actor.
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What impresses me is the young actors with terrific talent arriving on the scene. They'd have blown us all away in the old days. Guys like Brad Pitt.
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Maybe I'm a better actor when I know there's going to be an older woman involved.
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Look, I'm not odd. I'm just trying to be an actor; not a movie star, an actor.
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Maybe actors are more passionate about cinema than actresses. Many heroines today seem unable to look beyond glamour.
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The problem in America as far as actors are concerned - and it's probably true in other fields, as well - is that they don't value people who are older or talented. I don't think ability means anything. How much money you have or how much money you can make for them are the only things they seem to care about or understand.
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I was a child actor, so when I started filming when I was five years old, it was a long time ago.
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It's difficult working with very rich actors, because inevitably they become a little spoilt, and the managers and agents tend to control things more than is healthy.
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I think probably the best example was the year Jack Palance dropped down and gave us push-ups when he accepted his award for supporting actor. Then we got to throw away a lot of the script because we just did Jack Palance jokes, because it was just too delicious, watching this old man carry on like that.
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When the movie comes out, what anybody thinks of it doesn't really matter to me. I don't go to the wrap party. I don't go to the premiere.
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Actors are pretending for you, but they're not lying. They are not putting on a guise instead of themselves. They are finding things inside that they have experienced.
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I'm a Method actor. I spent years training for the drinking and carousing I had to do in this film.
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First one works alone through the mind, then before the public through experience.
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I enjoy being an actor largely; in part at least, because you get to walk a mile in another person's shoes, you get to see what their skin is like. The other good thing is you get to leave it.
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The director's job is to know what emotional statement he wants a character to convey in his scene or his line, and to exercise taste and judgment in helping the actor give his best possible performance.
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It took me a long time to find out that I was born to be an actor. It was the last thing on my list, although my list was very small. I didn't know what to do. But kids weren't supposed to know what to do back then; we were all cute and we'd find out what we'd do later in life.
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My husband, who's the greatest actor in the world, can do anything. Look at what he did in The Critic and Oedipus. In every role he gets-he did this in Richard the Third-there's nothing he can't do, nothing. Just nothing.
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Those familiar with our Musical Theatre Workshops productions will notice this is a very large cast. With only 10 days of rehearsal, these 20 actors will have their work cut out for them. It's definitely a labor of love.
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When you're doing the same scene over and over, all day long, you need to keep your levels up for your own performance and for the other actors.
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Yeah, I am a character actor.
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Meeting people is difficult, period. LA is a difficult place to meet people anyway, and Hollywood is such a small community. But I don't make it a rule just to date other actors and people in the entertainment industry. It could work out with me and a dentist. It could work out with me and a lawyer.
