Actors Quotes
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Some members of Congress are among the best actors in the world.
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When a film is good, the spectators feel like they are the actors. What I love in film is not to watch the film but to live the film.
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As an actor, you deal with so much rejection and humiliation. When the good things come around, you tend not to trust your instincts.
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A big fear of working with an actor that's never been a lead in a film before is that you're going to have to work really hard to pull a performance out of her.
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I have a passion for words. I love words. And I'm just learning and developing my skills for words. I do books and I do journalism and plays. I have a broad palette. I don't have a great eye for direction. I love working with actors and I work very well with them because I appreciate what they bring to the table. I'd never say never, of course, but I look at it and don't really fancy it. I want to try and master the word side of it first.
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Most aspiring child actors or child stars have a passion for it. But as easy as it is for me to say that I wouldn't put my kids in it, if I saw that they really, really wanted to do and they had the drive, then I would fully support it. As long as there's balance at home, then they could do whatever they wanted to do.
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The notion that acting is simply about intuitively responding to situations the way you feel couldn't be farther away from how I ask actors to work.
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I think as an actor you're lucky to have any film take on a life of its own long after it's left the theater.
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I don't know if child actors are necessarily more screwed up than most people.
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I don’t like writing for comedians. I like writing for actors. The best comedians are the best actors.
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Movie actors earn their living and learn their craft through listening and reacting.
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I was a repertory actor, which meant that I did a play every week. I was a different character every week; for a year, I was doing 40 or 50 characters.
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The actor has the advantage - or the liability - of knowing, "It's going to be my face up there on the frickin' screen, so I better keep my wits about me. Nobody's going to care that I was bad because I was not happy. They're only going to know I'm bad."
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It's no fun for an actor to keep repeating what you did before. It's always changing. I'm changing. The target keeps moving. That's the beauty of it.
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What I find sometimes that is tricky is if actors are using too much of their own life in a picture, in a scene, they get locked into a particular way to play the scene, and it lacks an immediacy.
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I'd like to think I'm an actor who leaves things at work.
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I believe in the time when we shall be able to create works of art in the Theatre without the use of the written play, without the use of actors.
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When you work with directors who really love actors, who love their contribution, it feels amazing. But sometimes when you work with directors, you feel like youre in the way.
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I just love working with actors in general.
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You know, it's a wonderful thing. I have to say that some of the greatest actors I've ever worked with have been doing anime for years. It's not just because of the popularity, either.
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I'm scared of actors with a scheme.
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A lot of actors talk about doing their homework, but very few of them do it.
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At the end of the day, what actors really want to do is act a lot and not wait around in the trailer.
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There are some actors who are rehearsal actors, and some who are not. I am not. Having said that, I don't know what I am talking about.
