Actors Quotes

• Different actors have different rhythms. My goal as a director is to let these guys get their best work out.

  

  Jonathan Krisel
  • Actors
  • Rhythms
  • Best Work

• It's rare that you get to work with actors, female or not, where you all get along. Just because of the nature of humanity.

  

  Shailene Woodley
  • Work
  • Nature
  • Humanity

• My circle of friends are not actors at all. None of them are actors, really, because they're are not available. They're always off somewhere.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Actors
  • Circles
  • Available

• 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."

  

  William H. Macy
  • Care
  • Advantage
  • Wit

• My goal was never to be famous, but to be a consistently working actor.

  

  Erin Cummings
  • Goal
  • Actors
  • Consistently

• I think all actors are professional liars.

  

  Sidharth Malhotra
  • Professional
  • Actors
  • Liars

• I always say YCDA: you can do anything. If you want to be a successful actor, you have to believe in yourself more than anything else, and dont let anybody tell you that you cannot do it because you can.

  

  Michael Clarke Duncan
  • Believe
  • Actors
  • Successful

• My work requires acting at its most committed - it demands actors of enormous resilience, but also intelligence and wit. It doesn't work for narcissistic or selfish actors.

  

  Mike Leigh
  • Acting
  • Selfish
  • Demand

• Actually I want to scare away method actors because it's a pain. It's like, 'Come on, what are you doing? It's not real. What are you doing? Oh, you're really brooding. Okay, good. Go to your trailer. I'll see you in an hour.'

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Real
  • Trailer
  • Brooding

• Actors are a really funny bunch of people, especially the X-Men cast. They're super funny and super nice, and they like to go out and get drinks and dinner and hang out. It's an experience. It's a summer. It's like camp. Everybody gets together and hangs out.

  

  Evan Peters
  • Experience
  • Cast
  • Camp

• Work is good when people are responsible, and in low-budget movies a lot of the actors don't want to be there. They're there to build a resume.

  

  Sean Young
  • People
  • Movie
  • Responsible

• There's an inherent responsibility actors feel when portraying something that actually exists in the world. It's arguably something that not all actors would agree on because this is a craft, but for me, it's the emotion of what a character is going through that makes the performance what it is. We have a responsibility to bring those emotions to light.

  

  Monica Potter
  • World
  • Character
  • Responsibility

• I wouldn't say I'm a method actor. I do research when I feel I don't have enough experience for the part I'm playing.

  

  Tim Robbins
  • Feels
  • Enough
  • Research

• I'm happiest when I'm acting, and I've dedicated my life to it. Still, as much as I love acting, at the end of the day, I want to be remembered as a great person, first, and as a great actor, second.

  

  Michael Ealy
  • Acting
  • Persons
  • Ends

• I've never been competitive with other actors. I've been competitive with myself and I'm my own worst critic, a terrible critic I am, and unless I get something right, I feel very unhappy.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Feels
  • Worst
  • Terrible

• I think a lot of actors, especially actors with a theater background, have a musical ear. A lot of actors just want to be musicians anyway, and a lot of musicians want to be actors.

  

  Cedric Yarbrough
  • Theater
  • Musical
  • Ears

• You're basically on set to help the production. You're helping the actors make it make sense, or maybe you wrote something that doesn't work in the production sense. Most of it is coming up with jokes.

  

  Katie Dippold
  • Work
  • Helping
  • Jokes

• I like actors very much, but to marry one would be like marrying your brother. You look too much alike in the mirror.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Actors
  • Mirror
  • Marry

• I don't want to be a star. If you have to label me anything, I'm an actor - I guess. A journeyman actor. I think 'star' is what you call actors who can't act.

  

  Paul Muni
  • Actors
  • Stars
  • Labels

• It is joyous for any actor to enter other grounds of consciousness and thought. At the end of the day, we just all like dressing up and playing around.

  

  Rhys Ifans
  • Consciousness
  • Joyous
  • Dressings

• When you get into the series, the progression is much different. You actually have breathing room and the chance to sit down with each actor, which was a part of our process, to talk to them about their pasts.

  

  Josh Gad
  • Different
  • Past
  • Chance

• Nobody became an actor because he had a good childhood.

  

  William H. Macy
  • Childhood
  • Actors

• I never understood actors who could just wait around.

  

  Scott Eastwood
  • Actors
  • Wait

• For the actors, there's something very important about that first showing of the scene to the crew, becomes like a little performance.

  

  Ewan McGregor
  • Important
  • Actors
  • Performance

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