Actors Quotes
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When actors are talking, they are servants of the dramatist. It is what they can show the audience when they are not talking that reveals the fine actor.
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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'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.
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There's no such thing as good voices. Because there's no such thing as bad voices. There are only good actors and bad actors.
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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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I'm one of those actors who's just standing there, waiting and ready for something to come my way. I don't really try to think about, "Oh, I feel the next thing I should do should be a feature. Now, I think I should do a play." I just hope someone wants to cast me in something.
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John Hughes had such a huge impact on filmmaking.
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When most actors finally get to L.A., I think they expect to be the next Will Smith or Denzel Washington and that's not the case.
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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 mean, I hate when actors talk about how hard their job is. It's ridiculous, because we have the best job in the world.
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It was only when I realized how actors have the power to move people that I decided to pursue acting as a career.
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A lot of the films now are more focused on the visuals than on the actors. I think all directors should go to drama school.
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That's the first time I've been involved in such a big way as a voice actor and this script Voltron is very matter of factly.
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People say to me, 'Oh, being a mother must make you a better actor,' and I think, 'Well, I never sleep, I have very little time to think about anything except when I'm actually there.' I wonder whether that makes me a better actor. I think it must on some level.
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The history and baggage of certain actors and characters - it goes into the movie and becomes part of it. If Keanu Reeves wasn't Keanu with all the things that make him Keanu, it wouldn't be the same for him to come in and become his Bad Batch character The Dream. It's kind of meta or next-level interesting for me.
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The problem with television isn't the number of horizontal scanning lines. It's the lines of dialogue spoken by the actors.
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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.
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I just love working with actors in general.
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I started a production company out of necessity, the need for great narratives for actors of color.
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Actors just need each other to act together.
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Usually, those people don't even like actors and they can't wait until they get in the cutting room. They kind of break down in categories: directors who like to be surprised and some of them abhor being surprised. As far as directing, we all direct when we're acting in movies... every single one of us.
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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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A stage actor has to be 10% aware of the audience as he's performing.
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On the whole, British actors star in theater, and I think there's something quite grounding about that.
