Actors Quotes
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The actors that I do know are people who I think have souls, you know?
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Actors must practice restraint, else think what might happen in a love scene.
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Work was never about wanting fame or money. I never thought about that. I loved getting the job, going to rehearsal, playing someone else, hanging around with a bunch of actors. I needed that, the way you need water.
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I think if you're a competent actor with a good imagination, and if it's on the page, it makes your job a lot easier.
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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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Because of the tax on being different, individual actors in the labour market from different backgrounds can rationally value the same opportunities differently.
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I never wanted to be an actor.
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I think the hardest thing about being an actor is between jobs when you don't know and wondering if you'll ever work again. It's kind of a crazy business.
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It doesn't matter if I have experienced actors alongside or novices. It doesn't matter if the director is one film old or a hundred. All I'm interested in is doing justice to the role.
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My parents didn't want me to be an actor. They didn't think I could take the rejection, and I have to say they were probably right.
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The kind of acting that's wholly literary or cerebral is wrong. It's useless for me to have actors so much in their heads that they can't be organic.
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Actors don't like to read what they're supposed to do.
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As an actor, you're kind of aware of everything, or you try to be, so you take in certain habits or find certain things, such as how someone sits or how demure they are. You get those things about everybody.
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I was born a character actor.
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Dates with actors, finally, just seemed to me evenings of shop talk. I got sick of it after a hile. So the more famous I became, the more I narrowed down my choices.
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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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I would encourage you as a screenwriter to trust your story and don't make notes for the actors or don't make notes for the reader.
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Very occasionally I hire an actor and get it wrong. The actor just doesn't trust the process or me as fully as I thought they would. In this case, you can be quite sure that if an actor is untrusting, it's got nothing to do with me or the process.
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I think a lot of actors are overly concerned about being well liked in the parts they play.
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I resisted being an actor for some time.
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You can see all sorts of things in film acting if you know where to look and what to look for. One thing I often notice is that the actor is looking for his mark, the place where he has to stand to be in the right place in the shot.
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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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I love working with great actors.
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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.
