Actors Quotes
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Before I start directing a show, I try to spend a few weeks hanging around the set, getting to know the crew and talking to the actors about how they like to work. Who is fussy? Who is left-handed? Who wants to go home early, and who is the perfectionist?
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Sometimes, when people use too much blue screen in movies, the actors don't look credible, because they have their own opinion of what the thing will look like, and each person has a different opinion.
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As an actor, I would call it a role where you get to stretch out a bit.
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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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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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As an actor, I love working with directors. As much as I love working with other actors.
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You can meet lots of actors who are in their own world and do their own thing, and they have no idea what's going on and they don't know anyone's name around them.
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In L.A. everyone is an actor. In Texas, everyone's a musician.
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I feel that I have grown so much as an actor being on 'Homeland'.
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To actors on opening night: You have had good equipment to work with. You've had a theater with everything you needed, and you are involved with the play; but all the way through you have been handicapped. One essential has been denied you. Tonight the audience is there; now they are sitting out front; you have everything you need.
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I know many great actors who have small heads.
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Actors never say they're poor. They're always broke. It's always just temporary. 'Broke' is 'poor with hope'.
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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 think that all the Mel Brooks' company of actors is just tremendous. It was a crazy group of genius people. All of them taught me what kind of actor I should be and what was funny.
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It's a wonderful profession, and it opens lots of doors, and I think it's quite right that people can accuse actors and actresses of being dilettante, but you learn on every job, whatever it is, the process moves you on in some way, and yeah, I want to expand my knowledge of our existence, I suppose.
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There are plenty of bad actors and there are plenty of bad directors. There are actors who will always be bad and there are good actors who you cry for because they're being badly directed or the material isn't good enough.
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In a way, putting actors deep into this sort of complicated universe frees them from thinking about who they should be. They just are somebody.
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One of the things I enjoyed the most is just working as an actor.
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Insecurity, commonly regarded as a weakness in normal people, is the basic tool of the actor's trade.
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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 was always a character actor. I just looked like Little Red Riding Hood.
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We're one of the forces that causes actors to fasten seat belts before they take off chasing the bad guy in the car... or removes some of the cigarette smoking on television.
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I think the unemployment rate for actors is pretty much the same in Sydney, London and New York. In all three cities, there are more actors than there are jobs. But I do think that there are far more acting opportunities in London and New York than in Sydney, where there are approximately seven actors that you see over and over again in every play.
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I was trained as a dramatic actor. Im really excited to do some more dramatic stuff.
