Actors Quotes
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Somehow even tragedies seem less tragical, when you are the actors in them, than they look to outsiders...
Hannah Whitall Smith
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Actors have to stay optimistic. The moment we start thinking otherwise, we're dead.
Peter O'Toole
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There are lots of actors, and you need a way to stand out. Writing comedy sketches was a way of doing that.
Sharon Horgan
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If my kids decide to be actors and really, truly love it and are passionate about it, then I would definitely want to help them along their way, but it's a tough business.
Josie Bissett
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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.
Mike Leigh
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I am in so many movies that are on TV at 2:00 a.m. that people think I am dead.
Michael Caine
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The actors that I do know are people who I think have souls, you know?
Winona Ryder
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Some deeply untrusting actors - the kind that need to know exactly what's what and are completely insecure - might be quite good within the parameters of a certain sort of acting.
Mike Leigh
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I'm an actor and my job is to interpret.
Richard Madden
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I watch the energy between the actors. That's the most thrilling and interesting thing to me about watching a movie, what the actors are doing.
Barbara Crampton
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I know many great actors who have small heads.
Catherine Keener
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Actors do these really gross, gun-'em-down movies, and I always wonder why. They're not good movies. And it's like, "Why are you doing them? Aren't you rich enough?"
Winona Ryder
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A lot of directors are great and they are fine but you know I think that Harry really takes a special point to really engage the actors and really make it feel like a safe place for them to explore whatever it is they want to explore in whatever scene with their character.
Will Estes
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When you're on set and you professionally listen to what the other actors have to say, then the emotion is naturally evoked.
Shailene Woodley
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The photographer discovers himself/herself being photographed and we can guess he is uncomfortable. Unsuccessfully he/she tries to recompose his posture and to look like a photographer taking photos. But no, he is and continues to be a spectator. The momentous fact of being photographed leads him to becoming an actor. And, as always, actors must assume a role, which is only an elegant way of avoiding to say they must choose sides, choose a faction, take an option.
Subcomandante Marcos
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Let me be honest - I might do a franchise film like 'Golmaal' if it comes my way. Eventually, we are all in Mumbai to become bigger stars, not better actors.
Swara Bhaskar
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One of the things I enjoyed the most is just working as an actor.
Wes Anderson
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I was always a character actor. I just looked like Little Red Riding Hood.
Paul Newman
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I've been on movies where I literally couldn't hear what the other actor was saying. It's very awkward.
Michael Caine
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I didnt know any actors growing up. My dad was a builder, and we didnt know any arty types.
Stephen Mangan
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I'm a big fan of Frank Sinatra, he was the best at what he did. The last thing I do is model my career after him, though, because we do different things. He was a great singer and a great actor ... It never crossed my mind to emulate his career, because we have different interests.
Harry Connick, Jr.
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I wasn't sure I wanted to be an actor.
Romain Duris
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A real explosion is not only much more fun to shoot, it also helps the actors and creates an energy on set and ultimately in the scene.
Steven Soderbergh
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In Germany, actors tend to be more laid-back and take orders from the director: 'Tell me what you want.' I'm more into collaboration. So are Americans.
Nina Hoss