Actors Quotes
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You couldn't hope to make a drama and have people rewriting on the day and having the actors making suggestions, "Wouldn't it be funny if my character did this?" "No. You're the actor. I'll tell you what to do."
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The reason my films work is because every actor on set is very secure. They're able to fly.
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All my characters are me. I'm not a good enough actor to become a character. I hear about actors who become the role and I think 'I wonder what that feels like.' Because for me, they're all me.
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I get to play a great character while working with great actors and great directors on a great show.
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An actor needs something to stabilize his personality, something to nail down what he really is, not what he is currently pretending to be.
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I love working with actors. If you cast the right person in the right part at the right time, they make you look like a better writer and director than you really are.
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I am a great admirer of other actors, but I never compete with other actors. I always compete with what I did last, and I'm my own most vicious critic. So I'm always trying to do it better.
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You've got to have a sense of different audiences. I'm a kind of performer manque - I come from a long line of failed actors!
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I honestly think I'm just an actor. It doesn't matter the medium. I can go on stage and be happy, I can be on TV and be happy.
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In some way, the relationship between a director and an actor is personal.
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If you say "I'm going to be an actor, but I'll get a teaching degree just in case," when things get hard, you'll just be a teacher and that's how you get stuck.
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Any actor will tell you that you go where the work is, especially when you have children.
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I would love to play an unexpected character. Really raw and simple and not a cliche - something rugged. People like to put actors in boxes.
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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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I'm not a movie star. People know me, but they don't necessarily know what they know me for. I get recognised, but it's not like Justin Bieber. It's a nice thing, people are cool.
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I'll never admit that I'm an actor, because the next horrible follow-up question is always, "Oh, what have I seen you in?"
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I enjoyed meeting Emma Watson. I have a soft spot in my heart for child actors growing up. I know how hard that is. Having gone through that experience myself, I have a lot of sensitivity to it. For lack of a better word, I just feel like I love these kids, and I want them all to grow up and love themselves, and not get caught up in the wrong things, and to learn all the different things this profession has to give, and to understand it.
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I don't think anybody planned for me to be an actor. I didn't. I didn't know this was what I was going to do.
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A lot of movie stars are not great actors; they're just very good-looking. And when they start to age and they don't have the looks any more, then it's over.
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Living as an actor is rather like living life on the trapezes in a circus. Every time you jump on, you have to pray that, when the time comes for you to jump off, there is another trapeze swinging your way.
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I like actors who don't have to think too hard about what they have to do to achieve their performance.
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What I learned about acting, from my experiences directing, is why so many producers and directors don't like actors. You go through all of this work securing a location, figuring out how to get electricity there, how to get trucks parked where they need to be, and where catering is going to come from. And if the actors don't come up with some magic, it actually didn't matter. That creates a lot of animosity towards the actors.
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Some directors hardly talk to the actors at all.
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I might have a guitar or a piano on set to play something for the actors.
