Actors Quotes
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Everybody in L.A. wants to be an actor. I just wish I could meet somebody who doesn't act or sing.
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Set designers, costume designers, actors, writers, music, that's what is beautiful.
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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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It's the way the business works, you're not just an actor, you're a diplomat and a publicist and a politician, and there are certain expectations.
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Some directors hardly talk to the actors at all.
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Even on my films, I always collaborate with the actors. That's a given. I think you need that. You need the actors to feel as much ownership of the performance and the direction of the story as you do, to get the most out of everyone's potential.
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I love working with actors. I do.
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Actors have no color. That's the art form.
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I'm not an actor, I'm a movie star!!!
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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 might have a guitar or a piano on set to play something for the actors.
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I'm afraid of being too sure, to just deliver. I think that's the biggest danger for actors - after a certain time, when you're known and recognised, people expect you to do what you're supposed to do, and there's almost no more criticism and that's very dangerous.
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As an actor, you can show up on a set and be on a TV show for three or four years, or whatever it is and, by the end of it, you just want to do something else.
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And to Tom Cruise, for if you had won this, your asking price would have gone down so fast. Do you have any idea what supporting actors get paid? We get only one trailer, a small one, in the back.
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In film, other actors' performances really are not your concern. If the other actor isn't giving you what you want, act as though he were.
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I certainly never expected to be a professional actor. I never expected to be in movies. I thought I would probably become a teacher.
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A good actor makes clear the meaning of the words. A better actor gives also the emotion of the part. The best actor adds emotion of which the character is unconscious.
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I'm just not one of those naturally funny, relaxed actors who enjoy the spotlight and are so good at it.
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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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Well, the nice thing about animation, you don't even really have to account for yourself. All of the physical stuff that you work on as an actor, you just throw away.
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I believe there can be dignity in the acting profession. And I think there ought to be more dignity in the publicity an actor gets.
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A good actor's director, first of all, is prepared, so there's not an exorbitant amount of wasted footage.
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If the character is true, the movie will fall into place. Or at least that's what you hope.
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If you have a great part, you have the opportunity to give a good performance. The greatest actors get the best parts, and the best parts make the greatest actors. There are plenty of people who are as talented, who just never got the part.
