Quotes on Actors

It seems like they never say anything bad about actors, they just pump them up.

Author: Casey Affleck

I didn't need the insurance. I do it again if my DP tells me it didn't look good in the camera or if the actors didn't hit their marks. But if everything was working why do it again?

Author: Debbie Allen

British actors behave like Europeans; they are also extremely well trained.

Author: Jean-Jacques Annaud

Some actors get fired up by the sound of the audience. I just want to retreat.

Author: Francesca Annis

You know what I would like to do: make a film with actors standing in empty space so that the spectator would have to imagine the background of the characters.

Author: Michelangelo Antonioni

Young girls of 13 or 12 are great actors.

Author: Dario Argento

I suddenly realized that comedy, for me, was just being honest, and playing it for real. I've seen so many wonderful actors who turn into creatures from another planet when they're told they are supposed to be playing comedy.

Author: Bea Arthur

It confirms for me that we did something on Days that meant something. We had our ups and downs, but Missy and I and some of the other actors, created something that was really memorable.

Author: Matthew Ashford

Actors are able to trick themselves into treating anything as if it's fantastic. It's a kind of madness really.

Author: Tom Baker

We have newsreaders behaving like actors, lowering their voices if it's a sad story, as if we didn't know it's a sad story. There isn't a single cool newsreader.

Author: Tom Baker

Nuclear apocalypse - who do you need? Actors are probably not top of the list. What can I do for you? I can pretend to be somebody who can grow you some nice crops.

Author: Christian Bale

It's the actors who are prepared to make fools of themselves who are usually the ones who come to mean something to the audience.

Author: Christian Bale

We actors always say how difficult and physically demanding a role was. But give me a break, it's only a movie.

Author: Javier Bardem

When you see something that is well-written, the actors can get behind it.

Author: Julia Barr

The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage.

Author: Ethel Barrymore

A reporter discovers, in the course of many years of interviewing celebrities, that most actors are more attractive behind a spotlight than over a spot of tea.

Author: Phyllis Battelle

I think the show does better with newsmakers and politicians than it does with actors.

Author: Samantha Bee

It is all about marketing; that is where the real craft comes in. The best actors do not necessarily become the biggest stars. And vice versa.

Author: Dirk Benedict

Then they started pulling me in and I was very resistant. All the other actors would be saying write more, more dialogue for me, and I'd always be saying 'No, less, less'.

Author: Peter Berg

Well, I've been in several films including documentaries, but the big blockbuster, I was hired as advisor to the actors, I was trying to make Jesuits out of them.

Author: Daniel Berrigan

Having secured my Indian actors, I started for Baltimore, where I organized my combination, and which was the largest troupe I had yet had on the road.

Author: Buffalo Bill

I provide the bricks and mortar with the words and situations - the director and the actors and the designers build the house.

Author: Eric Bogosian

So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.

Author: Uwe Boll

Actors don't have real value.

Author: Uwe Boll

Agents are still asking for millions of dollars for actors that don't sell one ticket.

Author: Uwe Boll

My favorite actors when I was a kid were in their '60s. Spencer Tracy, Humphrey Bogart, John Wayne.

Author: Joseph Bologna

A storyteller is basically what actors and writers are.

Author: Bruce Boxleitner

But you are absolutely right that when the international community decides to help in a meaningful manner a country like Afghanistan, then coordination between the various actors that are involved in these processes is very, very difficult indeed.

Author: Lakhdar Brahimi

I like to cast actors I admire, one's that are talented. Each one will bring something new to the part. This play has been done thousands of times and now certain characters are too familiar.

Author: Kenneth Branagh

There is some mysterious thing that goes on whereby, in the process of playing Shakespeare continuously, actors are surprised by the way the language actually acts on them.

Author: Kenneth Branagh

The long version of the play is actually an easier version to follow. In all of the cut versions the intense speeches are cut too close together for the audience and the actors.

Author: Kenneth Branagh

If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.

Author: Marlon Brando

Actors are crazy or we wouldn't be doing this.

Author: Eileen Brennan

Some of my oldest friends are actors. But that's not the only place my friends come from.

Author: Beau Bridges

Nowadays, in the contract that actors sign, you have to agree that you're going to do a certain amount of publicity-the hard part they don't pay you for.

Author: Jeff Bridges

Most child actors go through that. Unless you can transition into an adult star, your career is over.

Author: Morgan Brittany

Communication is the key, and it's one thing I had to learn-to talk to the actors. I was so involved with the visual and technical aspects that I would forget about the actors.

Author: Steve Buscemi

The magic doesn't come from within the director's mind, it comes from within the hearts of the actors.

Author: James Cameron

Most cartoonists are failed actors.

Author: Milton Caniff

I can't remember ever staying for the end of a movie in which the actors wore togas.

Author: Jimmy Cannon

James Ivory comes close to the actors for the first rehearsal. He more or less lets you direct yourself and then will only correct you if he finds it incorrect.

Author: Leslie Caron

I have daughters who are writers and actors but no musicians.

Author: Rosanne Cash

I like to give my actors a lot of room.

Author: Nick Cassavetes

Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves.

Author: Charlie Chaplin

They can't make any of these talented young actors Fletch. You might as well make a movie called Chevy Chase.

Author: Chevy Chase

The difference between me and American-born actors is that I came here with the expectation of not being treated fairly.

Author: Joan Chen

When on the set of a film, you have to play natural for entire scenes in a very unnatural environment. You have to express emotions and interact with other actors and also use your voice.

Author: Helena Christensen

I'm used to working alone. Frankly with some of the actors I've worked with, I've felt like I was working alone.

Author: Claudia Christian

They're just actors. I much prefer the real thing!

Author: Alan Clark

We have to be vulnerable as actors, but we have to protect ourselves.

Author: Glenn Close

I think there are certain actors that have that kind of energy about them, that taking over a room energy.

Author: Glenn Close

I mean, Joel talks to the actors more than I do and I probably do production stuff a little more than he does.

Author: Ethan Coen

It is interesting to be here and to see that for certain actors they have to live in a way that you think of nobody living anymore except for in small towns. They have such elaborate double lives.

Author: Bill Condon

Actors say they do their own stunts for the integrity of the film but I did them because they looked like a lot of fun.

Author: Steve Coogan

When I played Robin Hood, I knew the great role was Alan Rickman's and it didn't bother me. I always think that leading actors should be called the best supporting actors.

Author: Kevin Costner

I've been around where I knew other actors were going to steal the scene, and I don't compete with them.

Author: Kevin Costner

I could have gone the route of a lot of these former child actors, but I didn't want that for myself. Like I said, when I was 14 years old, I decided to quit. I didn't ever want to do it again.

Author: Macaulay Culkin

Um, musicians are funnier you know, than actors on the whole.

Author: Tim Curry

Actors are very generous.

Author: Blythe Danner

I talked to everyone about the project: actors and extras, members of the crew and passers by.

Author: James D'arcy

Actors, lots of times, are great when they have great parts. For me, a lot of times, it's been the part.

Author: Bruce Davison

It's incredibly moving to hear some of our greatest actors performing Shakespeare.

Author: Judi Dench

I just feel incredibly lucky to be employed when there are so many actors and actresses who are not employed. That's why, you know, I sometimes feel desperate, in case I'm not going to be cast again.

Author: Judi Dench

A lot of actors don't like to see how they've done every day.

Author: Catherine Deneuve

I never hoped that both my children would become actors. I expected them to do something else.

Author: Catherine Deneuve

I never had any classes or went to theatre school like a lot of actors, so all of my training has been on stage with different directors. That was a pretty good school room.

Author: James Denton

Some actors just won't bend, and then it's a bitch. You either fight or find ways of putting your words in their mouth and letting them say it back at you.

Author: Richard Donner

For hundreds of years, that was the major form of entertainment: The grown-ups sat around and watched the kids play. Now they sit around and watch the television. The actors are the kids.

Author: David Duchovny

I remember hitting Sarah Michelle Gellar with a right hook during my first week on the job. It was awful. They usually pair actors with stunt doubles to avoid things like that.

Author: Eliza Dushku

It makes me feel good that I can now sit there and go, I've worked with Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, all the great actors that I've worked with... Sir Ben Kingsley.

Author: Aaron Eckhart

I read a lot of scripts. Most of 'em go to other actors.

Author: Sam Elliott

Well, I think on second units it's all about execution. Because you come in there, you don't have to worry so much about the studio and all the other actors and all that.

Author: David Ellis

Many great horror stories are period pieces and English actors have a facility for historic characters.

Author: Robert Englund

I don't think I know a Scientologist except when I see one or two of their actors on the Hollywood screen.

Author: Jerry Falwell

Our feeling is that the most important thing on a set is that actors have enough confidence to try different things. If there's stress or tension, they won't go out on a limb because they won't want to embarrass themselves if they don't feel completely comfortable.

Author: Peter Farrelly

We've had no problems with the actors, but we keep a really loose set.

Author: Peter Farrelly

This is still a big barrier for me and it is for a lot of foreign actors.

Author: Chow Fat

In discussing the process with the actors, I made it clear to them that they could improvise but that the sum total of their improvisation needed to impart certain plot points, and schematic material.

Author: Mike Figgis

I might have a guitar or a piano on set to play something for the actors.

Author: Mike Figgis

If I was going to be broke I decided I might as well be with actors as anyone else. They were cheerful idiots and seemed to take it better.

Author: Peter Finch

Some actors couldn't figure out how to withstand the constant rejection. They couldn't see the light at the end of the tunnel.

Author: Harrison Ford

What I observed about my fellow actors was that most gave up very easily.

Author: Harrison Ford

Now, when I started my theater, the modus operandi was having the actors stare right into the audience.

Author: Richard Foreman

I think Star Trek has been very double-edged for all of us - as actors, writers, directors.

Author: Jonathan Frakes

If you cast the picture correctly, you have a whole lot of leeway. You can make mistakes in other aspects but pull it off with the right actors.

Author: John Frankenheimer

I'm not one of these actors who feels a pressing need to direct, and I have no plans to do it.

Author: Dennis Franz

When you throw punches at actors, you stop, you pull it, and it looks like you pulled it. When you throw punches at cartoon characters, they are not there, so you can swing through. It looks like you really decked them.

Author: Brendan Fraser

The reason actors, artists, writers have agents is because we'll do it for nothing. That's a basic fact - you gotta do it.

Author: Morgan Freeman

It's really important to draw the line on what we do as actors.

Author: Anna Friel

Certainly there have been better actors than me who have had no careers. Why? I don't know.

Author: Richard Gere

I do think that good actors can do any part. It doesn't mean that they are the best ones to do it.

Author: Richard Gere

A lot of times black actors get stuck in a box. They're up against a lot of limitations for the kind of films that they get approached about. It's easy to get stuck in a box and just be approached about nothing but urban films.

Author: Tyrese Gibson

This particular film highlights Ben and Owen's strengths which is that they are great comedic actors with tremendous chemistry and they do a really good job.

Author: Paul Glaser

These are extremely talented actors who are all putting their talents into the Lost in Space movie.

Author: Mark Goddard

I've turned my guest house into this little studio, and we have actors come over and do readings.

Author: Jeff Goldblum

I want to keep doing different things. I'd like to do a more personal, dramatic movie next, I think. But as long as it's about characters and good writing and good parts for actors, that's what's important.

Author: Tony Goldwyn

Actors didn't use to be celebrities. A hundred years ago, they put the theaters next to the brothels.

Author: Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Actors are not all there when it comes to things like relationships. The thing about us is we still greatly enjoy each other. If it weren't for her support it would be hard for me to do what I am doing now.

Author: Mark-Paul Gosselaar

When I think about actors I know, I'd much rather hear about who they're shagging than what film they're doing next.

Author: Hugh Grant

It's well known that actors are lousy writers.

Author: Richard Grant

A lot of the films now are more focused on the visuals than on the actors. I think all directors should go to drama school.

Author: Eva Green

There are no small parts; there are only small actors.

Author: Melanie Griffith

The filmmaker's got to make it his story and the actors have got to make it their story.

Author: Rachel Griffiths

Yes, The Persuaders, that was great fun because one of my favourite actors is Roger Moore.

Author: Val Guest

There are 100,000 actors in the Screen Actors Guild. Only 2,000 of them make more than $75,000 a year.

Author: Steve Guttenberg

Dysfunctional families have sired a number of pretty good actors.

Author: Gene Hackman

You have film actors doing TV, rap stars doing TV, with everyone kind of crossing the line.

Author: Anthony Hall

Obviously with the onset of cable and satellite, there are more opportunities for programming and original programming, so it creates more opportunities for actors and producers and directors and everything.

Author: Anthony Hall

The role of a do-gooder is not what actors call a fat part.

Author: Margaret Halsey

I don't know how to construct a career that'll make me famous. Except maybe get my ears pinned back, get my teeth done, and go to America. But then I'll be competing with billions of actors who haven't got false teeth, and who are 25.

Author: Ian Hart

Actors cannot choose the manner in which they are born. Consequently, it is the one gesture in their lives completely devoid of self-consciousness.

Author: Helen Hayes

I actually like working with the other three actors on the show.

Author: Sean Hayes

I know actors come around and they always talk like that, but I don't do publicity if I don't like the film.

Author: Barbara Hershey

I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.

Author: Alfred Hitchcock

To be able to rely completely on the actors was a very simple process for me.

Author: Stephen Hopkins

It's been about ten years since I've worked with actors who knew their lines!

Author: John Hughes

It's hard to compare actors from different generations.

Author: Kim Hunter

I am not an enormous believer in research being the be-all and end-all. I get suspicious when I read about actors spending six months in a clinic, say, in order to play someone who is sick.

Author: John Hurt

David Cronenberg knows what we actors do as artists.

Author: William Hurt

I want to prove a point. That point is, actors are artists, not narcissists necessarily.

Author: William Hurt

I think most actors like to be liked.

Author: Anjelica Huston

Actors often behave like children, and so we're taken for children. I want to be grown up.

Author: Jeremy Irons

Do you know how many plastic surgeries are done to the actors and actresses in Hollywood?

Author: Joseph Jackson

Sir Larry could be very strict and a disciplinarian, too. He had many faces; he wore many hats. But, ultimately, he loved the theater and he loved actors.

Author: Derek Jacobi

You have to pretend to live in those clothes that they lived in, to live within the climate that they had then. You have to imagine with the help, obviously, of all the other technicians that are around - the writer, the director, the other actors.

Author: Derek Jacobi

Actors, I don't think, ever really grow up. I'm hoping that that rejuvenating process applies to me, too. It has so far. I've been very lucky.

Author: Derek Jacobi

Most of my career up until the last couple of years has basically been a training ground for me. Actors that came up in the '50s and '60s, they had the theater, and television was in its infancy.

Author: Thomas Jane

I like doing them and they're ridiculous and the actors can improvise a lot, and they don't have to be really realistic characters that hit a very specific tone as in a feature film. They're really fun, I want to make more of them definitely.

Author: Jim Jarmusch

Barack Obama did tell me that I was one of Michelle Obama's favorite actors.

Author: Dwayne Johnson

I got out of the Army - in my world - I came to New York, for instance, when the civil rights movement was just beginning, and that created a certain energy, a certain rumble, a certain impetus for black actors.

Author: James Jones

And I think, on the other end, there were actors who were not as good as I was, perhaps who could have hung in too, but began to blame everything on race.

Author: James Jones

There is only one thing I respect in so-called Broadway actors... and that is their competitive sense.

Author: Elia Kazan

I know many great actors who have small heads.

Author: Catherine Keener

I think that's so strange, because they do know that we're all actors and we perform things that have not necessarily anything to do with us personally.

Author: Werner Klemperer

I don't think actors get good training today. I put my training to use in everything I do.

Author: Don Knotts

Some of the best actors in the world are very exterior actors, Anthony Hopkins being one of them. He knows exactly how to turn his face to get a certain expression. He knows exactly what to do with eyes, and with his voice. It's very exterior.

Author: Boris Kodjoe

As a painter you're responsible yourself, 100 percent. In film, you have the editor, the director, the other actors. It has the advantage of not being solitary.

Author: Sylvia Kristel

There are no small parts. Only small actors.

Author: Milan Kundera

The best actors do not let the wheels show.

Author: Milan Kundera

The crossover wasn't happening. TV actors were TV actors, and film and stage actors were a whole different thing. And now there's just a lot of crossover.

Author: Christine Lahti

Sure I faced the troubles and challenges that most actors and actresses face until they get noticed, but I was always confident of myself and my capabilities.

Author: Christine Lahti

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.

Author: Hedy Lamarr

Directors, like actors, get typecast.

Author: John Landis

All actors almost always try to steal some of their wardrobe.

Author: Joe Lando

I watch actors destroy themselves by trying to get it right.

Author: Frank Langella

I've worked with the greatest actors, and they're all gone. This is what's so desperate to me.

Author: Angela Lansbury

I consider those actors who amaze me are somehow less attractive to me than those actors who move me.

Author: Robert Lansing

Supporting characters add depth to a story, and great actors leave their imprint with the audience.

Author: Nicholas Lea

Working with a bunch of actors is like trying to tune each violin.

Author: Patrice Leconte

No, I'm at full height, I'm in the studio, I can actually catch actors by the eye, it's fantastic.

Author: John Leeson