Quotes about Actors
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significance of life
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I simply bring
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Willem Dafoe
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boring than
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Actors are professionals who deal with people's emotions and their thoughts. Votes: 3
Park Chan-wookActors should never be important. Only directors should have power and place. Votes: 3
D. W. GriffithActors don't act, we're just being in a different circumstance and scenario. Votes: 3
Aeriel MirandaActors must practice restraint, else think what might happen in a love scene. Votes: 3
Cedric HardwickeActors should be overheard, not listened to, and the audience is 50 percent of the performance. Votes: 3
Shirley BoothConflict is what creates drama. The more conflict actors find, the more interesting the performance. Votes: 3
Michael ShurtleffActors like to play bad guys because they're more fun. They also win more awards. Votes: 3
Dean NorrisThe best actors instinctively feel out what the other actors need, and they just accommodate it. Votes: 3
Christopher Nolan[Stand-up] might be ballsy, but I'd rather not be an actor. Actors are tools. Votes: 2
Doug StanhopeComedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors. Votes: 0
Johann Georg Ritter von ZimmermannBritish actors behave like Europeans; they are also extremely well trained. Votes: 0
Jean-Jacques AnnaudParenthood has been the beneficiary of wonderful performances by child actors. Votes: 0
Jason KatimsGreat powers reserve the right to police bad actors in their neighborhoods. Votes: 0
Thomas P.M. BarnettSometimes the ones you trust aren't the most trustworthy. Just better actors. Votes: 0
Veronica BladeMost actors will tell you that villains are the most interesting to play. Votes: 0
Rob James-CollierWhen actors aren't filming they just go to their dressing rooms and relax. Votes: 0
Daniel RadcliffeI always think politicians and even my dentist have more egos than actors. Votes: 0
Alejandro Gonzalez InarrituUsually when you get a script from actors, you don't have high expectations. Votes: 0
Patrick WhitesellWell, the music industry is littered with actors who belatedly came to singing. Votes: 0
Jeff DanielsThe great actresses and actors receive awards for great roles in great films. Votes: 0
Gloria StuartIn this country, you have movie actors and theatre actors and television actors Votes: 0
Max von SydowThe staff, stage managers, ushers all behaved as if they respected the actors. Votes: 0
Estelle ParsonsI look at actors very closely. It's not an accident when the actors excel. Votes: 0
John FrankenheimerI don't know if child actors are necessarily more screwed up than most people. Votes: 0
Rider StrongI think the actors take a great responsibility for the characters in the movie. Votes: 0
Ruben OstlundThe actors have confidence in me to let me lead them to unexpected things. Votes: 0
Christophe HonoreThe thing about many celebrities - not all - is that they're fantastic actors. Votes: 0
Paul LiebersteinAs far as I can tell, most actors' main motivation is self-doubt and neuroses. Votes: 0
Daniel RadcliffeBarack Obama did tell me that I was one of Michelle Obama's favorite actors. Votes: 0
Dwayne JohnsonI'm definitely looking forward to doing a film one day with more female actors. Votes: 0
Margot RobbieWhence are we, and why are we? Of what scene The actors or spectators? Votes: 0
Percy Bysshe ShelleyYou'll never see any two good actors approach a role in the same way. Votes: 0
Constantin StanislavskiAnd the people I'm best friends with on the films are not generally the actors. Votes: 0
Daniel RadcliffeI fear other actors who are not prepared. And I fear directors who are afraid. Votes: 0
Tommy Lee JonesAs far as actors go, you're not going to find many ballplayers better than me. Votes: 0
D. B. SweeneyIt seems like they never say anything bad about actors, they just pump them up. Votes: 0
Casey AffleckTo tell a strong story with real taste of an epic tragedy needs great actors. Votes: 0
Luiz BolognesiI used to watch actors and say, 'You poor suckers, that job looks miserable.' Votes: 0
Evangeline LillyMost dear actors, eat no onions nor garlic, for we are to utter sweet breath. Votes: 0
William ShakespeareGeorge Wendt is a saint. And one of the finest American actors that we have. Votes: 0
Max GreenfieldThe scenery in the play was beautiful, but the actors got in front of it. Votes: 0
Alexander WoollcottFor some reason, I seem to work well with actors. I love working with them. Votes: 0
William MonahanAs a writer, all you want to do is write for great actors. That's all. Votes: 0
Amy Sherman-PalladinoI wouldn't say no to being in a film with Jude Law. I love English actors. Votes: 0
Catherine DeneuveWhen actors begin to think, it's time for a change. They are not fitted for it. Votes: 0
Stephen LeacockTo be able to rely completely on the actors was a very simple process for me. Votes: 0
Stephen HopkinsSome actors get fired up by the sound of the audience. I just want to retreat. Votes: 0
Francesca AnnisI started as a director, but I was too bored with actors. I preferred to act. Votes: 0
Peter StormareYou work with seasoned actors, and sometimes you realize that they phone it in.
Oliver Jackson-CohenGood actors need better projects, and these days there aren't enough going round.
Stephen Humphrey BogartThere's an impression that actors make a lot of choices. I just take what's there.
Christopher WalkenI think most actors like to do things that are right outside of their comfort zone.
Stephanie BeatrizI've always preferred actors who sing to singers who act in all the shows I've done.
Stephen SondheimI have only really gotten by with playing versions of myself as most young actors do.
Amanda SeyfriedWho says that actors are cattle? Show me a cow who can earn a million dollars a film.
Langdon WinnerAs a director, my job is to protect. I protect scripts, actors, cameramen, designers.
Stephen FrearsNinety-eight per cent of actors who actually make a living do so in front of a camera.
Julian FellowesWhen actresses play actresses, or actors play actors, they have to find another level.
Kristen StewartI really enjoy working with younger actors. I just feel like we're all peers together.
Sigourney WeaverMy theory about actors is we're all walking milk cartons. Expirations dates everywhere.
Dylan McDermottIt's very important to be able to distinguish the actors from the characters they play.
Emily VanCampBeing on 'Batman' allowed me to do something we actors are taught never to do: overact.
Victor BuonoNinety percent of the preparation we do as actors is just jive. It doesn't do anything.
William H. MacyI want to prove a point. That point is, actors are artists, not narcissists necessarily
William Hurt[Making movies is] 80% script and 20% getting great actors. There's nothing else to it.
William WylerI guess I'm used to seeing actors, but rock musicians still hold a special magic for me.
Hank AzariaMr. Hitchcock did not say actors are cattle. He said they should be treated like cattle.
James StewartI'm going to ask what is correct, what I deserve, especially in relation to male actors.
Jessica ChastainSeeing someone happy on set is just a very small slice of the reality of an actors life.
Katherine WaterstonThe journey that we go on as actors is an interesting one and sometimes a revealing one.
Kevin SpaceyThe filmmaker's got to make it his story and the actors have got to make it their story.
Rachel GriffithsAs an actor, I love working with directors. As much as I love working with other actors.
Ray StevensonWhen you're working with really good actors, it raises your own game and you get better.
Richard DormerI can bring in experiences that other actors who only grew up in television do not have.
Richard SammelYou know, it was only a generation ago that actors couldn't be buried in the churchyard.
Ronald ReaganThere are some actors who are my contemporaries who I think of as purebreds and I'm not.
Sally FieldThere are actors who can pull of a writer's lines; I am not competent enough to do that.
Salman KhanIt helps if you don't date other actors, but actresses are beautiful. How can you say no?
Adam BrodyI try to encourage actors to work harder off screen because that's where you find things.
Denzel WashingtonTo me, the screenplay only becomes the Bible of the film after the actors have been cast.
Dito MontielMost actors don't really have a director's sensibility. They have an actor's sensibility.
Jodie FosterAll those [events in history] were such dramas as we see now, only with different actors.
Marcus AureliusI might have been curious about actors' lives when I was growing up. That's human nature.
Michael FassbenderSome actors - you work with them once and don't even think about working with them again.
Ridley ScottThe only difference between me and my fellow actors is that I've spent more time in jail.
Robert MitchumTypically, I like to talk and meet with actors face to face well before we start shooting.
Christine SwansonI just want the actors to put their faith in the language. Just let the words do the work.
Conor McPhersonIt's hard to find actors that don't feel contemporary when you put them in a period piece.
George ClooneyGod is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
Honore de BalzacPeople sometimes forget how important #" Broadway is as a place for young actors to grow.
Hunter ParrishMost of my friends aren't actors - and not one of them is overly impressed with what I do.
Jeremy LondonThere are a lot of actors out there who've made one or two films and who never work again.
Phoebe CatesAnyone can do theater, even actors. And, theater can be done everywhere, even in a theater.
Augusto BoalI consider Laurence [Fishburn], Keanu [Reeves], both very acclaimed actors, I mean so good.
Chad StahelskiIt's rare that I come across actors who are willing to work as hard on the material as I am
Donnie WahlbergI love film people and actors and I am in the right world because I am one of those people.
Ewan McGregorWith a lot of actors, you've got to chip through the surface to see who the real person is.
Kevin BaconThe thing with Ryan, you can look at him for hours. Very few actors have that. It's a gift.
Nicolas Winding RefnI don't have to meet actors. I'm really blessed that I don't have to do all that horseshit.
Norm MacDonaldCertainly there have been better actors than me who have had no careers. Why? I don't know.
Richard GereIt was one of those plays in which all of the actors unfortunately enunciated very clearly.
Robert BenchleyI didnt know any actors growing up. My dad was a builder, and we didnt know any arty types.
Stephen ManganI love Ice Cube and Charlie Day. They're brilliant men, great actors and very funny people.
Tracy MorganI don't have fights with actors. In absolute honesty, I've never fought with any actor ever.
Baz LuhrmannAmid a world of noisy, shallow actors it is noble to stand aside and say, 'I will simply be.
Henry David ThoreauObviously the actors are incredible at being the audience surrogates in this crazy universe.
Hiro MuraiActors are greedy. They can never be satisfied. I want praise as well as box office returns.
Kareena KapoorThere are far more good actors than there are jobs for them, so it's a big question of luck.
Toby JonesThere are loads of amazing actors in the UK and only 2% of them are in work, which is crazy.
Yasmin PaigeI haven't done any training. I come from a family of actors, but I haven't done any training.
Eleanor TomlinsonI think all actors have a sadomasochistic streak, because acting is kind of brutal, you know.
Michelle PfeifferYou know I hate watching myself on TV, I know a lot of actors say that, but it's true for me.
Rebecca MaderI don't like theatrical actors and actresses. I like people that talk like real human beings.
Woody AllenI've worked with the greatest actors, and they're all gone. This is what's so desperate to me.
Angela LansburyI never hoped that both my children would become actors. I expected them to do something else.
Catherine DeneuveBeing typecast is a great thing for an actor. I was considered one of the New York mob actors.
Debi MazarBut history is a faithless teller whose cruel recourse to hindsight makes fools of its actors.
Kate MortonActors strive to be part of something like 'Twilight' and what 'Twilight' is, is unbelievable.
Kellan LutzI have to say as an actor I have been inspired by so many British actors throughout the years.
Leonardo DiCaprioYou know those actors who have a sense for how they should be used? I don't think I have that.
Mark HamillActors always think that others are getting more work than them. In my case, they usually are.
Richard E. GrantThe crew, the actors and the writers all work the same way. We always want to do the best job.
Robert KnepperI wanted to shoot the sex scenes unadorned so that the actors could really live in the moment.
Seamus McGarveyWe're blessed with, as we were on Harry Potter, lead actors who are amazingly grounded people.
Toby JonesYoung actors are pretty fantastic. I can't even imagine doing stuff like that when I was a kid.
Donal LogueMy closest friend is canine. I have precious few close friends, and most of them are not actors
Judd NelsonAnd I realized that directing actors is really important because that's what ends up on screen.
Julie DelpyHollywood likes to put actors in boxes, and it likes to put Asian actors in really small boxes.
Sandra OhEverybody wants to be a series regular. It's something that a lot of actors would kill to have.
Shelley HennigI think most actors jump at the chance to do something where the camera's on them all the time.
Zoe KazanBecause ultimately only the witness -- and not the actors -- knows the truth (Vyasa to Draupadi)
Chitra Banerjee DivakaruniBoth Averill and Bayar were like actors speaking lines for their audience and not to each other.
Cinda Williams ChimaI know from teaching that actors want to act. Even the subtlest actors can do a little too much.
Giancarlo EspositoAny work I do I think is important...like in acting there are no small parts- only small actors.
Holly GolightlyI admire actors and artists who devote just as much time to their life as they do to their work.
Jake GyllenhaalMany actors, I've read, are introverts, and many introverts, when socializing, feel like actors.
Jonathan RauchI really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.
Lasse HallstromWe're actors, we have to do what we have to do, and you have to be really solid within yourself.
Linda GrayIt takes a minute to get use to the TV thing, and I have so much more respect for TV actors now.
Lucas TillAmerican actors are coy. We all have pricks and cunts, or are you different from the rest of us?
Peter GreenawayI've watched people who were better actors than me disappear, and they're selling insurance now.
Robert EnglundIt's nice to have people interested about a show that you're involved in. It's what actors want.
Tom CavanaghI love working with actors. That's what the set really is, for me. It's my time with the actors.
Wes AndersonUsing non-actors has its own rules and really requires that you allow them to do their own thing.
Abbas KiarostamiI've always thought that actors wanted to be pop musicians and pop musicians wanted to be actors.
Gary KempI usually hang out on the set. I get to know everybody. I have a nice time with the other actors.
Kurt RussellJennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd are really amazing, lovely people and really great comedic actors.
Malin AkermanIt's more enjoyable to shoot in a studio on a single location with two actors...if they are good.
Michael HanekeLike all actors, I was open to taking on new challenges, including those outside my comfort zone.
Robert RedfordI think diversity for most actors is such a blessing. It's something definitely I've strived for.
Rose Byrne'Do the Right Thing' was like the first film where I really felt comfortable working with actors.
Spike LeeAnimating is a very slow, pain-staking process and the animators become the actors at that point.
Wes AndersonIf you're lucky, and not a lot of actors are these days, you get the chance to create a character
William HurtI think if actors don't think of themselves as funny in real life they think they can't do comedy.
Ben BarnesIf you want to be an actor, my advice is to learn your lines and don't bump into the other actors.
Cary GrantEuropeans have a different take [on nudity] than American actors do. They're not quite as hung up.
Dennis HaysbertPeople who call themselves actors and can't ever get work; they do need to get another profession.
EstelleNo, I'm at full height, I'm in the studio, I can actually catch actors by the eye, it's fantastic.
John LeesonOne of my favourite sorts of actors...the rat actor. The rat actor knows his job and gets it done.
Joss WhedonThere are two types of actors: those who say they don't want to be famous and those who are liars.
Kevin BaconNo I don't really write thinking about specific actors because it can get in the way a little bit.
Lorene ScafariaI've always believed that the greatest actors are the ones that have the voices that are imitable.
Nicolas CageWhen I decided I wanted to be an actor, I said I wanted to work with quality actors and directors.
Puff DaddyEverybody thinks that actors would be really good at bluffing, but I think it's a little backward.
Ron LivingstonI think all actors are on the constant search for a real challenge just to keep things interesting.
Benjamin BrattOnce a film gets into production, the actors sometimes begin to have more input than a writer does.
Helen MirrenActing is a form of deception, and actors can mesmerize themselves almost as easily as an audience.
Leo RostenMost actors are either a shower of bloody scruffs or think they should dress like Hamlet off stage.
Martin FreemanI probably drive casting people crazy because I'm not thinking about actors so much as real people.
Mike JudgeI was able to bring my process of doing improv with actors into the animation world, which was fun.
Nicholas StollerI've worked with actors who tell everyone what to do in the scene - that makes me go pretty atomic.
Romola GaraiThey say God looks after kids and idiots, and I think actors are probably a combination of the two.
Scott GlennI have lost a brother and a best friend. The world has lost one of the greatest actors of all time.
Steven Van ZandtI started a production company out of necessity, the need for great narratives for actors of color.
Viola DavisI don't think there's a lot of actors out there right now who really know what they're doing at all.
Jamie BellC'mon, we're actors. We love the attention. We love the applause. We sure don't like to be rejected.
Rita MorenoSometimes what happens is that, when you micromanage actors and moments, it just doesn't quite live.
Susan SarandonA movie has its own fate, which often doesn't depend on the performances of the director and actors.
Zhang Ziyi