actors Quotes

I don't think any actors love taking their clothes off on film, unless you're an exhibitionist, which I'm certainly not.

And to be honest, most actors are incredibly solipsistic.

I love to take actors to a place where they open a vein. That's the job. The key is that I make it safe for them to open the vein.

I can't say that I haven't done some bad acting in my time. I have. Usually that involves what we actors call 'indicating,' when you twirl your mustache.

White actors still get way more money in Hollywood. It's been that way for a very long time. I hope it'll change, but it's a matter of forcing that change.

Some actors count their lines as soon as they receive a script. I'm the opposite. I try to see how many lines I can whittle down. You can say just as much in 4 as you can in 14.

There are lots of actors who are awful people, but nobody talks about them being awful because they've made billions.

I think audiences, producers and directors included, develop crushes on actors (actresses in particular) and then lose interest and move on to the next one.

I can speak of actors that I love. I love Cate Blanchett, Viola Davis, her tenacity. I love Charlize Theron. She's so surprising and so exhilarating, the kinds of projects she takes on. Marion Cotillard as well.

When I was younger, I was almost too afraid to admit that I wanted to be an actor. I didn't know any successful actors in Kenya, so I felt like I could get away with going to college to study film more easily than I could with saying, 'I want to be an actor.' That's what I did.

As actors, you become an expert at starting over.

American actors who voice animated movies are so brilliant at it, because by the nature of American speak, it's full of energy and full of commitment. And as a British actor, we have to kind of learn that.

When you work with directors who really love actors, who love their contribution, it feels amazing. But sometimes when you work with directors, you feel like youre in the way.

You know, people really don't understand what actors do.

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

One of the rules about being an actor or an actress is that you never diss other actors or actresses, particularly when you don't know them.

A lot of actors get concerned about their own image, even going so far as to rewrite a movie to best serve that image. All I want to do is be in good movies.

For an actor to be working at all is a kind of miracle, because most actors aren't. So it's just silly for a working actor to say, 'Oh, I don't care if anybody knows I'm gay' especially if you're a leading man. Personally, I wouldn't advise a gay leading man-type actor to come out,

I've always watched actors on the red carpet getting drunk and making idiots of themselves and now I'm happy to join their ranks

A script is utterly useless in and of itself; it's only of any worth the minute your actors, your designers, your directors come into being.

A lot of actors aren't particularly good directors. And they're not particularly good with other actors. That's kind of a fallacy.

In almost every book I've written, there is a reference to a movie - legendary films, actors and actresses, and forgotten made-for-TV movies. The leaps poems make are not unlike the cuts in a film. The miniature and avant-garde prose poets have perhaps the most obvious ties to film, as a prose poem in its shape is not unlike a movie screen.

I've seen productions where it feels like the actors are just tired and want to go home. That is one of the challenges doing theater - especially a long production - how to keep it alive for yourself and the audience.

Television is a big roulette table on so many levels. That's all it is for actors.

Tom Cruise is one of the most successful actors of all time.

I do believe we are actors in our own dramas, which, moment by moment, we ourselves write; that we are characters in our own fictions or those devised for us by someone or something else.

People who call themselves actors and can't ever get work; they do need to get another profession.

Actors don't listen to each other. You're so obsessed with what you're saying or doing that the other person could be talking in Swahili and you wouldn't know.

To create, I destroyed myself; I made myself external to such a degree within myself that within myself I do not exist except in an external fashion. I am the living setting in which several actors make entrances, putting on several different plays.

Every day, every scene, you were like, \'My god. I'm doing a scene with Brian Cox today and then I'm onto a scene with Stephen Rea.\' For us young actors, I think we were all very, very star-struck and impressed by the caliber of everyone who came out.