actors Quotes

Certainly as actors, and maybe as directors, you've got to hang on to something childlike. You've got to know what play is. I haven't worked with Mike Leigh, but I know him very well and there's something open in his eyes about what's in front of him. And the same is true of Alfonso in a Mexican, mad way. There's an enthusiastic response to something. Neil Jordan, the same, when he gets excited . You just want to know there's a human being in there.

What's fun is watching actors of that calibre bring them to life. It's incredible. Christian Bale spent a day with the character he plays and after my year of being with him I couldn't have generated the same view of him. They have a different way of looking at people, it's fascinating to watch.

The biggest considerations I had were practical: how do you move such a large number of actors around a small space? So, for example, if I have to have the mother bring a pot of tea from the kitchen to the living room and serve it to the others, how do I, on a practical level, get everyone into the frame? Any decisions I made about the camera angles or movement came out of necessity, versus any sort of stylistic choice.

As a film director and as film actors, you get used to a certain rhythm that's slow. But with TV, it's hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry. It's a different pace. So, it's about adjusting to the pace. It's not meant for everybody.

Woody Allen is a better actor than anybody from the Actors Studio, and he can be anybody he says he is.

Whenever you read interviews with actors, they always seem to be given three months to do something - get fat, get skinny, learn card tricks.

[There is] type [of actors ]a true thespian who doesn't give a flying rat's ass what it is as long as it's deep, powerful, and painful, and they will dive in headfirst. I really respect those people. Meryl Streep is amazing at it.

I think there are three types of actors. There are the ones that do the ego thing, which is \'I'm never going to look bad in a movie, ever.\' This is mostly the action film dudes, like, \'Nah, hell no. He ain't punchin' me! I'd whoop his ass!\'

I think actors always retain one foot in the cradle. We're switched on to our youth, to our childhood. We have to be because we're in the business of transferring emotions to other people.

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.

Most actors hate watching their own films because all you can see is the glaring mistakes, your own tricks and ticks.

Most actors will tell you that villains are the most interesting to play.

I just can't say enough about the actors having faith and trust in the writers and the writers having faith and trust in the actors.

I've seen many actors go awry by making the wrong choices early on.

I think most actors like to be liked.

Actors are observers. They're trying to have an understanding of human sensibility. And how do you have that accurate observation if you regard yourself as someone of great importance? When you're the one constantly being observed, because they view you as a celebrity? It's all wrong.

As actors, it is our responsibility to read the newspapers, and then say what we read on television like it's our own opinion.

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.

During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.

There are dumb actors. But there are dumb politicians and dumb bakers.

Most good actors have a huge intelligence about the human condition and a real open heart to different kinds of people and behavior.

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.

A lot of actors say that theater's the thing for them. And that's great, and I'm not one to speak with any authority about it because of not having done it properly. For me, movies are what I love.

Too many actors have run for office. There's one difference between me and them: I know I'm not qualified.

I'm hardly the most notable person in 'Zombieland.' The other actors in it are way more famous than I am.

I know some amazing actors who are not mortified every moment of the day, so my feeling is that maybe you don't have to be a wreck to be good.

I think when you get on with the actors that you're working with, even if you do have really intimate scenes, as long as you get on well, and have a bit of a laugh while doing it, then it's fine.

At the Golden Globes, they put all the bigger stars in the front; the movie stars in the front, TV actors in the back. But even as a movie star, you can be outseated by a bigger star in any given year. It's kind of hilarious. You have to take it in stride.

I think actors do make really, really wonderful directors.

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