actors Quotes

Indian actors know how to shout with the eyes.

Actors and burglars work better at night.

I get on with actors, and when I'm doing a theatre show, it's great being with them all the time. But we're all alike, and it's much nicer being with people who are different.

Most actors can't make any kind of living.

As actors, you like to think about the luxury of having choices in your career, but for the most part you kind of take whatever comes your way and hope that you carved out something that you're proud of in the end.

In England, and all over Europe, and all over the world, actors act until they die. They get old, really old, and they're still working. They just keep doing it.

We are in constant danger of being not actors in the drama of our lives but reactors, to go where the world takes us, to drift with whatever current happens to be running the strongest.

My pictures are not really about the children that I photograph. They're more like actors in a film. I think you can always recognize the children, but they are alienated from their real appearance and become more like metaphors.

Actors always want to be musicians, <br /> and musicians want to be actors

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

I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.

Have you ever talked to someone, and you're not even really talking to them? Actors are the worst for that.

But history is a faithless teller whose cruel recourse to hindsight makes fools of its actors.

When St Genesius, the patron saint of actors, refused to act in a Roman play that ridiculed Christianity, the legend goes, the producers executed him. It reminds some people of Broadway today.

I have a theory... Theatre actors are better at auditions than film actors.

Some of the best dramatic actors have started in comedy.

I do not welcome advice from actors; they are here to act.

An awful lot of actors who are considered very good actors are not very good actors. There are people who just strike gold, they have intrinsic talent but the point is that if they did train...it would only broaden them more.

Film acting would be about 80 percent better than it has been lately if actors did their homework, if they didn't have egos that took the size of their talent for granted.

Only a few of us will admit it, but actors will sometimes read a script like this: bullshit...bullshit...my part...blah, blah, blah...my part...bullshit...

Acting of some actors seems natural, because they have no talent.

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

To save the Theatre, the Theatre must be destroyed, and actors and actresses all die of the Plague ... they make art impossible.

Actors in any capacity, artists of any stripe, are inspired by their curiosity, by their desire to explore all quarters of life, in light and in dark, and reflect what they find in their work. Artists instinctively want to reflect humanity, their own and each other's, in all its intermittent virtue and vitality, frailty and fallibility.

I start with the story, almost in the old campfire sense, and the story leads to both the characters, which actors should best be cast in this story, and the language. The choice of words, more than anything else, creates the feeling that the story gives off.

All human beings are Actors (they act!) and Spectators (they observe!).

I don't know if child actors are necessarily more screwed up than most people.

Models-turned-actors are a bit of a clichГ©... It is a huge clichГ© but you have to look at the positive aspects. I learned a lot about the world and took a lot of knowledge away from it.

I'm just more attracted to actors. I like their choice to be artists - that's ballsy. And a guy who has such access to his emotional life is sexy. Or maybe because lots of the actors I know are so broken. I don't think I'm compatible with anybody I've dated. Maybe I'm so attracted to actors because I'm not ready for the 'settled down' thing yet.

British actors come at acting from a slightly different angle. Because a lot of the films are cast out there, they are so used to the angle from which the Americans, and certainly the young guys from LA, are coming at it, that I think it's interesting for them to find these English actors who maybe approach acting from a different place.