actors Quotes

We actors, we're a fragile bunch, and yet we need to be strong because 90% of our lives is rejection.

Trust...trust your fellow actors to support you; trust them to come through if you lay something heavy on them; trust yourself.

I don't know what its like for most actors, but really clearly for myself acting has always been the fulfillment of personal fantasies. It isn't just art, its about being a person I've always wanted to be, or being in a situation, or being a hero.

So many singers want to act, and so many actors try to sing.

Troian is one of the most incredibly gifted actors I have ever seen...

I think there were bad actors in the government and bad actors in the finance, mortgage, markets industries that need to be called out and held accountable.

As actors, we're always asked to portray and react to these extreme circumstances, otherwise it's not interesting. They are agonizing things to think about.

I think it's very hard to direct foreign language actors, but Carl Rinsch found a great way. A special super visional way.

You work with seasoned actors, and sometimes you realize that they phone it in.

I'm one of those actors who's just standing there, waiting and ready for something to come my way. I don't really try to think about, \'Oh, I feel the next thing I should do should be a feature. Now, I think I should do a play.\' I just hope someone wants to cast me in something.

What you realize is that a lot of actors want to be directed. They're there to do the best job they can for the director. They have a lot of questions, and your job is to have answers.

Being actors is a strange job. To try to go live that out, it's a very strange thing to want to do when you step back and think about it.

I'm very jealous of actors that swoop in for 20 days, and then swoop back out. When you're a director, you're on that train for the next two years, so you best love it like you've never loved anything, ever.

If you're gonna let the character be the story, you better set a tone that allows the actors to do the best work they can do.

It's not often that I read about actors that I'm going to be meeting. I get to read articles about actors who were going to come in, so I get to see someone and say, \'Oh, I read that I was going to see you. It's very nice to see you.\'

With a screenwriter and with the actors there is always an environment of trust. You can say anything, all your secrets, and you know that it won't get out of that room.

Of course, when you work with actors and when you work on a script everything that you know about the human experience can't possibly go in.

I'm not one of those actors that goes to watch the playback, after every take. I really don't like it, and I don't want to see it.

It's very rare that you get a part that you actually like. People have a misconception, whether it be because actors lie or because you're reading interviews from giantly, massively famous actors, but you don't just get offered parts, all the time. You actually have to work to get them.

Great writing attracts great actors. It attracts money. Without a great script, you have nothing.

As actors we're like these vagabond artists, we have to be invited to perform so if you don't have a choice of options its very hard to define yourself.

I guess I'm used to seeing actors, but rock musicians still hold a special magic for me.

There was not an industry for child actors. I never really made any money. It was all about fun for me.

The great actors, like Cary Grant, and the gentlemanliness that they portray in the movies is something that I try to keep in mind.

I certainly am not a great believer in over-rehearsing between actors, and certainly not doing the dialogue too much.

You learn from the actors that you're working with.

Going to set, every day, and working with the incredible actors I get to work with is fulfilling. I've been doing this since I was nine years old, so it's always been something that I've been passionate about. It's always fed me.

Casting is so important, with any film you do. You have to get actors that you believe will fulfill the promise of the characters that are on the page.

There are loads of amazing actors in the UK and only 2% of them are in work, which is crazy.

In the writing phase, normally I try not to envisage any particular actors because I like to let the characters sort of reveal themselves in that process.