actors Quotes

Hollywood studios bury that stuff - actors who punch directors in the face and try to run producers over with cars - insanity, criminal behavior. But the studios are invested in that star, they can\'t have that person\'s name dirtied up.

All actors have a significant amount of vanity about work, and necessarily so. Things they will do and won\'t do, and I\'ve completely lost all of that. I don\'t care.

For the actors, there\'s something very important about that first showing of the scene to the crew, becomes like a little performance.

Actors don\'t like to read what they\'re supposed to do.

I would encourage you as a screenwriter to trust your story and don\'t make notes for the actors or don\'t make notes for the reader.

I think theatre reminds us what we\'re doing as actors, because every night and every matinee day, you have an audience telling you what\'s working and what\'s not. And that\'s very good for us as actors to hone our skills.

I love exploring in a rehearsal room with other actors, scenes and you know, stuff you are scared of.

It\'s impossible to put your finger on what that is exactly other than protecting the environment that the actors get to find the scenes and build the scenes and invest in them. I think that\'s key and that\'s what I\'ve learned from all the great directors I\'ve worked with.

I think it\'s quite tricky for actors to release albums. It\'s difficult, because I\'m an actor, you know, I\'m not a musician. I love singing, but I don\'t have a big repertoire of songs that I\'ve written; I mean, I\'ve got a few, but nothing that I could fill an album with, and I don\'t want to do it just for the sake of it.

When you write a that you\'ve felt in your soul for a long time, you can\'t ask the actors to go through the same emotions. You have to do part of the job to make things as easy as possible for them.

To work with kids is difficult. To work with non-actors is difficult.

I don\'t have to meet actors. I\'m really blessed that I don\'t have to do all that horseshit.

I think that even though the characters were heightened, the \'SCTV\' cast were all such strong actors they found a certain truth in playing them. I think that\'s why the show stays fresh and timeless.

I had a hard time treating my field as if it's horse racing, putting actors in competition against each other. I see how the industry and the studios feel it's important, but I don't really have a feeling for being in competition. I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.

I gotta make a living. I make no bones about that. Most actors do. But within that context, I\'ve never not tried to make something as fresh and alive as I possibly could make it.

I did a couple of movies in Brazil, and the actors were incredibly congenial and hung out together a lot. Even the biggest stars would do radio commercials - they\'re not put on a pedestal like they are in the United States.

My favourite actors have always been the character actors.

My best advice to actors is if you love acting, do it every chance you get. Success does not mean success. All that matters is whether or not you\'re doing your best to entertain. The way this business works is all about luck and timing.

In a sense, all actors are character actors, because we\'re all playing different characters. But a lot of the time - and I don\'t know, because I\'m not a writer - but writers a lot of times write second- and third-tier characters better than they write primary characters. I guess they\'re more fun.

I just love westerns. One of my favourite actors is John Wayne, probably one of the most underrated actors there\'s ever been. He\'s quite an incredible actor.

Producing is a world of compromise and actors are utterly spoiled all the time.

Why do you think so many actors are only half-developed people? It\'s very easy when you\'re a young actor to have these intense, explosive friendships for short periods of time, because you can control what\'s shown of you. Then you go on to your next job and reinvent yourself again. I think it\'s important to find something constant.

A lot of these American actors have this - in my view - misplaced view that they have to look like Action Man. The trouble is, they all run the risk of being interchangeable.

I haven\'t been somebody who\'s been smart about his money. There are a couple of actors who are quite brilliant with the way they\'ve handled their money. But they\'re not very good actors.

Life is a theater, and we are actors in it. Sometimes we get to play the role of the main character, sometimes we play a little bit player. The main thing is to play your role to the best of your ability.

A lot of actors choose parts by the s, but I don\'t trust reading the s that much. I try to get some friends together and read a aloud. Sometimes I read s and record them and play them back to see if there\'s a movie. It\'s very evocative; it\'s like a first cut because you hear \'She walked to the door,\' and you visualize all these things. \'She opens the door\' . . . because you read the stage directions, too.

The best actors are always the ones who\'ve directed as well, as they understand all the problems you face.

I\'ve never done a [Berthold] Brecht. In the 1960s when the Berliner Ensemble came over [to England] with Helene Weigel [Brecht\'s second wife], I saw all the Berlin actors. It was an amazing time, very exciting early 1960s.

Actors are not always the best judges. We have a peculiar idea of what we think we are, and sometimes it\'s best left to others to decide what we play.

I like actors who just become that person and then react, and Adam [Driver] is completely reactive in that way. So every day working with him was really a pleasure. And he\'s in almost every scene in the film, so the poor guy had to work the - almost the entire 30 days of our film shoot. But, yeah, he was really a pleasure, and I really love what he - how he embodied this character.