actors Quotes

I like to work with actors that have varied experiences. But I don\'t choose them because of their experience, I choose them because of qualities I think would make an interesting character and to me there is no one way to direct actors, there is only one way to collaborate with one person.

Some actors can distance themselves from the parts they play, but I fall into the category who use bits of themselves.

When I went to university, I was already working professionally with the Ulster Actors.

It\'s hard for two actors to be together. Take the traveling, for instance. It winds up being a long distance relationship, all the time, because one's working here and one's working there, or one's staying at home and one's off someplace else.

Actors, by very definition, we want people to pay attention to us, and so usually, that comes in the package of insecurity. So if we\'re not comfortable, we don\'t really show you a lot.

Actors are sellers, and I figured out a long time ago that if you wanted to work a lot, you had to be on the buying side.

My favorite actors are Matt Damon and Leonardo DiCaprio and Will Smith - guys like that.

I\'ve worked with little kid actors before, and when they start crying or anything like that, it makes my job so easy, because you react. A little kid crying, there\'s not much else to do.

At any Trump rally, you could identify the malcontents and the bad actors. They were the leftists, trying to make themselves look like Trump supporters. But the real Trump supporter is somebody who is peaceful, who wants the country to get better, who wants things fixed. They\'re not lawbreakers. They operate within the bounds of law and order. They respect other people. They don\'t make a mess. They don\'t leave a bunch of trash and garbage around like leftist protesters do virtually everywhere they go.

Bad actors like Russia, Iran, and China have demonstrated time and time again they have both the capabilities and the intent to use the cyber domain as an operating space to wreak havoc.

A lot of people just ask me about how I can do small budgets and big budgets, but many actors do both. I think the more self-destructive impulse I have is doing so many different characters.

I\'m often confused with other actors. But the people who know my work don\'t have that problem.

I\'ve seen a lot of actors in a lot of different stages of their careers, and I\'ve seen it come and go. People get a sense of entitlement from it. And that\'s when it starts getting you in trouble.

I think I do have a way of predicting - not always accurately - what is a nerve-wracking day for actors, what may be a difficult scene or a difficult moment, how small - and it may be down to one line - a thing maybe that is upsetting or undermining a performance.

Sir Derek Jacobi has been an inspiration to so many actors and audiences throughout his brilliant career. To see him in Shakespeare is an event in itself.

I think that both Russia and other international actors, including those who are more actively engaged in the resolution of the Ukrainian crisis (that is the Federal Republic of Germany and France, the so-called Normandy Quartet, certainly, with close involvement of the United States, and we have intensified our dialogue on this issue), we should all be committed to the full and unconditional implementation of the agreements that were achieved in Minsk. The Minsk Agreements have to be implemented.

Stevie Van Zandt could not walk on to a set and act. I don\'t know how actors do that! It\'s the scariest thing in the world.

All actors have to believe that our characters have a point that makes sense. Hopefully, they make sense to the crowd watching it, but at least he has to make sense in his own mind, in his own universe.

If you have to be frightening, you need some actors around you to be really frightened. And if they\'re not frightened, you\'re not so frightening anymore. In the same way, people say, \'I think you come in, and you\'re really sexy\'. But how do you play sexy? It depends on the eyes that are looking.

Actors, like it or not, their voices carry deeply into the culture: people look towards them for attitudes, for right or wrong, and today, the mainstream media doesn\'t really balance the unheard.

So many actors get caught up in their technique, and to be honest, I see it really getting in the way. I see them forcing things. I definitely do my best work when I\'m free of that. But I think as an actor, I work really hard in preparing the roles. I spend like 90 percent of my waking moments walking around thinking: \'What does this character do? What is his relationship with so-and-so?\' Always, really. Too much!

So many actors get caught up in their technique, and to be honest, I see it really getting in the way. I see them forcing things. I definitely do my best work when I\'m free of that. But I think as an actor, I work really hard in preparing the roles.

I see a lot of actors for whom life becomes one big schedule. I guess I try to be more sensitive to my private life - to take a breath of fresh air and be in the countryside or on a golf course.

Actors become very professional and proficient about watching out for each other\'s light and not stepping on each other\'s lines.

I love working with Alec Baldwin. He\'s one of the five greatest actors ever to live.

Some actors don\'t want to, but I prefer to. I like to collaborate. Sometimes you have to keep it to yourself, and people want to do their own thing.

I think a lot of theater actors that were great, like Walken or Glenn Close, later became film actors.

They say TV has a tendency to diminish actors, and I think that\'s probably true in the long run - it wears on \'em like bad dental work - but Cheech doesn\'t show any of the signs of being damaged that way. And as a man, he\'s fantastic.

Most actors are small, anyway - at least compared to me.

I\'m not one to mythologize other actors too much, but obviously Sandy Bullock is a gorgeous woman.