actors Quotes

A lot of actors in my age bracket look at being still standing as pretty good.

I figure there are a few actors like Marlon Brando, George C. Scott and Laurence Olivier who have been touched by the hand of God. I'm in the next bunch.

I'm sure there are actors out there who work with other actors on a consistent basis - I am not one of them.

The only thing we are as actors are messengers. That's all we are. Correct? We are delivering the playwright's intention through the concept of the director. And I come on stage; if I feel confident in the role, then I give it away.

When I audition, I understand what it takes and the insecurities that come with it. If I do anything, I put actors at ease. I used to tell directors who weren't actors, the best thing they could do was take an acting class for a couple of months. Just to understand.

I know other actors who are relieved when their shows get cancelled, and I've never felt that way about 'Community.'

Most actors are starving. Most of us are walking around with a flashlight and tweezers looking for evidence. When you have someone that actually writes an acting role, it's rare.

We actors have it pretty easy and pretty hard. Easy cause we have a meal provided to us every 6 hours every day and craft services. The hard part is staying fit under those circumstances.

Actors only have our bodies, voices, and the text. So I think actors need to have a fit and in-tune body. I was always very disciplined in wanting to have that. Thats one of my favorite things - playing a role with a physical requirement.

Do it, do it, do it. And watch good actors. See what they are doing and how they are doing it. You have to practically participate, I think, in order to develop yourself.

Im so lucky to have the opportunity to work with some directors and some actors I wouldnt have dared to think I would work with one day.

Awards are meaningless for actors, unless they all play the same part.

Part of an actors job, in my opinion, is adjust to the characteristics of the director and try to understand to how he tries to work.

I'm not just friends with fellow actors, but I find that a lot of people are out here in L.A. I go out of my way to make sure that's not the case, but I do have a lot of friends who are actors.

I'm very social. It's just most of my friends are not actors.

I feel bad for young actors who become huge stars too quickly, because you haven't had a chance to practice your craft a lot.

For a lot of actors, our biggest fear is that we're going to start talking about things we don't fully understand and sound like idiots.

The caliber of actors I'm getting to work with and learn from on a daily basis is phenomenal for me as a developing actor.

You know, even working actors can end up having a lot of spare time. And you can either go sit at the Starbucks and wait for your agent to call you, or you can go learn how to build a Shaker blanket chest with hand-cut dovetails.

Actors come up and just blatantly hit on my wife in front of me and don't even look at me.

New York is so full of the best unemployed actors on the planet.

I miss working with great actors, working with great directors.

Theres this little box that African-American actors have to work in, in the first place, and I was able to rise above that box. I could have done a bunch of movies where I stayed as the Axel Foley or Reggie Hammond persona. But I didnt want to be doing the same thing all the time. Every now and then, you crash and burn, but thats part of it.

I love working with the actors eye-to-eye. I think something gets lost in translation, not only through a monitor, but when you leave the area where the actual scene is taking place.

Acting is not a profession of competing with other actors, but rather a vocation of sharing with fellow human beings.

I'm sort of one of those weird actors who whenever I do a play, I think, 'Oh, we should film this,' as opposed to have to belt it out of ourselves in a theater auditorium.

I think it's a room full of insecure actors, which is ultimately very comforting.

The technique's many benefits for actors include minimized tension, centeredness, vocal relaxation, and responsiveness, mind/body connection and about an inch and a half of additional height.

I spent a lot of time taking acting lessons Actors have no inhibitions, and Im inhibited by everything. To be able to make fun of yourself is a skill and a liberating experience.

Actors are as anxious about the state of audiences as aviators are over weather conditions.