actors Quotes

Actors make bad lovers. Their most important kiss is for the camera. Not in a superficial way, in a really deep way. They can only give everything if they know someone is going to shout cut!

I just enjoy working with really wonderful actors and amazing creative people and I hope to keep doing that, no matter where.

The actors I was most impressed with and who were influencing my taste were all movie actors, so I always wanted to do movies but I didnt want to go to Hollywood and become a waiter in the meantime. The chances are really slim that an actor will be discovered in Hollywood. ... Ive never had to compromise myself for a job, ever.

I'm not like one of those actors who's a frustrated director.

A lot of actors are perfectionists, besides merely being egotists.

There's a certain thought process about actors that they are in Hollywood and they sit around pools and get suntans and just get offered jobs.

It's rare that I come across actors who are willing to work as hard on the material as I am

I think that all actors find they go down and then they come back up if you work on your craft. They come back up to the top and then they go back down and they come back up and they go back down.

But actors at a certain point take the best of what's available to them.

I admire a lot of actors; I think a lot of them have so much talent.

Young actors are serious about their work and don't take any time out from it. I'm very serious about my work; there are probably only two films I've done where I had a really good time.

It is hard sometimes to see how other actors are working when you are working with them.

I'm probably one of the worst actors as far as preparation goes, because I actually don't prepare. I find it easier to read the script and whatever hits me in my stomach, like deep down, I just go with it. And the director kind of molds me whether to go right or left with it.

A lot of actors think that what we do is so important, like we're saving people's lives or something.

And the actors tend not to want to watch themselves very often. I'm one of those guys.

Music is my main goal, but I'm not going to rush a record out. There are so many actors who have come out with albums these days. I don't want to do it because it's the thing to do. I want to wait until the time is right.

I know many great actors who have small heads.

I'm very cautious about talking about how actors got where they got, as though there is in fact a plan or a way. There is no plan, there is no way, there's no sure set, there's no handbook, on how to get to be an actor.

I'm used to working alone. Frankly with some of the actors I've worked with, I've felt like I was working alone.

I do believe all actors are smart.

But some actors I have met possess an intelligence that I can only dream of. It's about character, it's about behavior. They understand things about people that I simply don't see.

I think actors become jacks-of-all-trades and masters of none.

There are no small parts. Only small actors.

I appeared with many leading men. But working with Cary Grant was different from working with other actors. He was much more fun! I think we were a successful team because we enjoyed working together tremendously, and that pleasure must have shown through onto the screen. I will always remember two compliments he made me. He said I had perfect timing in comedy and that I was the sweetest smelling actress he ever worked with.

Directors say that you should get actors before they are recognized. They will be a pain or have an opinion.

The Oscar nomination made me a recognizable name to other actors and people in general.

There are a handful of actors who sustain interest because it's exciting to watch them get better at what they do. I want to be one of those actors.

It's hard to compare actors from different generations.

Most actors try to do as many different things as possible. I like the encouragement I get from doing new things. I like to feel scared or challenged in the hope that I can pull it off. That little bit of fear creates an energy that I can channel into the performance. And you have to keep tapping new parts of yourself, keep working or you never improve. The only way to improve is to set yourself harder goals.

Actors fall into this trap if they missed being loved for who they really were and not for what they could do - sing, dance, joke about - then they take that as love.