actors Quotes

A lot of comic actors derive their main force from childish behavior. Most great comics are doing such silly things; you'd say, 'That's what a child would do.

As actors, the thing we have to fight, more than even the business part of making movies, is boredom.

The only difference between me and my fellow actors is that I've spent more time in jail.

What is it about actors? God knows I get bored with actors talking about themselves.

Actors are crazy or we wouldn't be doing this.

I don't like it when people ask actors to work for free Ђ' on the fringe Ђ' as if it's some kind of virtue. That annoys me Ђ' actors should be paid well.

I think there are a lot of other actors that are just talented, it's just about this opportunity - it's just about when are we going to be put in those positions where we can shine.

But all actors go through the process, it's hit and miss, you have achievement and failure.

Actors tend to get in their own way, a lot. A lot of times you will do things that will screw up your audition process. I was very bad at auditioning, and I always went in to it saying 'God I hope I don't screw this up.' But at the same time, the directors are saying, 'God, I hope this person is the savior.' You have to remember is that the worst thing that could happen is you don't get the job you don't already have.

I'm not Tom Cruise. Very few British actors are. If you look at the body of work I've done it's pretty obvious I'm not going to make a 'Mission: Impossible.'

When you throw punches at actors, you stop, you pull it, and it looks like you pulled it. When you throw punches at cartoon characters, they are not there, so you can swing through. It looks like you really decked them

I went to USC for writing. I was judgmental of actors and their Starbucks and fancy cars.

There's a pressure on actors to get somewhere before it's over. But everyone wants longevity, don't they? It's a career. Why be that flash-in-the-pan, taking every job out of worry it'll soon be over?

Difficult for actors to extemporise in nineteenth-century English. Except for Robert Hardy and Elizabeth Spriggs, who speak that way anyway.

Actors and actresses who say they never go to see their own pictures are talking through their hats. You don't have to be a Freud to know that the most fascinating person in the world - actors or anybody - is yourself.

Hollywood likes to put actors in boxes, and it likes to put Asian actors in really small boxes.

All actors are incredibly insecure.

As a director, I also get to sit and watch actors and learn from them in a way that I don't get to do when I'm just acting.

Jonathan Lynn is one of the last actors Orsen Welles used in a production. It was wonderful. He's very sharp, very sharp. It's funny I've been asked how weird it was to have a Brit do a church gospel movie

It's really important to draw the line on what we do as actors.

If you're lucky, and not a lot of actors are these days, you get the chance to create a character

I want to prove a point. That point is, actors are artists, not narcissists necessarily

David Cronenberg knows what we actors do as artists.

God felt sorry for actors, so he gave them a place in the sun and a lot of money. All they had to sacrifice was their talent.

I know as actors our job is usually to shed our skins, but I think as people our job is to become who we really are and so I would like to salute the men and women who brave ostracism, alienation and a life lived on the margins to become who they really are.

I think a lot of times it just looks like Hollywood actors in Halloween costumes, you know? And I think what we're going to do with Fantastic Four is going to be very grounded and it made sense to me. When I read the script, I didn't feel like I was reading this larger-than-life, incredible superhero tale. These are all very human people that end up having to become I guess what is known as the Fantastic Four. So for me it was just a really good story and gives me an opportunity to play something different from my

I couldn't care less about actors' trailers and food on sets and stuff like that - I just want to act

I find actors who play nasty guys in movies are the nicest guys in real life, and the opposite then goes for heroes.

Whats fascinating is that when you write a script, its almost a stream of consciousness. You have an idea that it means something, but youre not always sure what. Then when you get on the set, the actors teach you.

A lot of times black actors get stuck in a box. They're up against a lot of limitations for the kind of films that they get approached about. It's easy to get stuck in a box and just be approached about nothing but urban films.