actors Quotes

The thing with Ryan, you can look at him for hours. Very few actors have that. It's a gift.

As an actor, I was not accepted for the longest time. But it did not deter me, as the audience had accepted me. I never compared myself with any other actors. I never had any game plan and took whatever came my way.

Regeneration, however it is described, is a divine activity in us, in which we are not the actors but the recipients.

Actors, who should pride themselves on their singularity, are forever trying to be someone else. It isn't necessary for you, the actor, to like yourselfЂ' self-love isn't easy to come by for most of usЂ' but you must learn to trust who you are. There is no one else like you.

I did a thing called 24 Hour Plays, a thing they do every year on Broadway. A bunch of playwrights and actors get together, you write a play and you act it out in 24 hours, literally. People pay and the money goes to charity. So I did one - I was horrible. I was bad. I was terrified. And I was like, \'Oh, I gotta do this again.\' Because I know I can do it.

A lot of people who are actors and artists who work in Hollywood come from a background of abuse, and you can make abused people very fearful and they'll do what they're told. Hollywood definitely has a point of view that it sells.

You hear this said about actors sometimes, that they're fearless, but she [ Maggie Gyllenhaal] really is.

Good actors never use the script unless it's amazing writing. All the good actors I've worked with, they all say whatever they want to say.

I don't think that actors are necessarily any more uncomfortable in their skin than anyone else. I suppose I feel more comfortable in my skin now, but you're always playing a character, aren't you? You tell different versions of yourself to different people and vice versa. Here, or in the photo shoot or wherever, it's a representation of you. It's not you-you. That's how you get through it.

I was horrified when Richard Chamberlain and Rupert Everett said gay actors should stay in the closet. They were saying to people that they should live a lie and not be liberated, to live in fear of being found out

Actors aren't stupid, mostly, and if there's a sensibility and an aesthetic that a director's going for, if you're aware of that too, you can do things to help that.

I have always let the lack of Indian actors in the industry drive me, not hold me back. I remember an agent in L.A. telling me a few years ago that an Indian actor wouldn't ever make it in Hollywood, but my ethnicity has helped me.

Actors take risks all the time. We put ourselves on the line. It is creative to be able to interpret someone's words and breathe life into them

Speaking as an actress, I wish all actors would be more like Duke Wayne. And speaking as a person, it would be nice if all people could be honest and as genuine as he is. This is a real man.

Im a firm believer that actors take to work who they arent at home. People show their other self in their art or in their work.

Actors love mental disorders, dialects, and corsets. Give them one of the three and they're happy

All that day she had had the feeling that she was playing in the theatre with actors better than herself and that her poor playing spoiled the whole thing.

I don't see that many plays, and for me, musicals are rarely pleasing. I feel the actors are being put through a kind of nightmarish labor. They're like animals being forced to pull heavy carts of vegetables at incredible speeds.

It is very hard to cast a number of plays adequately from the same company of actors without several parts being miscast.

An actor without techies is a naked person standing in the dark trying to emote. A techie without actors is a person with marketable skills.

You can't make theater happen without actors. The actor is the central ingredient in making theater happen. Audiences may come to theaters to see the work of stage managers, directors and producers, but the only people who can communicate theater magic to audiences, through ideas and emotions, are the actors. They are the only ones who can communicate this by themselves, and if necessary, they can get along without you. But you can't make theater without the actor.

I think actors have a greater responsibility when doing comedy. It's as easy as anything to get cheap laughs, but that's not the idea at all. \'The slight trip syndrome,\' we call it. With tragedy one can get away with things a bit more because audiences don't always know how to react.

The most important thing you can teach actors is to understand plays.

Young actors, fear your admirers! Learn in time, from your first steps, to hear, understand and love the cruel truth about yourselves. Find out who can tell you that truth and talk of your art only with those who can tell you the truth.

When actors go onstage, you know immediately if they can do their job. You can be a lawyer or an accountant for years and not find out.

It is through you, actors, that the forces which are understood by millions and that tell of everything that is beautiful on earth, find expression. The forces which reveal to people the happiness of living in a widened consciousness and in the joy of creative work for the whole world. You, the actors of a theatre, which is one of the centres of human culture, will never be understood by the people if you are unable to reflect the spiritual needs of your time, the now in which you are living.

Never meddle with play-actors, for they're a favoured race.

Actors are the only honest hypocrites.

We're actors in our lives, pretendin' to be who we want people to think we are.

I have to tell you, you can't have an ego when you're an actor. A lot of actors have them, but in reality most of those people are just sensitive artists dying for a hug and a compliment.