actors Quotes

I think actors have a choice of drawing attention to themselves or living on the outskirts.

I have a list in my mind and in my heart of actors who have been extraordinarily kind, and Hugh Laurie is near the top.

It's a super super strange world when the actors are the less weird ones.

I guess I work well with others I handle younger actors well.

I watch these actors who when you go to buy a pint of milk you see them smiling on the cover of 20 magazines. Then when you see them in a film it's hard to believe the character because you just see them everywhere

Actors have an unusual perspective on clothing. You've really got to know the impact of what you're wearing on the character you're playing

Im not the kind of person to just sit back and lose something I worked hard on, so, naturally, Ive taken steps to be further involved in a process when most actors arent.

Supporting characters add depth to a story, and great actors leave their imprint with the audience.

I don't know why British actors are getting big parts in American TV shows. Maybe it's because we're cheap.

From 1980 to 1990, I shot more films than any other actor in the Screen Actors Guild, apart from Gene Hackman.

Before 1972, no actors got residuals. They just got paid. No residuals.

So many actors have sheer guts, will, and determination; they just need some preparation.

In L.A., though, people get off busses calling themselves actors, so many are really not professionals.

I am not a long-run actor. I admire actors who can do that.

If I had had to struggle at the beginning like most actors... Id never have stuck it out. But having such complete success at the beginning, I was stuck with being an actor for life.

Actors have to be there and do the work, and that's enough.

I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I had to decide early on whether I was to be an actor or a personality.

I don't want to know about the lives of other actors and I don't want people to know too much about me. If we don't know about the private lives of other actors, that leaves us as clean slates when it comes to playing characters. That's the point, they can create these other characters and I can believe them. I think if you're a good enough actor, that's the way to longevity in the film business. Keep everybody guessing.

You find with the really great actors, the ones you really admire and look up to, very often they're very giving, generous, warm people.

Concept is what makes actors raise their game.

To see great actors bring it all to life us exhilerating

I'm a real people person and I'm very sensitive, and I've just noticed how other actors that I've worked with, as an actor, take direction from people.

I love working with actors, and it's great that I'm an actor myself. I know how I like to be directed and how I like to be talked to.

Most actors are lucky to ever get a job, period. I never forget that, because I have so many actor friends in L.A., and most of us barely ever work. And those of us that do, it's still only 60 days out of the year that we're actually on camera. It's an absurdly low number.

All the actors I've worked with as a director over the years I really love and I thought they were all right for the part.

It's hard to find actors that don't feel contemporary when you put them in a period piece.

Whence are we, and why are we? Of what scene The actors or spectators?

the role of the Do-Gooder is not what actors call a fat part.

Applause is an instinctive, unconscious act expressing the sympathy between actors and audience. Just as our art demands more instinct than intellect in its exercise, so we demand of those who watch us an apppreciation of the simple unconscious kind which finds an outlet in clapping rather than the cold intellectual approval which would self-consciously think applause derogatory. I have yet to meet the actor who was sincere in saying that he disliked applause.

Reason is an historian, but the passions are actors.