actors Quotes

If my kids decide to be actors and really, truly love it and are passionate about it, then I would definitely want to help them along their way, but it's a tough business.

I mean, I hate when actors talk about how hard their job is. It's ridiculous, because we have the best job in the world.

You know, I think a lot of times what happens when we as actors know we're playing a bad guy is we get into bad guy mode. You know what, man? In real life, bad people do good things too and good people do bad things. So you don't necessarily have to be the stereotypical bad guy to still do bad things.

George Wendt is a saint. And one of the finest American actors that we have.

A lot of actors think they can't be happy without the acting... But I think I couldn't be happy with it anymore.

The most important thing that certainly the United States and other Asian and Pacific actors have done is to urge that whatever happens, however the dispute is resolved, that it be resolved peacefully.

People get on a show and they fought tooth and nail. Almost 95% of the actors out there want to be on a television series. Then as soon as they get onto one, no, no, I want to be a movie star. This television series stuff, no, no no.

But I've never been really rebellious. I've got a lot of support and I'm not pushed so hard that I feel like I'm going to burn out, which is what happens to a lot of actors in their early twenties.

I don't really consider myself one of those actors who takes his work home with him.

It's a lot more fun for actors to cry and rant and rave, or have a drug problem or a drinking problem.

I think the choice of actors that we have is a little more varied and rich here in New York than in L.A.

Young girls of 13 or 12 are great actors.

I can't complain. I'm making a living out of what I do, which is really rare for a lot of actors. The hard part is staying confident and staying with it.

My whole family is very artistic - my uncles are all actors and theatre directors.

I'm one of the lucky actors in television. I don't make a lot of big waves, but there's constant activity, and that's the way I prefer to live my life.

When you do an animated movie - at least the ones that I've been a part of - you never see any of the other actors. It's all done separately with headphones in a voice booth.

I don't know how other people perceive the lives of actors, but my life is fairly ordinary. I go to work, I come home, I put my kids to bed. If I'm home in time for dinner, I have dinner, and then it's bedtime.

When you see something that is well-written, the actors can get behind it.

It's true what people say - that actors are the closest thing there is to children. They play.

Actors, after all, dream.

I've worked with some actors who can't act.

With actors, all our ages are out there for all to see - you can't hide anything, really. And it's kind of a relief. This is my age, this is what I look like without makeup on - who cares? That youth culture - that lying about your age - it's all denial of death anyway.

I've worked with a lot of really fine actors, both on stage and on screen. The level of their game lifts me up and brings the level of my game up to theirs. Always. It's like a constant upgrade.

There is only one thing I respect in so-called Broadway actors... and that is their competitive sense.

I am admiring of my fellow peers, black filmmakers and black actors and actresses.

I'm not one of those actors who needs the media spotlight all the time to feel gratified. I'm happy to do one project a year and take the rest of the year off as long as that project is special.

The best actors, I think, have a childlike quality. They have a sort of an ability to lose themselves. There's still some silliness.

Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Yeah, I had to change my name because there were two other actors registered at Equity with that name.

People imagine that actors are being offered everything and you are not. So things come in and sometimes there are things that I want and can't get a meeting on, or go to a different actors.