actors Quotes

Behind the footlights there is always the applause, which stimulates the actors. On the screen it is a different matter.

The applause is a celebration not only of the actors but also of the audience. It constitutes a shared moment of delight.

Inspiration can come from anywhere. But I do love actors. I wish I could drop a bunch of names, but there are just too many.

Seeing someone happy on set is just a very small slice of the reality of an actors life.

All of the actors that have served to me as inspiration over the years have been those more associated with dramatic work who have, in turn, been able to embody their characters and lose themselves in those characters that they create.

It's so funny, actors usually have a directing ambition. I've got no ambition for directing.

Actors are seen as celebrities, but they're just real people with families.

Im always envious of the actors who get to come to work every day and really grow deep roots there, but it is really fun playing lots of different characters.

I dont think I could compare myself to Macaulay Culkin, because were pretty much two different kinds of actors. Hes done a lot of comedy. He does mostly just comedy like Uncle Buck and Home Alone and Home Alone 2. And Ive done a lot of different stuff, like sad movies, like the movie about the kid with AIDS.

Its not easy for Chinese actors to do foreign films, and its not easy for foreign actors to do Chinese films.

Not to belittle what we do as actors, but my wife Helen is a teacher, and she makes a real difference to kids. So, it's unusual to see people thinking of us as something special.

Most of the time, actors respond to the thing thats so far from who they are. We all want to play the serial killer and the ex-con.

If I could, I want to take a page from the George Clooney-like actors of the world. They do things that are relevant, things that don't necessarily have huge box office appeal, but they matter.

Sisters, brothers and the whities, Blacks and the crackers, Police and their backers, They're all political actors

My co-stars aren't bad actors, but they're no Zach Braff.

I don't even like the show that much, I mean, it's about doctors. It's not like doctors are as important as actors anyway, I bet I've saved more lives with my acting talent then any doctor has.

The thing with Ridley [Scott] is he's been doing this forever, he knows what it is he wants and how to get it. There's absolutely no messing around on set. Having said that, he's very accessible to actors, very open to what you want to do and willing to t.

You always see actors complaining about being typecast and ruining their career. Really, I don't see the point in complaining. If the only role you can play well is a black dude, you're never going to get ahead in this town, and you should just accept it.

Someone called actors 'sculptors in snow.' Very apt. In the end, it's all nothing.

I like actors that are good with pantomime and that can transmit a lot by their presence and attitude more than through their dialogue

Most actors make themselves unhappy by searching for their sanity, by insisting on their normalcy; it's a grave mistake.

Often actors ask me if I think they should go on trying to be an actor.<br /> I have the same answer for everyone who asks: If you have a choice and could reasonably be happy doing something else, by all means go at once and do something else. <br /> Acting or writing or directing in the theatre or television or screen is only for the irrecoverably diseased, those who are so smitten with the need that there is no choice.

Somehow I got to be one of five or six actors that the directors would use as guinea pigs at this directing colloquium, where people pay to listen to and watch the directors direct.

I always love watching those natural actors like Bill Cosby, Raven-Symone and Shia LaBeouf - just effortless actors.

Practically all writers and artists are aware of their destiny and see themselves as actors in a fateful drama. With me, nothing is momentous: obscure youth, glorious old age, fateful coincidences - nothing really matters. I have written a number of good sentences. I have kept free of delusions. I know I am going to die soon.

I feel very privileged to have worked with a lot of outstanding actors: Alun Armstrong, Peter Mullan, Matt Smith and Andrew Garfield.

We actors can't take the credit. We love to try to claim the credit.

The Old Vic has always been first and foremost an actors theatre, a home for great talent and memorable performances.

I think what makes so many other actors miserable is focusing completely on making other plans. They're obsessed with their haircut and their headshot and their agent, their IMDB profile or whatever.

There are different kinds of actors, and movie actors tend to be exceedingly precise and mechanical in a way that's really admirable for me to watch. You always learn from them.