actors Quotes

A lot of people when they make movies, the actors act like it's their journey and that everyone is on the set to facilitate their journey and the whole thing is set up that way - they ask if you want anything.

The scenery in the play was beautiful, but the actors got in front of it.

It was one of those plays in which all of the actors unfortunately enunciated very clearly.

I learned my business in the theater and in television, particularly working with the actors. You can learn much more in the theater than directing a movie, because then you have no time when you are shooting a movie to really work with the actors. You have to learn this craft somewhere else.

Many actors want to play Hamlet and Macbeth. Ever since I became an actor, from the very beginning I just wanted to play a Shetland pony. I cannot explain why

I could not separate myself off stage from myself on stage, as so many actors can.

Nuclear apocalypse-who do you need? Actors are probably not top of the list. What can I do for you? I can pretend to be somebody who can grow you some nice crops.

Actors speak of things imaginary as if they were real, while you preachers too often speak of things real as if they were imaginary.

Let's not get too precious about it: actors are not heart surgeons or brain surgeons. We are just entertaining people.

I have daughters who are writers and actors but no musicians.

After filming I like to go home and lie down with my daughter and have a glass of wine so I don't really socialize with the other actors.

All actors almost always try to steal some of their wardrobe.

When actors are being defensive and defending their position, that is when you get less than good acting.

These are extremely talented actors who are all putting their talents into the Lost in Space movie.

So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.

There are lots of wonderful old Italian actors. You don't need to take an Egyptian to play an Italian actor.

If you compare me to an actor, I'm probably one of the best boxers in the profession. But if you compare me as a boxer, I'm probably one of the best actors.

Well, acting is cheap; I knew all these actors who weren't in the Screen Actors Guild yet, and it happened that they were all just about thirty years old.

All actors do that. Should do that and do that. For the most part. I say all actors. I'm exaggerating, but you know who does and who doesn't. Vince is a wonderful young actor who knows his work and did a beautiful job on this film.

Actually way back when Abhishek and I were just co-actors, I kept telling him 'let's be a part of a troupe and go on a world tour'. And he kept on saying 'It's not the right time'. But I never thought that my wish will be fulfilled in such a grand way and that we will be part of the team as man and wife.

I have always been a Malibu Man, like all actors.

I hate hearing about actors who don't like the show. There are so many actors out there who'd give their right arm for what I'm getting to do.

I am not one of those actors who believes he has to live the part he is playing. I can turn it on and off.

I don't think Indian actors are good. A couple of them are, like Anupam Kher, but not many are there like him in the industry. There are thousand of actors and actresses in the industry, but you can count on hand how many of them are really good; the rest of them are just pretty faces.

I usually don't say anything to the actors. It works better for me because when they come to the set, they are at the same time scared and excited because they are not well aware of what will happen.

I hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do

With The Host, I think the actors could be really big names. That would be cool. Id love to see Robert Redford put on a beard and be Jeb; he would be amazing... Matt Damon has some very Jared-esque qualities, and then Casey Affleck as Ian and Ben Affleck as Kyle. Imagine the interplay.

I call for actors burning at the stakes, laughing at the flames.

Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson, Sean Connery and Robert Redford, Mel Gibson - at least in the Road Warrior films - and Harrison Ford are among my favorite actors. Meryl Streep, Jane Fonda, Sally Field, Deborah Winger, Jessica Lange, and of course, Shirley MacLaine, are among the women.

Actors think they're far more important than they are, and that can only lead to hurt. People with colossal self-importance have very far to fall.