actors Quotes

If there is one thing I object to, its actors talking about how tough their jobs are.

Cable TV has become where the best actors, writers and directors have gone to work because they are allowed to do character-driven stories.

Clarence Darrow was a unique and courageous man. Several of my favourite actors have played Darrow Henry Fonda, Orson Welles and Spencer Tracy.

I think the best models are actors, you're taking on a character. In that sense, I have been acting for a long time. It didn't seem like a crazy transition. Acting is a bigger step into modelling in a way. Modelling is easier when you don't look like yourself. When you look like a different person, you feel different. Acting goes deeper into that, you have to move and talk like that character. I love it.

My mom is many times responsible for getting us all together, but we trade off at each other's houses. My brother and I are actors and are traveling a lot of our job.

The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.

You know what I would like to do: make a film with actors standing in empty space so that the spectator would have to imagine the background of the characters.

We're paid to care. That's what actors get their money for. But the main goal is not for the actors to be frustrated at the end of the show, but for the audience to be throwing their shoes at the television set. That's what we're trying for.

I never had posters on my wall and when I meet actors that I really admire, it's exciting because I get to work with them.

Actors cannot work against each other. It's totally impossible.

Garrel has succeeded in filming something we have never seen before: the faces of actors in silent films during those moments when the black intertitles, with their paltry, illuminated words, filled the screen.

Who says that actors are cattle? Show me a cow who can earn a million dollars a film.

Like most actors, I've always been grateful for Chinese restaurants; they were often the only places that stayed open late enough for performers to get hot food after the show.

I do not believe that artists or actors and people should be out there like voicing their full-blown opinions on politics because, let's face it, at the end of the day, I'm not that smart of a guy.

Actors are actually very supportive of each other.

Parts win prizes, not actors.

Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world.

The great actresses and actors receive awards for great roles in great films.

We become actors without realizing it, and actors without wanting to.

I keeps it real nothing. Like you actors do

I feel quite blessed that I can actually balance between the two worlds, because a lot of really talented actors I know end up getting set in a certain category and no one will ever buy that they can exist outside that category, even though you know full well that they can.

I'm living in Los Angeles, I'm in films and I'm on television, and I'm working with actors and telling stories. I'm living the fantasy. My worst day is a great day.

I'm one of those pathetic actors who will say yes to every play reading just because I do miss the stage so much. What I really miss about the theater is that in the end, it's yours to give. In television and film, it's yours to do and someone else's to take and someone else's to give. As much as I love television - the biggest luxury of all is to know that you have a job to go to - I do miss that connection and having that power over my own performance on stage.

I'm always shocked when actors have diva-esque behavior.

You hear about actors who were doing five years on a series as lovers and actually hated each other. I don't know if I could pull it off.

Opening a play is just tough. The idea that actors are weirdly protected from it is a myth. If you imagine yourself having to spend two and a bit hours cooking bolognaise, remembering a whole major work by David Hare and speaking it at the correct moment between chopping carrots and stirring the onions in front of an audience - the normal human response is 'Please, can I go to the airport?'

I think actors who know their job know that's how you do it. You don't show up and make people miserable. That poor grip who's standing there, he just wants to feed his family. He doesn't need to hear about your psychosis on life and love and death.

I'm lucky to have worked with great actors, my whole career.

You know, it's hard as a writer to lose characters (and actors) you like. You really don't want them to die because you're not going to get to see them anymore.

Most dear actors, eat no onions nor garlic, for we are to utter sweet breath.