actors Quotes

One of the things that I cannot fathom is young actors who will not audition and won't read.

My mom and dad were actors when they were younger and had a horrible experience of it. My dad became a literary agent and my mom a casting director.

I'm always amazed at the way some actors' behaviour is truly disgusting. That's one thing that will never happen on one of my sets if I ever direct.

Both of my parents have been actors; there were a lot of show tunes on in the car all of the time. I grew up with that.

As far as I can tell, most actors' main motivation is self-doubt and neuroses.

It's hard for two actors to be together. Take the traveling, for instance. It winds up being a long distance relationship, all the time, because one's working here and one's working there, or one's staying at home and one's off someplace else.

Young actors often don't think of the consequences of doing nudity or sex scenes. They want the role so badly that they agree to be exploited, and then end up embarrassing family, friends, and even strangers.

Actors, they come and go, you know.

You hear stories of intense actors who can't shed their character and who don't know who they are for a week or two after. I'm not that guy, man.

Well, I've been in several films including documentaries, but the big blockbuster, I was hired as advisor to the actors, I was trying to make Jesuits out of them

I like to rehearse with the actors scenes that are not in the script and will not be in the film because what we're really doing is trying to establish their character, and good acting to me is about reacting.

I think there's a big misconception out there about actors and the choices they have.

I don't think many actors are the best judge of careers. I think generally we have good instincts about what we can do in terms of acting. And often they become directors, which I don't want to be.

I find that kid actors are great reminders of the simplicity of acting. As you get older, you can sometimes complicate things a little more. You can become too aware of, 'Okay, this is the scene emotionally. This is where we need to be. We've got the climax coming up.' You can start to analyze it too much.

I'd see child actors and I'd get so jealous, because they're just completely wide open.

I don't think that I've had a career like anyone else's, but there are hosts and hosts of actors whose careers I admire.

I'll tell you what I probably would prefer to happen less and less: actors that I know and respect in shampoo ads. Or modeling.

We are all actors: being a citizen is not living in society, it is changing it.

Anyone can do theater, even actors. And, theater can be done everywhere, even in a theater.

I never dreamed that shooting a film would be so hard. There was less regulation then of child actors' hours. Even the concept of acting confused me.

I think a lot of actors take on fun roles and then they're lazy or flippant with them. I just can't do that.

The actors are the greatest executors of tone in a film. They're the most important cinematic component.

I like actors who, when you see them on screen, you sense a person, not just an actor.

There's something that sort of weirds me out about actors who want to be rock stars, and the other way around too.

I have trouble sometimes watching actors - even when they do a great job - with an accent.

So often when you meet child actors, they're weird - they're freaks. No, I mean it, they're really odd people.

I've worked with actors who tell everyone what to do in the scene - that makes me go pretty atomic.

I think with the best actors, emotion is something that has no kind of check in them.

I don't think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great. You've got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition's an opportunity to have an audience.

If I spent all my time criticising myself, I wouldn't be able to function. There are actors who theorise till the cows come home. I haven't the patience for them. It's maybe shallow, but that's why I'll never be part of the acting set.