actors Quotes

I know that some actors and directors like to have intensity on set. I don't, particularly. Certainly, if they want that, that's fine, but I can't work like that.

Actors I admire? Ed Harris, or course, I think he's terrific; because I know he always had to fight being what he looked like a lot, but I think he's a terrific actor.

Actors are programmed to see the worst. If you're talking about an actor's TV series, you say, 'I loved you last night.' And they go, 'What about the week before?' They immediately worry.

I actually really love working with young actors because they're so responsive and instinctive, and it's a much less honed craft that they're employing.

A room full of great sportsmen is so much better than a room full of actors.

Doing 'Young Adult' was really reassuring to me in a lot of ways. It confirmed a lot of suspicions I had about great actors.

I have been portrayed by actors in three television documentaries, two plays, one musical and a film. It's no fun watching yourself being traduced and imitated by an actor.

High-level actors can be all about their close-ups and the size of their trailers. I'd heard these horror stories of how a really powerful actor can come in and change your script.

I have so much empathy for these young actors that are 19 and all of a sudden they're beautiful and famous and rich. I'm like, 'Oh my God, I'd be dead.'

You have to understand that crew members make movies so they're seeing a lot of actors all the time in their career acting.

It's important to say that actors can't act alone, it's impossible. What we have to do is support each other.

Actors are responsible to the people we play.

I know some really great actors who are pretty judgmental people, pretty critical people. But they're great actors. When they're acting, that's the craft.

I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.

And costume is so important for an actor. It absolutely helps to get into character; it's the closest thing to you, it touches you. Some actors like to go into make-up and then put their clothes on, but I like to dress first; that's my routine.

Actors have to stay optimistic. The moment we start thinking otherwise, we're dead.

Hey, I think comic actors are the best actors.

Going out with other actors is never good; actresses are neurotic, and actors are horrendous egotists.

Some of the greatest actors have turned superheroes into a serious business: Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson in 'Batman'; Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart, the first venerable knights of the X-Men, who have now passed the baton to Michael Fassbender and James McAvoy.

Just go into the room, sit in the centre of the room, open the doors and windows, and see who comes to visit. <br />You will witness all kinds of scenes and actors, all kinds of temptations and stories, everything imaginable. <br />Your only job is to stay in your seat. <br />You will see it all arise and pass, and out of this, wisdom and understanding will come.

Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?

My approach with actors is to try and give them whatever it is they need from me. Direction to me is about listening and responding and realizing how much they need to know from me and how much they have figured out for themselves, really.

The best actors instinctively feel out what the other actors need, and they just accommodate it.

You have the massive world that was created by Marvel, and then you have these very intimate actors around you. There was as much character work on this as there would be on a little independent film. So, I felt very fortunate in that sense.

Actors work and slave and it is the color of your hair that can determine your fate in the end.

Actors cannot choose the manner in which they are born. Consequently, it is the one gesture in their lives completely devoid of self-consciousness.

Actors who say they can dive inside a character are either schizophrenic or lying.

In terms of directors, great actors make directors - Gary Oldman was great to work with, for me; Tim Roth, too. You work with Scorsese and Spielberg and they were wonderful directors, but for me, working with actor/directors is special.

Norms appearing in the form of law entitle actors to exercise their rights or liberties. However, one cannot determine which of these laws are legitimate simply by looking at the form of individual rights. Only by bringing in the discourse principle can one show that each person is owed a right to the greatest possible measure of equal liberties that are mutually compatible.

A lot of American actors when they do Shakespeare put on a phoney English accent and it drives me crazy. You're always fighting against the idea that only the British know how to do Shakespeare.