actors Quotes

When becoming a character, you have to steal. Steal whatever you see. You can even steal from other actors' characterizations; but if you do, only steal from the best.

In film, other actors' performances really are not your concern. If the other actor isn't giving you what you want, act as though he were.

It's the actors who are prepared to make fools of themselves who are usually the ones who come to mean something to the audience.

Our everyday self is a narrow construct...Our total self is far broader, ultimately infinite. Actors who seem to be playing themselves are actually playing roles they have become so skillful at that they seem pure and natural...Much bad Acting is the result of being too close to the Actor's everyday self, confining him in its rigid mold.

When student-actors see people and the way they behave when together, see the color of the sky, hear the sounds in the air, feel the ground beneath them and the wind on their faces, they get a wider view of their personal world and development in the theater is quickened. The world provides the material for the theater and artistic growth develops hand-in-hand with one's recognition of it and one's self within it.

Competition is healthy. Competition is life. Yet most actors refuse to acknowledge this. They don't want to compete. They want to get along. And they are therefore not first-rate actors. The good actor is the one who competes, willingly, who enjoys competing. An actor must compete, or die...Peacefulness and the avoidance of trouble won't help in his acting. It is just the opposite he must seek.

Actors should be overheard, not listened to, and the audience is 50 percent of the performance.

Theatre, in which actors take on changing roles, has among its many functions the examination of identity. For the individual, theatre is a kind of identity laboratory in which social roles can be examined vicariously.

There's nothing more boring than unintelligent actors, because all they have to talk about is themselves and acting. There have to be other things.

The theater has never been any good since the actors became gentlemen.

The big gap between the ability of actors is confidence.

I really enjoy working with younger actors. I just feel like we're all peers together.

I know that Philadelphians hate New York actors passing off New York accents as Philadelphian when they are quite different.

In this business actors who have Botox or surgery make you very aware of age. It's awful.

A lot of the films now are more focused on the visuals than on the actors. I think all directors should go to drama school.

Most actors really love it, that's what they want to do. They burn to do it. And so they'll read a script and think, that's an interesting part. And because they love acting, that blinds them to the fact that the rest of it is pretentious nonsense, which it very often is.

If the goal is to get the best artists, actors, and filmmakers in the world to create the best movies, Hollywood does a decent job. And I think no one would disagree with me that it also makes a ton of bad movies and employs a bunch of hacks.

Actors didn't use to be celebrities. A hundred years ago, they put the theaters next to the brothels.

I think some of the best actors ever were little kids.

I like actors very much, but to marry one would be like marrying your brother. You look too much alike in the mirror.

I get involved with projects based on three parameters - the script, the actors involved and the director.

Actually, the most entitled people I've met are indie rockers and indie actors, because they really believe their press.

I resent having witnessed the survival of some very mediocre male actors and the professional demise of the very brilliant female ones.

Actors are rogues and vagabonds. Or they ought to be.

Actors are pretending for you, but they're not lying. They are not putting on a guise instead of themselves. They are finding things inside that they have experienced.

Actors have no color. That's the art form.

Actors get pigeonholed very quickly, particularly movie actors. In the theater, one is more used to casting people against type and trusting that their talent and skill will get them through.

Modern tourist guides have helped raised tourist expectations. And they have provided the natives- from Kaiser Wilhelm down to the villagers of Chichacestenango - with a detailed and itemized list of what is expected of them and when. These are the up-to-date scripts for actors on the tourists' stage.

There's an impression that actors make a lot of choices. I just take what's there.

There probably aren't a lot of actors my age who tap dance.