actors Quotes

A lot of straight actors are actively searching for gay roles because it is something different to do.

I don't think many actors are that good, to be honest. I certainly don't think I am.

You know, young actors say all the time, 'Should I use my own life experience?' And my response is, 'What choice do you have?'

Actors generally get to do things you probably shouldn't do in real life - well, at least as much as one might like to or be tempted to. Though I suppose a lot of actors just go ahead and do it, don't they?

I think with actors, if you just don't set about trying to crush their confidence immediately, you're usually OK.

Ninety percent of the preparation we do as actors is just jive. It doesn't do anything.

I think male actors get confused by their own vanity.

I'm wide open to getting married, but actors are not easy people to date. You end up sharing that person with this other mistress that is their career. I very much like the traditional courtship method of making a date. That's what they do in normal places, but Hollywood's not normal.

You know, as I do, actors who, having become worldwide celebrities thanks to a TV series, complain of their lot and declare themselves ready to drop it all.

Somewhere in talking and rehearsing, there is a magical moment where actors catch a current, they're on the right road. If they really catch it, then whatever they do from then on is correct and it all comes out of them from that point on.

In L.A., I was meeting people who were all actors. My mind started to open up to what acting was. I didn't realize that Brad Pitt was a real person. I didn't think he was a robot or a machine, but I thought you were just born into acting - that it's a family tree, kind of like NASCAR. No one can just say, 'Hey, I'm going to be a NASCAR driver.'

Actors strive to be part of something like 'Twilight' and what 'Twilight' is, is unbelievable.

I'm not that complicated as an actor. I have a formula in which I work, yeah. But not like Sean Penn does. Sean is one of the few actors I know who can work like that, actually becoming the character he is playing, and get consistent results. I don't believe you can ever be someone else. You manifest different levels of your own personality to come up with a character.

I don't wear a wig. I'd feel terrible onstage with a wig. I hate to be so 'Actors Studio'-ish, but I like to feel it's me out there.

I had this sort of idolatry for certain actors who preceded me, people who inspired me, so I'm honored to be that way for young actors.

Chris Cooper is one of my favorite actors in the world. I've seen him in most everything he's done.

We're actors. We're the opposite of people.

MTV in general is involved with so many artists - musicians, actors, people in the fashion industry, and art world.

You know, 'Mad Men' is notoriously secretive with its plotlines, even with exposing them to actors on the show.

Nowadays, in the contract that actors sign, you have to agree that you're going to do a certain amount of publicity-the hard part they don't pay you for.

Unlike a lot of actors, my father encouraged all his kids to go into show business.

If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.

I think actors go along a continuum from Simon Callow down to kind of Ross Kemp, and I like to think of myself as the Ross Kemp of comedy. He's very good in 'East Enders' because he plays a version of himself. I think I can play a version of myself - that's about all I can do.

Actors should ACT. Not sell perfume, or write cookbooks.

I've been working as an actress since I was very young, and I know a lot of people who are actors who don't have to deal with having a persona... You know, if you look up the word persona, it isn't even real. The whole meaning of the word is that it's made up, and it's like I didn't even get to make up my own. It can be annoying.

Actors walk around wearing these little tool-belts of acting skills. And I just don't find that interesting to watch. I never want to see someone who clearly can cry at the drop of a hat. That's so uninteresting.

It's not like I sit around watching my movies again and again, but I've never quite believed actors when they say they don't watch themselves.

I was on a well-beaten path of actors - what we all call 'the Law and Order route'. I spent two years of auditioning for everything... and then 'The Wire' came up.

Are there differences between black actors' opportunities and white actors' opportunities? Yes, there are. It's been said.

Actors dread working with studios because they dictate what you do in a way that independent movies can't.