actors Quotes

The big thing for actors is the level of commitment.

Most actors on most days don't think they're worthy.

Actors ought to be larger than life. You come across quite enough ordinary, nondescript people in daily life and I don't see why you should be subjected to them on the stage too.

God knows I've had productions where there were actors in my plays who were making more money per week than I was.

As a playwright, you are a torturer of actors and of the audience as well. You inflict things on people.

I grew up loving actresses or actors who were very classy but who seemed a little bit mysterious because you couldn't grasp what they're really thinking. I mean, Grace Kelly always looked impossibly glamorous, yet you could always see there was something behind her eyes.

I've done stuff to pay my dues and that's what actors are supposed to do, because I was a really bad actor when I was 18 or 20.

On general principle, I boycott shows that don't employ actors.

Most of the film directors expect their actors to want to work fast.

Actors have to make you believe that it's happening for the first time and all that jazz and make it human and at the same time entertain you.

I don't do stunts and I don't think many actors do. For an actor to say they do their own stunts I don't think is very respectful of the profession of stunt men and women.

I had always wanted to be on TV; my mom told me that when I was little, I told her I wanted to be a 'modeler,' because that's what I called actors on TV.

For minority actors, developing our own projects has to be the eventual path. We have a lot of stories to tell and a really unique voice. But none of that is going to be heard as long as we're just the hired hands, acting.

There's a lot of actors out there or people who want to be actors. It's unique to find somebody that, you know, needs to be an actor.

In a collaborative environment directors hire actors because they want their input, not just their bodies.

Actors are such an insecure breed.

Independent film is for actors that love to act.

Directors, like actors, get typecast.

The world is full of actors pretending to be human

Psychoanalysis. Almost went three times - almost. Then I decided what was peculiar about me was probably what made me successful. I've seen some very talented actors go into analysis and really lose it.

Good actors I've worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.

I don't write shows with dialogue where actors have to memorize dialogue. I write the scenes where we know everything that's going to happen. There's an outline of about seven or eight pages, and then we improvise it.

People don't yell nasty things at actors - they let them continue.

People in the CIA, they marry each other. They're like actors! We have to travel without much warning to far-flung places, and it's very hard to communicate what our experiences are like to those in the outside world.

Oliver Stone's strategy is to unnerve the actors so as to make them alert and alive.

Actors want to surprise themselves. When it's really good, you kind of transcend yourself, and that happens infrequently. Very, very rarely.

Comedians work great as actors because they're good under pressure. With a lot of actors, you have to make them feel like everything's going really well to get a good performance out of them. But, if you have a comedian on the set, you can tell them, 'Hey, you really are screwing this up,' and then they just get better.

Good actors can sort of see into people and immediately you have a chemistry with them or not. It's like an affair with no mess.

Um, musicians are funnier you know, than actors on the whole.

I went to an ordinary school in New York City with no other actors. I learned to compartmentalise different parts of my life. I was one person at home and then another person at work and for that reason my career didn't challenge my family life.