actors Quotes

Acting itself is quite scary. Some people say that actors are show-offs, very egotistical and all that kind of stuff, but it is quite scary.

I have only really gotten by with playing versions of myself as most young actors do.

Actors are separated all the time.

Actors rarely stay in touch with directors after they've filmed together. We go back to real life.

Jeff Bridges is one of my favorite actors in the history of ever.

Hollywood is a very strong machine that needs, and in... especially with female actors, fresh flesh. It's that cruel. But that's the way it is.

I've always described parts as tattoos. For actors our tattoos are in the form of films.

I'm used to American actors who have a movie career thinking television acting is beneath them.

There are movies where actors aren't characters but movie stars, being cool beyond belief throughout the whole movie. That is what it is. And we reveal ourselves when we act, very often without noticing. But if I can manage to do a character without showing anything of myself, then that's the ultimate goal for me. No leakage.

Actors are hard to photograph because they never want to reveal who they are. You don't know if you're getting a character from a Chekhov play or a Polanski film. It depends what mood they're in.

With a lot of actors, you've got to chip through the surface to see who the real person is.

If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.

I live in New York, where people don't tend to go up to actors as much.

Actors, you know, they're often awkward people in real life.

There are certain actors who are very good at improvising, like Dustin Hoffman and Glenda Jackson.

I love theater. I love sitting in an audience and having the actors right there, playing out what it means to be a human being.

Of course, actors look forward to the day when they can do a big courtroom scene.

I don't consider a lot of actors that I really admire movie stars.

I think that most actors, and they're a very strange lot actors, very strange people, but I think that they attempt to keep in touch with the child.

It is a weird thing that actors have people applaud when they're done working. I still find that entertaining.

I think part of my reputation has to do with the difficult roles I've played. Actors do tend to get identified with their characters.

I think actors are getting so much more power these days, but I'm not. I stay very much away from the decisions, the way in which things are orchestrated, what's been changed. I just try to stay completely in the role as the actor and as the character.

There are actors who can pull of a writer's lines; I am not competent enough to do that.

God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.

Actors have these delicate appendages called Egos.

Before you start production, you have characters you have created without actors in mind, then all of a sudden you've got actors. They bring an enormous amount in creating these characters, and creating the dynamics between the characters that you've written.

When actors first come up, you're auditioning for everything - you're trying to sniff it out like a pig with a truffle and you would do anything!

The imagination is part of the arsenal that actors draw from.

Actors are inherently self-centered.

I've been around where I knew other actors were going to steal the scene, and I don't compete with them.