actors Quotes

I love Ice Cube and Charlie Day. They're brilliant men, great actors and very funny people.

Most great parts for guys in wheelchairs tend to go to actors who walk.

Everything in The Room, we did it the same way the big studios do it. The only difference is the budget and the actors. We put an ad in Back Stage West and in return we got almost 8,000 headshots from people who wanted to be in the film. We then do a process of selection and a rehearsal process after they are selected. The process of audition is very time consuming.

I was very familiar with both actors, as well as Christina Hendricks and Bill Sage, Jimmi Simpson, Polly McIntosh, but the other main actors were new to me. And they were all terrific. Just amazing. Actually, Lowell Northrop optioned Savage Season from me, first book in the series, and I wrote a screenplay.

I think that a sense of humor of an actor comes through most of the time. Maybe some actors have less than others, and I have it, I think. It's my nature.

There's no such thing as good voices. Because there's no such thing as bad voices. There are only good actors and bad actors...

Most actors spend a lot of time training themselves to be an actor. And I kind of didn't do that. I just started doin' it in front of an audience and had to deliver.

I find that a lot of actors who are good and open to challenges have lived a full life. When you walk into an audition, you have more to say for yourself because you come from the real world. It's more enticing for directors, I think.

English actors feel vaguely apologetic for being there at all. American actors know that the most important thing is to get one take out of fifty that is great, and they'll go to any length to get it. The English are used to working within consistently small, low-budget things and think, I mustn't waste their time.

Once a film gets into production, the actors sometimes begin to have more input than a writer does.

You collaborate with actors who are also talented and visionary and come together on a artistic direction within the confines of humanity and realism. The collaboration that you have had with all of these people plays an integral role in its final stage where editing and music are combine to enhance your work. This whole process is very rewarding and I wouldn't trade it for anything.

I love working with actors. I love visual things. I always intended to be a writer who directs and a director who writes.

The Russians and rogue actors, including ISIS - this is a serious part of the 21st century security challenge that we face.

The number one reason for the death of young actors' careers is people get so used to seeing them playing that one character that they can't accept them as anyone else.

There are a lot of actors that are more talented than me at Second City who quit it before they even got to a paying status. Weird luck. I had no other option.

Actors, politicians, and writers-all of us are but creatures of the hour. Long-lasting fame comes to but few.

Daniel Day-Lewis and Sean Penn to me are the two best actors of all time. I'm just glad to have the pleasure to be in an era that they're acting while I'm acting. They're probably the best actors in my mind.

When an actor asks you to read his script, your heart sinks. The number of scripts I've been given by actors that are so unbelievably terrible!

It's well known that actors are lousy writers.

I don't think it's the case that 'posh actors' get more work than others.

Actors always think that others are getting more work than them. In my case, they usually are.

I don't like writing for comedians. I like writing for actors. The best comedians are the best actors.

Casting a film, you can have the greatest actors in a film and it doesn't work. It's a combination of all of the elements.

I mean one of the weird things about TV and one of the things that some actors don't like but I kind of dig is that you never know where you're headed, I mean you never know what the writer might think of next.

I have mentored two young aspiring actors and I wish that I had known I could look for a mentor because it would have been a lot easier to be able to ask those questions to someone who had gone through it already.

I think auditioning can be very reductive and I just hate how actors work really hard and most of them aren't going to get the job, and I hate putting them through that.

I feel that I'd rather know an actors' work, or have an instinct about them and sit down and have coffee with them, or I'll see them in something and I'll see if I can get along with them in some way, shape, or form.

I just love working with actors, and I love working with writers, working with designers.

When it's just a few scenes and a couple of actors behaving in a room, I feel very confident with that.

What was good was that I had friends who were actors and in theatre who were really good, because I think my strengths were visual, like pictorial.