All Quotes

Actors are responsible to the people we play.
‐‐ Philip Seymour Hoffman

Actors are rogues and vagabonds. Or they ought to be.
‐‐ Helen Mirren

Actors are seen as celebrities, but they're just real people with families.
‐‐ Sami Gayle

Actors are sellers, and I figured out a long time ago that if you wanted to work a lot, you had to be on the buying side.
‐‐ Jason Bateman

Actors are separated all the time.
‐‐ Amanda Seyfried

Actors are smart. They have to feel safe enough to fall and to get back up. My job is to make sure they don't get hurt.
‐‐ Scott Ellis

Actors are steeped in a world of agents and where the next job is coming from and what are their expenses and what is the hotel like. You want to take them out of that world and dump them into another world, so that when you meet them on the screen they don't seem like the guy who was in two others movies that year.
‐‐ Danny Boyle

Actors are such an insecure breed.
‐‐ Joshua Leonard

Actors are such wonderful creatures and such wonderful instruments. It's always different on the page or in my head. I hear it differently. I see it differently. And then, you give it to an actor, and it comes alive in a way that you didn't expect.
‐‐ Kelly Masterson

Actors are the best and the worst of people. They're like kids. When they're good, they're very very good. When they're bad they're very very naughty.
‐‐ Kenneth Branagh

Actors are the flowers of the film, of the set, and of the director. The term 'Flowers of the Screen' holds a deep meaning.
‐‐ Kim Jee-woon

Actors are the most generous people when it comes to sharing their technique. But if you grew up in a household of carpenters, and you're making a table, everyone would have a different way of doing it.
‐‐ Christian Camargo

Actors are there to represent the human condition back to itself. It's never about the actor. It's about the content. That's what I strive for in my work.
‐‐ Debra Lawrance

Actors are trusting souls, and we must go by gut-level instinct, even after our agents and business managers weigh all the odds.
‐‐ Anne Archer

Actors are very generous.
‐‐ Blythe Danner

Actors aren't all the same. They have very different skills. There are actors of intellect who are very thoughtful about everything they do... and then there are actors of instinct who don't know what they're doing until the cameras roll... My father was actually quite thoughtful about what he did, while my mother was much more instinctual.
‐‐ Campbell Scott

Actors aren't stupid, mostly, and if there's a sensibility and an aesthetic that a director's going for, if you're aware of that too, you can do things to help that.
‐‐ Alan Cumming

Actors, by nature, are insecure. I don't see that as necessarily a bad thing. It is good to question yourself, be self-analytical. You get a better performance if you challenge yourself. If you go around thinking you're great, you're never going to challenge or scare yourself.
‐‐ Sarah Greene

Actors, by very definition, we want people to pay attention to us, and so usually, that comes in the package of insecurity. So if we're not comfortable, we don't really show you a lot.
‐‐ Jason Bateman

Actors can't retire. If actors retired, there would be nobody left to play old, wrinkly people. You have to keep going, darling - don't you?
‐‐ Charles Dance

Actors can't retire. What would they do?
‐‐ Larry Hagman

Actors cannot choose the manner in which they are born. Consequently, it is the one gesture in their lives completely devoid of self-consciousness.
‐‐ Helen Hayes

Actors come in, and they have their own take on things, and you have to adjust on the fly to make sure everything still works structurally and dramatically.
‐‐ John Requa

Actors create a fantastic lifestyle thinking they're going to be able to maintain it. Then they can't get work or have to start taking work that doesn't suit them.
‐‐ Bryce Dallas Howard

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

Actors die so loud.
‐‐ Henry Miller

Actors do have good and bad sides. It's because the passage down the birth canal distorts the face. People born by caesarean section are more symmetrical.
‐‐ Richard Griffiths

Actors do like watching girls parade down the runway for some reason.
‐‐ Kate Moss

Actors do tend to get pigeonholed. People want to know who you are so they can put you in a box. It's lovely to be known for such diametrically opposite roles.
‐‐ Tom Hiddleston

Actors don't generally go asking other actors for advice too much, but I'll take suggestions wherever I can.
‐‐ Matt Dillon

Actors don't get to be well-known if they're horrible.
‐‐ Michael Keaton

Actors don't have real value.
‐‐ Uwe Boll

Actors don't, in fact, retire, do they? It took me a while to remember that.
‐‐ Ian Mckellen

Actors don't listen to each other. You're so obsessed with what you're saying or doing that the other person could be talking in Swahili and you wouldn't know.
‐‐ Toby Stephens

Actors don't need a lot of talk beyond the first few sentences. They may say they don't draw on their own life, but all actors do.
‐‐ Edoardo Ponti

Actors don't really get into their stride until they're in their late 30s and 40s.
‐‐ Orlando Bloom

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

Actors endow the villain in fiction with a warmth and quality that makes them memorable. I think we like fictional villains because they're the Mr. Hyde of our own dreams. I've met a few real villains in my time, and they weren't the least bit sympathetic.
‐‐ John Rhys-Davies

Actors enjoy being treated as ordinary people.
‐‐ Tom Hooper

Actors fall into this trap if they missed being loved for who they really were and not for what they could do - sing, dance, joke about - then they take that as love.
‐‐ Gene Wilder

Actors geek out over athletes. Everyone knows that.
‐‐ James Roday

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?
‐‐ John Malkovich

Actors get bored.
‐‐ Gillian Jacobs

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.
‐‐ Sam Mendes

Actors get to go to these amazing worlds. In 'Terminator,' I was a cyborg with feelings; in 'Avatar,' I lived for 15 months on a fantastical planet, and in 'Clash of the Titans,' I get to fight a scorpion the size of a dump truck. It's a bizarre job, but you explore yourself.
‐‐ Sam Worthington

Actors go, 'I just want to act.' And I say to them, 'You know, stop for a second and think about what charges you up the most. Do you want to be on the stage, do you want to be in film, do you want to be a comic actor? Do you just want to make it for the money and capitalize on your look and do commercials and soaps?'
‐‐ Jason Alexander

Actors go inside the heads of other people and are not afraid of the complicated places you can find yourself.
‐‐ Rachel Joyce

Actors have a magic gene within them - I think they're the finest descendants of rogues and vagabonds - and it's all too easily forgotten what the acting legacy is.
‐‐ Julian Sands

Actors have an innate sense of self and humanity, the good ones do, and of being generous of heart and generous of spirit.
‐‐ Pierce Brosnan