All Quotes

Actors have an opportunity to use storytelling as a way to solve pain.
‐‐ Nicolas Cage

Actors have an unusual perspective on clothing. You've really got to know the impact of what you're wearing on the character you're playing.
‐‐ Kyle MacLachlan

Actors have bodyguards and entourages not because anybody wants to hurt them - who would want to hurt an actor? - but because they want to get recognized. God forbid someone doesn't recognize them.
‐‐ James Caan

Actors have either got to play something that's close to them, or something that's the complete opposite.
‐‐ Andrew Dominik

Actors have given up their clout. Now decision making is in the hands of lighting men, designers, bankers, special-effects people. We need to cut that out and just go with the most able trained actors in the business.
‐‐ Peter O'Toole

Actors have seven tracks going in their minds: They've got all the research they've done for the part, then they have whatever the director asked them to do, then they've got what the departments like special effects need them to do.
‐‐ Tobin Bell

Actors have these delicate appendages called Egos.
‐‐ Maynard James Keenan

Actors have this amazing skill - we bond quite quickly but equally we move on quite quickly. There's nothing particularly cold or capricious about it - we're troubadours and lead a troubadour's lifestyle.
‐‐ Natalie Dormer

Actors have to be there and do the work, and that's enough.
‐‐ Catherine Deneuve

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.
‐‐ Tom Sizemore

Actors have to stay optimistic. The moment we start thinking otherwise, we're dead.
‐‐ Peter O'Toole

Actors I admire? Ed Harris, or course, I think he's terrific; because I know he always had to fight being what he looked like a lot, but I think he's a terrific actor.
‐‐ Anthony Hopkins

Actors, I don't think, ever really grow up. I'm hoping that that rejuvenating process applies to me, too. It has so far. I've been very lucky.
‐‐ Derek Jacobi

Actors, I have to say, most of the time, they elevate things; they don't screw things up most of the time.
‐‐ Michael Douglas

Actors, I think, are all the same. Both Korean actors and American actors are all very sensitive people, and they are all curious to know what the director thinks of them and how they are evaluated, and they try to satisfy the director. And they like it if you listen carefully to their opinions and accept them.
‐‐ Park Chan-wook

Actors in general have become very spoiled in the roles they choose these days. When I first started in this profession - about a hundred years ago in the last century - it was all about taking risks, it was about doing the job and honing the craft.
‐‐ Brian Cox

Actors in general have some place in them that can be sensitive and easily damaged: not damaged in a bad way, but insecurity, because that's what it breeds, especially in females and female-lead types.
‐‐ Kaitlin Doubleday

Actors in the film industry are usually wary of expressing their opinions on the issues of the day, politics especially.
‐‐ Anupam Kher

Actors know how to talk to other actors in a way that sometimes other directors just don't.
‐‐ Grant Heslov

Actors know what actors are insecure about - and they're all insecure.
‐‐ Clint Eastwood

Actors know, with me they aren't going to be allowed to rehearse a scene for a couple of hours and then get away with doing 25 takes before we get it right. So they come with their full bag of tricks.
‐‐ Clint Eastwood

Actors like Daniel Day-Lewis, Gary Oldman, they totally immerse themselves in their parts.
‐‐ Sean Bean

Actors, like it or not, their voices carry deeply into the culture: people look towards them for attitudes, for right or wrong, and today, the mainstream media doesn't really balance the unheard.
‐‐ Mark Ruffalo

Actors like to play bad guys because they're more fun. They also win more awards.
‐‐ Dean Norris

Actors live dependent on being validated by other people's opinions. I don't understand what it is I do that people want. I don't know what an actor does. I have no credentials. I don't know what I'm doing.
‐‐ Shia LaBeouf

Actors look at life in a different way. When I meet people, I know that one day I may portray that person or someone like them. It may be a cop or a homeless guy. It helps you to pay more attention to people. Everyone I meet, I retain something from them, something from their personality. It helps me to portray realism in my work.
‐‐ Mekhi Phifer

Actors look for characters. If they read a well-written character, and if they think the director's not an idiot, they're going to sign up and do some acting.
‐‐ Andrew Dominik

Actors, lots of times, are great when they have great parts. For me, a lot of times, it's been the part.
‐‐ Bruce Davison

Actors love mental disorders, dialects, and corsets. Give them one of the three and they're happy.
‐‐ Robin Tunney

Actors love to act all those death scenes.
‐‐ Colin Baker

Actors make bad lovers. Their most important kiss is for the camera. Not in a superficial way, in a really deep way. They can only give everything if they know someone is going to shout cut!
‐‐ Rupert Everett

Actors make choices for different reasons.
‐‐ Stacy Keach

Actors make less than you think.
‐‐ Kat Dennings

Actors, movie stars, rock stars, I can meet them with no worries - but with footballers I go weak at the knees. All of them.
‐‐ Matt Smith

Actors must practice restraint, else think what might happen in a love scene.
‐‐ Cedric Hardwicke

Actors need bricks to play with, and in fact we rejected all the improvised fragments we had made without a plan. Improvisation without a plan is like tennis without tennis balls.
‐‐ Lars von Trier

Actors need steely determination. It's a tough profession with plenty of knocks along the way. You have to be very determined and never take 'no' for an answer.
‐‐ Naomie Harris

Actors need to learn when their character is front and center and when it's more in the background.
‐‐ J. Smith-Cameron

Actors never discuss future plans.
‐‐ James Earl Jones

Actors never retire, they just get less and less work.
‐‐ Desmond Llewelyn

Actors often behave like children, and so we're taken for children. I want to be grown up.
‐‐ Jeremy Irons

Actors on stage, you can go from playing a myriad of roles, from Shakespeare to a Eugene O'Neil drama, and it's the norm. I came up in a world where you're supposed to be able to do three things very well. Act, sing, dance, paint, do something. The emphasis was on versatility.
‐‐ Rocky Carroll

Actors only have our bodies, voices, and the text. So I think actors need to have a fit and in-tune body. I was always very disciplined in wanting to have that. That's one of my favorite things - playing a role with a physical requirement.
‐‐ T. J. Thyne

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.
‐‐ Ninon de L'Enclos

Actors' performances do not stand alone in any film, live action or whatever.
‐‐ Andy Serkis

Actors' performances in films are enhanced in a million different ways, down to the choice of camera shot by the director - whether it's in slow motion or whether it's quick cut - or... the choice of music behind the close-up or the costume that you're wearing or the makeup.
‐‐ Andy Serkis

Actors play different characters in every project they do. Though it has nothing to do with my craft, the red carpet gives me the opportunity to show who I really am and be myself.
‐‐ Hailee Steinfeld

Actors pull from their own experiences to bring reality to the characters. I wouldn't want to play someone who's a lot like me. There would be no turning it on or off.
‐‐ Emily Osment

Actors put ourselves in awkward positions all the time.
‐‐ Charlie Day