All Quotes

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

Actors really are superstitious. You can always spot a group of actors at a restaurant. They're the ones spitting on their knuckles and hurling salt everywhere.
‐‐ Gregg Henry

Actors really are the scum of the earth. Their behavior makes overpaid rock stars look positively noble.
‐‐ Buzz Osborne

Actors really should be tramps.
‐‐ Martin Milner

Actors say they do their own stunts for the integrity of the film but I did them because they looked like a lot of fun.
‐‐ Steve Coogan

Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves.
‐‐ Charlie Chaplin

Actors should avoid talking about their personal lives.
‐‐ Bertie Carvel

Actors should be better poker players. But I think there's actual skill and crazy guts that you need to play poker - this ability to put all this money on the line inside of that game of cards. There's this whole different set of skills that doesn't apply to acting whatsoever.
‐‐ Tom Everett Scott

Actors should be overheard, not listened to, and the audience is 50 percent of the performance.
‐‐ Shirley Booth

Actors should be timeless and impersonal.
‐‐ Anne Parillaud

Actors should never be important. Only directors should have power and place.
‐‐ D. W. Griffith

Actors should never give interviews.
‐‐ Daniel Day-Lewis

Actors shouldn't be scared. Don't get scared on film.
‐‐ Kodi Smit-McPhee

Actors sometimes immerse themselves into it so deeply that the line between who they are and their character can become blurred. For me, I think it's just about getting clearer on my whole life and who I am in order to make it possible for me to play whatever character is presented to me at a particular time.
‐‐ Christian Slater

Actors spend most of their time out of work, so I actually spend more time making furniture. The thing about furniture that's much better than acting is that it's just me. There's no director, no script - the concept is me, unless a client wants something.
‐‐ Michael Schoeffling

Actors strive to be part of something like 'Twilight' and what 'Twilight' is, is unbelievable.
‐‐ Kellan Lutz

Actors sure have stories. We always have stories. At the end of our careers, all we have to take with us is our stories, and we have many of them.
‐‐ Michael Eklund

Actors take risks all the time. We put ourselves on the line. It is creative to be able to interpret someone's words and breathe life into them.
‐‐ Patty Duke

Actors talking about themselves. Nothing better!
‐‐ Megan Mullally

Actors tell stories and we play different characters, and not all of them are healthy.
‐‐ Andrea Roth

Actors, their greatest tool, their greatest resource is imagination. You can take things, power objects, you can recruit your dreams, you can access your memories and get there. So the idea is not to act but to just be.
‐‐ Nicolas Cage

Actors, they come and go, you know.
‐‐ Martha Plimpton

Actors think they're far more important than they are, and that can only lead to hurt. People with colossal self-importance have very far to fall.
‐‐ Julia Sawalha

Actors, to a certain extent, never grow up, you see. It's an extension of being out in the back yard with a stick, only you're being paid to do it. It's borderline madness.
‐‐ Ioan Gruffudd

Actors today go into TV, which I don't consider has a lot to do with acting.
‐‐ Lauren Bacall

Actors travel a lot and work long hours, and sometimes you eat at odd hours, so I have to work out to keep my weight at the same level.
‐‐ Sibel Kekilli

Actors use who they are to be someone else, but I would hate to ever think I'm playing myself. It's imagining being someone else that is the key motivating thing for me. So when people want to know about me, it makes me a bit unnerved.
‐‐ Ralph Fiennes

Actors used to carry films because people would have to actually go to the movies to see them. It was the only place. But now there's none of that mystique, and so there's less of a reason to buy a ticket.
‐‐ Eva Mendes

Actors usually respond to minor aspects of their own character or things that even feel disparate from themselves.
‐‐ Jeff Perry

Actors wait tables, directors work at video stores.
‐‐ Joss Whedon

Actors walk around wearing these little tool-belts of acting skills. And I just don't find that interesting to watch. I never want to see someone who clearly can cry at the drop of a hat. That's so uninteresting.
‐‐ Kristen Stewart

Actors want to act; actors want to emote. It's like the emotional equivalent of tearing your shirt off and screaming to the heavens: you want to express, and you want to be seen to be expressing.
‐‐ Joel Edgerton

Actors want to act. I think a lot of times what happens is that they're expected to bring it all. Probably because I'm a writer, I'm not telling them what to do. I just provide them with as much as I can.
‐‐ David Ayer

Actors want to be told what to do - they really do. But they also want to have an input and be recognized for that.
‐‐ Stuart Townsend

Actors want to impress at the beginning, so you take advantage of that by suddenly saying, 'Right, you're here for two weeks.' What you're doing is creating a siege mentality.
‐‐ Danny Boyle

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

Actors, we like our little cups of cappuccino and our personal umbrella-holders. Poker players, they've gotta be a little bit tougher.
‐‐ Tom Everett Scott

Actors, we like stories, we like storytelling, we love being a part of the story, and if you give us a story that's interesting then we'll want to do it.
‐‐ Aaron Stanford

Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
‐‐ Bela Lugosi

Actors were the first people to accept me.
‐‐ Michael Lindsay-Hogg

Actors who are lovers in real life are often incapable if playing the part of lovers to an audience. It is equally true that sympathy between actors who are not lovers may create a temporary emotion that is perfectly sincere.
‐‐ Ivor Novello

Actors, who have no real sense of who they are or what they want, have long known that not just their gender but every aspect of their identity is on a spectrum. They can be anything they are asked to be. They aspire to a protean state, shape-shifting like high summer clouds.
‐‐ Tom Hollander

Actors who say they can dive inside a character are either schizophrenic or lying.
‐‐ Bruce Campbell

Actors who say they don't watch TV are stupid. I was raised by TV! And it's how I research for auditions.
‐‐ Rebecca Mader

Actors will always tell you it's more fun playing bad guys. A lot of the time, it's criminals who are the people who don't care. There's something extraordinarily seductive about the guy who doesn't care, and to play that guy is terribly empowering, because you don't have to worry about the consequences of your actions.
‐‐ Brendan Gleeson

Actors will change their face, will change their hair, will change their voice, will disappear into the role. A movie star doesn't disappear.
‐‐ Nicholas Meyer

Actors will never be replaced. The thought that somehow a computer version of a character is going to be something people prefer to look at is a ludicrous idea.
‐‐ Peter Jackson

Actors will say 'yes' to anything.
‐‐ Michael Keaton

Actors with political views are a dime a dozen.
‐‐ Tom Hanks