Top 1200 Supporting Actors Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

The industry looks for white actors and actresses, but it's not the same for black actors. We have to really put the work in.

Chicago actors are hard-nosed. They're tough on themselves and their fellow actors. They're self-demanding.

I have a theory... Theatre actors are better at auditions than film actors.

We are adjusters. We empathize, we change rhythm and above all we listen to our fellow actors-if they're good actors.

A lot of male actors are method actors and they become the characters which they both were.

The Forgotten Man is delving away in patient industry, supporting his family, paying his taxes, casting his vote, supporting the church and the school, reading his newspaper, and cheering for the politician of his admiration, but he is the only one for whom there is no provision in the great scramble and the big divide. Such is the Forgotten Man. He works, he votes, generally he prays — but he always pays — yes, above all, he pays.

The best voice actors all have a live performance background. And are competent, fearless, incredibly creative actors.

I tend to love actors. I was trained as an actor first so I'm drawn to actors.

I have a background in theater, so I have experience with actors. I like actors - I used to be one.

I love to combine first-time actors with seasoned actors.

I know from teaching that actors want to act. Even the subtlest actors can do a little too much.

It was the fashion of the time, still is, to feel that all actors are neurotic, or they would not be actors.

I like to do theater and hopefully be effective. Most actors, at least contemporary actors of my generation, can't do it. They don't have the chops.

People think that theater actors are too big for the camera. It's like, 'No, we're actors and we adjust for our audience.'

Generally speaking, actors are allowed NO input. Actors are dumb.

I completely agree when there are actors who say, "Actors should stay out of politics. We're not politicians."

I feel very privileged working with other actors. Actors tend to be the best company I know.

Trust is hard to get from actors, and for me to give to actors.

The problem for me is not that Schwarzenegger is governor, but the extent to which even politicians who are not actors are functioning like actors.

I love working with actors. That's what the set really is, for me. It's my time with the actors.

I like working with kid actors because they surprise you constantly. I mean, all actors do - but kids particularly.

My circle of friends are not actors at all. None of them are actors, really, because they're are not available. They're always off somewhere.

Actors love to do extreme things, so that is why they become actors; otherwise, they'd be novelists.

The Muppets have such a great tradition of bringing together all of genres of actors and all ages of actors.

Actors become disposable. I feel female actors have to back each other.

Directing non-actors is difficult. Directing actors in a foreign language is even more difficult. Directing non-actors in a language that you yourself don't understand is the craziest thing you can possibly think of.

It's a phenomenon that I see with young actors - a lot of American speaking parts going to British actors.

I don't think kids of actors become good actors but exceptions are always there.

Actors are actors, and there should be a complete fluidity for anyone to play anything.

The best actors in the world are the actors who don't keep the walls up all the time and allow themselves the potential to be embarrassed.

Good actors are a dime a dozen, but I want actors that are gonna be part of my team and collaborative.

The best actors instinctively feel out what the other actors need, and they just accommodate it.

I look at actors very closely. It's not an accident when the actors excel.

Brad Pitt is a dude who just wants to make good movies. He's not afraid to surround himself with the greatest actors, which I always appreciate because I've also seen actors who only want to surround themselves with weak actors because it makes them look better. That ends up making a poorer movie.

I'm sure there are actors out there who work with other actors on a consistent basis - I am not one of them.

'Mission: Impossible' is basically entertainment, and for what it is, it's fine. I don't think most actors become actors to do that type of film.

AMC has a track record for finding actors who have been working actors but not names yet and casting them.

Hollywood is more concerned about its male actors being in shape than its female actors.

It is important to understand that there is no distinction between comedians and actors. All are actors.

I know from teaching, that actors want to act. Even the subtlest actors can do a little too much.

People forget that actors are actors, who are looking to put on the clothes and the character, and then shed it just as easily.

I make my life with New York stage actors, and I love them. They're the best actors on planet earth.

There's something about actors - not stars, but actors - if they have the character, and someone is pushing and shoving them to be the best they can be, they enjoy that.

Look, a lot of directors were actors, even if they were unsuccessful actors which I think is helpful. I think it's a really helpful thing for a director to have experienced that. It helps you know how to talk to actors and how to get what you need from them.

I'm sure there are directors who don't like to work with actors and don't know how to be sensitive to actors.

I think the female actors are far more intelligent than the male actors.

I've never been aware of the difference between so-called posh actors and working-class actors.

I like being around actors. Imagine not liking actors.

To direct actors is difficult. To direct actors in another language is more difficult, but directing non-actors in another language is one of the craziest things that I have done and one of the most rewarding experiences I have had.

Film actors are, by nature, more complicated than stage actors.

You have got to convince people, the Drive-By Media, the mainstream media, is never going to support us, and if you continue to define political success as the media supporting us and not supporting a Democrat, you're never gonna be happy, because that's never going to happen. And if that remains your measure of success, then you're gonna get fooled each and every time.

Going out with other actors is never good; actresses are neurotic, and actors are horrendous egotists.

Other Asian actors, especially American-born actors, sometimes shy away from immigrant roles.

Particularly, the actors, to have analyzed the script in great detail from the point of view of their specific character. So that they have a handle on exactly where the character is in the chronology of things. In that sense the actors become your best check on the logic of the piece, and the way in which it all fits together. They become essential collaborators. The main thing is you have to work with very smart actors.

I can tell stories to other actors about the level of aggression on stage in the '70s between actors - it was unbelievable.

I'm just more attracted to actors. I like their choice to be artists - that's ballsy. And a guy who has such access to his emotional life is sexy. Or maybe because lots of the actors I know are so broken. I don't think I'm compatible with anybody I've dated. Maybe I'm so attracted to actors because I'm not ready for the 'settled down' thing yet.

With actors, I have very close, intense working relationships with actors in theater.

The biggest quality of good actors is that they know how to respect their co-actors, whether they are as big a name as them or not.

These actors who were in 'Dope' are the actors I want to continue to collaborate and make films with from here on out.

You don't write for actors. Actors come for characters you've made up.