Top 1200 Actors Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

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

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

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

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

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

I love actors, and I love the casting process. It's funny, like, some writers don't like actors because, I think, they are the faces of the show, and so you feel sort of secondary, but I love actors because they elevate the material; they make it better.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Stage actors look down on movie actors, movie actors look down on TV actors, and TV actors look down on... mass murderers.

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.

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

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

There's a lot of actors out there or people who want to be actors. It's unique to find somebody that, you know, needs to be an actor.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

I'll say it, I love working with actors, I'm a fan of actors. They bring so much, and they can also break a movie, but when it works I give it all to the actors. I'll say it, I think that 'The Transporter' is great not because of my direction, it really is great because Jason Statham was great in it.

American actors are very different to British actors who have generally studied and been brought up culturally with the sense that the writer is the star and that their job is to serve the writing. Whereas Hollywood actors are brought up to believe that the actor is the star, and everything and everybody is in the service of them.

There are plenty of bad actors and there are plenty of bad directors. There are actors who will always be bad and there are good actors who you cry for because they're being badly directed or the material isn't good enough.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

I think a lot of actors, sometimes what happens I think is that actors finish a movie and they go, 'Oh my god, I'm never going to work again,' even big huge actors, and so they'll take something thinking that something else will never come along.

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

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

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

I like being around actors. Imagine not liking actors.