Top 1200 Character Actors Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

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

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

Acting has always been something I've wanted to get into. I think the best models are actors; you're taking on a character. In that sense, I have been acting for a long time. It didn't seem like a crazy transition.

Actors usually feel skeptical about double hero films because one character might overshadow the other, but the late scriptwriter K. Subash has penned 'Karuppu Raja Vella Raja' in such a way that Vishal and I have equal scope in the film.

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

Actors are always identified with certain parts. To some, Marlon Brando will always be the Godfather. That's just how it is, whether the character happens to be your own personal favorite role or not. You can't ever get away from it.

A lot of people that make films say, 'We need this kind of character. Who's done it before? Get them to do it again.' That is exactly what actors are pushing against. It's kind of a cliche to talk about being stereotyped in that way, but it happens.

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.

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.

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

Actors work with their look. I come from the Lon Chaney Sr. school of acting. I'll wear wigs, I'll wear nose pieces, I'll wear green contact lenses in my eyes. I'll do whatever I need to do to create a character.

Within a single scene, it seems to be unwise to have access to the inner reflections of more than one character. The reader generally needs a single character as the means of perception, as the character to whom the events are happening, as the character with whom he is to empathize in order to have the events of the writing happen to him.

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

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

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

Wong Kar Wai is a very intense character, very personable, and I believe in general he does not like and he would not want his actors to show their true looks and their true personality on screen.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

The reason I trained so hard in school was so that I could be versatile and play any character. With all these in my bag, I'm like a chameleon. I always tell other young actors to go to school, or at least watch movies to learn as much as you can.

When you start digging into things like character, though, the notion that people have high character or low character is very strong. What's crazy is that my thinking is not a new insight. The very first large-scale study of character, still one of the largest ever, was done in the early 1900s by Hugh Hartshorne, an ordained minister and a scientist.

I think that when you're first shaping the play and trying to find a character, the initial actors that develop it end up imprinting on it - you hear their voices, you hear their rhythms. You can't help but to begin to write toward them during the rehearsal process.

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

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.

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

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

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

All my characters are me. I'm not a good enough actor to become a character. I hear about actors who become the role and I think 'I wonder what that feels like.' Because for me, they're all me.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The excitement for me lies not so much in interviewing the hard-to-get famous person, but the person whom you are about to discover. You know, like maybe the character actors who are just coming into their own and you're realizing how great they are.

A lot of actors would tell you that they'd rather play the villain than the hero. When you're the character, there are no repercussions. So there is a kind of liberating feeling about saying certain things to certain people - and I think that it's always quite satisfying to do that.

Bond is a classic archetype character, a character that's embedded in our heads forever, one of a lone warrior setting out to avenge a nation - and you find that character across cultures.

I'm a character actress, plain and simple... Who can worry about a career? Have a life. Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.

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

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

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

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

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 think in terms of a career trajectory, it's good for people to be reminded that, in spite of seeing me a million times a day on a show for ten years playing the same character, I'm an actor, and actors like to play different people.

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

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.

It's a constant learning process - not just what you need to learn for the character or as far as good actors - but as an actor, there's no limit. Every time now, you're learning so, I think that's a good thing though.

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

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