Top 1200 Film Actors Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

In terms of acting, we go through phases of being really inspired by film and television and actors and works that we've read.

Encountering a real place enhances the performances of actors in subtle ways and changes the spiritual texture of the film.

Unfortunately for the 'Tomorrow' series, I feel that for the actors that were in the first film, maybe our commitment to it is done.

As actors, we put in our best, but when people don't like a film, you have to learn to deal with it. I've learnt not to get too emotional.

Casting is so important, with any film you do. You have to get actors that you believe will fulfill the promise of the characters that are on the page.

I certainly don't feel there's a distinction to be made between a television and a film actor. I think there's a distinction between great actors and not so great actors. But I really think if you watch a person working in television give a wonderful performance, that person is f - ing great, because there is no time.

I try not to shoot unnecessarily or spend on extra expenses that normally happen on a film set - like actors' fees.

In this country, you have movie actors and theatre actors and television actors

I always say it's hard to cast an African-American film sometimes because those kinds of actors just aren't out there.

I worked in feature film casting right out of college and spent a lot of time working with actors, directors, and producers.

I see a lot of actor-bashing because they are the face of the film. Actors are just following someone else's direction.

In this country, you have movie actors and theatre actors and television actors.

You have actors you've worked with previously, and you have actors you haven't worked with that you've seen in things where you know they can work in these parts. And then there are actors who blow you away, who surprise you.

The actor has to have some degree of craft, along with the talent. No one tries to laugh except bad actors. No one tries to cry except bad actors. How a character hides his feelings tells us who he is. Most people don't know that, and most actors don't do that. Therefore, there are a lot of actors who put me to sleep, that are considered good actors, but they're predictable and boring. I know how the scene is going to end before it ends.

In theatre, there's the director, the writer, and below them the actor. In film, it's the actors who are most important. That goes against the grain for me.

I love being around great actors and film-makers, and I try to hide the fact that I'm in awe of them.

I think it's worse for actors, though, because people have to choose you. As a director, I get to choose the actors, but most of the time, actors have to be chosen in order to work.

A lot of directors straight out of film school are very technically minded, but they don't have an understanding of actors or how to talk to them.

We start with a rehearsal where the actors kind of bring what they think should be in the scene. But we film everything, and we use cuts of this first take, also.

For me, 'Mary Magdalene' is the most beautiful film I've shot with the performances and the script and the actors and ensemble. But not one saw it.

As a painter you're responsible yourself, 100 percent. In film, you have the editor, the director, the other actors. It has the advantage of not being solitary.

This particular film highlights Ben and Owen's strengths which is that they are great comedic actors with tremendous chemistry and they do a really good job.

Film, for me, is in two stages. One is when I write the script more or less on my own - that's the nice bit. And then comes for me the unpleasant bit when they all go off, 100 people - actors and camera people and film and sound - and I stay away. When they go into the editing room, I come in again, and that's the bit I like.

Once I went to film school, I realized that film directing was actually much better than theater directing, because you kind of get to stay in control of it all the way through. You don't relinquish the piece to the actors like you have to in theater; you stay in control through the very end.

Honestly, in retrospect, when I referred to the actors from 'Prince' as non-actors or non-professionals, it was actually a great disservice to them. The fact is that they are all actors and should be viewed that way by the industry. It was our casting process that was non-professional.

In almost every book I've written, there is a reference to a movie - legendary films, actors and actresses, and forgotten made-for-TV movies. The leaps poems make are not unlike the cuts in a film. The miniature and avant-garde prose poets have perhaps the most obvious ties to film, as a prose poem in its shape is not unlike a movie screen.

When scoring a film, empathy is the key. And it is just as important to use music to express the actors' emotions as it is to move the audience.

It's really important to remember that disability is diversity, and that disabled actors and disabilities are something that is hugely under-represented in film.

I don't think any actors love taking their clothes off on film, unless you're an exhibitionist, which I'm certainly not.

My job apart from anything else is to build an ensemble composed of actors who all come from a secure place so that they can all work together to make the film.

I personally believe the film turns out better when shot in one short schedule, plus it doesn't stress the actors.

One film critic back in the early days said "It's a pity Mr. Harryhausen didn't animated the actors, too."

There are so many brilliant, trained actors of color in America. If you just think about it, every year in the spring Julliard and NYU and Yale and hundreds of schools across the country graduate classes of trained actors, and in those classes are actors of color. So to say that there aren't enough actors of color is factually inaccurate.

It is something unique to the South, the way people look up to actors and worship them and literally celebrate their film.

People are very uncomfortable when you call actors artists because there are a lot of actors out there that aren't artists - there are a lot of actors that are hired for very specific reasons that are shallow and have to do with sexual currency and what the industry thinks sells. Real actors are artists, they're expressionists.

Me and my brother Sunny never had the enthusiasm of visiting a film set or going to a screening or attending parties and meeting actors.

I'm trying to write a film with my friend. I'd love to get the thrill of speaking actors making my work even funnier.

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.

It's so easy to become obsessed with the film industry and recognition that we can forget that we are not saving the world. We are just actors trying to entertain people.

People think that the directors direct actors. No. Really, what the director's doing is directing the audience's eye through the film.

What do actors really want? To be great actors? Yes, but you can't buy talent, so it's best to leave the word 'great' out of it. I think to be believed, onstage or onscreen, is the one hope that all actors share.

I think people in the U.K. should be concerned about the under-representation of BAME actors in TV and Film, because it is an incorrect reflection of our society.

I like to work and there's no movies for actors, period, especially black actors. When white actors are like, 'Man, there's no work out there,' then black actors are like, 'Are you kidding me?'

Film festivals are a great vehicle for gaining an audience for your film, for exposure for the talent in the film and for the film makers to leverage opportunities for their films. I love the energy that film festivals bring.

Every film by Will Smith, Harry Belafonte, Sidney Poitier, Lena Horne, Ruby Dee, Don Cheadle will have great acting and carry good messages in the film. The films starring those actors are the films I tell young people to watch for good acting and to view for quality movies.

Gus van Sant I met at the Berlin film festival, and he came up to me. He had a little film in the festival called 'Mala Noche' that he had made for $20,000. He said: 'You are one of my favourite actors. I'm doing 'My Own Private Idaho' with River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves. You should be in it!' Then I started working with Gus.

Honestly, when I am offered a film, I look at the story, character, director, producer and co-actors while giving a nod.

I've heard New York actors say Chicago actors intimidate them because apparently we're the real nitty-gritty actors who're in a town where being onstage doesn't necessarily get you anything except your craft.

I'm friends with many actors across the southern film industry, who've been my co-stars, too, and with whom I share a great rapport.

Whenever we actors become part of a Bollywood film, there is a certain pressure of earning a box office success.

When I want to support a film starring actors I like, I purchase several tickets at the box office - even if I can't stay for the movie.

I think Americans are wonderful film actors - the best in the world - but they are a very contemporary race and they look forward all the time.

Film actors already have a public outreach, which helps political parties bridge the gap between them and the people.

Film directing has perfected my theater directing. I think when I first started directing, a lot of my stuff was very lateral; I was afraid to have the actors' backs turned away, afraid to put them too far upstage, and I think once I did more things with film, I got more interested in composition.

While working on 'Yuva,' I wanted Suriya to be the best among all the three actors in the film. I have always loved him as an actor.

Shooting a film with seven to eight actors together is complicated sometimes because you have to cover everybody.

I love directing Shakespeare on film. It's fantastic that the actors would do exactly the same thing and be true to their part.

Unfortunately, when you're working in film, it's this huge machine, and you've got to get everyone right there, so you get kind of locked into things. I'm not sure where the artistry in film making is. It's usually that moment when you're on set and you're working with the actors. That's the time to play around, the moment of theater. And then you can shape things. But a lot of it is just managing stuff. It's upsetting because you get away from the core.

Once a film gets into production, the actors sometimes begin to have more input than a writer does.

It was great to be able to play a hero in 'The Magnificent Seven' in a film industry where Asian actors are often limited to playing a villain.