Top 1200 Great Actors Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

If you're a great documentary filmmaker, it doesn't necessarily mean that you're a great narrative filmmaker. There are fantastic documentary filmmakers that can't direct actors. You don't have to do that in a documentary, if it's a real documentary.

Yes, The Persuaders, that was great fun because one of my favourite actors is Roger Moore.

I have trouble sometimes watching actors - even when they do a great job - with an accent.

Indian actors, because of the format of our stories, need to be good actors, and be able to perform emotional sequences, do a bit of comedy, dance and singing, action, because all of this forms just one film. In many ways I'd say there are greater demands on Indian actors than there are on Hollywood.

I'm largely interested in people who are just great actors, and they're not necessarily hugely famous.

Working with people you adore and love. There's just a sense, all the way through all of the movies [Planet of Apes], that you're very rarely in a position where you have great material that you're passionate about and a big audience who love it, and the detail and nuance, and the exquisiteness of the fantastic actors and director with great writing.

The difference between working with actors that have put their time in the theater and just straight film and television actors is that you trust theater actors a lot more. You know that they're seriously more trained than anyone else because theater is the best place to grow as an actor.

I just want to keep working with great actors and try to be good at what I do.

Luckily, each generation brings forth great writers, actors, directors, and designers.

I started a production company out of necessity, the need for great narratives for actors of color.

God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.

Working at BBC, at the head of one of the top dramas, is a tradition for great actors.

The joy is when you work with great actors, it just comes to life in a way that you never even imagined.

Mel is a great director because he's not just a director, he's an actor, so he knows how to direct actors. I loved working with him. He's great as a director. He's so intelligent. He's generous. I really loved him.

Heart of America is a movie I'm very proud of. The young actors are great and the story has impact.

A love story definitely demands a great onscreen chemistry between its actors.

People tend to think when you're on dramatic films, that it's all so heavy, but it's really not when you're working with great actors.

Supporting characters add depth to a story, and great actors leave their imprint with the audience.

I always love working with young actors, because there's always something to learn. It's always exciting to see the next generation and how they approach things and what's great about them and what's not so great about them.

William Hartnell was one of the great unsung character actors of his time

The actors I respect are the real character actors, who are the real chameleon actors that completely change from role to role. I love Peter Sellers, Alec Guinness and Gary Oldman. They tend to be British, I guess. People who really disappear and transform, I really like that.

One of the great things about doing series television is the guest actors that you can have come on and play around with.

Ronnie Barker will forever be remembered as one of the great comic actors.

My influences were Peter Sellers and the great British character actors.

Scripts and directors make great actors, not the other way around.

I'd be lying if I said Hollywood wasn't still an ambition; it's everyone's, isn't it? You're getting paid very well, you're working with great actors and great directors - who wouldn't want to be a part of that? But it's not going to break my heart if it doesn't happen. This business is about doing good work rather than how famous it makes you.

In this type of cinema, whether working with actors or non-actors, as much as you do direct them, if you allow yourself to be directed by them, then the end result will be much more pleasing. The real and individual strengths of the actors is allowed to be expressed and is something that does affect the audience very deeply.

I think it's always hard to find great roles, no matter what age you are. So I always say to people, 'You have to remember that Hollywood is in the business of making movies that they can sell tickets to; they're not in the business of finding great roles for actors.'

I love actors. I love working with actors. I really enjoy the process. I love having those in-depth discussions about the interior of their character, and actors really love to discuss that too.

The actors I admired were Bogart, Cagney, Cooper, Tracy. Great personalities. Real stars.

I've worked with a lot of really great actors, but it's not very often that you all bond so easily.

There's a great tradition of actors taking on parts of much less obvious sympathy.

Being typecast is a great thing for an actor. I was considered one of the New York mob actors.

The crossover wasn't happening. TV actors were TV actors, and film and stage actors were a whole different thing. And now there's just a lot of crossover.

Without great writing, you've got a bunch of actors bumping into each other.

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.

In New York theater, you always talk about wanting a great ensemble of actors.

I got to work with great actors like J.K. Simmons and Jenna Elfman. They were amazing.

To tell a strong story with real taste of an epic tragedy needs great actors.

I think that if you're improvising on TV, it's a great way to help the dialogue between actors and writers.

I didn't want to be on screen not nailing an American accent. It's an insult to an American! There are plenty of great American actors who can already do an American accent, so me, coming in and stealing their roles, the one thing I have to perfect is the accent. So for years I practiced. And we're lucky because the whole world is raised on a library of American movies. I would pretend to be Jim Carrey, and, I say Robin Williams now because he's in my mind, but those actors really inspired us to be crazy and be theatrical.

Great actors try to dismiss all ideas from their conscious mind in order to provide an experience that is real.

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.

I know in Britain with 'Doctor Who' all the classic actors, and the people who you'd really want to, work on the show. I like that the fact that 'Torchwood' has actors that want to be involved from the stage. It has raised our game, and I'm just happy for good actors who want to be in sci-fi shows who love the genre.

Great powers reserve the right to police bad actors in their neighborhoods.

I had the privilege of working with so many great actors over the years.

You can't create chemistry. In fact, the chemistry between two actors is for people to see, sense, and judge. The only thing we can do as actors is to come on board individually because we feel the same kind of passion for a script and for a director to cast us because he feels that, as actors, we'll do justice to that part.

Directing was a great experience, but it's terrifying to have the responsibility of carving up the other actors' performances.

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 don't actually like blocking actors. I prefer giving actors freedom. They don't have to step on a precise mark with me. Instead of giving marks to the actors I like to give marks to the camera.

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

[Making movies is] 80% script and 20% getting great actors. There's nothing else to it.

To be honest with you, there's nothing that bores me more than sitting around with a bunch of actors talking shop. I love actors and I've got friends that are actors. They're interesting people. But for some reason, usually when it comes round to talking shop, there's a part of me that doesn't like it.

Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

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.

Actors, I think, are all the same. Both Korean actors and American actors are all very sensitive people, and they are all curious to know what the director thinks of them and how they are evaluated, and they try to satisfy the director. And they like it if you listen carefully to their opinions and accept them.

There are great actors we'll never see just because they haven't had my luck.

Things that make me laugh range from a wonderful stand-up like Jerry Seinfeld, Louis C.K. and Chris Rock to my son Gabe, who does great improv work. I also look backwards to the great comedic actors like Jackie Gleason, Paul Lynde and Phil Silvers.

Most great parts for guys in wheelchairs tend to go to actors who walk.

I love going to Cons. It such a great way to connect with my fans and reconnect with my fellow actors.