Top 1200 Great Actors Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

'12 Angry Men' has a truly great collection of actors giving fantastic performances. It's an acting masterclass.

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 want to get out of the way of the actors. I want to get out of their eye lines. I want to them to stop thinking they're making a movie. I want them to just go and live. It's like you take these great actors and put them in an aquarium of life, and just watch them swim. That's what makes editing tough because you get all these beautiful, unplanned moments.

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

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

Luckily, I had that experience on 'Homeland,' to work with these unreal people who are unbelievably talented, great actors.

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

I mean, in the editing room, you sit there, and you're so happy about a lot of it. You've got these great actors, and the DP's great, and you love it... And then there's so much you're mad about. Cause you've made so many mistakes. So yeah, there're scenarios where you're like, "Ah, I wish I could change this. How do I make this better?" "No matter what I do, the scene's not working, what do I do?"

Actors can be many things - vain, venal, self-serving, obnoxious, bullies - but all of the good ones are great storytellers.

I like to go off the other actors in the scene, which kind of stinks when you're acting with someone who's not that great.

Mostly I've just worked with actors and actresses that are fun and easy to talk to and had nothing but great experiences.

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.

When you're creating new roles out of scratch in my opinion working with the actors is a great asset. You can learn a lot from that.

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

In terms of directors, great actors make directors - Gary Oldman was great to work with, for me; Tim Roth, too. You work with Scorsese and Spielberg and they were wonderful directors, but for me, working with actor/directors is special.

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.

You can see some very great theatre actors who don't work at all well on screen. They're trying too hard at it.

I love Ice Cube and Charlie Day. They're brilliant men, great actors and very funny people.

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

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.

The great actors, like Cary Grant, and the gentlemanliness that they portray in the movies is something that I try to keep in mind.

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

It's a thrill to star with such great actors like Kevin Bacon, Kelly Preston, and Garrett Hedlund.

British actors are renowned for being great villains in movies, like Bond films, all the rest of it.

Many great horror stories are period pieces and English actors have a facility for historic characters.

It's always great to see one of the actors I've worked with from 'Caddyshack' and 'TRON.' I run into them occasionally at events.

Britain produces great actors because they learn on stage so know their stuff when they get on a movie set.

I did quite a lot of fencing when I was a kid, I was a swimmer, and I played a lot of basketball. I was a fencer for Great Britain, but I only did that because I watched Robin Hood, Star Wars, Highlander and The Three Musketeers, and I wanted to emulate Richard Harris and the great British actors that I grew up watching.

I did quite a lot of fencing when I was a kid. I was a swimmer, and I played a lot of basketball. I was a fencer for Great Britain, but I only did that because I watched 'Robin Hood,' 'Star Wars,' 'Highlander' and 'The Three Musketeers,' and I wanted to emulate Richard Harris and the great British actors that I grew up watching.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Great actors who I want to work with-have such a misconception of who I am because of all the things that get said about me.

Actors are a great subject for a comedy. They're inherently funny because, like sportsmen, they take themselves so seriously.

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

For me, what makes great actors, always is how truthful they are to the character and the story and the emotion that they're trying to tell.

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.

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

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

Actors like Anushka Shetty, Nayanthara, Samantha Akkineni are great examples to look up to.

Bollywood offers great opportunities to actors who are willing to try out different kinds of roles.

The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors.

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

A lot of actors said they hated the studio system, but I loved it. It was like a college; it was a great place to learn.

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

Sometimes during a show or a film, while you're shooting it, you'll think, "This is great, it's going to be fantastic, the script is incredible, and the actors are great, and everything is working out brilliantly." And then you see it, and you kind of go, "Oh god, it's not as good as I thought it was," and it doesn't get an audience to watch it. It only does a couple of festivals and then dies and whatever.

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

While it's great that some actors can do any character with conviction, I'd probably look odd doing anything unreal.

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

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

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

I've had the pleasure to work with a lot of very great actors. And they're too different to say who's the best.

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.

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

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

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