Top 1200 Young Actors Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

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 connect much more with theatre actors than with cinema actors - insofar as you can speak of 'cinema actors' in Mexico, because there isn't a big film industry.

I've had lots of good career advice over the years. I've learned that you must always arrive knowing your lines, you must hit your marks, you must be punctual and cheerful and kind. I'm always irritated with young people who misbehave and young actors who are temperamental. I don't think there's any need for it.

When you're young, you kind of take yourself seriously, and you think, like, "People need to see what I can do." And it's so laughable, especially with actors.

I think it's my job as a young actor to watch adult actors and take tips on the way they work.

That's what I tell young actors. "You don't have to compromise. Go do some theater and wait for an appropriate role."

It's kind of a crazy thing with kid actors because a lot of them get hired without people really knowing if they're good or not. They get hired for the way they look at a really young age. You also have your fingers crossed around kid actors... because the lessons they learn on set aren't always the best. You can really get whatever you want.

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.

I love working with actors. I grew up with a lot of actors. All my friends are actors. I love that process.

The actors in Britain are incredible, and I didn't appreciate that until I got there. They interpret your words and you realize how deliberate and thoughtful they are. There are great American actors, too, don't get me wrong, but the technique that British actors have is something really special.

There are a lot of great young actors coming out of England who have maybe not gone to drama school, but I wish I had.

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

For me, I really enjoy telling stories and helping the younger generation, young actors to have the same opportunity I did.

The heat around young actors burns out. Natural ability and magnetism only get you so far. The rest is hard work.

I think a lot of actors, especially actors with a theater background, have a musical ear. A lot of actors just want to be musicians anyway, and a lot of musicians want to be actors.

A lot of young actors will do a scene and then run off and look at themselves. I don't believe in that at all.

There are some actors that are great stars and storytellers, but not necessarily good actors. I'm talking about some - not all - of the people you see in action flms or blockbusters. They're film stars, though not necessarily great actors. And there are those who are great actors, but not necessarily big film stars. Jim Sturgess is both. He's quite obviously a star, the audience likes him, he's a great storyteller and he turned out to be one of the greatest actors I've worked with as well.

It takes awhile for writers to get to know actors rhythms, not just as actors, but what they bring to the characters. I think it takes a few episodes for the writing room to catch up to the actors and vice versa.

Performance capture is a tool that young actors will need in the next 10, 20 years. It's on the increase, as you say. It's not going away.

I believe that the kids, young people should have an opportunity to have Oscar nominated actors in their movies too.

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’ve never agreed with the conventional wisdom that ‘actors are great liars.’ If more people understood the acting process, the goals of good actors, the conventional wisdom would be ‘actors are terrible liars,’ because only bad actors lie on the job. The good ones hate fakery and avoid manufactured emotion at all costs. Any script is enough of a lie anyway. (What experience does any actor have with flying a spacecraft? Killing someone?) What’s called for, what actors are hired for, is to bring reality to the arbitrary.

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

People sometimes forget how important #? Broadway is as a place for young actors to grow.

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.

I can't bear it when young actors do too much finger-wagging. It spoils the audience's concentration.

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.

A lot of young actors will do a scene and then run off and look at themselves. I don't believe in that at all

Young directors are a delight to work with. With no preconceived notions, they provide enough creative fodder for actors.

While you can be trained and groomed to be a better actor, seasoning happens only to TV actors. TV actors shoot every day, and that makes a difference to the project. They are hard-working, but that's not taking anything away from the film actors.

Young people must feel that they can be real actors in our economy and be creative and be imaginative and be innovative.

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.

When I got into the movie business, working with actors was the one thing I was really weak at. I didn't know what to say to actors. They scared me and intimidated me. The actors that I've worked with who have had a lot of experience, or who I've even grown up watching as a kid, were really scary. I was like, "What am I going to say to this person?" But, I've matured. It's fun. I understand what actors do now.

There's a lot of young actors and people who have success very quickly who kind of expect it or don't have the experience to really appreciate it.

I try to keep away from being bigheaded. That's what causes people to lose the acting thing. They start being commercial, and then they stink the rest of their life. But there are several respected adult actors who were child actors that started very young. I'm going to try to model myself after Kurt Russell and Jodie Foster. Just keep learning from the role and not just go for the money.

There's no big splashy renaissance in Italian films. We have good young actors and directors. What we lack are screenwriters. It's hard to write about Italy.

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?'

It was so much fun working with these young kid actors. We had a great time and those kids are truly amazing.

I actually really love working with young actors because they're so responsive and instinctive, and it's a much less honed craft that they're employing.

I have so much empathy for these young actors that are 19 and all of a sudden they're beautiful and famous and rich. I'm like, 'Oh my God, I'd be dead.'

You have actors who begin at a certain young age and there's very little change in their technique and the depth of their performances; they're the same 30 years later.

That is the next step for out trans actors - to just be treated as actors and not 'trans actors.'

I can tell you that from the director's chair, young actors love to be challenged, to be given killer lines that take time to wrap their mind around.

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

Young actors are pretty fantastic. I can't even imagine doing stuff like that when I was a kid.

Nowadays, kids... young actors... they go straight to L.A. before they've even done anything.

I always tell other young actors to go to school, or at least watch movies to learn as much as you can.

The great character actors are now the actors whose work has the element of ritual sacrifice once claimed by the DeNiros of the world, as well as the element of danger - the actors who thrill us by going for broke.

A lot of young actors look up to me, and I wouldn't trade that for any money in the world. I don't want to lose their respect and be a hypocrite.

Unlike young actors, I don't feel unfulfilled. I've had my successes. I don't have to worry that I won't have time for other things.

I never had a problem with my face on screen. I thought it is what it is, and I was turned off by actors and actresses that tried to keep themselves young.

Even now, there are young actors who want careers as romantic leading men, and the best thing is not to reveal you're gay.

You know, young actors say all the time, 'Should I use my own life experience?' And my response is, 'What choice do you have?'

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.

I feel like a lot of the young actors that are just coming up are really good. I think directors are directing better.

I enjoy working with Doon's talented, young actors and also get to learn from them.

I got very self-conscious about the way I look. So I, especially with young people coming into the industry and young actors, I feel it's really terrible to start with their looks. Right? Because especially for women, it just puts you in your head at a time when you should really be focused on your work and what you're saying and doing and not how you look.

I learned early on to abandon all those preconceived notions you have about other actors and it's served me really well. I usually just try to empty my mind of that. I love meeting actors and I love working with 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.

For me, the best thing is the young actors that come in to the series as to see the depth and breadth of talent coming into the business is fantastic.