Actors Quotes · Page 108

When you're an actor, you're very much exposed, but in a strange way you're totally protected behind a character, behind a script,…

— Mathieu Demy

Well I'd really love to work with Robert De Niro, because he's still the most talented actor out there.

— Paul Thomas Anderson

I try not to have actors in mind when I write because the tendency then is to be influenced by either their…

— Christopher Nolan

The power of a close-up can be extraordinary, but you have to have actors who are able to reveal themselves.

— Phyllida Lloyd

I am not an insecure actor, and this reflects in the films I have done. Yes, there was a phase when I…

— Randeep Hooda

Somehow even tragedies seem less tragical, when you are the actors in them, than they look to outsiders

— Hannah Whitall Smith

I don't need a critic to tell me I'm an actor. I make my own way. Nobody's my boss. Nobody's ever been…

— Kirk Douglas

You ask my advice about acting? Speak clearly, don't bump into the furniture and if you must have motivation, think of your…

— Noel Coward

I love the variety of films. In theater, you go into a room and the director runs the room, so you all…

— Eddie Redmayne

Whether you are a writer or an actor or a stage manager, you are trying to express the complications of life through…

— Lee Hall

As a younger actor coming up, I wanted to be in films. There's something special about being on film sets; there's an…

— Adam Croasdell

You know, when you choose to make your living as an actor, it's all fine and good to look at it as…

— James Spader

History is replete with proofs, from Cato the Elder to Kennedy the Younger, that if you scratch a statesman you find an…

— James Thurber

I think the key that differentiates the good actors from the mediocre ones that are still trying to come up, is that…

— Wesley Snipes

It's very rare that you get a part that you actually like. People have a misconception, whether it be because actors lie…

— Zoey Deutch

It's like an athlete. He has a string of hot years, and then he fades into nothingness. The actor doesn't necessarily fade…

— Ed Asner

My goal was always to be recognized as a good actor but no one was interested in that, simply because society just…

— Jude Law

I have seen a lot of gay-themed films that didn't really express how I see being gay at this moment in the…

— Andrew Haigh

The second season is generally easier do because you know the actors better and they know the characters better and if everybody…

— Denis Leary

I like to give the actors freedom to take what we have on the page and improve on it. And they do…

— Denis Leary

Lot of the scripts I've been in with other non-white actors haven't been great. Lot of non-white actors ain't all that great.

— Wesley Snipes

There's a very small group of elite actresses who are my age, who people want to work with. It's not easy to…

— Amanda Peet

It's a point of pride that no one would treat me any differently because I'm an actor than if I was a…

— Mark Ruffalo

When you work with actors, what you're hoping to absorb is good ways to be an actor as opposed to how to…

— Domhnall Gleeson

Like most actors, I've always been grateful for Chinese restaurants; they were often the only places that stayed open late enough for…

— Ginger Rogers

I think good comedy is a commitment to the absurd in that the situation for the actors should be virtually played like…

— Peter Billingsley

Sometimes as an actor you're struggling to make things work. That was never the case for me with [Big Little Lies script].…

— Nicole Kidman

Working with amazing people, you continue to learn and develop yourself, as an actor and as a person.

— Josh Hutcherson

I played a role. That is what actors do. But I played it too well. I went too far. And by the…

— Jennifer Donnelly

I always found something strangely paternal about the director-actor relationship. Actors want so much approval.

— Adam Driver

I mean, being shot in slow motion doing cocaine by Martin Scorsese is, like, maybe every actor's dream. Nothing will compare to…

— Jonah Hill

I think I've been lucky, being my frequent appearances on Court TV have brought to me another level than just the actor…

— Robert Downey, Jr

I've never had a desire to be famous. Lots of actors are actually extremely shy. I have shy areas.

— Jeremy Northam

Writers are not always right however, but then again, I've been on shows where the actors have complete control and change everything…

— William Devane

To me, casting is all about finding a character within the actor off the screen as much as on the screen.

— Rupert Sanders

It's always a good collaboration between the actor and the writer and the director to try stuff out, during the process.

— Mark Consuelos

I love it when actors come to you with a problem and you have to listen. You'd like them to just get…

— Jane Campion

I even asked [Saniyya Sidney] why she wanted to be an actor and she said, "I'm serious about this. These other little…

— Denzel Washington

I wish I was super-serious, anguished. I see those actors, and I am like, 'Oh God, they are so cool, and they…

— Elisabeth Moss

I've always been interested in films where you can identify with the actors. Where you can be in their shoes and therefore…

— Adrian Lyne