Actors Quotes · Page 188

Eighty percent of a picture is writing, the other twenty percent is the execution, such as having the camera on the right…

— Billy Wilder

You can't be bad when you're working with a kid. They have the instincts that all great actors have.

— Laurence Fishburne

As in a theatre, the eyes of men, after a well-graced actor leaves the stage, are idly bent on him that enters…

— William Shakespeare

There was a time when television was sort of frowned upon among people who wanted to be serious artists. John Travolta kind…

— David Rasche

If you give the actors the characters that they are comfortable with, they've no issues with what another actor is doing.

— Luv Ranjan

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

— Jessica Chastain

I love actors. That's my bread and butter, and I got to work with some amazing ones on '12 Years'.

— Steve McQueen

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.

— Roland Emmerich

Comedy is serious - deadly serious. Never, never try to be funny! The actors must be serious. Only the situation must be…

— Mel Brooks

First we pre-visualized it [the flying fish scene in 'Life of Pi'] so the actors could act. It took a long time…

— Ang Lee

I've always remembered something Sanford Meisner, my acting teacher, told us. When you create a character, it's like making a chair, except…

— Robert Duvall

A director could be 20 years old and an actor 60, or vice versa; it doesn't matter. It's about connecting sensibility and…

— Juliette Binoche

I love actors. I enjoy their company, and I get excited each and every time they bring a character I've written to…

— Christopher Durang

English actors feel vaguely apologetic for being there at all. American actors know that the most important thing is to get one…

— Helen Mirren

In interviews, on the set, talking to people, I'll just start talking about my parents' divorce, and go on and on. My…

— Agnes Bruckner

Here are a few of the actors who have brought my novels to TV life: Bill Pullman, Holly Hunter, Frances McDormand, Julian…

— Luanne Rice

Daniel Day-Lewis is one of the greatest actors of our age; he's like Olivier. He's one of those people who can take…

— Sam Taylor-Wood

As an audience member, I like watching Rupert as an actor when he's most playful, ... I think Rupert is really adept…

— Benjamin Bratt

You don't go to Berkeley to become an actor. In fact, I don't think you go to any school to become an…

— Kurt Fuller

I run Willow Management, which is the biggest agency for other short actors. We look after performers who are either under five…

— Warwick Davis

Both Averill and Bayar were like actors speaking lines for their audience and not to each other.

— Cinda Williams Chima

Nowadays, in the contract that actors sign, you have to agree that you're going to do a certain amount of publicity-the hard…

— Jeff Bridges

If I have to wear a hat as a producer to do that, then I'm willing to do that. An actor's, producer's…

— Michael Eklund

Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.

— Daniel Day-Lewis

If you want to be an artist, truly try to write what you believe, and if you write when you don't believe…

— Chuck D

The Actor should make you forget the existence of author and director, and even forget the actor.

— Paul Scofield

I love actors, number one. There's probably nobody that you could name that I don't like, depending on what it is they're…

— Mark Hamill

The auditioning process is one in which the actor gets very little information about almost every element of it.

— Danny Strong

Somebody did an article in one of the newspapers saying that at that time I had the most visibility of any actor…

— Gavin MacLeod

I'll say my dad couldn't act to save his life and nor can my uncle, and they'll say I'm the worst actor…

— Laurence Fox

When the creator of the show is gone, the actors end up being the people who have been there the longest.

— Lauren Graham

As most actors/actresses, I don't like to watch my own movies, either, and I never look at the dailys while filming.

— Cameron Bright

“Writers are like actors too. For every story we create, we must get under the skin of the characters and role play…

— Jyoti Arora

I'm a guy who had to perform some way. I had to perform in some way. If not as an actor, I'd…

— Jack Kirby

After dating you I realized what a real man was and you were it... its just too bad everyone after you are…

— Nico

The function of the actor is to make the audience imagine for the moment that real things are happening to real people.

— George Bernard Shaw

I'm an actor, because I get to see other sides of life and I get to be other people and it excites…

— Callum Blue

My only job as an actor is to try and understand the character and, to the best of my ability, bring this…

— Patrick Warburton

I had a lot of friends who dreamed of being actors, and as I hung out with them, I became more interested…

— Gong Yoo

I read about some movie where they did everything on blue screen, and the actors were not even connecting to each other.

— Michel Gondry