Actors Quote by Curtis Hanson

I don't really write with living actors in mind. I guess I write for dead actors. I'll think of like, you know, Burt Lancaster…

— Brian Helgeland

I do think people do pick movies that reveal something about them that they aren't always aware of. If you ask them what kind…

— Casey Affleck

The more people know about an actor the less convincing they become. A bit of mystery's a good thing.

— Robert Carlyle

I think as an actor you've got to try to preserve some of your mystery so that there's still an element of surprise about…

— Freddie Fox

I knew nothing about film at all. I suppose the biggest surprise is all these things. In the theatre we sort of do, I…

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

I like the anonymity that directors can have about their films.

— Frank Ocean

People should be shrouded in mystery. Especially actors. No, hang on, maybe actors should be blown up.

— Michael Gambon

Russell Crowe is normally an actor who disappears so far into his characters you'd swear his DNA has been altered.

— David Edelstein

There's a certain secret every actor must have in his work. If you reveal it, you're letting the audience in on the wrinkles and…

— Frank Langella

Actors are bloody marvelous at hiding.

— Sarah Lancashire

As much as most of the actors were kind of curious to know what their character meant in relation to the script and to…

— Radha Mitchell

For me, it was a wonderful surprise because I saw wonderful actors being very professional working in front of me [on Chicken with Plums].…

— Vincent Paronnaud