Quotes about actors
actors moments instinct
You have to trust your instincts. There is a moment when an actor has it, and he knows it. Clint Eastwood
actors can-do
One of the things you can do as an actor, is compensate for the things you can't do in life. Dustin Hoffman
actors born made
Actors are not made, they are born. Angela Lansbury
actors timeless should
Actors should be timeless and impersonal. Anne Parillaud
actors sometimes
For actors, you've gotta sometimes fill in your backstory. Anna Gunn
actors enough bigs
When I'm working, it's those actors (you know who you are) who sit around moaning that their trailer isn't big enough, or how bad their facilities are. I can't be doing with any of that, I just like to get on with it. Anna Friel
actors knows
I became an actor because I didn't know what else to do. Academically, I wasn't good. Anthony Hopkins
actors
I didn't intend to become an actor. Anthony Quinn
actors brilliant
The most brilliant actor that I have ever worked with. I've liked others very much more. Anna Neagle
actors different bigs
There's nothing more exciting as an actor than getting to do something that you're not entirely sure that anyone would let you do, and getting to take a big jump in a completely different direction. Anna Paquin
actors extraction
You're an actor who's Irish, not an Irish actor. And you shouldn't be limited by your extraction. Cillian Murphy
actors casting novelists
Really, the novelist has the best casting since he doesn't have to cope with the actors and all the rest. -Alfred Hitchcock Alfred Hitchcock
actors whole-life grants
Cary Grant is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life.
actors remember wanted
I have to remember that I didn't have to become an actor. I didn't have to put myself in this position. If I'd wanted to have autonomy - if that was what I was after - then I could have chosen another profession. Andrew Garfield
actors dependent
Being an actor, we're so dependent on the writers. Amy Ryan
actors directors great-confidence
I find that all great directors, and I would include Ben Affleck and Clint Eastwood in that, they have great confidence. And with great confidence comes great freedom for the actor.
actors technique use
I don't use any techniques; I'm not trained to be an actor. I just enjoy working in films. Amitabh Bachchan
actors turns turn-on
There isn't a switch that I turn on. I'm an actor. This is what I do. Anthony Anderson
actors
I've worked with some actors who can't act.
actors fantastic scene
In terms of animation, animators are actors as well. They are fantastic actors. They have to draw from how they feel emotionally about the beat of a scene that they're working on. They work collaboratively. Andy Serkis
actors want gophers
As a runner on a film, you are the lowest of the low, and yet you have incredible access to everyone. I can totally imagine that for actors in the middle of a Hollywood bubble, all they really want is a sense of normality, and that gopher can be a tap for that. Eddie Redmayne
actors retiring
I hope to be an actor and never retire. Dominic Monaghan
actors film screenplays
To me, the screenplay only becomes the Bible of the film after the actors have been cast. Dito Montiel
actors different nudity
Europeans have a different take [on nudity] than American actors do. They're not quite as hung up. Dennis Haysbert
actors
I became an actor because I couldn't not. Debra Winger
actors directors helping
I would love to get great performances from actors as a director, because that's what I'm always looking for, a director that's going to help me go places I've never been before. Aaron Eckhart
actors way my-way
I'm an actor and it happened to go my way that day.
actors stuff directors
Directors don't get to see other directors at work - they're the only one on the set. I've met directors who've asked me what another filmmaker is like. So, there's probably nobody better placed to make all the comparisons and to pick up stuff than an actor. Colin Firth
actors directors communicators
However good a communicator a director is, unless they've been actors, it's just not the same as the shorthand you get with someone who's been an actor.
actors interpretation absolute-truth
I can't bring you absolute truth in the detailed factual sense. All I can do is bring you an interpretation as I understand it. That's all you can ever get from an actor.
actors four lasts
I do go back to Ireland, and I'll probably be doing a film in Ireland in January, and I guess that kind of keeps me classified as 'the Irish actor,' but the last four or five projects that I've been in are either American or English, so I don't feel terribly trapped in that. But sometimes, yeah, you would like to not be called 'the Irish actor.' You'd prefer to just be called 'the actor.' Colm Meaney
actors telling-stories directors
I kind of have an interest in all history. And I suspect it comes from being Irish - we like stories, we like telling stories, which makes a lot of us lean towards being writers or actors or directors.
actors world
No actor in the world started off at the top. Daniela Ruah