Quotes About Actors

I think the actors in 'Greystoke' were amazing. They had a really good performance coach called Peter Elliott who's, of his time, one of the greatest simian performance coaches for actors.

Matt Bomer and I went to Carnegie Mellon for drama together.

Actors change, but the course of the tragedy remains the same. A humanitarian who starts with declarations of love for mankind and ends with a sea of blood.

They were actors in a rigged game, I decided, and I wanted no part of it.

History is not good news or bad news, it's just one big story unreeling. There are no small parts, only small actors.

It might be beneficial for him occasionally to be reminded that I work for myself. That he was a stagehand, not one of the actors.

There are only two kinds of people in this world who want to be miserable: poets and method actors.

A coherent text is a designed object: an ordered tree of sections within sections, crisscrossed by arcs that track topics, points, actors, and themes, and held together by connectors that tie one proposition to the next. Like other designed objects, it comes about not by accident but by drafting a blueprint, attending to details, and maintaining a sense of harmony and balance.

Kahan concludes that we are all actors in a Tragedy of the Belief Commons: what's rational for every individual to believe (based on esteem) can be irrational for the society as a whole to act upon (based on reality).17

I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don't.

Independent film is for actors that love to act.

Actors must practice restraint, else think what might happen in a love scene.

I like some of the early silent films because I love to watch how actors had to play then. What would interest me today is to do a silent film.

Love is the one emotion actors allow themselves to believe.

I love working with actors. That's what the set really is, for me. It's my time with the actors.

I would love to play an unexpected character. Really raw and simple and not a cliche - something rugged. People like to put actors in boxes.

I'd love to perform with other actors and act with actors, true actors. I would like to be in a movie and have full room for acting.

Out of all the actors I have worked with, I love working with Larry Hagman the most. We were very close and it was just a wonderful time.

Actors love mental disorders, dialects, and corsets. Give them one of the three and they're happy

Drama—formalized imitation, enacted upon a stage—is precisely behavior portraying behavior, but distilled ever closer to the essence. Literature takes that transmission one more difficult step, portraying action in the imagination of the writer and the reader, in the complete absence of both real actors and a material stage.

While I'm not a celebrity, it's such a weird concept that society has cooked up for us. Astronauts and teachers are much more amazing than actors.

Guns are for television actors," Dave said. "Not real people. The wrong ones always get hurt.

Actors, who relate their woes in many clever sentences and with much waving of hands and rolling of eyes—they should be made to ride in the cars for passengers with heavy loads, to learn that a slightly bent hand can hold in it the misery of all time, and that the quiver of an eyelid can be more moving than a whole evening full of crocodile tears.

Seems to me you fellows could stand a little less training from the FBI and a little more from the Actors Studio.