Quotes About Actors

I'm always under the impression that directors should act at some point or another.

I took one class at Second City called Improv for Actors, and that was it, and that was only because my agent told me I had to.

We have a full writers' room, and with something like 'MyMusic,' we've scripted it out with professional writers. There is some very basic improv from the actors, but everything is very to the letter, so it's easy to edit down to an episode. There are fun little things an actor might throw in there.

Improv is a very big thing for me. The thing with actors is I do not understand at all how they do what they do. I'm fascinated by it, and I have such a respect for it.

We're improv comedians, we're not necessarily actors, we don't come across that way.

I know a lot of actors don't watch themselves on TV, but I think it's good to see how else you can improve.

Actors are sensitive freaks, but it amazes me that it is something that I haven't improved on over the years.

I allow an area for improvisation because the chemical things actors bring to stories make it not work.

My friends, we all improvise together usually. So we write what I think is a good script but always leave a lot of room to find stuff on the day; and we always do find something. That's the advantage to having actors who are, in their own right, writers.

The reason that most British actors are better than most American actors in the end is that they don't make any money. At the very end of their lives, they get into a space movie and they make a lot of money, but until that happens, basically, they don't have bank accounts. They live from day to day.

There is always a collaboration between the director and the actors, and you always have to listen as the actors have to listen to you as a director. In the end, you as a director, of course, are the captain on the ship.

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 are a funny lot. Sometimes they're not satisfied with where they are. I include myself.

People very often say to actors that they admire their careers, and I rather think that what's implied by that is that we have a choice in the matter. When really, most actors, me included, do whatever comes along next.

Actors incorporate certain emotions from our own lives in order to create characters, and emotions come from experience.

The best voice actors all have a live performance background. And are competent, fearless, incredibly creative actors.

I just feel incredibly lucky to be employed when there are so many actors and actresses who are not employed. That's why, you know, I sometimes feel desperate, in case I'm not going to be cast again.

Most actors are not rich - they are very poor indeed. What keeps them going is that they just love the job.

A lot of independent films try to pull off a 14-day shooting schedule, which I think is ridiculous. No matter how big or small you are, it really kills whatever sort of time you get to allow the actors to find their characters, and to spend time to think about what they're doing.

I haven't done a lot of studio movies, but studio movies and independent films are always just as fun as each other.

I think, in general, independents don't have a lot of access to really good scriptwriters or actors or actresses, so they're very limited in what they can do.

Orson Welles used to say that Italy was full of actors—fifty million of them—almost all good. He claimed the few bad ones were on the stage, or the cinema screen.

They decided they needed to start their own theatre company to have careers as actors, because neither was prepared to betray their politics to find jobs Or shut their mouths to keep them

Actors of the first water are not more plentiful than playwrights of genius.