Quotes About Actors

I'm not one of those actors that goes to watch the playback, after every take. I really don't like it, and I don't want to see it.

As actors you don't want to have one label. You'd rather have seven.

All my career, I've said this: Critics and producers think audiences want actors that only present the silhouette and hit the points in the silhouette. What I do is too dangerous.

I try to always be open to what the actors want to try. I don't storyboard and try to be intuitive and open on the day of filming.

People want to see realism in action now. People want the actors to perform than the computers performing. Though I have done both, I enjoy the realism of action more.

Actors pull from their own experiences to bring reality to the characters. I wouldn't want to play someone who's a lot like me. There would be no turning it on or off.

It's just an impulse, in some actors. You want to make the audience like you. That's the aim of the exercise.

It's nice to have people interested about a show that you're involved in. It's what actors want.

Actors, we like stories, we like storytelling, we love being a part of the story, and if you give us a story that's interesting then we'll want to do it.

Wong Kar Wai is a very intense character, very personable, and I believe in general he does not like and he would not want his actors to show their true looks and their true personality on screen.

Soap Actors are fun and interesting. They all have something special that you want to be around.

I think a lot of actors, especially actors with a theater background, have a musical ear. A lot of actors just want to be musicians anyway, and a lot of musicians want to be actors.

I've met big-name actors doing Hollywood films, and they've said that all they want is an in at HBO and their own show.

I think actors like to be directed. Actors like to know where they're headed and what they want, so I'm very encouraging.

Actors want to impress at the beginning, so you take advantage of that by suddenly saying, 'Right, you're here for two weeks.' What you're doing is creating a siege mentality.

Actors are hard to photograph because they never want to reveal who they are. You don't know if you're getting a character from a Chekhov play or a Polanski film. It depends what mood they're in.

The thing about being on a long-running series is that you get to know all the stunt men and the stunt coordinators, and they let you pretty much do everything you want, as long as they trust you.

Be very clear as to what your dream is. Nowadays it is fairly certain that 90 percent of all actors really just want to be rich and famous as the solution to all that ails.

There are actors who just bring an enormous amount of empathy. They just have that"it" that makes you want to follow them and root for them.

I don't like to direct the actors by telling them what to do. If anything, it's reminding them where they are in the movie, what's happening emotionally and what they want in the scene.

As actors, we want to challenges ourselves and put ourselves in different situations to see how we react and deliver a performance.

Actors want to show off and dance in front of you and get your love, because they don't think they're worthy of it in any other way.

There was music in death. Actors and musicians knew this as true.

The difference between a beautifully made failure and a beautifully made hit is who you've got playing the leads.