Quotes About Actors

I do not know if it is true that all actors want to direct and all directors want to act, but in 1972 I tried directing and decided I had better stick to acting.

God, I hate interviews with actors pouncing on. Who wants to know about their lives? I don't want to know about Al Pacino's life.

A lot of actors are frustrated because they want to do things that are different and test themselves. Character actors are always looking for something the opposite of what they did.

And the actors tend not to want to watch themselves very often. I'm one of those guys.

I also sort of find the idea that not only do actors want to please when they're onstage, I find actors really want to please off stage a lot of the time, don't they?

With "The Office," they said, "We don't want anyone we recognize, so give us unknown actors," and I think that was the break that I needed. Because I went in and I got the role.

Unfortunately, most actors want to play off their own personal mystique and good looks and whatever, but that will only carry you but so far.

When you have two people that good in a movie, I think it adds a class and a feeling of importance for other actors that they want to be involved.

Critics should be to actors what ornithologists are to birds: they can write all they want, but it shouldn't affect them.

What you realize is that a lot of actors want to be directed. They're there to do the best job they can for the director. They have a lot of questions, and your job is to have answers.

The reason the contracts are so long is because actors are very spontaneous; we may want to do Shakespeare one day and be Porky Pig the next!

There are a handful of actors who sustain interest because it's exciting to watch them get better at what they do. I want to be one of those actors.

There's so much energy that's needed, for every stage of the process, so I don't want to do something that I'm bored by with characters that I don't like or actors that aren't going to surprise you.

As actors, we are so privileged to do what we do and to give to the world and to choose the subject we want to say to the world.

As actors, we want to go find the humanity and make it more nuanced and fill in the colors, rather than just being suit people who crack cases, 'cause they aren't that.

There are some actor secrets you keep sometimes, and you want to keep.

I just refuse to date actors. I've done that, and I don't want to do that anymore. It's just the stress of traveling and being away from each other so much.

You know, it's hard as a writer to lose characters (and actors) you like. You really don't want them to die because you're not going to get to see them anymore.

Bollywood actors are so set in what they want, and the way they want it. And why shouldn't they be? But it is not the same in Hollywood, because the love of the audience is not the same.

Generally my instinct is to not do biographical movies. I want to build characters and not be locked into playing a part in history.

Being actors is a strange job. To try to go live that out, it's a very strange thing to want to do when you step back and think about it.

I've always written for actors, and if you want to write for good actors, you have to write parts that are surprising, that are human, and that allow them to go to a wide range of places.

There are two kinds of actors: those with one job too few, who have to take every one that comes along, and those with one job too many, who can always turn down the one they don't want.

I like to give the actors the freedom, and they know they have the freedom, to change anything they want at any time.