Quotes About Actors

You ever spent eight hours acting in water? It's a lot easier to get in and out of a bath. Hot tubs are bad news for actors, man.

Orson Welles lists Citizen Kane as his best film, Alfred Hitchcock opts for Shadow of a Doubt, and Sir Carol Reed chose The Third Man - and I'm in all of them.

Clark Gable was the only real he-man I've ever known, of all the actors I've met.

I think most actors are shy. I really do. The greatest actors can disappear. I had friends call me the Blend-In Man.

A handful of older, romantic leading men, like Sean Connery, Jack Nicholson, and Robert Redford are still landing parts.

The excitement for me lies not so much in interviewing the hard-to-get famous person, but the person whom you are about to discover. You know, like maybe the character actors who are just coming into their own and you're realizing how great they are.

Now they were audience, waiting for the actors on the other side of the glass to begin their drama.

One thing he'd learned in ten years on the New York Stage was this: don't make friends with the man who plays Hamlet; make friends with the man who pays Hamlet.

I have a list in my mind and in my heart of actors who have been extraordinarily kind, and Hugh Laurie is near the top.

I think every actor has their list of roles that were near misses. I've had my share.

It was really really neat to make the movie because there were mentally challenged actors in the movie. So that was really really cool to work with them and they were always really happy, and they made everybody really happy on the set too.

Yeah... I like films, I like movies, I like playing different characters and working with different actors and filming in different places. I like movies because it's kind of a combination of every art: it's like, it's picture, it's story, it's music, it's kind of like a clash and a collide of every art. It's really neat.

Always when I directed the play, I was always trying to cast people not who were necessarily like the characters, but people who I felt had the essential component that the character had, some kind of soul for it.

I know I had my equivalents in Adrian Lester and Lenny James when I was at drama school. I remember David Harewood doing 'Othello' at the National, and Adrian Lester having done Cheek by Jowl's famous 'As You Like It and Company' at the Donmar. Not necessarily performances I saw, but just the fact they happened was massively encouraging.

I am not an actor who enjoys negative comments on other heroes.

My dad gave me his camera, so I spent my childhood making movies with the kids in the neighborhood as actors.

People don't really know about 'Neighbours' in America, and if they have heard of it, it's only in the context of 'Oh, sure, that's what Guy Pearce was on', or Kylie Minogue.

Actors are always nervous about not only hurting each other, but maybe perhaps hitting each other's face and ending one's career.

I get nerdy and nervous around not only great actors, but great directors and DPs I love.

Live theater makes me nervous. I feel like I have to fake emotions, because the actors can see me.

The network shows tend to be run, in general, in my experience, by committee, and it's hard for actors and writers to do their jobs.

Going out with other actors is never good; actresses are neurotic, and actors are horrendous egotists.

Let me tell you a little secret: There are no bad actors. There are none. You have to find the right role. I never give up on people. For God's sake, look at me.

People tell me that Hollywood loves new faces, but I don't know. They're probably just being nice.