Quotes About Actors

The more and more I work with really great actors, the more it's about opening yourself up to what they bring.

As actors, we do our best to keep things light and to encourage in the audience an openness to the changing atoms in the room.

I know I'm an opera singer, but we're actors, too.

I've met Michael Keaton, John Favreau, Marisa Tomei - they're all really amazing people and really, really professional. I've learned so much from just watching them operate on set.

Part of the reason why I love to operate is because I find that so much of what we do is instinctual. It's dancing with the actors and responding to their body language, and you feel what the right place for the camera is at any given moment.

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

Come sono fortunati gli attori! Loro possono scegliere se recitare in una tragedia o in una commedia, se soffrire o gioire, ridere o piangere. Ma nella vita reale è diverso. Uomini e donne sono costretti per lo più a interpretare personaggi che non sono tagliati per loro. Ai nostri Guildenstern tocca il ruolo di Amleto, e i nostri Amleti devono fare i buffoni come il principe Hal. Il mondo è un palcoscenico, ma le parti sono mal distribuite.

I really respond to diversity, a broader landscape, with actors of different ages and races and backgrounds.

I've always admired Gene Hackman, Jack Lemmon, Jimmy Stewart, Gregory Peck. I'm showing my age here.

A lot of actors in my age bracket look at being still standing as pretty good.

I'm used to working alone. Frankly with some of the actors I've worked with, I've felt like I was working alone.

Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd are really amazing, lovely people and really great comedic actors.

Actors create and maintain systems, and if they fail to do so, the systems in question cease to exist. The stability of systems is a frequently precarious achievement in the face of potentially hostile forces, both social and natural.

It's the actors who are prepared to make fools of themselves who are usually the ones who come to mean something to the audience.

The camerawork might be shaky, the plot might have holes, the audience might not even know what the film is about, but if your actors are compelling you can still keep people in their seats.

Dates with actors, finally, just seemed to me evenings of shop talk. I got sick of it after a hile. So the more famous I became, the more I narrowed down my choices.

I became active in politics because I saw the possibility, if we all sat back and did nothing, of a world in which there would no longer be any stages for actors to act on.

Actors work and slave and it is the color of your hair that can determine your fate in the end.

government could be the best candidate to create a "consensus space," bringing relevant actors together to brainstorm and implement innovation projects.

All that day she felt as if she were acting in a theatre with better actors than herself, and that her bad performance was spoiling the whole affair.

All that day it seemed to her as though she were acting in a theater with actors cleverer than she, and that her bad acting was spoiling the whole performance.

The principles are exactly the same as those of QED: everything is built out of propagators, vertex diagrams, and coupling constants. But there are new actors and whole new plot lines, including one called QCD.

The art of procreation and the members employed therein are so repulsive, that if it were not for the beauty of the faces and the adornments of the actors and the pent-up impulse, nature would lose the human species.

I went to USC for writing. I was judgmental of actors and their Starbucks and fancy cars.