Quotes About Actors

I would love to work with Bill Murray. I've always been such a big fan. I think he's obviously a great comedic actor but a really interesting actor.

There are loads of amazing actors in the UK and only 2% of them are in work, which is crazy.

I have a lot of actors I want to work with; Brad Pitt, Keanu Reeves, and Uma Thurman.

I have always tried to work with first-time actors since my first movie. I always like to do movies with debutants.

I've met actors where you think, if only you could just clean up your act and get it together, people would want to work with you. Some people are so difficult, it's just not worth working with them.

My work requires acting at its most committed - it demands actors of enormous resilience, but also intelligence and wit. It doesn't work for narcissistic or selfish actors.

When you deal with a film that takes place in Europe, and you're going to work in English, you'd better work with European actors.

The actors that I love to work with, they're hard on me. They're pushing me.

I find auditioning to be a very illusive process, where actors come in with this really big result with no process, so it's a lie already at work.

I think auditioning can be very reductive and I just hate how actors work really hard and most of them aren't going to get the job, and I hate putting them through that.

If we based everything in Hollywood on who was a nice guy, holy moly, we would have no movies. No actors would work. This is not an industry that is ruled by kindness and generosity.

I just want to play interesting characters, and I want to work with the best directors I can work with.

I don't like it when people ask actors to work for free - on the fringe - as if it's some kind of virtue. That annoys me - actors should be paid well.

Even the greatest actors have had dry spells where they've wondered if they were going to work again.

It was always my intention to direct. I went to film school. And then I wanted to know how to work with actors, so I went to acting school. And then by the end of that, I caught the bug.

Actors always talk about taking their work home and I always think: 'What are you on? You just turn it off. You are at work and then you go home.'

When you work as actors in this business, you spend a lot of time apart. That's why a lot of marriages fail. It's not because of Hollywood, it's because you don't spend time together.

In fact, most of the work that I have done for the American Hollywood things have not been in Hollywood. The studios are going out in Europe or around the place working.

I just want the actors to put their faith in the language. Just let the words do the work.

Having an opportunity to play different characters, and work in different mediums, that's what's fun. The worst question you could be asked is, "What do you like better, film, television or theater?"

There are so many young talented actors today whose work I respect and admire - Ryan Gosling is probably primary among them. I take inspiration from so many amazing actors.

I think when I work with actors it's all about a process of learning to be private in public, instead of performing in public. Which is what women do: we perform, especially our sexuality.

I'm such a fan of actors, and also enjoy watching them work, so that I can help their acting in any way I can.

We as actors doubt up until the last minute that we can be this person. So everything matters, the more work you do, you get in touch with who the character is.