Quotes About Actors

I think for most actors, because we sort of have to tell ourselves this, we always say, 'Oh, it doesn't mean anything to win an Oscar!' It certainly isn't a goal that you want to set yourself up for, because then you're just setting yourself up for disaster. Because how many people actually win an Oscar?

Oscar De La Hoya and Bernard Hopkins is an event where actors and actresses will come out, and I give all credit to Oscar for that.

At the Emmys, you've got a bunch of people who are used to being on TV on TV. You don't have that at the Oscars. At the Oscars, you have people who are used to having 40 takes.

People say an Oscar validates your career. No, it doesn't. There's more good actors without Oscars than there are with Oscars.

Actors are rogues and vagabonds. Or they ought to be.

Too many actors try to get too much out of scenes that they ought to be leaving alone, just doing them quickly and getting the hell out.

I'm not just friends with fellow actors, but I find that a lot of people are out here in L.A. I go out of my way to make sure that's not the case, but I do have a lot of friends who are actors.

Categorisation of actors has become outdated now.

There are level-headed actors and outlandish actors and financially responsible actors and financially irresponsible actors.

Some actors occasionally waive their outlandish salaries and take a cut of the gross instead.

Actors are one family over the entire world.

I think, often, child actors are, like, overlooked a little bit.

The three actors I admire the most are all dead. Humphrey Bogart, Spencer Tracy and the French actor, Jean Gabin. They're all very natural, sort of masculine without being overly macho.

I think a lot of quote-unquote 'comedic actors' really go for the laugh and are overly straining and sort of trying.

Working with big actors and realising that they were just normal people who've got an incredible talent was just a great experience.

Some of the greatest actors have turned superheroes into a serious business: Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson in 'Batman' Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart, the first venerable knights of the X-Men, who have now passed the baton to Michael Fassbender and James McAvoy.

We're actors - we're the opposite of people.

We're actors — we're the opposite of people!

I fear other actors who are not prepared. And I fear directors who are afraid.

Jeg delte værelse med nogle kommende skuespillere, da jeg først landede i Hollywood. Hvad så? Det betyder ikke, at jeg sov med dem. Og det betyder ikke, at jeg ikke gjorde det - selv om jeg ikke gjorde.

The scenery in the play was beautiful, but the actors got in front of it.

I think casting a show is an art form in and of itself. We're all so different - the cast is made up partly of real stand-ups, partly of actors, and then partly of just legendary actors.

[Reviewing a production of Uncle Tom's Cabin] The dogs were poorly supported by the cast.

The stage can be defined as a place where Shakespeare murdered Hamlet and a great many Hamlets murdered Shakespeare.