Quotes About Actors

I love the Warner Brothers lot. There is so much history there. They've done such a smart thing. They have signs outside of each stage which tell you what movies and TV shows were shot inside. So cool... you can almost feel the ghosts of actors past.

People in the CIA, they marry each other. They're like actors! We have to travel without much warning to far-flung places, and it's very hard to communicate what our experiences are like to those in the outside world.

Working for Disney for the last eight and a half years, people come and go - production staff and actors. I stepped onto the sound stage and it was a literal time warp.

There is an established tradition of actors directing films that have a particular, personal meaning for them - Warren Beatty, Clint Eastwood, Kevin Costner, and most recently George Clooney to name a few. Remarkably, their films share an unusually high percentage of being very good.

Sometime ago, I went for a film festival in San Francisco and that's where I met film director Warren Foster and actors Robert Parham and Randy Taylor, by chance.

It's very weird when people you know are in 'Star Wars.'

Actors in the film industry are usually wary of expressing their opinions on the issues of the day, politics especially.

You spend five months filming in outer space and saving the world, and suddenly that kind of family unit and story disappears, and you come crashing back down to Earth, and you have to do your own washing... and most actors are insecure that the last job they did will be their last job ever.

And yet," interposed the villainous-looking fellow who played Scaramouche, "by your own confessing you don't hesitate, yourself, to trespass upon his property." "Ah, but then, you see, I am a lawyer. And lawyers are notoriously unable to observe the law, just as actors are notoriously unable to act.

Ah, but then, you see, I am a lawyer. And lawyers are notoriously unable to observe the law, just as actors are notoriously unable to act.

I don't feel particularly comfortable about actors using whatever power they may have to push their beliefs, unless they're extremely well informed.

All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts. William Shakespeare, 1564—1616

I'd love to work with Gerry Butler, Alan Cummings, and Ewan McGregor. It'd be amazing if we could do a Scottish Hollywood movie.

Most actors will tell you, when they've got emotional stuff that's hard to carry around for hours and hard to try to do justice too, it just beats your butt.

I love actors. That's my bread and butter, and I got to work with some amazing ones on '12 Years'.

One of my problems with a lot of things I watch is that everybody's too pretty, and it takes me out of the film because I'm thinking that all these people look like I've seen them in a cafe in Los Angeles.

What I found out about stage is that there is such a camaraderie between the actors.

I know every actor says this, but the people behind the camera are great. They always have answers.

I have done films only because my roles were good in them. It has got nothing to do with being associated with any particular camp.

I'll say that, Bill Camp, from 'The Night Of,' is one of our great actors.

There's hardly a single show that doesn't have a Canadian on it.

As actors, when we keep working every day, after a point of time, we just know all our emotional cards and how to play them.

Actors sure have stories. We always have stories. At the end of our careers, all we have to take with us is our stories, and we have many of them.

I'm happy doing what I'm doing. I do think, though, there were great comic actors like Thora Hird and Max Wall who only got taken seriously when they did straight roles at the end of their careers.