Quotes About Actors

I've got a lot to learn, and I'm very blessed to work with such talented actors. I'm nowhere near my goal. It's all about applying yourself and taking time to work and train.

I think a lot of comedic actors, on their close-up they can deliver. But when it comes to reacting to other people being funny, that's work in itself.

Cable TV has become where the best actors, writers and directors have gone to work because they are allowed to do character-driven stories.

I think that certain directors are better at choosing actors that match well with each other. And I have feelings about actors and who I think I'd work well with better moreso than others.

They think actors are freaks - that we're a lot of drunks who party all the time and never work. Well, I for one work my tail off.

I don't work with fear, and I don't work with actors that are fearful.

I've been married for 17 years and you know how the actors say, "It's really technical. Those scenes are not sexy. They're just so technical. It's like work." And I'm like, "That's bullshit."

Great actors who I want to work with-have such a misconception of who I am because of all the things that get said about me.

You respect all of these people that you know in the business as actors. And they sort of turn around and say, we really like your work. It's a nice acknowledgment.

A lot of my mates are actors and it's lovely to be able to work with friends.

Im so lucky to have the opportunity to work with some directors and some actors I wouldnt have dared to think I would work with one day.

For us, performance is everything. If we can get great actors in there who like us, and we really like, we feel pretty confident that we can make a movie work.

I really love Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Edward Norton. I also like Ryan Gosling and Rick Bentley. And of the girls I like Naomi Watts and Juliette Binoche, and I would like to work with...

I heard Bob Weinstein actually likened actors to baseball players. You work for a while then all of a sudden you go through a dry spell.

Most people don't like challenges at work. Actors love challenges at work.

My goal is to work. That's the goal of most actors or performers: to work and keep working, and do the best you can, and keep growing and changing, trying to improve your craft.

I find, surprisingly, that actors are liberated in their work if there's stuff going on around them, because they can't think too much about who they're supposed to be.

Actors are always a little high at work. Acting is their drug. So when you put the brakes on, they're naturally a little disappointed.

I've never had a plan. You look for different actors you want to work with or different subjects you want to explore, or sometimes it's just a momentary fancy.

I like to take a break, but at the same time, I think most actors are not very good at sitting around doing nothing because we like to work.

My job apart from anything else is to build an ensemble composed of actors who all come from a secure place so that they can all work together to make the film.

The notion that acting is simply about intuitively responding to situations the way you feel couldn't be farther away from how I ask actors to work.

Young actors are serious about their work and don't take any time out from it. I'm very serious about my work; there are probably only two films I've done where I had a really good time.

Big actors want to work in television because they see it as being new and different.