Quotes About Actors

Nothing is Real; it's a Cosmic Drama. We are just Actors; we Come and we Go. There will be Laughter; there will be Tears. Such is the Cosmic Show.

People think actors are self-obsessed. I think it's not necessarily an egocentricity...it's just YOU are your business, your product.

Someone called actors sculptors in snow. Very apt. In the end, it's all nothing.

I do, however, get along fine with apes and I have worked sack of potatoes in front of the camera. Trainers tell me they like my voice and that because I treat them as people they like me. Well, it's easy to do, since some of them are people and easier to work with than some—people, I mean actors.

Actors will never be replaced. The thought that somehow a computer version of a character is going to be something people prefer to look at is a ludicrous idea.

The big gap between the ability of actors is confidence.

That takes a lot of confidence to let your actors come up with something that could be theoretically funnier than what you had envisioned originally.

I always try to keep the confidence of the actors, and try my best to make them feel comfortable or confident.

I always had to genuinely like the actors I worked with and use my enthusiasm and vision to give them confidence to push their creativity and their humor.

When you're in Los Angeles, nobody bats an eye, they're so used to seeing actors, they just act really cool.

I came in the Dawson's Creek era; it was all about tiny guys who looked like teenagers, and I haven't looked like a teenager ever. So I was, like, auditioning to be their dads. At 25.

Normally I play dads, good guys, and little animals.

O that we were wise, Ion, and that you could truly call us so; but you rhapsodes and actors, and the poets whose verses you sing, are wise; whereas I am a common man, who only speaks the truth. For consider what a very commonplace and trivial things this which I have said - a thing which any man might say: that when a man has acquired a knowledge of a whole art, the enquiry into good and bad is one and the same.

With digital space, the content has become accessible for the audience. So, they feel more connected to you as you are more accessible to them. The kind of adulation actors get today is very different from the kind of adulation you had for a star which came from aspiration rather than relatability.

The kind of films and roles I do were never in competition with any star kid. Their aspirations are completely different.

The assumption that everyone in government is a bad actor imperils our democracy.

I've worked with actors who tell everyone what to do in the scene - that makes me go pretty atomic.

I have worked with big actors, but honestly, I don't judge the viability of a project on the basis of the star value attached to it.

You know, actors are fans, too. And talent is very attractive to me.

The quality of writing attracts me to films, also who the other actors are, who the director is, where it's being shot. Any or all of those things. But if the writing is really appalling, then the money had better be really good. Sometimes you say yes to something you wouldn't always do because you need the money.

I learned so much on 'Sicario' and working with that group of actors, where there was the audacity, the confidence, to do nothing.

That's where the theatre of dreams is, over in L.A.; it's the land of opportunity for actors, and to go over there with a good team behind you and have a part you want to audition for really makes it a joy.

For us, as actors, and even for the director, it gave us a sense of authenticity to what we were doing because we were talking about Hollywood and we were in Hollywood.

With 'Avatar,' you're beginning to see the need for less and less actors and less of an appreciation for live acting.