Quotes About Actors

Apart from the money actors earn, it is the love and appreciation that keeps everyone looking forward to do more.

I'm not in the loop; I don't know any actors, really, just the ones I work with.

So many of my friends are actors, and so many of them are great, and they're losing jobs to people who have never been in plays before; I understand that sometimes I'm part of the problem. But I'm trying to figure out how to balance it.

Actors are fighting at all time. The love you get is amazing. When you don't get it, it is the most excruciating career you can be in.

There are great actors we'll never see just because they haven't had my luck.

There are a lot of weenie American actors, and a lot of foreign actors are having the luck.

We, as actors, see luxury around us, but when we step out, we see the struggle and reality which people are going through.

The main thing I've done for my children is not to give them a stupid name, like actors do.

TV does not have anything meaty to offer the male actors. It is a female-dominated industry.

Male actors have to lie about their ages, too.

Most of the people I admire as actors didn't make it until their mid-30s: the Mark Ruffalos, the John Hawkeses of the world.

On November 9, the services of Peter Mayhew and David Prowse were legalized. "They told me that if I dawdled any longer, they would simply get someone else to play the role, so I signed," says Prowse. "I had to. Having no real identity in the films gives you a terrible feeling of insecurity. You are always aware that you are dispensable.

There's only five real people in Hollywood. Everyone else is Mel Blanc.

She had never met an actor who wasn't utterly dim

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

There followed fifty or so actors of both sexes made up as Brazilian natives, who paraded naked through the streets

Know what it is the emotional statement to convey, and use taste and judgement to help the actors give their best possible performance.

It is often difficult to watch yourself onscreen, especially 60-feet high. As an actor, it is an uncomfortable experience.

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

I really didn't know who Dario [Argento] was. I didn't know who Harvey Keitel was. It was a wonderful experience, though.

Drawing on the experience I have of now directing, to me, my one strength that I know is my ability to communicate with actors and therefore make characters really important.

I like directors who have worked as actors. They know the experience.

Working with them was a great experience. Victor Garber, Stephen McHattie and Ray Liotta - they were all bang-up.

You experience the films through the actors, so they're all locked into your imagination in some kind of layer of fantasy or hatred or wherever they settle into your imagination.