Quotes About Actors

Bill Hader, nobody can play Richie like this guy, I think. It was great because, for some reason, 'Chapter Two' was a movie that everyone wanted to be in.

I'm a typically lazy person. It is sort of characteristic of actors.

The end of the studio system signalled the end of the great screen stars. They were the sort of actors who brought their own charismatic personas to each role they played. Audiences felt as if they knew them immediately every time they watched one of their movies.

I don't do films for charity any more. In the past, I've done that for friends or people who couldn't not afford to pay. But now money matters.

I made three films with Douglas, two with Charles Boyer.

I wasn't around when Nic was playing Donald. I was around with Charlie.

It always makes me laugh to think that I get to sit around and chat with people like Anne Reid and Derek Jacobi and get paid for it.

Hollywood don't always pay a lot of money. Because we're English they think we're cheap!

I think with the best actors, emotion is something that has no kind of check in them.

One thing I think is really important is chemistry, and if actors have chemistry, audiences will pick up on that. Audiences will root for characters that don't even exist as a couple because the actors' chemistry is so strong.

When it comes to chemistry with actors, I always feel chemistry is not something that comes and goes. You either have it or you don't.

I only cast the actors and actresses I fall in love with - truly having an emotion for them, an anticipation and enthusiasm when seeing them - and I believe that my emotional confidence in them blends into chemistry. It's always been like that, and I hope I won't be wrong in the future.

There are so few movies that still cast on chemistry. Now it's often, like, this person's movies make this amount of money, and this person's movie makes that amount of money, so let's put them together.

We all grew up with Chevy Chase and Bill Murray.

A lot of people don't like child actors.

Adult actors are really childish, and that's nice to be around when you're a kid. So the big reason I wanted to be an actor was I really enjoyed actors' company - which probably makes me about as shallow as a puddle. But it could be worse. I could be working for a living.

Every time I said, 'Man, I'm doing CHiPs,' 100% of the time they would ask, 'Is Erik Estrada going to be in it?'

I've seen many actors go awry by making the wrong choices early on.

I am very choosy about making event appearances and endorsing brands because, as actors, we have to be very responsible.

I've done some movies before when you have months, or three weeks at least, to train and to learn choreography.

We chose the actors thru a series of auditions when we started the show.

Chris O'Dowd's a legend, isn't he? I like him.

Once you're on the set and shooting, it's all just cinema. You have actors and cameras.

I'm particularly drawn to actors in their own little drama. I find it's that area I'm very alive to. And I don't encounter it that often. You have to be far from civilization, you have to be far from New York or London to find people who do that.