Quotes About Actors

I think that you always learn something from working with good actors.

A lot of movie stars are not great actors; they're just very good-looking. And when they start to age and they don't have the looks any more, then it's over.

I've really had good luck working with younger actors. Every younger actor that I have worked with has always been really on top of their game and fascinating to watch.

A lot of actors aren't particularly good directors. And they're not particularly good with other actors. That's kind of a fallacy.

When you're working with really good actors, it raises your own game and you get better.

Actors do have good and bad sides. It's because the passage down the birth canal distorts the face. People born by caesarean section are more symmetrical.

Good actors need better projects, and these days there aren't enough going round.

I've only had good experiences with actors. Starring next to them and directing them, for the most part they're all inspiring, special people.

Actors do these really gross, gun-'em-down movies, and I always wonder why. They're not good movies. And it's like, "Why are you doing them? Aren't you rich enough?"

I think good actors tend to be really funny.

You know, it was only a generation ago that actors couldn't be buried in the churchyard.

All great men are play actors of their own ideal.

The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage.

You find with the really great actors, the ones you really admire and look up to, very often they're very giving, generous, warm people.

[Making movies is] 80% script and 20% getting great actors. There's nothing else to it.

I mean, the actors that I admired were Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, an actress named Barbara Harris. And Greta Garbo. They were great actors.

I'm living in Los Angeles, I'm in films and I'm on television, and I'm working with actors and telling stories. I'm living the fantasy. My worst day is a great day.

The great actors we had came from the actor-manager theaters. Not only did they create a team, they were the generals working with the soldiers.

Supporting characters add depth to a story, and great actors leave their imprint with the audience.

Great actors come with depth about how their character sees the world, and they completely defend it. They could defend it in a court of law, down to the reason the patient deserved this.

I really believe great actors, even with disease and age, can be great.

I'm such an admirer, I am an admirer of villains, especially working with so many great ones.

I think the actors take a great responsibility for the characters in the movie.

Directors, like actors, get typecast. And because I've had great success with comedy and horror and TV shows, that's basically what I'm kind of offered.