Quotes About Actors

I think if actors are successful at one thing, they paint themselves into a corner sometimes, and what's the fun in that?

The lovely thing about being an actor is being anonymous, it's never having to explain yourself. And that's what I find interesting about actors or painters I admire. I don't want to know about their lives.

When you have an ensemble where characters pair off so easily, it becomes extremely isolating in the story world. You can end up with two actors who have not seen each other face to face all season long.

Hindi films are watched with keen interest in Pakistan, as Pakistani plays are watched in India. Pakistani actors also work in the Indian entertainment industry.

If they made films in Palm Beach, actors and actresses would be much better dressed.

Any actor I admire and enjoy working with - Sergi Lopez as the bad guy in 'Pan's Labyrinth,' or the little girl who played young Mako in 'Pacific Rim,' it makes no difference - I like actors with a very strong centre.

It's good for actors to confront those things we have to act: panic, pain and death.

I don't usually turn down work, it usually involves a very big debate with agents and family and your conscience and your sense of panic. But it is the only power we have, as actors - to say no.

Actors do like watching girls parade down the runway for some reason.

There was a great ensemble in 'The Great Fire,' and it was great not having the same parade of actors.

For me, actors have to have a character, an aura, body language. They're not models. They used to call actors models. But I want them to participate in the film.

I'm making it up as I go along, like everyone else. There probably are some actors who are quite methodical or at least take their time about what particular footholds to find on the rocks next. There are always choices, even when you're not getting seen, for how to spend your time. It's only after 10 years that I got any kind of traction at all.

I love doing the voice of Batman because of the quality of the animation. The music is particularly incredible. Another bonus is getting the opportunity to work with some very respected actors who do not usually do voice work.

I'm not one of those actors where filmmakers that I admire ask me to be in their movies. I meet them at parties and they're nice to me, but they never ask me to work with them.

Many from Peshawar starred in our film industry and Lahore too was the hub of films before the Partition.

As I was looking through a book about German Expressionist films and their stars, it all came together because of the extreme way actors made their faces up in those early day of film in order to pop out in the black-and-white. I just wanted to use makeup in the same way, partly perhaps because as women get older, they're told to wear less makeup.

I'm a filmmaker. I'm always searching for the truth in everything I do. I demand it from my writing partner and my crew, actors, and so hopefully, we're making people think.

You're as strong as the actors you're working with, your partners.

You know when you watch old movies, it's always the small parts you remember, the character actors who come in like a breath of fresh air.

As actors, we need to do our parts exactly the way they have visualised it, because if we don't, we have to keep doing it many times over.

I want to keep doing different things. I'd like to do a more personal, dramatic movie next, I think. But as long as it's about characters and good writing and good parts for actors, that's what's important.

Actors, lots of times, are great when they have great parts. For me, a lot of times, it's been the part.

I had just had small parts in other films, and I'd worked with a lot of directors in TV.

I think a lot of actors are overly concerned about being well liked in the parts they play.