Quotes About Actors

I'm learning to cope and not deny my own success, but I still think it's not happening a lot. I get nervous, and I am capable of doing something to blow it on purpose. A lot of actors have that problem.

I've been pretty lucky in the leading men department.

My department is to get actors to do stuff.

The clergy is in the same business as actors, just a different department.

Every film you work on is different, and that's part of what it's like for anybody who works on a film, is to learn how to work with others. Learn from top to bottom. Actors have to learn how to work with the director and the director has to learn how to work with actors, and that's not just those two departments.

In theater, you are there, you have a character, you have a play, you have a light, you have a set, you have an audience, and you're in control, and every night is different depending on you and the relationship with the other actors. It's as simple as that.

As filmmakers are nervous while casting, they naturally tend to sign actors depending on what they've seen before.

I try not to write for actors because A, they're not the character, and B, it's really depressing when you don't get them.

As a director, my job is to protect. I protect scripts, actors, cameramen, designers.

I've worked with the greatest actors, and they're all gone. This is what's so desperate to me.

I feel projects are destined for actors. Whenever I find the project destined for me I'll be at it with full force.

Before I write, I like to read obits in 'The Times' because they're well written, and I like the little details. It gets the energy going in the morning. I really like the obits of old Hollywood actors and actresses.

I think that's an incredible thing that we can do as actors - to feel empathy toward someone that you may otherwise detest, you know?

It's developing a relationship with actors that makes it work.

I think actors always find the dialogue doesn't quite fit, so you always have to play with it.

You - as a director, you have to do your job, you have to show things, and you don't have to ask the actors to do it, or the dialogue.

It bloody annoys me when people forget that we're actors. Just because we tend to appear in things with our own accents, saying dialogue that comes naturally to us, people think we're just being ourselves.

Are there differences between black actors' opportunities and white actors' opportunities? Yes, there are. It's been said.

Actors tell stories and we play different characters, and not all of them are healthy.

I've been lucky enough to have a lot of romantic leads in movies and indies, and you do form a different kind of connection when you do that together as actors.

As a runner on a film, you are the lowest of the low, and yet you have incredible access to everyone. I can totally imagine that for actors in the middle of a Hollywood bubble, all they really want is a sense of normality, and that gopher can be a tap for that.

As actors, when you can't be in the room with the casting director or the producers, you put yourself on tape and send it off.

Well, I don't think I've ever been a huge target for the press, and I value that to a degree, because there's a certain value for actors staying beneath the radar so they can play characters.

My generation of playwrights have grown up writing for studio theatres, and so the task of writing for more than ten or so actors is a huge challenge. Logistically, it's like doing an enormous Sudoku. Making sure everyone is in the right place at the right time in the right order instantly sends me into a cold sweat.