Quotes About Actors

Bad directors are the ones who want to tell you every move, and think they're a better actor than you.

Directors never give you anything.

What's weird is that I work with these directors and then I start channeling them. I kind of turn into them a bit - which is cool when you're working with Clint Eastwood.

I've been lucky to learn by playing all kinds of roles and watching all kinds of really good cinematographers, actors, and directors for many years before people were even aware of me in terms of audience.

They call David O. Russell the actor whisperer because he can get stuff out of actors that maybe some other directors can't.

I have so much respect for television actors and directors. We're on set doing 16-hour days, and that's just what we do.

I think actors do make really, really wonderful directors.

I've constantly done my best to get the best material I can get with the best directors I can get to direct me.

I'm very interested in directing actors - many directors direct cameras.

Working with actors really depends on the actor. Most of the directors I've worked with don't really know how to speak to actors, actually; some of the best directors don't.

People think that the directors direct actors. No. Really, what the director's doing is directing the audience's eye through the film.

Actors know how to talk to other actors in a way that sometimes other directors just don't.

I don't have a philosophy for choosing roles. Sometimes, it's just, 'This might be interesting; that might be fun to do.' There might be interesting actors or directors in the project, even if the part is not important. And then sometimes, you need the money.

Most actors are pretty adaptable because we work with so many directors.

There are casting directors with lots of imagination, but also some with not as much imagination.

My acting experience has been a benefit. What I learned from directors is how to listen to and talk with actors. I know how they think and what they need.

I think all the actors I've worked with knew that I was an actor. Like, I get into the dirt with my actors and we figure out the rhythm of the scene and how it needs to sound and what the blocking is, the way you would with another actor.

I do admire actors who manage to lose huge amounts of weight for roles: you have to have astonishing discipline to do that to your body and maintain it for a certain length of time before letting yourself go back to normal.

Actors don't really sit around discussing the parts they've played - just in case someone says, 'That was crap!'

I think it's a disgrace to make actors become pitchmen. You see it on 'The Beverly Hillbillies,' you see it on 'Bonanza.'

Actors are excused from a lot of things, and we get away with a lot... I find it equally interesting and exciting as it is disgusting and bizarre.

Just about every actor wants to be a Disney cartoon voice at some point.

I know people look at the Disney Channel as... a specific thing. But all the actors from 'Austin and Ally' - honestly, they're really good.

Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.