Quotes About Actors

Actors become disposable. I feel female actors have to back each other.

I try not to think of actors as I'm writing because I think you do them a disservice by writing for things they've already done.

I grew up loving actors from a distance but still felt so close to them. I feel like to be on the other side right now is one of the biggest opportunities I could ever have.

It is important to understand that there is no distinction between comedians and actors. All are actors.

It's very important to be able to distinguish the actors from the characters they play.

I call myself a literary agent simply to distinguish myself from actors' agents.

How often do we get to go to the biggest cinemas in the world and see diverse actors make up the majority of the cast?

We've got to celebrate all diverse artists and actors and 'Aladdin' does that really well.

For actors, we always feel like there shouldn't be any divide for anybody. The industry is the one that kind of creates the idea that if you're such-and-such an actor, you can't be on the big screen.

If there's one thing that I know how to do, it's talk to actors. From what I have experienced working with so many different directors in so many different things, a lot of them don't really know how to talk to us.

To direct actors is difficult. To direct actors in another language is more difficult, but directing non-actors in another language is one of the craziest things that I have done and one of the most rewarding experiences I have had.

'Roc' was sort of an experiment because none of the lead actors on our show had any real television experience, especially in half-hour TV.

At the end of the day we need to experiment and if we start being too cautious, we'll end up working with the same actors and doing the same roles. That's how people get stereotyped.

I think it's really important for actors to add some shock value to whatever they do. I think the audience gets bored very easily, and it's really important to keep experimenting.

You just start going through that process of trying to put together a cast that works. I don't know that I can explain it in a way that you can go, 'Oh.' It's a little bit like saying, 'How would he be with him? How does that feel?'

Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.

People make a star out of actors after one or two films and keep capitalising on the same thing without having the courage of exploring the world of cinema, which has so much to offer.

Most actors hate readthroughs - they're exposing themselves before they're ready to, and before they've bonded. But I love them because they give us all the first inkling of what the whole show is going to be like, how each part affects every other part, and we won't see that again until it's all edited together.

Actors are conditioned to develop a system for expressing as much as they can in the shortest amount of time because you're going to get all cut up in a movie.

It is the director's vision, and as actors, we are just extensions of that.

The power of a close-up can be extraordinary, but you have to have actors who are able to reveal themselves.

With comedic actors, you can write one joke or two jokes, sample dialogue, and they have the capacity to extrapolate.

I think Ranbir Kapoor, Deepika Padukone, and Ranveer Singh are doing a fabulous job.

I have not had any negative experiences. But I am fully aware of the issues that some of the female actors faced in the industry. Some of them shared their bad experiences with me.