Quotes About Actors

Like actors and writers who are on and off again in terms of employment, I had a very unstructured life.

Actors rarely stay in touch with directors after they've filmed together. We go back to real life.

There is only one thing I respect in so-called Broadway actors... and that is their competitive sense.

Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

I like some of the old spaghetti westerns because the Navajo extras they hired spent the entire time talking smack about the actors in the Diné language. With proper translation, it's incredibly entertaining.

Ciss says, 'People have less emotions than actors think they have. For much of the time we hide our emotions, we haven't time for emotions. Our brains work so much faster than our emotions.

A hero acts good largely in cinema as insight shows that many reel-life villains are better in nature than most movies' lead actors in real-life, but the film comedians are usually the best of them in actual life.

Movie cast should be admired by the audience in the following sequence -Comedians, Villains, Supporting Actors and leftover admiration for the Lead Actor branded as Superstar.

Reel life actors work together in a movie only when their real life characters match to the extent with one another.

There are many actors who can't gain fame with their original birth name, so what reality should be expected out of them in the life game.

They are paid actors who can do anything for publicity, promotion, commission or gaining big position, even could pretend to be ill with virus, hospitalized and on medication.

University education fetches no importance until the best writer is made payment either equal or better than the good actors.

This is the only film in which Raj Kapoor and Dilip Kumar acted together.

I'm so thankful for the Internet because actors and singers and performers now have a way to connect with their fans on a very personal level which I think is quite special.

Too many actors have run for office. There's one difference between me and them: I know I'm not qualified.

I start with actors that I know personally or I know their work, and there are things about their work or their presence or their own personality that make a character, that exaggerates some qualities and suppresses other qualities. It's always a real collaboration for me.

With 'The Host,' I think the actors could be really big names. That would be cool. I'd love to see Robert Redford put on a beard and be Jeb; he would be amazing... Matt Damon has some very Jared-esque qualities, and then Casey Affleck as Ian and Ben Affleck as Kyle. Imagine the interplay.

I mean, the question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again, night after night, but God knows the answer to that is, don't we all anyway; might as well get paid for it.

There are actors who spend 20 years working and still don't achieve what I've achieved so quickly. So I think my only course of action is to work as hard as I can, not just for the sake of the film, but also to prove to these people that I do have talent.

I think a lot of great male comic actors are introspective, quiet personalities, which I really admire. But they are really able to turn it up when the camera's on.

People are so used to seeing John Goodman as a lovable dad or the quirky characters he played in the Coen Brothers films.

People are so used to seeing John Goodman as a loveable dad or the quirky characters he played in the Coen Brothers films.

It occurred to me that actors are selfish, and they think that the world revolves around them. For one year, I quit, and I went to an ashram in Bihar and went to Himalayas backpacking.

There are quite a few actors in the business who are much more difficult than kids or monkeys.