Quotes About Actors

I was one of the good-looking, educated actors, and that is like a disadvantage in theatre!

All the guys on 'Breaking Bad' are really gentle and gorgeous creatures.

For actors, you've gotta sometimes fill in your backstory.

Actors are always grabbing each other on stage, looking in each other's eyes, making a moment so private, the audience doesn't know what they're doing.

I feel like I was in the last graduating class of commercial actors. TiVo! I was out there before TiVo came out, man.

Everyone in my family has a weird leg in the industry. My grandpa was a director and my grandma was a third AD, so you'd always hear stories growing up just of being on set and of actors.

I always wanted to work with Spencer Tracy, which never happened, although I knew him well. And I never worked with Cary Grant.

There are actors in this town who made important careers for a long, long period just by taking the parts that Cary Grant turned down.

I love 'Bringing Up Baby.' Anything that Katharine Hepburn's in. I'm committed to the Humphrey Bogart, Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn era of filmmaking.

I go to the theater because I need help dealing with my life; I want to see the greatest questions addressed. I need to see actors grappling with things that matter.

I feel that the industry can be sliced into two categories - grateful actors and non-grateful actors.

I don't think they're gratuitous with the nudity on 'Game of Thrones.' It's very much part of the world. There's a lot of it, but that's the world they come from. It never is there to distract from the scene or the actors or story.

Directors are denied a great pleasure, which is that of being on stage.

I get to play a great character while working with great actors and great directors on a great show.

The great thing about first-time actors is that they listen. If you say something in a scene, they were listening to it. They weren't thinking about the return line.

That's the great thing about how 'SVU' works. They work with so many Broadway actors, they are very used to getting us out in time for the show.

I loved working with 'The Avengers' cast and we had a great time, but it was a job, and they had other commitments during that job, so they would go off and do other things.

If you're ever being typecasted - as most of us are - that's a great way to be typecasted. So, 'The Rifleman' is still popular with a lot of people, and I'm proud to be associated.

Greedy actors should never be satisfied.

I've got a green card, so I can work there any time, but I hate reading about actors going to America, because it's not like that anymore.

A lot of actors just don't seem grown up no matter how old they get... just juveniles with grey hair.

I think actors are divided into two groups: one that wants to be an actor to become famous and rich, and the other that wants to be an actor because they have to be. I'm more in the second group.

I'm interested in working with groups of actors to tell complicated stories about what's happening to people, and that's because I came out of the theatre where I worked in ensembles, and I really loved that.

Television's grown up a lot. It's a little more adult, which I think is a good thing. It allows actors to tell more complex stories. I'm happy to see where it ends up.