Quotes About Youth

A lot of young actors will do a scene and then run off and look at themselves. I don't believe in that at all.

The heat around young actors burns out. Natural ability and magnetism only get you so far. The rest is hard work.

There are so many talented young actors in the industry. I'm just happy to have a job!

There's a lot of young actors and people who have success very quickly who kind of expect it or don't have the experience to really appreciate it.

Working with young actors is really going with trust. I never see them act beforehand. Because that's not their job. It's my job to make it happen on set.

Oh absolutely. I had the pleasure to get to know a lot of really talented young actors before they even really hit it big. And yet what we all had and shared in common was a love for movies.

One of the things that I cannot fathom is young actors who will not audition and won't read.

A lot of young actors look up to me, and I wouldn't trade that for any money in the world. I don't want to lose their respect and be a hypocrite.

I have only really gotten by with playing versions of myself as most young actors do.

Heart of America is a movie I'm very proud of. The young actors are great and the story has impact.

The young actors coming out of the Universities are well trained.

What impresses me is the young actors with terrific talent arriving on the scene. They'd have blown us all away in the old days. Guys like Brad Pitt.

Heath Ledger's performance in 'The Dark Knight' quite simply changed the game. He raised the bar not just for actors in superhero films, but young actors everywhere; for me. His performance was dark, anarchic, dizzying, free, and totally, thrillingly, dangerous.

I rarely meet other young actors.

I always love working with young actors, because there's always something to learn. It's always exciting to see the next generation and how they approach things and what's great about them and what's not so great about them.

I would hate to be thrust into the middle of a big film and not deliver. There's young actors and they're put into these central roles and they're commanding armies - but they can't quite pull it off. I'd much rather do it in small steps and build it from there.

See, the thing that bothers me with young actors, young actors of color specifically, is that they see movies and television, and they figure that's all it is to it. They have no respect for the craft. They want to be, you know, movie stars or whatever. And I worry that we're losing a certain quality, you know?

Nowadays, kids... young actors... they go straight to L.A. before they've even done anything.

I don't envy young actors.

You can tell young actors it's going to be very difficult, but there's no way you can understand the difficulties and the rewards through description. You have to cellularly experience it. It's a very difficult career in the long run, but at the same time, there's no long-haul career I'd rather be involved with.

How often do you see young actors playing scholars? Or striving to be intellectuals, you know? It's not that often.

If all young actors want is to star in romances, what do they need to learn kung fu for?

I enjoy working with Doon's talented, young actors and also get to learn from them.

Who are these people who are taking these decisions of casting only young actors in films? It is the filmmakers and the film producers. I don't know if that is what the audience wants because I really believe that masses respond to a good story.