Actors Quotes

It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.

Actors have to be there and do the work, and that's enough.

Actors are one family over the entire world.

As a director, I also get to sit and watch actors and learn from them in a way that I don't get to do when I'm just acting.

I go through a whole process with the actors first, building and creating characters, then I encourage them to sort of live in that character when they're in the screen.

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.

I like some of the early silent films because I love to watch how actors had to play then. What would interest me today is to do a silent film.

I don't think that there is any longer a dark shadow cast over actors who work in television, so I would readily go back.

I hoped the chemistry was going to be there. There were six leading actors, and I wanted them all to mesh. I didn't know how they were going to relate. But a lot of them came out of a certain Hollywood generation, so they all knew each other and it was like a reunion. When I felt that click, I breathed a sigh of relief.

During filming they were amazingly gracious -- they put up actors, we used guest bedrooms for hair and makeup, for holding areas.

Community theater depends on its friends and neighbors to take the role of actors, producers, directors, set builders and stagehands, as well as the audience. It is a collaborative effort. All who take part are volunteers with a love of theater. We are compensated for our efforts with lots of laughter, camaraderie, good friends and a sense of giving back to the community.

I don't know, I'd say (actors) Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt breaking up.

The actors gave an amazing performance.

[The cast sings its lungs out in the joyously arranged, often stylistically updated songs. The actors share the narration with the same grace with which they share embodiments of the man himself. Will Chase is the most persuasive John. Marcy Harriell delivers a powerhouse] Woman Is the Nigger of the World. ... Mother.

He really likes actors. He's not faking it, ... He wants to hear their opinions. As an actor, it was what I always craved. You really want as an actor to be treated as one of the grown-ups. Half the time, you are treated as a demented child who has wandered onto the set.

There are two types of actors: those who say they want to be famous and those who are liars.

I'm not sure how the actors and the director (Myra Platt) will eventually deal with the horse autopsy.

You need three things in the theater - the play, the actors and the audience, - and each must give something.

I'm not as enamored with actors as I am with musicians, especially like these guys, ... These are some of my heroes, and to be in the same room listening to them play or to what they have to say is fun for me.

Remember: there are no small parts, only small actors.

We knew Mark could be funny. Good actors can do anything, and we knew how good he is as an actor. But I think we were amazed at how gifted he is comically.

It felt important to find some actors who really had the enthusiasm to participate. And I think it feels as if the heart is in it among those we finally chose.

There no longer is a straight career path in the entertainment business. Actors want to be singers, singers want to be actors - and they all want to be race car drivers.

It's a different ballgame, ... It'll be funny, interesting. As actors, we're doing our own writing.

They've been cutting back on real actors for a long time.