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 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 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 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.

This friend of mine said he was surprised to find that - I don't think it's quite a majority - a bigger percentage of actors are introverts than extroverts. It was a big surprise to him. Now, I know me, and I'll do anything if I'm playing a character. Or anything that's true to the character, anyway. But in real life I'm a little more withdrawn.

Dustin Hoffman was the greatest. He had so much information to give and he mesmerized me. He really feels for actors who are just starting out and remembers his early days like they were yesterday.

It's also that comedians don't have the kind of narcissism that actors have. They're writers who perform their own material. It's more interesting. And they're sexy because they risk more. Stand-up comedians risk more than anyone.

Actors are good liars; writers are good liars with good memories.

Last summer a second unit production crew went to France and shot scenes for several of this season's episodes. They shot costumed actors in and around real castles and landmarks, we couldn't possibly have duplicated here in Hollywood.

The advice that I usually give to young actors is that if you can create a character for the stage and keep that character fresh for at least 6 months that means you're doing the show eight times a week.

The fact of the matter is that most actors are shy people.

Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

Most good actors have a huge intelligence about the human condition and a real open heart to different kinds of people and behavior.

There's nothing more boring than unintelligent actors, because all they have to talk about is themselves and acting. There have to be other things.

I don't like actors who try to talk directors into making their part bigger and that's really lame.

Actors cannot go on for over running around the trees.

It's always strange being a kid on the set, because you're treated like an equal when you're working. But then when you break, the other actors go back to their trailers to take naps and drink beer, and I have to, like, go do school.

Ninety per cent of how you learn is watching great people. When you are surrounded by good actors it lifts your performance.