Quotes about actors
actors elements dynamics
From my experience as an actor, choreographer, action director, and producer, I understand the elements and the dynamics of being a film maker. Donnie Yen
actors likes
I'm the sort of actor who likes to talk about what we're going to do. Donald Pleasence
actors barack
Barack Obama did tell me that I was one of Michelle Obama's favorite actors. Dwayne Johnson
actors working-alone used
I'm used to working alone. Frankly with some of the actors I've worked with, I've felt like I was working alone. Claudia Christian
actors done cages
Nicolas Cage is a great actor and he's done some good action movies too. Dolph Lundgren
actors directors stomach
The best thing about switching from being an actor to being a director is that you dont have to shave or hold your stomach in anymore. Dick Powell
actors students film
I was a film student. I became an actor, but I thought I'd be pursuing filmmaking originally. Dermot Mulroney
actors approach standpoint
I approach directing from an actor's standpoint. Derek Magyar
actors related
I loved B.I.G., but not like I liked Tupac, because he was an actor, so I related to him. Derek Luke
actors hungry shows
There's nothing better than an actor who is really, really hungry to show everything they've got. David O. Russell
actors
When I started out I was a failed actor. David Mamet
actors agents littles
Basically, actors arrive in a bubble. They have a little sealed bubble around them and it's basically [comprised of] their agents, their last film, their next film, their press agent, and their per diems - all these things, they cocoon themselves with and you have to puncture that bubble on each of them to make them be in your film. Danny Boyle
actors really-cool made
It was really really neat to make the movie because there were mentally challenged actors in the movie. So that was really really cool to work with them and they were always really happy, and they made everybody really happy on the set too. Dakota Fanning
actors sometimes stills
Sometimes you can do Shakespeare and you're still not an actor. Clark Gregg
actors scene
Actors love to act all those death scenes. Colin Baker
actors grew process
I love working with actors. I grew up with a lot of actors. All my friends are actors. I love that process. Colin Hanks
actors stuff directors
Directors don't get to see other directors at work - they're the only one on the set. I've met directors who've asked me what another filmmaker is like. So, there's probably nobody better placed to make all the comparisons and to pick up stuff than an actor. Colin Firth
actors directors communicators
However good a communicator a director is, unless they've been actors, it's just not the same as the shorthand you get with someone who's been an actor.
actors interpretation absolute-truth
I can't bring you absolute truth in the detailed factual sense. All I can do is bring you an interpretation as I understand it. That's all you can ever get from an actor.
actors four lasts
I do go back to Ireland, and I'll probably be doing a film in Ireland in January, and I guess that kind of keeps me classified as 'the Irish actor,' but the last four or five projects that I've been in are either American or English, so I don't feel terribly trapped in that. But sometimes, yeah, you would like to not be called 'the Irish actor.' You'd prefer to just be called 'the actor.' Colm Meaney
actors telling-stories directors
I kind of have an interest in all history. And I suspect it comes from being Irish - we like stories, we like telling stories, which makes a lot of us lean towards being writers or actors or directors.
actors world
No actor in the world started off at the top. Daniela Ruah
actors
I was an accidental actor. I was never formally trained. David Soul
actors nervous
I very rarely get nervous as an actor. Very rarely. Corin Nemec
actors pieces directors
The whole thing with comedy is that you are always in control. Writer, director, actor, producer, and sometimes bouncer. And you are just a piece of their puzzle. Dane Cook
actors
I didn't intend to become an actor. Anthony Quinn
actors brilliant
The most brilliant actor that I have ever worked with. I've liked others very much more. Anna Neagle
actors different bigs
There's nothing more exciting as an actor than getting to do something that you're not entirely sure that anyone would let you do, and getting to take a big jump in a completely different direction. Anna Paquin
actors extraction
You're an actor who's Irish, not an Irish actor. And you shouldn't be limited by your extraction. Cillian Murphy
actors casting novelists
Really, the novelist has the best casting since he doesn't have to cope with the actors and all the rest. -Alfred Hitchcock Alfred Hitchcock
actors whole-life grants
Cary Grant is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life.
actors remember wanted
I have to remember that I didn't have to become an actor. I didn't have to put myself in this position. If I'd wanted to have autonomy - if that was what I was after - then I could have chosen another profession. Andrew Garfield
actors dependent
Being an actor, we're so dependent on the writers. Amy Ryan