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As an actor we're just like workers in a factory, we provide our services to directors.
I'm an actor. Actors are supposed to act.
An actor has to embody a role.
Actors basically are the type of person that with three seconds left, we want the ball. Give us the shot to make it or miss it. We'll take the lumps if we miss it, but we want the chance to get the glory.
Actors are there to represent the human condition back to itself. It's never about the actor. It's about the content. That's what I strive for in my work.
Actors are seen as celebrities, but they're just real people with families.
As a director you come in and tell the actors how good they are.
Actors are like Swiss Army knives - we're ready to use any lever at any moment. But I learned long ago that, unfortunately, this industry only sees the one thing sticking out that they know us from, and that's the only thing they can imagine.
Most actors and actresses are performative as people.
There's a lot of actors out there or people who want to be actors. It's unique to find somebody that, you know, needs to be an actor.
Actors live dependent on being validated by other people's opinions. I don't understand what it is I do that people want. I don't know what an actor does. I have no credentials. I don't know what I'm doing.
Actors are insanely competitive and they hold back on each other. They are like magicians and none of them want to show their tricks.
I love actors. That's my bread and butter, and I got to work with some amazing ones on '12 Years'.
Most people are extras in their own movie.
People have this belief that actors are able to go out there and say, 'Oh I choose this job,' but most of the time we're just taking the job we can get. We don't just get offered thousands of jobs; we might earn one job a year and that's the one we'll take because we've got to pay the rent.
Actors in general are pretty good bullshit artists; we're good at just chewing the fat, interacting with people. So we're good ambassadors for movies.
Actors are the flowers of the film, of the set, and of the director. The term 'Flowers of the Screen' holds a deep meaning.
I'm fascinated with actors, and I've never quite understood the process.
There are always going to be more actors than anybody can ever use.
Actors are the best and the worst of people. They're like kids. When they're good, they're very very good. When they're bad they're very very naughty.
I'm an actor, and part of my joy and my curiosity about the job that I do, is that actors have the privilege of exploring human nature in different ways.
15 years later, it's all the TV stars with the film deals, whether it's the cast of Friends or That '70s Show now with Ashton and other people doing stuff.
Actors are a lot like professors on dissertation committees - it's a lot of ego, a lot of rallying for position, there is a lot at stake in every single interaction.
I'm an actor's director.
I'm more than an actor. I'm an icon, an industry.
The film makers are the true movie stars.
Producers and directors think they have the power, but what they think of as the weakest link, the actor, is all-powerful.
Actors are con men and con men are actors.
Actors are by nature volatile - alchemic creatures composed of incendiary elements, emotion and ego and envy. Heat them up, stir them together, and sometimes you get gold. Sometimes disaster.
A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes - but a movie actor waits.
People really don't understand what actors do.
Actors don't have real value.
I'm an actor. It's my job.
Actors are pretending for you, but they're not lying. They are not putting on a guise instead of themselves. They are finding things inside that they have experienced.
If I weren't an actor, I'd either be a teacher or a critic.
I'm a firm believer that actors take to work who they aren't at home. People show their other self in their art or in their work.
Actors are always the pawns. They're the last ones in the food chain.
Being actors is a strange job.
Actors, writers, directors - that triumvirate of creativity - we have to rely and trust each other to be able to get to the final product.
To be honest, I don't think I'm an actor. I'm a creator - or try to be.
So the question never comes up. I love to work with actors who I feel really confident in knowing what I'm going to get from them. And making a movie is such a risk that it's comforting to build up a good support team in production as well as cast.
Actors should ACT. Not sell perfume, or write cookbooks.
Actors have a magic gene within them - I think they're the finest descendants of rogues and vagabonds - and it's all too easily forgotten what the acting legacy is.
After all these years, I'm starting to learn what a good director does, and I know what a good one does with actors: help us navigate finer instincts, help us when we're wrong, encourage us when things are great.
Actors are journeymen. We show up for work. We do the job and then we go. What goes on behind the scenes is what goes on behind the scenes.
I don't like actors, I like women.
I think a lot of people who are child actors - it's a weird thing.
There are certain stars who are not actors. I don't want to be that type.
What we are as actors, for better and for worse, is visible.
Actors, their greatest tool, their greatest resource is imagination. You can take things, power objects, you can recruit your dreams, you can access your memories and get there. So the idea is not to act but to just be.
We [actors] are so lucky to do jobs that fulfill us and make us happy. We don't go to work thinking okay, we're working to put food in the fridge. We are doing that too, but we're working because we love what we do.
Actors geek out over athletes. Everyone knows that.
As an actor all we want to do is act and play people.
I think there's a big misconception out there about actors and the choices they have.
Actors wait tables, directors work at video stores.
The idea the actors are the most important people on a film set I think is very stupid. Actors are the most replaceable people there. There are literally millions of us. There's very few people that can operate a steady-cam. The numbers are a lot, lot fewer for that, you know?
An actor is someone who pretends to be somebody else. A movie star is somebody who pretends that somebody else is them.
As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!
The actor's role in the community is quite unlike anyone else's. Businessmen, for example, don't take their clothes off or cry in front of strangers in the course of their work. Actors do.
I've worked with some actors who can't act.
An actor should refine public taste.
Actors have given up their clout. Now decision making is in the hands of lighting men, designers, bankers, special-effects people. We need to cut that out and just go with the most able trained actors in the business.
Who could be more desperate than filmmakers?
Scratch an actor and you'll find an actor.
One of the great joys of being able to write something you can make, if you get certain actors you want and love, you're kind of buying yourself a front row seat to watch them work.
Everybody understands that acting is a really difficult job. It's hard work. You've got to get dressed up, you've got to hang around with beautiful women. It's difficult. It's a problem.
Uta Hagen would say, there's the representational actor and the presentational actor.
Actors are their own worst enemies. They quite often will get in their own way, and I have to be encouraged, endlessly, not to get in my own way.
Actors are the jockeys of literature. Others supply the horses, the plays, and we simply make them run.
Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have.
For some reason, I seem to work well with actors. I love working with them.
A lot of actors think that what we do is so important, like we're saving people's lives or something.
As a director/writer/producer, all you ever want is to work with actors who make you look better, who make the work you do seem as good as it can be and even better than it is.
You can't trust actors.
I'm an actor's director. I love it when talented actors can bring characters to life.
Actors, you know, they're often awkward people in real life.
I'm no actor and I never have been. What people see on the screen is me.
The actors make the film. They're the ones that take this theoretical movie that's in your head and make it real. The success of a film is entirely on their shoulders. I admire them, because acting is such a difficult thing to do, and I personally can't understand it.
The world is full of actors pretending to be human
Actors make less than you think.
The leader must be an actor.
If you're not acting, you're not an actor.
Actors talking about themselves. Nothing better!
The actors I admire are character actors.
I think there are always actor parts, and then there are movie-star parts, and an actor's always an actor until he does a movie-star part.
I'm actually just an actor.Actor-- Allen Leech
Actors are intelligent. Yet, many of them do not communicate well. That's what makes it so hard to have a relationship with one.
All I ever cared about was actors - toughest job in this business.
I'm acting with the best actors in the world.
Actors create a fantastic lifestyle thinking they're going to be able to maintain it. Then they can't get work or have to start taking work that doesn't suit them.
If I wasn't an actor, I'd probably be working in journalism.
The function of the actor is to make the audience imagine for the moment that real things are happening to real people.
Actors work for many reasons. Sometimes you do it because the material is good. Sometimes you do it because the paycheck is good. We would love to only do things that are art, that are artistic and that satisfy us, but this is our job, as well.
Some of the biggest movie stars in the world are essentially characters.
People recognize actors that they see regularly, like people they see on the television every week.
You can see some very great theatre actors who don't work at all well on screen. They're trying too hard at it.
I cast unusual people in my movies.
Trust the acting.
I think of myself as an actor.
Actors are cave dwellers in a rich darkness which they love and hate.