Best Actors Quotes

When I was a kid, if a guy got killed in a western movie I always wondered who got his horse.

Emotional power is maybe the most valuable thing that an actor can have.

I’ve never thought of myself as an actor, so somebody recognizing me for that would be a real shock.

As an actor, it’s always been good to be working at all.

Its very hard trying to talk to an actor about how they should deliver lines, or cut their hair, unless it comes from a place of a strong point of view.

A lot of actors talk about doing their homework, but very few of them do it.

Filmmakers tell actors to adjust their body language, and the famous presence of the actor is his or her body language. That is what makes them special and a movie star. An actor’s capital is his body.

Acting has helped me understand people, not only because you are acting as a character, but also because you are watching other actors work. That really helps you identify in life when someone is acting, not being true.

When I told my parents I wanted to be an actor, my mom was, like, I think I heard you say lawyer.

Acting is really not what I’m interested in. I’m not an aspiring actor and you should be able to tell.

People don’t know and they shouldn’t know that you work incredibly hard as an actor.

God writes a lot of comedy… the trouble is, he’s stuck with so many bad actors who don’t know how to play funny.

I’m Irish and very proud of being Irish, but as an actor, your extraction should be secondary, really. You should be able to embody whatever character it is, wherever the character comes from. That’s always been important, for me. I’m an actor who’s Irish, not an Irish actor.

Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.

Obviously an actor draws on his own experience.

I became an actor by accident.

I don’t care if people perceive me as always selling out because I’m doing a studio picture. For me, the whole thing is you should be diverse in your choices; that’s the beauty of being an actor, you should be able to do that.

You need to be as clean of a slate as you can be, as an actor. You have to try to be open to every experience.

There probably aren’t a lot of actors my age who tap dance.

You just hope that you will get the opportunity to do what you love and pay your bills, and that is being a success as an actor.

I started out as a writer and a director. I started acting because I wanted to know how to relate to the actors. When people ask me what I do, I don’t really say that I’m an actor, because actors often wait for someone to give them roles.

The only thing that we as actors really can control is to be able to say ‘yes’ or ‘no’ to the material.

Elizabeth Taylor is pre-feminist woman. This is the source of her continuing greatness and relevance. She wields the sexual power that feminism cannot explain and has tried to destroy. Through stars like Taylor, we sense the world-disordering impact of legendary women like Delilah, Salome, and Helen of Troy. Feminism has tried to dismiss the femme fatale as a misogynist libel, a hoary clich?. But the femme fatale expresses women’s ancient and eternal control of the sexual realm. The specter of the femme fatale stalks all men’s relations with women.

I would almost say that the best screen actor is the man who can do nothing extremely well.

The armoury of having any academic education does not necessarily set you up for being a good or better actor.

Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world.

I accept the Old Testament as more of an action movie: blood, car chases, evacuations, a lot of special effects, seas dividing, mass murder, adultery. The children of God are running amok, wayward. Maybe that’s why they’re so relatable.

You shouldn’t speak until you know what you’re talking about. That’s why I get uncomfortable with interviews. Reporters ask me what I feel China should do about Tibet. Who cares what I think China should do? I’m a f***ing actor! They hand me a script. I act. I’m here for entertainment, basically, when you whittle everything away. I’m a grown man who puts on makeup.

No actor forgets the times he couldn’t get a job. I think everyone doing this operates from that fear. You don’t want that momentum to stop when you get it

It occurs to me that with all the television people watch, most of their acquaintances are actors.

That’s probably the most boring conversation you could hear – an actor talk about politics. I won’t go there.

It is better to be making the news than taking it, to be an actor rather than a critic.

The art of procreation and the members employed therein are so repulsive, that if it were not for the beauty of the faces and the adornments of the actors and the pent-up impulse, nature would lose the human species.

The problem for me is not that Schwarzenegger is governor, but the extent to which even politicians who are not actors are functioning like actors.

There are a lot of actors who wish there was a next play, a next musical. As an actor, I guess that’s all I can wish for – the next role, the next opportunity.