"I'm just looking to be in the best movies possible and do the best work possible and try to become a better actor and make better movies."
Read quote
3 likes
Actors quotes
Actors
5K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Topics related to Actors
Browse quotes that often appear alongside actors — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Actors quotes (page 26 of 248)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"Not write, maybe develop. Direct, sure. As an actor, you work on so many films, you sort of start to see who directs well and who doesn't."
Read quote
3 likes
"I never understood actors who could just wait around."
Read quote
3 likes
"As an actor, you're never really in control of the product. I think the goal is to create what you want. And if you can get as close as you can get to the creation of something, it starts with development."
Read quote
3 likes
"I'm not the writer who says, "You have to say it exactly as I wrote it," because you don't get good work. You want somebody who's going to bring something interesting to it and really create a character with you. You see that with certain actors."
Read quote
3 likes
"Some of the supporting roles that I've done as an actor, I took them because I knew that I would get to watch some of the leading guys in the movies, and also I'd get to work with them."
Read quote
3 likes
"Most actors have a process that they can go through, that they rely on, or that they've discovered, and that can evolve from project to project."
Read quote
3 likes
"In general, I go to see the stuff that for me is, "Thank God for that actor, he's doing something that I never imagined; thank God for this filmmaker, because if this person didn't exist, this movie wouldn't exist." That's why I go to the movies. That, to me, is what's so exciting about this movie."
Read quote
3 likes
"I started off on stage because it was the only work I could get. I haven't been back for 11 years. I think any stage experience is good experience, as far as being an actor is concerned."
Read quote
3 likes
"The pleasure of working with somebody who's an actor is they don't waste time with stuff that doesn't matter."
Read quote
3 likes
"I always try to approach things from the point of authenticity. I've done that for my short films, working with non-actors from the real environments where you go exploring and placing them into the cast alongside professional actors."
Read quote
3 likes
"That's one of the things of being an actor. You have to push any knowledge of any future, at all, out of your mind. You never know what's going to happen where."
Read quote
3 likes
"I just love working with actors in general."
Read quote
3 likes
"Of course, at their best, movies are anti-literature and, as a medium, belong not to writers, not to actors, but to directors."
Read quote
3 likes
"Both the old and young Karamakates are portrayed by indigenous men, neither of them professional actors. The old shaman is played by Antonio Bolivar Salvador."
Read quote
3 likes
"I wanted to shoot the sex scenes unadorned so that the actors could really live in the moment."
Read quote
3 likes
"People are really emotionally affected by actors. And it's hard to know how to behave in a way that doesn't impose or withdraw. Because everybody wants your attention."
Read quote
3 likes
"The trouble with marrying an actor is they grab you in their arms, hold you close and tell you how wonderful they are."
Read quote
3 likes
"I no longer believe that William Shakespeare the actor from Stratford was the author of the works that have been ascribed to him."
Read quote
3 likes
"I think the toughest thing about being an actor in a film is to be with a director who doesn't know what they want. And that can be really, really frustrating."
Read quote
3 likes