Film Actors Quotes
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Film Actors Quotes & Sayings
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I wouldn't say no to being in a film with Jude Law. I love English actors.
— Catherine Deneuve
I fell in love with film. I didn't start out to be a film actor. I wanted to be a theater actor.
— Chiwetel Ejiofor
I suppose I can do more for a script as an actor than as a writer - in the film sense.
— Jack Nicholson
Being able to work with Ridley Scott on this film is like being able to play on the Olympic team for actors.
— Idris Elba
I'm always curious about how actors cry on film.
— Anne Hathaway
Most of the film directors expect their actors to want to work fast.
— Yvonne Strahovski
I think a lot of theater actors that were great, like Walken or Glenn Close, later became film actors.
— Sam Rockwell
A film is the director's medium. The theater is an actor's.
— Hugh Jackman
When I think about actors I know, I'd much rather hear about who they're shagging than what film they're doing next.
— Hugh Grant
I think it's counterproductive for actors to come to the set with well-thumbed copies of the book their film is adapted from.
— Charles Dance
Film-makers and actors can only show a version of the act, but writers can express what people are thinking, feeling, as well as doing.
— Julian Barnes
There is a whole bunch of great British actors of my age who aren't film stars or theatre actors; they're very much both.
— Harry Lloyd
In terms of acting, we go through phases of being really inspired by film and television and actors and works that we've read.
— Laura Vandervoort
The next movie will be in Mandarin. I enjoyed shooting all the Japanese stuff in Kill Bill so much that this whole film will be entirely in Mandarin.
— Quentin Tarantino
I really feel that if I did another [Narnia] film I'd just be repeating myself and I don't really want to do that as an actor.
— Skandar Keynes
When you deal with a film that takes place in Europe, and you're going to work in English, you'd better work with European actors.
— Norman Jewison
I thought 'I can't be an actor, I can't'. Then this film came up and it was like someone saying to me, 'You can, don't give up'.
— Keisha Castle-Hughes
Film actors are, by nature, more complicated than stage actors.
— Margaret Rutherford
I don't think any actors love taking their clothes off on film, unless you're an exhibitionist, which I'm certainly not.
— Tamsin Egerton
Actors say they do their own stunts for the integrity of the film but I did them because they looked like a lot of fun.
— Steve Coogan
You look for those actors or actresses that fit the personality to populate the film.
— Yuen Woo-ping
I'm not an actor - and I've got 64 films to prove it!
— Victor Mature
You can have a bunch of great actors in a film, but if you don't have anyone telling a great story, it's a moot point.
— Sarah Gadon
Independent film is for actors that love to act.
— John Leguizamo
I think I spent my entire childhood on film sets, surrounded by film-makers and actors and people with magnetic energies who make movies.
— Dakota Johnson
I directed two films, not very successfully, and after that, I went back to being an actor and a producer.
— Kirk Douglas
Actors are the flowers of the film, of the set, and of the director. The term 'Flowers of the Screen' holds a deep meaning.
— Kim Jee-woon
Gradually the live TV scene simmered out, replaced by film, and that took place in L.A. So many actors left New York.
— William Shatner
I think when you work on a Woody Allen film the actors become a real company, probably more than on any other film.
— Michael Sheen
All FILM directors are good actors, because you have to understand actors in order to program them.
— Henry Johnson Jr
The varying physical characteristics of the actors may also necessitate changes. Sean Connery is six feet four. Dustin Hoffman isn't.
— Sidney Lumet
I love directing Shakespeare on film. It's fantastic that the actors would do exactly the same thing and be true to their part.
— Julie Taymor
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.
— Catherine Deneuve
I can tell when an actor's forcing tears, and it's tricky because you then have to film it and edit in a certain way to skirt around the issue.
— Drew Barrymore
The reason my films work is because every actor on set is very secure. They're able to fly.
— Mike Leigh
Through all permutations and youthful poetry, I came to believe that the film actor was the great "literateur" of his time.
— Jack Nicholson
The actors are the greatest executors of tone in a film. They're the most important cinematic component.
— Alexander Payne
In film, other actors' performances really are not your concern. If the other actor isn't giving you what you want, act as though he were.
— Michael Caine
Once a film gets into production, the actors sometimes begin to have more input than a writer does.
— Helen Mirren
I love being around great actors and film-makers, and I try to hide the fact that I'm in awe of them.
— Jessica Chastain
I'm a character actor but unlike a lot of character actors, I don't look radically different from film to film and there was a bunch of them at once.
— Curtis Armstrong
There are so many talented people in film today. There seem to be poor scripts, but the actors and actresses are very talented.
— Frederick Lenz
Cats act with their eyes. They are the small, silent film actors of their time, and they are vastly underrated.
— Jenny Lawson
A lot of directors straight out of film school are very technically minded, but they don't have an understanding of actors or how to talk to them.
— Peter Dinklage
The relationship between the make-up man and the film actoris that of accomplices in crime — Marlene Dietrich
Actors in the film industry are usually wary of expressing their opinions on the issues of the day, politics especially.
— Anupam Kher
Who says that actors are cattle? Show me a cow who can earn a million dollars a film.
— Langdon Winner
You have film actors doing TV, rap stars doing TV, with everyone kind of crossing the line.
— Anthony Michael Hall
I don't think film actors need training, really.
— Paul Giamatti
Film actors reach a certain level, but they don't get beyond it unless they work in the theater.
— Shirley Knight
My father comes from a generation of film that actors my age don't even know about, which is really sad.
— Amber Tamblyn
The Dutch film industry is a pretty small community, so within Holland, I think most actors know each other and have worked with each other.
— Michiel Huisman
People on series are now given a lot more opportunities, sometimes more than film actors.
— Alyssa Milano
People think that the directors direct actors. No. Really, what the director's doing is directing the audience's eye through the film.
— Julianne Moore
I think Americans are wonderful film actors - the best in the world - but they are a very contemporary race and they look forward all the time.
— Julian Fellowes
I personally believe the film turns out better when shot in one short schedule, plus it doesn't stress the actors.
— Shah Rukh Khan
As a film director I like to have the actors create their own close-ups. It's an older style of filmmaking.
— Stanley Tucci
Without chiropractic care, I couldn't have existed with my work as a TV and film actor.
— Clint Walker
I know actors come around and they always talk like that, but I don't do publicity if I don't like the film.
— Barbara Hershey
Unfortunately for the 'Tomorrow' series, I feel that for the actors that were in the first film, maybe our commitment to it is done.
— Caitlin Stasey
Actors shouldn't be scared. Don't get scared on film.
— Kodi Smit-McPhee
Part of my aspiration as a film actor is to bring subtlety to everything I do - honesty but subtlety.
— Benjamin Bratt
I never thought about the actors on television or film, like what kind of life they had.
— David Duchovny
All of these stars, the most powerful actors in film, they were all gone in an instant.
— Chuck Palahniuk
The script is the foundation, but it's not the full story for the film, which only comes alive with the actors.
— Mora Stephens
There's a lot of us idiot actors that get tattoos and they cover them with makeup when you do a film.
— Seann William Scott
I'm the spokesman for ADT, and ADT, brother, pays better than most actors make on film.
— Ving Rhames
I will no longer be an actor to hire, I have a passion for producing and making films.
— Ryan Phillippe
I would love to be able to do a film. I would love to be able to focus on what excites me in watching actors.
— Charlotte Gainsbourg
'The Master' is a wonderful film, honestly, and the actors, Joaquin Phoenix and Phillip Seymour Hoffman, are incredible.
— Laetitia Casta
I don't know anything about directing, but if you love actors, know your story and hire a great company, then anyone can direct a film.
— Peter Hedges
For an actor, it is better to play well (or even not so well) in a bad film, than to not play at all.
— Emma Watson
