Quotes about Actors

We writers dream of a future where actors are mostly computer generated and their performances can be adjusted, by us, on a laptop, alone.

We read scripture in order to be refreshed in our memory and understanding of the story within which we ourselves are actors, to be reminded where it has come from and where it is going to, and hence what our own part within it ought to be.

Upon common theaters, indeed, the applause of the audience is of more importance to the actors than their own aprobation. But upon the stage of life, while concience claps, let the world hiss! On the contrary if concience disapproves, the loudest applauses of the world are of little value.

My interest as an artist is to illuminate the lives of black folks. I definitely am focused on films that illustrate all that we are and all our nuance and all our complicated beauty and mess, and when you're telling those stories, you gotta have black actors.

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

I've always wanted to work with Hugh [Grant] because I loved his movies.

I don't know of an actor that the Coen brothers would come to and say, "Hey, I've got a movie for you to be in, if you want to do it," that would say, "No." That's the truth.

I like actors very much, but to marry one would be like marrying your brother. You look too much alike in the mirror.

Actors change, but the course of the tragedy remains the same. A humanitarian who starts with declarations of love for mankind and ends with a sea of blood.

History is not good news or bad news, it's just one big story unreeling. There are no small parts, only small actors.

Iran is a state sponsor of terrorism. And for them to be able to provide nuclear technology to non-state actors, that's unacceptable.

You know, it was only a generation ago that actors couldn't be buried in the churchyard.