Michael Douglas Quotes

It's weird, because usually if you're British and you go to America you play baddies; but I play naughty people here and goodies in America.

I don't know why British actors are getting big parts in American TV shows. Maybe it's because we're cheap.

British actors are renowned for being great villains in movies, like Bond films, all the rest of it.

I think it would be a problem if Hollywood was casting British actors only as villains; if that were the case, then certainly there would be cause for concern.

Not surprisingly, there is a cultural divide between American and British actors regarding the self-promotion associated with new media.

In Hollywood, I was never restricted to just one Asian character. I've been cast as a Chinese, a Vietnamese, a Korean, a Japanese and a Cambodian.

Usually being a young actor, you've got to go through certain levels of hierarchy, going through bit parts and extra roles and then kind of progressing up the food chain and having the size of your roles grow in that sense.

We can only use British actors because everybody's got to talk exactly the same.

On the whole, British actors star in theater, and I think there's something quite grounding about that.

Americans are very good at animating voices. I don't know why. They have a freedom with them that we British actors find more difficult to get to.

For acting, darlings, is the world's most perilous trade. Compared with actors, steeple jacks and deep-sea divers lead snug and placid lives.

We all hope we have something else to do. We're going to be unemployed actors. It's a consistent state of being a professional actor, in my experience.

I really like to work with theater actors. Theater actors tend to do lots of independent movies, and those are the actors that I like.

When I was coming up in the '80s television, if you were on television that meant either you were a young actor just coming up like I was, or you were an older actor whose career was over and you had to go on television.

I feel like a lot of the young actors that are just coming up are really good. I think directors are directing better.

I would not let my children act when they are young!

I would say only be an actress if you genuinely feel the calling, because it's a tough profession.

I wanted to be a theater actress, and initially, I wanted to work in musical theater

I feel it's so hard for young actors; It's a different world that they're coming up in; there's so much money to be made off of their personal lives, and people are bound and determined to make that money.

To be honest, I would like to have worked with Peter Sellers, because when people talk about classic British actors, you talk about Lawrence Olivier, and Peter Sellers was just in the most amazing films.

I think it's always good when you're able to, as an actor, allow your work to be some kind of a conduit for social discourse, and an examination of where we are, as a society.

I started off doing plays as a theater actor. But I never thought of it in terms of it leading anywhere. I was just trying to be the best actor that I could be in the context of what I was doing.

"I've never see you do something like this before and I'd love to see you try." For a young actor, that's about the most exciting thing that anyone can say to you.

Before Michael Caine you had to have been in the RAF to be an actor.

They're a very strange lot actors, very strange people.