Actor Traits Quotes

John Goodman's pretty dark - I love John Goodman.

Some actors are constantly on the phone, some are always looking into the mirror while some like to sit and bond.

My central strength as an actor is the fact that I'm 6 foot 3. A certain power emanates from my size, juxtaposed with the fact that I try to find an element of sensitivity in every character I play. People enjoy seeing that because it goes against what we're led to expect as far as the way men are supposed to be - macho and all that.

I've often said there's two kinds of actors. There's a more gregarious type and the shy type.

I remember when I first started having these interpretations of these images, these clichés of what movie stars are and this and that, and they're egomaniacal pricks and tyrants, but in general, for the most part, they're nice people to tell you the truth.

Most actors are pretty adaptable because we work with so many directors.

They say God looks after kids and idiots, and I think actors are probably a combination of the two.

There are level-headed actors and outlandish actors and financially responsible actors and financially irresponsible actors.

We actors are an especially superstitious lot.

I really love young Tom Hanks. He's just one of my favorites. He's a great, quirky every-man. I also love Zach Braff. I really love actors that are quirky and interesting, that sort of try to portray 'normal' people.

Actors are easy to like. They are generally sociable, thoughtful people.

I've worked with Bette Davis, John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart, Henry Fonda. Here's the thing they all have in common: They all, even in their 70s, worked a little harder than everyone else.

I had watched 'Alfie,' but I didn't consider it a prerequisite. Michael Caine was just extremely fabulous. He's one of the most professional actors I've ever worked with. I guess after a lifetime of doing it, you know what you're doing. He's incredibly uncomplaining, undemanding.

Actors love to do extreme things, so that is why they become actors; otherwise, they'd be novelists.

I like actors. I like their insecurities, their humor and their intelligence.

I think the best actors are the most generous, the kindest, the greatest people and at their worst they are vain, greedy and insecure.

If you put Willem Dafoe, Liam Neeson and James Woods in a room together, there wouldn't be room for anyone else.

Morgan Freeman is a very giving actor.

I can be prickly and difficult on set.

They say you don't want to meet your heroes, but those two guys, you do want to meet them, because they do not disappoint. Walken has this amazing sense of humor, and Pacino is like just a sweetheart of a guy.

Some deeply untrusting actors - the kind that need to know exactly what's what and are completely insecure - might be quite good within the parameters of a certain sort of acting.

You hear this said about actors sometimes, that they're fearless, but she [ Maggie Gyllenhaal] really is.

I think most actors are very impressionable, and that's part of what we do is soak up other's behavior.

Zach Levi has a huge heart.

Working with Jackie Chan was one of the most phenomenal experiences. I won't say that he is the most grounded actor, but he is the most grounded human being I have ever seen.