Actor Personality Quotes

When I walked into the room to meet Michael Landon, it was clear he was a big-time star. To be around him was as far from Charles Ingalls as you could get. The hair was the same - no one touched his hair.

I'm an extraordinarily anxious person. I'm a typical actor: narcissistic and paranoid and all them things.

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

That was cool, getting to work with Ryan Gosling. I knew he was going to be a huge star after I saw him in that Showtime thing that he did when he was really young [The Believer]. I think the most fun thing about that was I'd never seen somebody that had so many questions about the specifics of everything: where you ate, how much you ate, how much you drank. He's very special.

Once the writers got to know the actors, they would include certain things - personality-wise - for the characters because they knew you liked that sort of thing.

Wong Kar Wai is a very intense character, very personable, and I believe in general he does not like and he would not want his actors to show their true looks and their true personality on screen.

I went to college and stage school, and thought about acting, but... I just don't like actors very much! They're not as fun as musicians.

The fact of the matter is that most actors are shy people.

I have to say, working with Dan Stevens in 'The Guest' and seeing his transformation was incredible. Also Kate Winslet. Off set, she's loud and sweary, but when she walks on set, she has this calmness and is so centred.

Honestly, I'm one of the ones who is least like my character, just because I like to make people laugh and have a good time-and be kind of fun and silly. Jake is very composed, has his guard up, and is a bit damaged. But Cory Monteith is pretty much like Finn. I think they both kind of have that goofy sense of humor. Cory is so hilarious in his everyday life, just like Finn is.

I think good actors tend to be really funny.

I find actors who play nasty guys in movies are the nicest guys in real life, and the opposite then goes for heroes.

One of the things that is assumed about actors is that they are extrovert, which is almost never the case, in my experience.

It was the fashion of the time, still is, to feel that all actors are neurotic, or they would not be actors.

A lot of good actors tend to be quite introverted as people.

Actors are all different. They're not all volatile. Some are sweet, some are volatile, but what is fundamentally in there is something that has to be paid attention to, in that they are, I would say, needy.

Every actor-performer says this, and it sounds so irritating, but I'm not the most outgoing person.

I've found that the people who play villains are the nicest people in the world, and people who play heroes are jerks. It's like people who play villains work out all their problems on screen, and then they're just really wonderful people.

David Boreanaz is pretty funny. He's probably the one that cracks everybody up the most on set. He can be very serious as well, but when he's silly he's pretty silly.

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

You find with the really great actors, the ones you really admire and look up to, very often they're very giving, generous, warm people.

Kurt Russell is so dreamy. Plus, he's great to work with, really respectful.

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

In film roles, I play a lot of heavies and a lot of bad guys, so I tend to be the jokester and the good-time Charlie on the set.

Good actors, actually, in real life, are shy and very quiet people a lot of the time.