Actor Types Quotes

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

There seem to be two sorts of actors. Some people play themselves marvellously, and others, like me, rather like to become someone else.

In my heart of hearts, I'm a character actress, whereas other people play their one strength.

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.

There are two different kinds of actors. There are people who take it just so damn seriously. Then there are guys like me that just get up and love doing it.

One of my favourite sorts of actors...the rat actor. The rat actor knows his job and gets it done.

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

Somewhere in the '60s, actors became wimps and basket-case psychotics.

There are a lot of actors who will sit here and talk to you about characters - 'He does this, and she's a really interesting character because she does this.' I'm not like that at all. I'm not an actory actor.

I think there's a difference between a working actor, a movie star and a celebrity. They're all three different things.

I think of myself as a character actor, compared to a straight actor. I know a character actor in England is pretty much the same as in the States; you're actually hired to put on terrible teeth and stuff like that.

Some actors are what I call more like mirror actors, which means that they do a performance at home in front of the mirror, and then they go deliver it. I'm not that type.

I think all actors are supposed to be character actors.

In this country, you have movie actors and theatre actors and television actors.

There are different kinds of actors, and movie actors tend to be exceedingly precise and mechanical in a way that's really admirable for me to watch. You always learn from them.

I don't really think there's much difference between a character actor and a leading man besides aesthetics.

Uta Hagen would say, there's the representational actor and the presentational actor.

I went out with seven actors in a row. There are problems with that. I've had the really good-looking dramatic actor, and that has its problems. And then I'll go out with the funny guy. It's almost like the funny guy has more to prove.

There are some actors who are rehearsal actors, and some who are not. I am not. Having said that, I don't know what I am talking about.

The great exception to that, of course, is Johnny Depp, who is absolutely the ultimate character actor. Johnny Depp is the future of the character actor and thanks to his success maybe we will see the return of an era when my sort of actor is back in vogue. It's not in vogue for me to be in Hollywood movies as lots of different people.

As Uta Hagen would say, there's the representational actor and the presentational actor. My sister [Maggie Gyllenhaal] came up to me recently after she saw this movie, Southpaw, the movie I did, and she thought there was this exploration of that type of presentation, and a bit of representation as well, if I could be totally honest, where she was deeply moved.

I think casting a show is an art form in and of itself. We're all so different - the cast is made up partly of real stand-ups, partly of actors, and then partly of just legendary actors.

Actors aren't all the same. They have very different skills. There are actors of intellect who are very thoughtful about everything they do... and then there are actors of instinct who don't know what they're doing until the cameras roll... My father was actually quite thoughtful about what he did, while my mother was much more instinctual.

I wish I were a character actor. Of course, if I played hockey without a mask, I could become one.

We're finding that the casting of 'A Few Good Men' is different from the musicals because the kind of actors that you need to do it are movie actors, basically.