Foreign Actors Quotes

When it came to a lot of these German actors with the English, they just couldn't do it. They couldn't get the poetry out of it. They couldn't own it and make it their own. And then Christoph [Waltz] came in, and I didn't know who Christoph was.

If you're in an Egyptian film and you're not Egyptian, you have to wear mascara and stuff like that.

Most Americans don't even know that Minnie Driver is English or that Catherine Zeta Jones is Welsh, but people are reminded every time 'ER' is shown that I'm the British Dr. Corday.

I always say if you're going to do a movie about Charles de Gaulle get a Frenchman, you know. I'm not French. And yeah, sure I could get with a dialect coach and work for six months trying to talk like a Frenchman. But there's some French actors. Just get one of them, you know.

I joke that my niche in Hollywood has been naked foreigners.

I think American audiences are open to people with accents and different nationalities being on the screen.

Protected Voices aims to help political campaigns, private companies, and individuals protect themselves from foreign actors who want to hijack their message.

This is still a big barrier for me and it is for a lot of foreign actors.

There are a lot of weenie American actors, and a lot of foreign actors are having the luck.

There's still a bit of a problem, in that so many leading English roles are taken by American or French actresses.

I lived in L.A. for seven years, and if you're a German actor, they always throw the Nazi parts at you.

Imported actors, like certain wines, sometimes do not stand the ocean trip. This can be as true of American actors in Europe as it is of European actors in America.