“I really believe great actors, even with disease and age, can be great.” BelieveAgeActorsDiseaseGreat Actors Author:Olivier Martinez
“A lot of the time with child actors, you get the feeling they’re trying to have a kind of poise or presentation that’s beyond their years that might be put on, but also might be because they’ve spent years just hanging out with adults and they don’t even have a sense of what it’s like to grow up with kids their own age.” TryingYearsKindChildrenFeelingsMightKidsAgeActorsGrowsGrowing UpAdultsHanging OutPresentationPoiseChild Actors Author:Alessandro Nivola
“For me, choice is the most important thing because I'm going to be an adult actor pretty soon. So I've got to be choosing the right roles now so that by the time I get to that age there will be wide options available.” ImportantAgeChoicesActorsRolesAdultsImportant ThingsAvailableWide Author:Haley Joel Osment
“I knew from a young age that I wanted to be an actor. I never even thought about other careers. The acting field is certainly not the path many Indian parents encourage their children to take, but mine were very supportive. They wanted me to have an education, but understood that this is what I wanted to do.” ChildrenAgeWantedYoungActorsParentActingCareersPathFieldsMinesUnderstoodIndianSupportiveYoung Age Author:Archie Panjabi
“I really respond to diversity, a broader landscape, with actors of different ages and races and backgrounds.” DifferentAgeActorsRaceDiversityBackgroundsLandscapeDifferent Ages Author:Ryan Phillippe
“There's still a massive inequality between the genders. If you look at the trajectory of a male actor's career, there's no hesitation or hiatus. But women after the age of 35 to 40 are rarely placed in the centre of the story.” IfsLooksStillsStoriesAgeActorsCareersMalesGenderInequalityMassiveCentreHesitationTrajectoryHiatus Author:Juliet Stevenson
“From a very young age, I wanted to get up on stage whenever I went to the theatre - the actors just seemed to be having so much fun. One of my worries about theatre, in fact, is that the actors are quite often having more fun than the audience.” FactsAgeWantedYoungActorsFunWorryAudienceStageTheatreGet UpYoung Age Author:Olivia Williams
“I'm finding a lot of actors my age now who are a bit more like me, and not as posh or brought up in a certain way. There's now people of all sorts of kinds of backgrounds.” PeopleWayKindAgeCertainActorsBitsFindingsBackgroundsLike MePosh Author:Kaya Scodelario
“Close girlfriends I don't have necessarily, as an actress. Perhaps there is a thing of competition there, you know, when you're doing the same things, and you're the same age. I could be with younger actors, but woman of my age probably - there is and there isn't, one doesn't like to think of it, but I think there is a sense of competition. Which is good, also.” ThinkingKnowsAgeActorsCompetitionActressesGirlfriend Author:Charlotte Rampling
“With kids you can take a chance but casting a guy at 45 is different. You don't discover somebody that age. If an actor hasn't made it by that time he probably has no talent.” IfsMadeDifferentKidsAgeGuyActorsChanceTalentMade ItCastingTake A Chance Author:Elia Kazan
“It's true that old actors don't die, their parts get smaller. You're less likely to get the part, many parts, if you're playing people your age as opposed to people who are younger. There are fewer parts around.” PeopleIfsAgeDiesActorsFewer Author:Albert Finney
“It's great to have people to bounce off and I love working with people my age. I think young actors have such energy about them and such a passion and a drive to do their best and prove themselves constantly, and to work with that is really fun and interesting.” PeopleThinkingAgeYoungPassionActorsEnergyFunInterestingProveBounceYoung Actors Author:Kaya Scodelario
“I had this vivid image of myself at the age of 60 looking back on my life and truly regretting the fact that I hadn't tried to be an actor” FactsAgeActorsRegretLooking BackVivid Author:Lupita Nyong'o
“I never was that boy who loved gangster films, but when I was growing up, I was obsessed with the detective Dick Tracy. It was one of my favourite movies as a kid, and he really inspired me. I would have loved to be part of that golden age of Hollywood in the 1940s. It made me want to become an actor.” WantMadeKidsAgeFilmActorsBoysGrowing UpGrowingHollywoodInspiredGoldenObsessedFavouriteDetectivesGangstersGolden AgeTracy Author:Ryan Gosling
“In this business actors who have Botox or surgery make you very aware of age. It's awful.” AgeActorsAwfulSurgeryBotox Author:Eva Green
“I always knew I wanted to be an actor, certainly from the age of eight or nine. I think when you know what you want to do, you're very lucky because you've got a focus.” ThinkingKnowsWantAgeWantedActorsFocusLuckyEightWhat You WantNine Author:Ashley Jensen
“Sometimes there are certain things that you gotta grow into. Sometimes, for some actors, they know it spiritually at a young age. Others need to grow into it.” KnowsNeedsSometimesAgeYoungCertainActorsGrowsYoung Age Author:Elias Koteas