If you're looking to be loved for a part, it's great and enticing to be adorable in a romantic comedy. But then,… — Laura Dern Copy Share Image
Everybody has some talents - we all have an art side and some talent - but you have some areas where you… — Olivier Martinez Copy Share Image
I'm from Miami, and when I was 18, I packed a suitcase and left for L.A. permanently to try and make it… — Denise Bidot Copy Share Image
Acting has to reach everybody on some level - it's a communication of feeling - but as far as judging the work… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
Some actors try to play parts and do things they can't do. Being funny is one of them. Being funny's hard. — Tom Sizemore Copy Share Image
Running my show is really like an actor being in repertory but where, in one day in one performance, you do scenes… — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
Usually, when you do video games, you don't interact with the other actors. You each record your audio on different days, and… — Eliza Dushku Copy Share Image
When actors are being defensive and defending their position, that is when you get less than good acting. — John Boorman Copy Share Image
As an actor, there's always that fear. You don't know where the next job's coming from, so you say, 'I'll do that,… — Dexter Fletcher Copy Share Image
An actor can do a play on Broadway for three years. Every night he's expressing the same emotion in exactly the same… — Richard Estes Copy Share Image
In any of the big acting cities, there are breakdowns that the casting directors put together for the projects that they're working… — Bostin Christopher Copy Share Image
In one part of my mind, I regret that there were 15 years spent not acting. But in the other part of… — Lorne Greene Copy Share Image
When you watch me on the screen, you should not be able to recognise me. If people say, you're a natural and… — Neeraj Kabi Copy Share Image
I give myself homework when I have an audition. I give myself goals, and that's how I check how I'm doing. It… — Lupita Nyong'o Copy Share Image
As a movie actor, once you've become known, you're observed all the time so you don't get the chance to observe anymore.… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
You have to pretend to live in those clothes that they lived in, to live within the climate that they had then.… — Derek Jacobi Copy Share Image
As an actor, you're a labourer and you get engaged to do certain jobs. I was just asked to do some kids'… — Bernard Cribbins Copy Share Image
I think the writer is always the creator, because he's starting with nothing, but the actor comes in and gives flesh and… — Michel Hazanavicius Copy Share Image
I love involving actors at all levels - and they have to know that I want to hear their contributions, with dialogue,… — Lasse Hallstrom Copy Share Image
In my family, it was always encouraged to become a creative person. I became a doula instead, then I married an actor,… — Domino Kirke Copy Share Image
To be an actor you need four things: energy, concentration, a lot of luck and, of course, good roles. — Charlton Heston Copy Share Image
An actor's job is about putting across the author's intention; I don't think of myself on the same level as a creator. — Jane Asher Copy Share Image
I really respect those guys that get $250,000 for punching up scripts, because it's an art form. — Bert Kreischer Copy Share Image
You know, my point in being an actor is to get people to believe that this is not about me, but something… — Jim Caviezel Copy Share Image
I went to school to be an actor in Canada and realized I hated auditions once I left, which is a huge… — Brad Goreski Copy Share Image
I always get a little uppity when I hear the phrase 'TV actor.' It's like saying you're a magazine reporter. I was… — Eric McCormack Copy Share Image
I'd forgotten how arrogant people are in the theater, I'm agreeing to starve for a year and he seems to think I… — Timberlake Wertenbaker Copy Share Image
“If life is a stage and you are your own agent, then don’t hesitate to play the character you wish to play.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
I'll always be there because I'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is beside the point. — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
I collect chairs and lights, which obviously means I want to sit in the light - not surprising for an actor I… — Udo Kier Copy Share Image
Creating things I think, especially as an actor - wanting to bring to the table things that have never been done before,… — Dwayne Johnson Copy Share Image
Audiences want Burt, John Wayne and others to go on doing the same thing forever. It's critics and the actors themselves who… — Hal Needham Copy Share Image
I was one of those people who watched and videotaped the Tonys every year and kept a highlight reel every year. I… — Jane Krakowski Copy Share Image
Actors incorporate certain emotions from our own lives in order to create characters, and emotions come from experience. — Daniela Vega Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think being an actor is like being a dog for a director; it's like they throw a stick, and you… — Joel Edgerton Copy Share Image
What really motivates you to try to work things out as an actor is in large part fear, because you want to… — Annette Bening Copy Share Image
Every acting gig isn't the same, every writing job isn't the same, every live performance isn't the same - the challenge is… — Ricky Jay Copy Share Image
My mom always wanted me to be an actor. And I started going to theater and going on auditions young. I only… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
Carefully execute every instruction given to you by the director, producer, and studio. But that would be a life not worth living. — Carter Burwell Copy Share Image
I think that's what I really love about acting; all of the social and moral codes of society can be thrown away… — Eliza Scanlen Copy Share Image
