Yeah, well I've always played comedy. My background is musical comedy theatre and that's really where my training is. As an actor,… — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
Actors do tend to get pigeonholed. People want to know who you are so they can put you in a box. It's… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and… — Barry Levinson Copy Share Image
Every actor wants to have a character that changes, that has some kind of movement, that gets from point A to point… — Jeffrey Jones Copy Share Image
I call myself a character actor all my life. I've done a certain amount as a leading man, but character actors in… — Ernest Borgnine Copy Share Image
My family has always supported me completely and kept me grounded. I never got lost in child Hollywood actor weirdness. — Sara Paxton Copy Share Image
There is a lot of struggle in being an actor; you need so much emotional strength, no matter what level of stardom… — Sanaa Lathan Copy Share Image
The dog actors and the relationship they have with their trainers is one of the most beautiful things I've ever watched happen… — Jamie Lee Curtis Copy Share Image
There’s a writer for you,” he said. “Knows everything and at the same time he knows nothing.” [narrator]It was my first inkling… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
If Michelle Pfeiffer gave Mel Gibson a vial of blood to wear around his neck in a movie you'd think it was… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
I seem to have a soft spot in my heart for Australia and Australian actors. After having worked with one in 'Cinderella'… — Lea Salonga Copy Share Image
I got my first job when I moved to Los Angeles. I worked at a coffee shop for five years and it… — Katie Leclerc Copy Share Image
Movies are this thing that came into my life, and it still feels pretend in some way. I kind of do this… — John C. Reilly Copy Share Image
I don't usually direct actors in the classic sense of that word. Instead, I try to remind the characters before the shoot… — Gus Van Sant Copy Share Image
[As an actor] you're looking to crawl into an anonymous fictional person's skin, but then you have the ironic obligation to promoting… — Jesse Eisenberg Copy Share Image
What you realize is it's not about financial success as an artist. A lot of actors and actresses, producers, writers, and the… — Jennifer Lopez Copy Share Image
Heres the thing: If youre taking roles that arent intimidating you, and I think this is a cliche that a lot of… — Matt Lauria Copy Share Image
You hear this story that we're all on the left, but when there's a demonstration, you count how many actors actually come… — Paul Haggis Copy Share Image
For me, what makes great actors, always is how truthful they are to the character and the story and the emotion that… — Billy Boyd Copy Share Image
The truth in acting is that we are all hired help. We are a commodity. There is no difference between being an… — Lorraine Bracco Copy Share Image
Once you start working with a particular actor, that actor becomes very present in your mind as your mind as you're writing… — Dan Futterman Copy Share Image
I hope Hong Kong and Asia wants to hire American Asian actresses as much as Hollywood has been hiring Chinese actors from… — Ming-Na Wen Copy Share Image
What I wish more than anything is that I could start getting press about my work as an actor. That is what… — Randy Quaid Copy Share Image
When you have another actor as your boss, they understand how to communicate easier sometimes than just a writer. — Danny Masterson Copy Share Image
I think Americans are wonderful film actors - the best in the world - but they are a very contemporary race and… — Julian Fellowes Copy Share Image
Every actor is different so you cannot become best friends on Day One. You just have to learn to know each other. — Louis Leterrier Copy Share Image
What impresses me is the young actors with terrific talent arriving on the scene. They'd have blown us all away in the… — Robert Wagner Copy Share Image
We always try to leave room for the actors to come in and make discoveries on set, in their interpretation of the… — Mike Flanagan Copy Share Image
If you're an English actor and turn up in America, they don't have an opinion about where you sit. They have no… — Eddie Redmayne Copy Share Image
As an actor playing a character, I can't come in with my judgement, or else I can't play it honestly. My judgement… — Thomas Sadoski Copy Share Image
There's a constant flow of child actors. It's kind of funny to watch the new crew come through. I think, You poor… — Tina Yothers Copy Share Image
Being an actor is easy, just picture someone in a room and you outside waiting for your cue to go in. Elliot… — George Burns Copy Share Image
The work for the actor is always the same. We're looking for a human being. We're looking for believable human behavior. — Ann Dowd Copy Share Image
I love bad movies, whereas going to the theater for me is a painful experience. I think it's really hard to sit… — Zoe Kazan Copy Share Image
It's one thing in this business to actually work. 5 percent of the Screen Actors' Guild works. It's another thing to do… — Julianna Margulies Copy Share Image
I wanted to be an actor, and when that day happened that was sort of like the end. Now let it take… — Bryan Brown Copy Share Image
However good a communicator a director is, unless they've been actors, it's just not the same as the shorthand you get with… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
I've always written for actors, and if you want to write for good actors, you have to write parts that are surprising,… — Peter Hedges Copy Share Image
I think I am looking as an actor to find ways to push myself into places I haven't been before as a… — Brit Marling Copy Share Image
I didn't really know exactly the point where I wanted to be an actor. But I know at this point, because I… — Rory Cochrane Copy Share Image
![“There’s a writer for you,” he said. “Knows everything and at the same time he knows nothing.” [narrator]It was my first inkling that he was a writer. And while I like writers—because if you ask a writer anything you usually get an answer—still it belittled him in my eyes. Writers aren’t people…” quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/38d/f-scott-fitzgerald-72_actors_there-s-a-writer-for-you-he-said-knows-e_438126.jpg)
![“[As an actor] you're looking to crawl into an anonymous fictional person's skin, but then you have the ironic obligation to promoting the movie in such a public way that it almost undermines the initial intention of going under the radar.” quote by Jesse Eisenberg](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/bba/jesse-eisenberg-2642_actors_as-an-actor-you-re-looking-to-crawl-into_1504086.jpg)
