Actors Quotes · Page 109

It's always fun to do action and explosion, but I really enjoyed directing the emotion of the actors.

— Roel Reine

I just happen to like the work. I like preparing for a role. I like reading. I like analyzing. I like literature.…

— Elle Macpherson

After working with so many great actors and acting students in film school, it was a whole other thing working with Luke…

— Paul Dalio

When I talk about character work, I don't really feel like i do much as an actor when I look at other…

— Alex O'Loughlin

On the way up here to the podium, a gentleman came up to me and said, "Governor, you are as good a…

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

Many of us go through life feeling as an actor might feel who does not like his part and does not believe…

— Mignon McLaughlin

Actors love the big speeches and love to be the center of attention. I mean, that's why we do it.

— Michael Pena

It's difficult to judge other actors, because as an actor you're looking at different things than what an audience is looking at.

— Henry Cavill

I'm sort of a reverse Method actor. In my personal life, I become my characters. After 'One Tree Hill', I started dressing…

— Ashley Rickards

Movies always are open to being remade because times change so much, and the tempo of movies changes. I think of it…

— Steve Martin

Mostly what you lose with time, in memory, is the specificity of things, their exact sequence. It all runs together, becomes a…

— James Sallis

I've always loved animals. I've never lived without them. As long as I can remember, I was bringing home strays. When I…

— Ken Wahl

I've dressed thousands of actors, actresses and animals, but whenever I am asked which star is my personal favorite, I answer, 'Grace…

— Edith Head

An actor has so much less space and responsibility. Sometimes you come on, and there are already tape marks for where you…

— Paul Bettany

I was just excited by the whole prospect of working in a television series in Hollywood. I had never anticipated that as…

— Patrick Stewart

A lot of the times the first take was the best, because the actors are not analyzing themselves as much; they just…

— Storm Saulter

I'd rather a young black actor read about success as opposed to how tough it was. I get these roles because I…

— Idris Elba

Forget the credit, they (male actors) take all the money as well. We don't get paid even one-third of what male actors…

— Kangana Ranaut

My mother, Evelyn, was an actress and singer, and my father, Jack, was an actor. My earliest recollection of my father is…

— David Cassidy

Seven actors have played Batman on the big screen, and if you can name all seven without reading any further, your youth…

— Grant Morrison

I knew how to act and had studied acting and enjoyed it, but I'd never pushed myself to really perform as an…

— Eli Roth

Being an actor: that's a pretty big net. That's a big playing field. The Screen Actors' Guild is filled with many, many,…

— Timothy Olyphant

You need three things in the theatre - the play, the actors and the audience, and each must give something.

— Kenneth Haigh

I'm not a comedian. I'm what you call a good, old-fashioned working actor who has had delusions of grandeur for my entire…

— Chris Diamantopoulos

I stay away from the elf roles; I stay away from playing a leprechaun. All the roles I try to do are…

— Verne Troyer

People should realize that I shot a Coke commercial back in 1986. So, you know, I've been around a long time. I…

— Kato Kaelin

That's what I tell young actors. "You don't have to compromise. Go do some theater and wait for an appropriate role."

— Denzel Washington

Almost every actor goes into almost every picture very frightened. He is positive he really can't do it. The bigger the star,…

— Paul Mazursky

I am a greedy actor in the sense that I like the big bites. Put a big fat steak in front of…

— Tyne Daly

I think my advice to other actors would be to get in classes. Get out in front of people. Put up scenes…

— Chelsea Kane

I feel bad for young actors who become huge stars too quickly, because you haven't had a chance to practice your craft…

— Topher Grace

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

— Michael Vartan

If you are a musician, you practise your instrument every day, but actors can't be on a set every day. Theatre is…

— Kalki Koechlin

Being an actor sometimes requires that you ask yourself questions youd rather not know the answers to.

— Kevin Spacey

Emma Watson is my kids' favorite actor on the planet. They never took me more seriously than when I was working with…

— Ethan Hawke

I look at smoking as a crutch, and as an actor I would like strip away as many crutches as possible.

— Claire Forlani

From 1980 to 1990, I shot more films than any other actor in the Screen Actors Guild, apart from Gene Hackman.

— Steve Guttenberg

When you're an actress, there are only a few times you can really get paid. One of them is doing a sequel.…

— Jennifer Coolidge

While I'm not a celebrity, it's such a weird concept that society has cooked up for us. Astronauts and teachers are much…

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Of course, when you work with actors and when you work on a script everything that you know about the human experience…

— Deniz Gamze Erguven