I use people's real voices because I want realism. So often I mention the actors' physicality because I want it to be… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
Life-actors never rehearse and need no script. A life-actor uses whatever he has available, nothing more, nothing less. — Abbie Hoffman Copy Share Image
I fell in love with film. I didn't start out to be a film actor. I wanted to be a theater actor. — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
Your primary tools, as an actor, are observation and imagination. You can pretty much get everything you need from that, and you… — Stephen Lang Copy Share Image
Actors are pretending for you, but they're not lying. They are not putting on a guise instead of themselves. They are finding… — Mike Mills Copy Share Image
Part of the reason of being an actor is you like playing other people's lives and exploring all the psychologies in that… — Nicole Kidman Copy Share Image
Take it from a director: if you get an actor that Sandy Meisner has trained, you've been blessed. — Elia Kazan Copy Share Image
I'm such a fan of actors, and also enjoy watching them work, so that I can help their acting in any way… — Dito Montiel Copy Share Image
I've played journalists before Elles, and I have good friends who are journalists. I think being an actor is not very far… — Juliette Binoche Copy Share Image
Men whose only concern is other people's opinion of them are like actors who put on a poor performance to win the… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
When real actors are approaching their work, we could be on a little stage somewhere, doing community theater. It's all the same.… — Kurt Fuller Copy Share Image
It was an accident, although I've been involved in some kind of theatrical function or other since I was a child -… — James Dean Copy Share Image
I've been really lucky to work with a lot of really great actors, so watching the films back, it's really important to… — Juno Temple Copy Share Image
My Mom and Dad did it pretty good, so I know it can work. The foremost thing I would say about working… — Nick Cassavetes Copy Share Image
Actions are interesting to watch. I learn about the actors. Their movements are emblems of the tensions in this internal landscape, which… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
You're miscarrying a baby first thing in the morning. Who wants to hear it? God bless them. It's a very strange life.… — Andrea Riseborough Copy Share Image
I'm an actor. Whether I'm on stage, in front of a camera or a microphone, what I do is the same -… — Nolan North Copy Share Image
Living in somebody else's pain for an actor man, it's actually nice when you get to feel that kind of emotion. That's… — Miles Teller Copy Share Image
For me, as an actor, one of the biggest fears on a TV show is getting stuck in something where you end… — Tyler Hoechlin Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter what people think about you, so long as they get the play through your performance. Only a few not… — Prunella Scales Copy Share Image
Films were never in my budget. Didn't occur to me till much later. I hoped for a long, good life, which I've… — Peter O'Toole Copy Share Image
I think every American actor wants to be a movie star. But I never wanted to do stupid movies, I wanted to… — Kevin Kline Copy Share Image
I am a great admirer of other actors, but I never compete with other actors. I always compete with what I did… — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
And Daniel?" She asked. "Daniel was a player-" "Hey!" "That's what they called the actors." Bill rolled his eyes. — Lauren Kate Copy Share Image
I've spent my entire career on horseback or on a motorcycle. It boxes you in, the way people perceive you. I read… — Sam Elliott Copy Share Image
Acting in a scene is like paddling a canoe from a pebbly beach on to the river, the writer builds the canoe,… — Sanford Meisner Copy Share Image
I started acting when I was 13 years old and I feel like I really admire actors who are these kind of… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
One of the great things about being an actor is that you do get to indulge in someone else's life. — Cameron Diaz Copy Share Image
I don't consider myself a good actor at all. I just do what I want to do, and I'm just having fun… — Frankie Muniz Copy Share Image
Even as a producer, I want to work with certain actors. Now, if they don't want to be a part of the… — Dino Morea Copy Share Image
I see pictures in my mind and become the character in the song as I'm writing. It's kind of method songwriting, where… — Diane Warren Copy Share Image
I will never be a career actor, I don't think. I don't feel that I have the skill set to jump into… — Larry Mullen, Jr Copy Share Image
Too many actors try to get too much out of scenes that they ought to be leaving alone, just doing them quickly… — Howard Hawks Copy Share Image
I'm really lucky because my goal, as an actor, is to disappear into the characters that I'm playing. — Jessica Chastain Copy Share Image
I see a lot of actor-bashing because they are the face of the film. Actors are just following someone else's direction. — Varun Dhawan Copy Share Image
I think most actors are very impressionable, and that's part of what we do is soak up other's behavior. — Carol Kane Copy Share Image
I did seven indies because the independent market used to be a lot better before all the stars were doing independents. As… — Josh Holloway Copy Share Image
Actors can have a fair amount of hate for each other, so when another actor says, 'You did your thing,' or 'That… — Chadwick Boseman Copy Share Image
My acting ability would have sent me back to the post office. It was my singing that got me jobs. Ironically, now,… — Robert Guillaume Copy Share Image
I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big movies. — Sam Mendes Copy Share Image
