Actors Quotes · Page 128

Now at my age I understand how sad it must have been for some directors or actors at the time the talkies…

— Jean-Luc Godard

The only way to find the best actor would be to let everybody play Hamlet and let the best man win.

— Humphrey Bogart

Being an actor is mostly about rejection and being out of work. It was a fast lesson in all of that stuff.

— Rose Byrne

On a movie set that works, you have your father figure, the director, you have your siblings, your other actors.

— Richard Gere

I think actors are very obsessed about looking different and behaving differently, but all people need is just a different film. They…

— Ayushmann Khurrana

I love directing because you get to see your film come to life. You get to work with the actors. There's something…

— Dee Rees

I have always wanted to do a book about actors because I think that the death of a character is a tremendously…

— Scott Cohen

One of the views of the [actor's] job is that whatever age you are, there's a role that's about who you are…

— Clive Owen

I think the reason I was able to get the jobs I did is because I worked for some very strong, self-possessed…

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Being an actress has something in common with being a housewife. They both look terribly easy to someone who hasn't done them.…

— Glenda Jackson

Basically, one of the hardest things about being an actor is getting your first break. I'm a product of nepotism. The doors…

— Jeff Bridges

Well, regarding actors, my idol is Catherine Deneuve, but not in relation to my work, I'm just a fan. As far as…

— Celine Sciamma

I have friends, African-American actors, who've had more of a struggle; hopefully they're starting to see some air and light now. But…

— Forest Whitaker

I think it would be self-indulgent to go, "Oh, I'm going to make this character different by giving him a quirk of…

— David Tennant

I try to build relationships with the actors, at least to some degree beforehand, whether it's phone calls because I'm from Seattle…

— Lynn Shelton

I think I've grown up in an era where character acting on film has become less desirable for the producers and directors…

— David Suchet

A lot of actors work too much. There comes a point where it's hard to mask your basic personality. It's a bit…

— Jacqueline Bisset

We as actors ought to breathe life into a character and do it seamlessly to connect with the audiences.

— Tridha Choudhury

Everybody in L.A. wants to be an actor. I just wish I could meet somebody who doesn't act or sing.

— Miranda Cosgrove

I can fill my cup up with real human interactions that allow me to be an actor. If I had no basis…

— Kristen Bell

Actors tend to not know how their performances are going to actually be used. Even though the script says one thing, in…

— Idris Elba

I really love being a character actor. I have to say I wish it were a little easier. There are still a…

— Missi Pyle

Well, I'm a character actor, and actually throughout my life I've... I have relatively speaking played few heroic leads, but I've done…

— Rene Auberjonois

As an actor, those are the roles that you long for. You always want something that's going to kick your last role…

— Helen Mirren

You think that if you are the best actor, you deserve the most or if you are the biggest star, you deserve…

— Josh Hartnett

There are a lot of actors who wish there was a next play, a next musical. As an actor, I guess that's…

— Lea Salonga

I couldn't care less about actors' trailers and food on sets and stuff like that - I just want to act

— Chow Yun-Fat

It is the writer’s job to make the play interesting. It is the actor’s job to make the performance truthful.

— David Mamet

Actors want to impress at the beginning, so you take advantage of that by suddenly saying, 'Right, you're here for two weeks.'…

— Danny Boyle

High-level actors can be all about their close-ups and the size of their trailers. I'd heard these horror stories of how a…

— Neill Blomkamp

We're very good friends, we have a very honest relationship. He keeps me honest, I keep him honest. He's an incredible actor…

— Antoine Fuqua

As a filmmaker you get typecast just as much as an actor does, so I'm trapped in a genre that I love,…

— George A. Romero

I would never not work on the part without it playing. That's what being an actor is. You use everything that's influenced…

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

All of them - my father, mother, step-mother, and grandmother - were all wonderful actors and performers and they are an inspiration…

— James Cromwell

With most British actors, it's amazing. I think they start with the character on the outside and work in.

— Norman Jewison

I like the idea of movies having a magic element. How many times have you seen an actor in a movie who…

— Christian Bale

With the films I've done, I've written on them, I've acted in some of them. And even ones I haven't acted in,…

— Rob Reiner

The most interesting part of filming is what the actors do. That's the primary link between the story and the audience.

— Richard Ayoade

The process of finding an actor is always difficult and there's always so many variables that come into play. Also, actors sometimes…

— Franck Khalfoun

I have a cultural background that's shaped in England, France and Germany. Bringing that in is nice, in terms of how an…

— Richard Sammel