Are there differences between black actors' opportunities and white actors' opportunities? Yes, there are. It's been said. — Idris Elba Copy Share Image
I love the work, I love being in front of the camera and working with actors and directors and creating something. For… — Estella Warren Copy Share Image
I think it's very important for any actor to eventually produce, and create the projects they want to create. I believe it's… — Michael Eklund Copy Share Image
Scientists and religious leaders, activists and first nation leaders, CEOs of corporations and actors, all of us need to come together right… — Ellen Page Copy Share Image
Being an actor is like winning the lottery. It's not really about your talent, it's right time, right place, right face. — Vincent Kartheiser Copy Share Image
I'm not a broad comedy guy. I've been funny in movies, but I'm not a comedian. I'm an actor who's sometimes funny. — Matthew Lillard Copy Share Image
In the theatre, if you say 'Macbeth', all the actors will start looking very anxious. I'm so well-trained not to say it… — Anna Chancellor Copy Share Image
I was appalled at the amount of study necessary in order to qualify in medicine, and gradually my desire was blunted by… — Conrad Veidt Copy Share Image
I had to go in and do the work of toning [invented "historical" bits] down in order to make them fit [in… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I think there's a tendency for actors like myself, and I don't mean to generalize myself, but I've played 'men's men,' if… — Idris Elba Copy Share Image
A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I just feel so blessed to be able to act, because it's unbelievable to work with these great actors that I have… — Dakota Fanning Copy Share Image
I feel my fuller-bodied characters are all in the independent films I do, and in the studio productions, I have to work… — Vera Farmiga Copy Share Image
I think, like a lot of actors and people in the arts who are struggling to get where they want to be,… — Mary Elizabeth Winstead Copy Share Image
I would be lucky to be remembered as Harry Crane. That being said, I think it's a goal for most actors to… — Rich Sommer Copy Share Image
I want to talk to the bullied kids of the world. Tell them to hang on, it will get better. Know that… — Cat Cora Copy Share Image
As actors, we are so privileged to do what we do and to give to the world and to choose the subject… — Juliette Binoche Copy Share Image
The kind of acting that's wholly literary or cerebral is wrong. It's useless for me to have actors so much in their… — Mike Leigh Copy Share Image
When you're doing the same scene over and over, all day long, you need to keep your levels up for your own… — Iwan Rheon Copy Share Image
Every time something bad happens, like we lose a day because of weather or an actor gets injured or anything else happens,… — David Benioff Copy Share Image
I certainly have never been an actor who can play the Everyman guy - or, I don't tend to get those parts.… — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
Actors really are superstitious. You can always spot a group of actors at a restaurant. They're the ones spitting on their knuckles… — Gregg Henry Copy Share Image
The stage is actor's country. You have to get your passport stamped every so often or they take away your citizenship. — Vanessa Redgrave Copy Share Image
Actors do have good and bad sides. It's because the passage down the birth canal distorts the face. People born by caesarean… — Richard Griffiths Copy Share Image
Well, in order for me to be successful... In order to be a great artist - musician, actor, painter, whatever - you… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
It's so rare, especially as a younger actor, to find a role where it's not just one-dimensional and it's not just a… — Matt Bomer Copy Share Image
A lot of times you come against actors who come from a different direction, and you tend to meet in the middle. — Laila Robins Copy Share Image
If we talk about character actors they are always in demand. Actress like Aruna Irani will always be needed in a script. — Sudha Chandran Copy Share Image
I consider those actors who amaze me are somehow less attractive to me than those actors who move me. — Robert Lansing Copy Share Image
Statistically, it would be insanity to go into the theatre for money. According to the statistics, you should just stay home. The… — Maureen Stapleton Copy Share Image
I think there was no other profession for me. I was either going into an insane asylum or to be an actor. — Olivia Wilde Copy Share Image
I don't want to be a movie star like Angelina Jolie. Nothing about being a celebrity is desirable. I'm an actor. It's… — Kristen Stewart Copy Share Image
I'm very serious about becoming a dramatic actor. I don't want to play cameo parts walking on as Carl Lewis the athlete.… — Carl Lewis Copy Share Image
I'm not a great actor in the sense that I can't fake it if I'm going through something difficult. — Eric Lange Copy Share Image
Actors are insanely competitive and they hold back on each other. They are like magicians and none of them want to show… — David Ayer Copy Share Image
I know of a few actors who have Psoriasis but stay mum about it. I don't respond to those who do. I… — Rashami Desai Copy Share Image
Other actors like to rehearse on film-they like 30 or 40 takes. When you get an actor like that, it becomes difficult… — Richard Widmark Copy Share Image
Actors will, in their mind, want to 'steal the scene,' and the problem is that means the scene didn't work in the… — Erica Durance Copy Share Image
Believe me, you can be in the middle of a beautiful take and the next thing you know you're awash in people… — Victor Levin Copy Share Image
I'm always envious of the actors who get to come to work every day and really grow deep roots there, but it… — Jaime Ray Newman Copy Share Image
![“I had to go in and do the work of toning [invented "historical" bits] down in order to make them fit [in Lincoln in the Bardo]. It's like if you're an actor and you're always overacting, well, you're a bad actor. But if you're an actor who subdues yourself to the extent that's necessary, then…” quote by George Saunders](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/04f/george-saunders-317_acting_i-had-to-go-in-and-do-the-work-of-toning_347664.jpg)
