I love it when actors come to you with a problem and you have to listen. You'd like them to just get… — Jane Campion Copy Share Image
It's always a good collaboration between the actor and the writer and the director to try stuff out, during the process. — Mark Consuelos Copy Share Image
I wish I was super-serious, anguished. I see those actors, and I am like, 'Oh God, they are so cool, and they… — Elisabeth Moss Copy Share Image
I just happen to like the work. I like preparing for a role. I like reading. I like analyzing. I like literature.… — Elle Macpherson Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in films where you can identify with the actors. Where you can be in their shoes and therefore… — Adrian Lyne Copy Share Image
It's always fun to do action and explosion, but I really enjoyed directing the emotion of the actors. — Roel Reine Copy Share Image
After working with so many great actors and acting students in film school, it was a whole other thing working with Luke… — Paul Dalio Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Every other movie is one of those action things. I mean, 'Lost in Space'? A bunch of good actors running around shooting… — Tom Berenger Copy Share Image
There are very few persons who would think of inquiring into the private life of the newspaper dealer at the corner, or… — Marie Dressler Copy Share Image
customary interruptions are not only gratifying and cheering, but they are also really necessary in order to gain breath and voice to… — Sarah Siddons Copy Share Image
As Uta Hagen would say, there's the representational actor and the presentational actor. My sister [Maggie Gyllenhaal] came up to me recently… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
I really need to work. People think that I'm no longer interested in acting and only interested in work-ing with the animals.… — Tippi Hedren Copy Share Image
Back in the '80s filmmakers would freeze moments when an action star would leap or jump from a tall building just to… — Mukul Dev Copy Share Image
We had a showing of Battlestar in LA last week. I walked out the door and there were 50 people. I signed… — Noah Hathaway Copy Share Image
It takes a long while for a director to cease thinking in terms of the result he desires and instead concentrate on… — Peter Brook Copy Share Image
Many of us go through life feeling as an actor might feel who does not like his part and does not believe… — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
On the way up here to the podium, a gentleman came up to me and said, "Governor, you are as good a… — Arnold Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Actors love the big speeches and love to be the center of attention. I mean, that's why we do it. — Michael Pena Copy Share Image
My mother, Evelyn, was an actress and singer, and my father, Jack, was an actor. My earliest recollection of my father is… — David Cassidy Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Seven actors have played Batman on the big screen, and if you can name all seven without reading any further, your youth… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
You need three things in the theatre - the play, the actors and the audience, and each must give something. — Kenneth Haigh Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I stay away from the elf roles; I stay away from playing a leprechaun. All the roles I try to do are… — Verne Troyer Copy Share Image
I think my advice to other actors would be to get in classes. Get out in front of people. Put up scenes… — Chelsea Kane Copy Share Image
I am a greedy actor in the sense that I like the big bites. Put a big fat steak in front of… — Tyne Daly Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Emma Watson is my kids' favorite actor on the planet. They never took me more seriously than when I was working with… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
Being an actor sometimes requires that you ask yourself questions youd rather not know the answers to. — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I wish I were a character actor. Of course, if I played hockey without a mask, I could become one — Michael Vartan Copy Share Image
From 1980 to 1990, I shot more films than any other actor in the Screen Actors Guild, apart from Gene Hackman. — Steve Guttenberg Copy Share Image
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