Actors Quotes · Page 178

Central to being an actor is pretending, and the adventure of it all. That's why you become a junkie for different kinds…

— Willem Dafoe

The comedians I liked were Bill Cosby and Steven Wright, like just always as a comedic actor. I always liked Gary Larson,…

— Demetri Martin

I love Woody Allen. He's very clever, always thinking, and he's great with actors. He lets actors do what they want to…

— Vilmos Zsigmond

The strength of British theatre should be that these actors in their middle years know what they're doing and are good at…

— Ian Mckellen

An actor who knows his business ought to be able to make the London telephone directory sound enthralling.

— Donald Sinden

In fact, I've always thought that there are actors who can talk very quickly and effectively. And I've never felt that I'm…

— Jonathan Bailey

I always say that, if you have great actors and great storytelling and great monsters, and you mix them together, nine times…

— Gregory Nicotero

If you're a serious actor, you wouldn't put yourself up for one of those shows in case you got bumped off the…

— Elaine Paige

When you're working on something where there's usually one sex scene in the film, it all gets a little bit of a…

— Michael Sheen

Let's be clear: all professions look bad in the movies. And there's a good reason for this. Movies don't portray career paths,…

— Michael Crichton

I think actors have a greater responsibility when doing comedy. It's as easy as anything to get cheap laughs, but that's not…

— Peter Bowles

I think actors make the mistake of finding their little niche in the business and once they try to do something a…

— Leonardo DiCaprio

There are a lot of actors who will sit here and talk to you about characters - 'He does this, and she's…

— Zooey Deschanel

If you're an actor, there's going to be a sense of fantasy about yourself, especially in the celebrity world we live in…

— Rupert Everett

I grew up in a theater family. My father was a regional theater classical repertory producer. He created Shakespeare festivals. He produced…

— John Lithgow

Any good movie or script usually, if they're doing their job, gives the highest platform possible for an actor to leap off…

— Justin Theroux

I don't like that, because there are a lot of people whose works I admire as actors or actresses, or musicians. And…

— Laura Bush

I didn't understand how you could be an actor if you didn't also study philosophy and study political science, astronomy. And also…

— Brit Marling

That is the next step for out trans actors - to just be treated as actors and not 'trans actors.'

— Trace Lysette

You've got to be creative in acting business. But I need people to believe in me first. I've got to make my…

— Darren Shahlavi

Some actors just won't bend, and then it's a bitch. You either fight or find ways of putting your words in their…

— Richard Donner

Yet the reality is that I'm a stage actor from the Midwest - probably the opposite of a shark agent.

— Jeremy Piven

You can't start putting difficult clothes on a person. They're actors: they have to move, they have to feel real.

— Patricia Field

As an actor, you want to do the best job possible, and you want the best scripts possible because it makes life…

— Mark Strickson

If I was just considered a looker and wasn't considered an actor, where would I be in 10 or 20 years from now?

— Heather Matarazzo

As an actor, you're just brought on to fill one role, so it's nice to see what the entire journey is like.…

— Shiri Appleby

I think it's quite common for actors to almost rely on their characters to exercise parts of themselves in their regular life…

— Katherine Waterston

I don't even think of myself as particularly good looking, and not at all a typical kind of Hollywood leading man sort…

— Ryan Gosling

When Im not working... Im an actor! Im auditioning! I like to hang out, have fun, drink, club, meet boys, look for…

— Xosha Roquemore

When you know youre whoring it hurts. I have kids. I'm not going to run down an actor for doing this.

— Tim Roth

There are loads of black actors.You can't say: I'm going to vote for him, he's not very good but he's black, [so]…

— Michael Caine

I wasn't playing Nixon's satirical stick figure. I was playing Nixon the man. As an actor, I felt I had to get…

— Harry Shearer

The hardest thing in acting is going from child actor to adult actor. It's taken me a long time.

— Shia LaBeouf

The only reason I'm an actor is that a lady pulled out of a parking space in front of a producer's office.

— James Garner

You get burned a lot as an actor. You give somebody, you give some guy real free reign and he just doesn't…

— Kurt Russell

If the audience knows what's behind the door and the actor does not, that's comedy. If both the audience and the actor…

— Melvin Helitzer

Don't get too set on becoming an actor at an early age. I think that's where some people get into trouble. Acting…

— Freddie Highmore

The art of acting presupposes three phases: understanding a part, intuiting a part, and contemplating the essence of a part.

— Franz Grillparzer

I don't try to make actors play crazy characters. I like where there's a certain element of who they are and truth…

— Jeff Baena

Before I was 14, I wanted to be a singer, an actor, or a hockey player. By 15, I knew I was…

— Matisyahu