There are many ups and downs in everyone's life and when you're an actor usually you're a very sensitive human being. — Melanie Griffith Copy Share Image
I think the more the actor lets you know what he thinks of the character, the less the audience cares - like… — Neil LaBute Copy Share Image
As a playwright, you are a torturer of actors and of the audience as well. You inflict things on people. — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
Every actor has his own identity. I don't aspire to be Bond. My quest is to do something new, something different. — Abhishek Bachchan Copy Share Image
Well, I knew I wanted to be an actor, and I didn't necessarily need or want to be famous or a celebrity… — Jenna Fischer Copy Share Image
It's weird being with actors in a room and knowing, 'Only two of us are going to get these roles.' — Kiana Madeira Copy Share Image
I'm a character actor - always have been, always will be - and historically, character actors don't come into their own until… — Annie Potts Copy Share Image
I must say, I wouldn't turn down a superhero role, although there do seem to be a lot of British actors out… — Josh O'Connor Copy Share Image
As actors, we deal with rejection so much more than any other business. So I don't care how much of a genius… — Ryan Kwanten Copy Share Image
Years ago I met Richard Burton in Port Talbot, my home town, and afterwards he passed in his car with his wife,… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
Sometimes I say I feel more like a dancer than an actor, because there are things implied about being an actor that… — Willem Dafoe Copy Share Image
The '80s were a time of technical wonder in filmmaking; unfortunately, some colleges didn't integrate their film and theater departments - so… — Eric Stoltz Copy Share Image
I think Eddie Izzard is one of the brightest minds of our generation. I don't see him as a comedian as much… — Bryan Fuller Copy Share Image
I start with actors that I know personally or I know their work, and there are things about their work or their… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
When you're doing that TV thing, you're doing the same thing for years and years. You can fall into bad habits as… — Rory Cochrane Copy Share Image
It's really kind of a luxury for an actor to have the opportunity to show such different types of characters. I actually… — Olivia Wilde Copy Share Image
What's so fascinating about people is what they don't show. People are masters at it; usually actors show too much. — Glenn Close Copy Share Image
I think the two main tools actors have are the imagination of what other people have gone through, to connect with and… — O. T. Fagbenle Copy Share Image
My advice to any actor who's playing, quote, unquote, "extra" to think of it more like Stanislavski did. It's not a small… — Harvey Keitel Copy Share Image
Being able to work with Ridley Scott on this film is like being able to play on the Olympic team for actors. — Idris Elba Copy Share Image
It is joyous for any actor to enter other grounds of consciousness and thought. At the end of the day, we just… — Rhys Ifans Copy Share Image
Anyone who has that weird volition to become an actor probably has a weird volition to do lots of other creative things… — Minnie Driver Copy Share Image
There's a lot of young actors and people who have success very quickly who kind of expect it or don't have the… — David Walton Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people do big movies not because they are talented artists but because they can function in the… — Ang Lee Copy Share Image
Some of the most cutthroat auditions youll have as an actor are when youll have three words to say. — Stephen Amell Copy Share Image
I like doing stand-up and I love putting out TV specials. I'm not an actor though, so I don't really have much… — Dave Attell Copy Share Image
I find that all great directors, and I would include Ben Affleck and Clint Eastwood in that, they have great confidence. And… — Amy Ryan Copy Share Image
Even great actors who transform who they are still go to a really honest place; I think that's sort of that special… — Sam Esmail Copy Share Image
I don't have any room in my heart for that character [Kevin McCallister ]. I like the actor [Macaulay Culkin], but the… — Taika Waititi Copy Share Image
Antwone's story was a story of hope and that's what appealed to me. I needed hope myself at that time. I think… — Derek Luke Copy Share Image
If I don't have a script I adore, I do one I like. If I don't have one I like, I do… — Sidney Lumet Copy Share Image
I grew up being fascinated by accents and dialects. One of the things that interested me were actors that were doing different… — Sharlto Copley Copy Share Image
For us, performance is everything. If we can get great actors in there who like us, and we really like, we feel… — Mark Duplass Copy Share Image
I'm lucky that I don't feel I have the pressure some actors do. I'm proud of what I've accomplished and I'm not… — Sarah Michelle Gellar Copy Share Image
It is for the latter that I always wanted to be an actor: to play characters who are always on the move. — Tony Curtis Copy Share Image
The child has a primary need to be regarded and respected as the person he really is at any given time, and… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
Since I'm not a method actor, I don't actually feel angry or feel that I'm being mean, I just do it because… — Sophie Nelisse Copy Share Image
I know as an actor there is a certain liberation auditioning for a role that has no beauty requirements. — Mireille Enos Copy Share Image
I would love to work with Jack Nicholson, Saoirse Ronan, Michael Shannon and James Franco in the future. I think those actors… — Sophie Turner Copy Share Image
As an actor, you can show up on a set and be on a TV show for three or four years, or… — Michael Ian Black Copy Share Image