If you have the right actors and you can give them the freedom to explore, you've done a lot of your work… — Andy Garcia Copy Share Image
I'm largely interested in people who are just great actors, and they're not necessarily hugely famous. — Tobias Menzies Copy Share Image
As actors, we need to do our parts exactly the way they have visualised it, because if we don't, we have to… — Karan Singh Grover Copy Share Image
I do not want actors and actresses to understand my plays. That is not necessary. If they will only pronounce the correct… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
As an actor you always wanna protect your character. You wanna make them loveable, likeable. You wanna make them strong, you want… — Katrina Law Copy Share Image
When I was younger, people used to say you only really prove yourself as an actor on stage. And I disagree with… — Clive Owen Copy Share Image
I acted when I was a real little kid. My mother was an actress in a Miami theater company comprised of actors… — Yul Vazquez Copy Share Image
Most actors, unless they're big movie stars and can carve out huge chunks of time to focus on one movie that takes… — Richard Schiff Copy Share Image
My experience of singing, as an actor, was that there's a different creative feeling of freedom. The acting thing is a bit… — Orlando Bloom Copy Share Image
Of all the things I've done in life, directing a motion picture is the most beautiful. It's the most exciting and the… — Laurence Olivier Copy Share Image
I prefer being known for my stand-up because I write it. I love being an actor, and saying other people's words is… — Kathy Griffin Copy Share Image
I proceeded to prove everybody right as to how bad an economics student I was by failing as an assistant manager in… — William Shatner Copy Share Image
I love my job, I love being an actor and stepping into the shoes of different characters and exploring their lives. It's… — Hilary Swank Copy Share Image
It's hard for comic actors used to pulling faces just to be on screen, but Tina Fey does a good job. I… — David Edelstein Copy Share Image
Theres just a big group of actors in London. There are new ones coming in all the time, who are looking for… — Rebecca Eaton Copy Share Image
I'm Irish and very proud of being Irish, but as an actor, your extraction should be secondary, really. You should be able… — Cillian Murphy Copy Share Image
When I think about actors I know, I'd much rather hear about who they're shagging than what film they're doing next. — Hugh Grant Copy Share Image
I thought 'I can't be an actor, I can't'. Then this film came up and it was like someone saying to me,… — Keisha Castle-Hughes Copy Share Image
A lot of gay-themed films are terrible. And mainstream audiences and the press aren't interested, understandably. — Andrew Haigh Copy Share Image
I had to learn how to become a real actor, I had to suffer and be rejected and face that 100 times… — Donnie Wahlberg Copy Share Image
A lot of Indian actors are booking shows in Hollywood like 'Quantico' and 'Homeland,' and the audience is accepting that. — Pooja Batra Copy Share Image
My dad was a college football coach, so we're a big athletic family. I was either going to be an athlete or… — Matt Barr Copy Share Image
Shakespeare teaches you how to act. You come out of this process as a better actor. It's just the nature of the… — Condola Rashad Copy Share Image
As an actor, you're a color of paint on someone else's palette. But as a director, it's your canvas and you make… — Denzel Washington Copy Share Image
The finished product is not finished when the actor is. The work is completed by a pair of shears. — Josef von Sternberg Copy Share Image
Cumberbatch - it sounds like a fart in a bath, doesn't it? What a fluffy old name. I can never say it… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
I'm very grateful and fully aware that 90 percent of actors are not working. Going from public school teacher to a show… — Jesse Williams Copy Share Image
I always fancied myself more of an actor than a comedian before I realized that only assholes make that kind of distinction. — Rob Corddry Copy Share Image
A lot of actors get the leading role after doing a bunch of smaller things and people get to know them. I… — Sasha Luss Copy Share Image
I don't think I'm that much different from any other working actor that's trying to make a living. — Steve Buscemi Copy Share Image
My biggest problem in my life is I'm cheap and I didn't hire a publicist. In every awkward interview, normally actors get… — Robert Pattinson Copy Share Image
Using non-actors has its own rules and really requires that you allow them to do their own thing. — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
My job as a double was always to put [actors] at ease. My job was to make my character, or the actress… — Zoe Bell Copy Share Image
It's in the eyes, mostly. Don't listen just to the other actor's lines. Look at - and listen to - their eyes.… — Charlize Theron Copy Share Image
Every scene you will ever act begins in the middle, and it is up to you, the actor, to provide what comes… — Michael Shurtleff Copy Share Image
Shooting in 3D hasn't really affected the way I work as an actor that much. Maybe that's not a good thing. Maybe… — Emile Hirsch Copy Share Image
Well, we can skip childhood because I didn't have any. Not one goddam moment on the Good Ship Lollipop. — Joan Crawford Copy Share Image
There are enough roles for everyone, and I truly believe that the roles that we end up doing are the exact ones… — Diana Silvers Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be an actor, but my top three favorite actors of all time are Al Pacino, James Dean and… — Dane DeHaan Copy Share Image
I'm a huge fan of John Malkovich and Josh Brolin, and Michael Shannon has got to be one of my favorite actors. — John Gallagher, Jr Copy Share Image