Actors Quotes · Page 190

My favorite actors are people who I don't know anything about, and I can project any character onto them.

— Matt Bomer

There's this freshness that happens within the first few takes of the actors actually listening to each other and actually really reacting.

— Jennifer Lawrence

It's tough to be an actor and it's tough to portray a real person, and it's tough to play two people adding…

— Oren Moverman

James Ivory comes close to the actors for the first rehearsal. He more or less lets you direct yourself and then will…

— Leslie Caron

I'm not one of those actors where filmmakers that I admire ask me to be in their movies. I meet them at…

— Seth Rogen

I always think that when we actors talk about the films that we've done we run the risk of destroying everything.

— Elena Anaya

Woody makes a movie as if he were lighting 10,000 safety matches to illuminate a city. Each one is a little epiphany:…

— Gene Wilder

I think you get the most honest performances when an actor shows up to set with their lines memorized. That's a very…

— Shailene Woodley

I think of relationships as having a really safe place with someone where you are, and making an effort to show up…

— Maggie Grace

Making African American films are hard in Hollywood. We need to rely on a support network and bring more cohesion to different…

— Paula Patton

Any advice I could give to female directors would be the same as for males: There will be endless difficulties, some seemingly…

— Deniz Gamze Erguven

See, the thing that bothers me with young actors, young actors of color specifically, is that they see movies and television, and…

— James Avery

I really want to work with Tom Hardy. Christian Bale and Russell Crowe are also on my list. Those are my top…

— Ryan Guzman

When criticism comes your way as an actor they are not criticizing your writing or your painting or your piece, they are…

— Meryl Streep

I started taping my dad's auditions when I was 11, when he was auditioning actors for one of his movies. I would…

— Bryce Dallas Howard

Some of the best actors in the world are very exterior actors, Anthony Hopkins being one of them. He knows exactly how…

— Boris Kodjoe

I always wanted to be a character actor. I love watching movies where you dont recognize someone because theyre so lost in…

— Alison Elliott

As an actor, you think you have to go really far and deep and cry and yell to be good in a…

— Berenice Bejo

Thats the worst thing, I don't really care if people say I'm a bad actor, I can like work on that, but…

— Robert Pattinson

I didn't become an actor because I wanted to act. Actually, I wanted to become a marine biologist. But most of all,…

— Willie Aames

I follow Elle Fanning's career. I really like to follow actors who are a similar age to me. Just to see what…

— Maisie Williams

I like to take a break, but at the same time, I think most actors are not very good at sitting around…

— Mike Colter

I would like - either as an actor, or producer or even director - to do something sci-fi or action-related. I like…

— Queen Latifah

One of the great things about being an actor is it serves a short attention span, which is something I have.

— Allison Mack

After a hit show is over, you soon realize this is a very tough business ... brutally tough. But I'm a better…

— Jack Coleman

I think lots of actors are very nervous and shy. I know lots of them who are, and some who aren't of…

— Maggie Smith

There are lots of actors who are posh and stick with that, and there are lots of actors who are cockney, and…

— Keeley Hawes

Every actor has a production company already. It's just a matter of producing your own films under the label of your own…

— Scarlett Johansson

When I was younger I saw a movie called 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' with Paul Newman and Robert Redford. Those…

— Peter Facinelli

That's probably the most boring conversation you could hear - an actor talk about politics. I won't go there.

— Anne Heche

Psychology was going to be my minor in college. I've always been really interested in the human mind, which is probably why…

— Crystal Reed

I'm quietly becoming New York's premiere actor. People don't understand. They have me pigeon-holed as a comedian.

— Colin Quinn

I trust the [series] writers when I'm filming, because it's interesting for me to go in every week and see what's going…

— John Barrowman

I just think that models and rock stars, and actors and actresses, all tend to flock to one another.

— Bebe Buell

I used to joke I was a point-and-click actor. My whole process has been about trusting your instincts and hitting your mark.

— Daniel Radcliffe

You make a choice to make music or be an actor, and people automatically think they can have access to your life.

— Meshell Ndegeocello

On the web, people are experimenting with something new in terms of characters and stories. It is exciting for actors, as we…

— Shamita Shetty

Essentially, I'm a small-part actor who's been lucky enough to play leading roles for most of his life.

— Alec Guinness

T.V.'s weird because it's both the greatest gig as an actor potentially because it can be all this work for all this…

— Caitlin Fitzgerald

When you're in Los Angeles, nobody bats an eye, they're so used to seeing actors, they just act really cool

— Luke Wilson