I've never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind. — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
If some actors were more realistic and others bordering on caricature, that would have been imbalanced. It would be as if we… — Xavier Durringer Copy Share Image
The way I see it, when I go out as an actor, it should be on a type of film I'm never… — Edward Burns Copy Share Image
The knighthood was a tremendous honour, I don't dismiss it. But I feel embarrassed by the flowery, theatrical stuff that goes with… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
I don’t like writing for comedians. I like writing for actors. The best comedians are the best actors. — Neil Simon Copy Share Image
When actors are too good-looking, I can’t memorize them. For example, I have never seen a picture of Sienna Miller where I… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
I like songs that are part of a dramatic texture, and therefore I like the scenes to be active. I wanna follow… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
I suppose expectations are strange and I shy away from them. And the whole point of being an actor is to connect. — Nicole Kidman Copy Share Image
If the helplessness and isolation of labour, who have nothing to sell but their labour, can be totally removed by connecting labour… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
I think I have a tendency to overwork things. I have a hard time finding that sweet spot that most actors seem… — Paul Giamatti Copy Share Image
When I was young, I wanted to be a movie star. But I realized that you have no control being an actor.… — Tom Ford Copy Share Image
My dad was a lovely guy. I had great parents. But he was a conservative shopkeeper, and he said, "Look, I don't… — John Kapelos Copy Share Image
When I come up against a director who has a concept that I don't agree with, or maybe I just haven't thought… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
You [as an actor] have a responsibility to Jonathan's book and you have a responsibility to talk about a subject that is… — Stephen Daldry Copy Share Image
The whole concept of stage fright is fascinating. Actors get stage fright, but they wouldn't be on the stage in the first… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
The radical rightwing pegs Hollywood as a leftist town, which is completely wrong. There are a lot of actors, writers, and directors… — Paul Haggis Copy Share Image
I'm involved with Recording Artists and Actors Against Drunk Driving. I'm also involved with most children's causes, because children can't help the… — Judd Nelson Copy Share Image
You hang around actors, or dancers, the minute you sneeze, everybody has a remedy, and we're all on a million different kinds… — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
My stage fright gets worse at every performance. During the overture I hope for a theater fire, typhoon, revolution in the Pentagon. — Hildegard Knef Copy Share Image
I can remember when a good politician had to be 75 percent ability and 25 percent actor, but I can well see… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
There are a lot of things that dancers can do that actors cannot and actors can do that dancers cannot. — Wim Wenders Copy Share Image
But then there is the one who seems to have a hard time separating the actor's work from reality. — Audrey Meadows Copy Share Image
The better the actor, the less you know about his life. I mean, nobody's better than De Niro and you don't know… — Matt Damon Copy Share Image
All directors should have to act and all actors should have to direct, so that they can understand all these key things… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
Great actors who I want to work with-have such a misconception of who I am because of all the things that get… — Lindsay Lohan Copy Share Image
When I write a play, my whole intent at bottom is to get the audience to be in the cast, to get… — Jules Feiffer Copy Share Image
Gambles are the most fun because it's part of being an actor or being a creative person. It's risky only in the… — Emma Stone Copy Share Image
I generally don't involve myself in giving the actors some tips on acting. At the same time, I don't do that with… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Working with [Kyle Chandler] in the scene was like playing tennis. You work with really talented actors, I think they make other… — Michael B. Jordan Copy Share Image
I've had some ambivalent feelings about being an actor. I don't know that I've ever been totally and completely comfortable with it. — Don Johnson Copy Share Image
The secret of every durable ... social system is the recasting of 'functional prerequisites' into behavioral motives for actors. — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
I know actors come around and they always talk like that, but I don't do publicity if I don't like the film. — Barbara Hershey Copy Share Image
A lot of directors tend to manipulate actors' vulnerability to get what they want, and that can work. — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
You learn early as an actor that creating your own material is the only way to have any control. — Amy Poehler Copy Share Image
Being an actor, imitating to the point of inhabiting the lives of others, may simply be a way of continuing to do… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
Sometimes, when I watch a movie where teenagers are played by actors that are 26 years old and look perfect, it makes… — Angourie Rice Copy Share Image
Most actors don't like doing still photo shoots, but I love them. I'm very comfortable, and I enjoy the clothes, looking good,… — Asin Copy Share Image
We are in constant danger of being not actors in the drama of our lives but reactors, to go where the world… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Growing up I wanted to be a mixture of Audrey Hepburn and Lucille Ball. Apparently I told my mum when I was… — Dianna Agron Copy Share Image
Nearly always when actors are approached by the beauticians, they try to avoid the dabs that the beauticians put on their faces.… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image