Actors Quotes · Page 197

There are a lot of actors whom I love, who personalize their work. I want to know everything about them, like De…

— Kevin Corrigan

Sometimes it's harder to play good tennis with a bad tennis player - the same way it's hard to be a good…

— Josh Lucas

The most fun part for an actor is the writing and the story and the character. That's very fulfilling.

— Dominique McElligott

I try to really focus on the actors I'm working with and kind of read and respond to their behavior.

— Jaime Murray

There is only one thing I respect in so-called Broadway actors... and that is their competitive sense.

— Elia Kazan

I may not have been wearing a mink coat, but I was traveling with a dog. That should have made you think…

— Bette Davis

For an actor working in television or film, I think it's important to understand how the medium works - how the camera…

— Simon Baker

I actually don't have a problem with shooting and then just walking away and forgetting about it. I'm not really like a…

— Karen Gillan

I've been really lucky to spend some time around actors and artists I really admire. One thing I gathered from asking a…

— Jason Segel

When I was a Hollywood press agent, I learned how the Hollywood casting system worked. There was a roster of actors who…

— Richard Condon

I would never advise anyone to stay in the closet to further their careers - I'm sure it leads to big fat…

— Ben Daniels

If I'm directing actors, I learn about acting that way. If I'm acting, I learn about directing that way. Producing is just…

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

I do think opportunity breeds bravery. It's such a competitive profession, no one owes you anything, talent in itself is not enough.…

— David Oyelowo

I'm not a very methodologically pure actor. Almost every time that I start, I feel completely at sea. Always at the beginning…

— Edward Norton

There are two schools of thought here. On one side you have 'only disabled actors can play disabled roles' and over here…

— Adam Pearson

As an actor the best thing you have is your imagination. You're not going to have all the experiences, but you draw…

— Vince Vaughn

I don't know an actor who hasn't let himself down at some point. I imagine it's the same in politics. There's always…

— Corey Stoll

There's so many more failures than successes for actors. It's like a phobia, fear of cancellation.

— Rick Hoffman

I don't possess a lot of self-confidence. I'm an actor so I simply act confident every time I hit the stage.

— Arsenio Hall C

Some like to start from the inside and then go to the outside. I'm the other type of actor. First, I have…

— Patrick Huard

I'm a positive thinker and actor. I look at a glass; a negative person sees the glass and says: too bad it's…

— Maya Angelou

One of the tough things about being an actor, probably the hardest thing, is getting your foot in the door, and my…

— Jeff Bridges

They say making laws is like making sausages. You shouldn't watch. It's the same for acting, especially for the actor who works…

— Ed Asner

I'm a frustrated actor. My ... goal is to beat Alfred Hitchcock in the number of cameos. I'm going to try to…

— Stan Lee

All of the younger actors keep coming up to me and asking me where all of the land mines are because they…

— Burt Reynolds

I had never really done voice-over. If you've ever seen me, I'm more the communicator through body language and movement... I'm a…

— Daniel Logan

A good actor's director, first of all, is prepared, so there's not an exorbitant amount of wasted footage.

— William H. Macy

I dont want to be just considered a breakout comedic supporting actor. I want to be a breakout actor in anything thats…

— Donald Faison

It is very hard to cast a number of plays adequately from the same company of actors without several parts being miscast.

— John Gielgud

“Whatever genre you deem suitable for your taste – romance, comedy, action, mystery, sci-fi or anything else, make sure it has the…

— Abhijit Naskar

The popularity of that baby-faced boy, who possessed not even the elements of a good actor, was a hallucination in the public…

— Thomas Campbell

Maybe it took a little time, or we're a little late, but finally we're recognizing that international stars are fantastic. They're the…

— Rob Marshall

Arnold Schwarzenegger made his tax returns public, [and] now there's a problem about him stretching the truth. Apparently under occupation he put…

— Jay Leno

My path was to be an actor and it’s been very good to me in life. It’s broadened my horizons and given…

— Nicole Kidman

The first draft is just a skeleton-just bare bones. It's like the very first rehearsal of a play, where the director moves…

— Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

I don't have any money to hire actors. I just need to get people who are going to do a good job…

— Grimes

I'm not one of those actors who sits around the table and intellectualizing anything, or discusses much of anything. Everything for me…

— Chris Bauer

Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we…

— Vincent D'Onofrio

I was a writer. I just wasn't a very good one. I was lucky enough to have a playwriting teacher who told…

— Liev Schreiber

Most of the time, my favorite drama has comedy in it as well. I think most good dramas have comedy in there.…

— Adam Brody