Actors Quotes · Page 198

An actor finds things in the moment with a director and other actors that you don't have time to hand-draw or animate…

— Andy Serkis

Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation...

— Aldous Huxley

I think having healthy relationships makes me feel much more confident and available to do good work as an actor.

— Rose McIver

They say God looks after kids and idiots, and I think actors are probably a combination of the two.

— Scott Glenn

As actors, it is our responsibility to read the newspapers, and then say what we read on television like it's our own…

— Janeane Garofalo

As an actor, you're putting yourself out there when you perform. You're bound to experience feelings of vulnerability because of this.

— Mpho Koaho

I snootily say I can't take too many dramatic parts, as it's taking work from actors who aren't funny.

— Robert Webb

I think it's very dangerous for an actor to take [shooting] too seriously because I think it could really damage you if…

— Michael Pitt

People like Johnny Depp are an exception. He is the current model of what an actor should be. His body of work…

— Dustin Hoffman

I never think about awards or anything like that when I do a job. I was first named a best actor when…

— Morgan Freeman

I just love actors, and I've always loved actors. I empathize with their job. Everyone thinks it's easy, and it ain't. To…

— Paul Haggis

My first jobs were at Pixar and John Lasseter just doing animation would always allow actors to do that, and then animate…

— Dan Fogelman

I don't watch anything of mine much. I haven't gone to drama school, or college, either. I just like to watch other…

— Leonardo DiCaprio

As an actor, I think it's always important to separate yourself from your characters because, when you include yourself in a character,…

— Ashley Rickards

You've got to remember that improvisers are writers and actors and directors all simultaneously. That's what's happening in real time because you're…

— Mike Birbiglia

I studied cinema at the university so I had a very classical approach to it. I studied all those silent films, and…

— Gaspard Ulliel

I'm passionate about being an actor, but I'm definitely not passionate about being a sex symbol.

— Dustin Clare

I'm the most out-of-work actor I know. In the last two years I've basically taken meetings for a living.

— Macaulay Culkin

Being here allows me to make the case that not all aging, narcissistic movie actors whose children could be mistaken for their…

— Warren Beatty

People feel that I became an actor because I am from a film family and that my parents were actors. But actually,…

— Ranbir Kapoor

Developing films with directors, developing films with actors, is a poor percentage play for a screenwriter.

— Tony Gilroy

I am a sensitive writer, actor and director. Talking business disgusts me. If you want to talk business, call my disgusting personal…

— Sylvester Stallone

As actors, we want to choose somebody who has conflicts. I can't be always playing the girl next door. What's the challenge…

— Sonam Kapoor

Actors become very professional and proficient about watching out for each other's light and not stepping on each other's lines.

— Ryan Gosling

The difference between my generation of actors and their generation is that they were bigger than life. We are not bigger than…

— Bruce Dern

Actors wrestle with it all the time; they want to be liked. They do. They want to play something that people are…

— Rachel House

I started off as an actor thinking that I would be this Romeo, this dashing leading man. It turns out that I'm…

— Alessandro Nivola

As an actor, you always have to reinvent yourself or you end up in the gutter somewhere. It's my job to always…

— Dylan McDermott

Regrets are something you can't really have as an actor, because ultimately you'll end up destroying yourself there's a lot of disappointment…

— Henry Cavill

I know that some actors take acting terribly seriously. I take it seriously in that if someone pays me to do it…

— David Warner

I have so much empathy for these young actors that are 19 and all of a sudden they're beautiful and famous and…

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

Take these actors who adhere to a rigid schedule. They will say they are going to do two pictures a year or…

— Van Heflin

I didn't know any other actors that were also bodybuilders. I certainly didn't know any that were also queer, that were also…

— Katy O'Brian

When someone's an actor and you're an actor, you meet them and you feel like you know them. We're in the same…

— Harold Ramis

Both of my parents have been actors; there were a lot of show tunes on in the car all of the time.…

— Daniel Radcliffe

It was only when I finished the course and left my graduation diploma on the bus that I realised I'd become an…

— James D'arcy

I always set out to just work, as an actor, and try to do as many different things as I possibly could,…

— Jason Lee

But on the other hand, I think as an actor, you tend to want to look at the darker parts of your…

— Renee O'Connor

I know that I'm better as an actor when I'm working with a good actor. I think anytime you're working with a…

— Ben Stiller

You have to find actors who have the ability to display a wide range of emotion effectively. That's so much harder than…

— Nicholas Sparks