I've never pursued a role. I always hear stories about actors going after parts and I'm, like, 'How do they do that?'… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
Every part I play is just a variant of my own personality. No real character actor, of course, just me. — Michael Gambon Copy Share Image
When becoming a character, you have to steal. Steal whatever you see. You can even steal from other actors' characterizations; but if… — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
Actors always talk about taking their work home and I always think: 'What are you on? You just turn it off. You… — Bill Nighy Copy Share Image
I think ever since I was a kid I knew subconsciously that I wanted to be an actor. I would walk around… — Kelly Blatz Copy Share Image
Directors have so much else to do besides tell actors what to do. There are so many issues and problems. — Michael Douglas Copy Share Image
When are we going to stop labeling everyone? How many times have I been referred to as 'out gay actor?' Do we… — Bryan Batt Copy Share Image
Actors, you kind of have these ebbs and flows. These moments where you're in your glory - where you're really cracking -… — Mark Ruffalo Copy Share Image
I sort of dreamed about directing before my career as an actor took off. I've directed stage before in so many capacities… — Justin Timberlake Copy Share Image
What I love in working on film is just working with actors. It's one thing to write scenes alone over a keyboard… — Dee Rees Copy Share Image
Money is tighter now, with the advertising dollar spread a lot more thinly across a whole range of media because of the… — Grant Bowler Copy Share Image
You have to start with the notion that you pick the actor who's going to embody the role, the best person that… — Christopher Meledandri Copy Share Image
The libertarian view is that human actors are self-owners and these self-owners are capable of appropriating unowned scarce resources by Lockean homesteading… — Stephan Kinsella Copy Share Image
It's funny how in the long time of me working in various countries and various situations that there is this kind of… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it, and do it honestly. I also… — Olivia Colman Copy Share Image
In fact, my methodology is based on the idea of waiting for when inspiration arrives for the actors. And that means that… — Albert Serra Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, in Hollywood, there are those directors that have some contempt for actors. We've all experienced that, in one way or another. — Vin Diesel Copy Share Image
I've worked opposite so many male actors whose egos have been so delicate that it was just so hard to do the… — Andrea Riseborough Copy Share Image
For me cinema is image, sound, and the faces and bodies and, yes, voices, of my actors, and sometimes the words that… — Julia Loktev Copy Share Image
If you're a serious actor, it's when you know you're going to die tomorrow that you really start to feel it. — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
As an actor, I only play what is in the moment, rather than in the future, but sometimes the past is more… — John Barrowman Copy Share Image
It's more enjoyable to shoot in a studio on a single location with two actors... if they are good. — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
Characterization in a play is like a blank check which the dramatist accords to the actor for him to fill in. — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a child actor so bad that every day I'd beg my parents if I could audition, but my… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
I'm not one of those actors who romanticizes his trials working out and brags that he can bench press a panda now. — Ryan Reynolds Copy Share Image
Some of the actors that I love most have challenged themselves throughout their entire career. That's my goal. — Taylor Lautner Copy Share Image
Fortunately and unfortunately, people don't see me as a character actor. They see me as a leading man or nothing, which makes… — Josh Holloway Copy Share Image
Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
As actors, you do have to be aware of your audience. You can't act in a vacuum, even if that audience isn't… — Tom Irwin Copy Share Image
I go to the theater because I need help dealing with my life; I want to see the greatest questions addressed. I… — Ellen McLaughlin Copy Share Image
And I think it is the genius of actors to be able to escape whatever people are expecting of them. Otherwise you… — Olivier Martinez Copy Share Image
In all of my press junkets for 'Spy Kids,' I was saying that my two favorite actors are Johnny Depp and Steve… — Mason Cook Copy Share Image
I think actors always have that fear of unemployment so when the opportunities are there, you just jump on them. — Rosemarie DeWitt Copy Share Image
I think it helps, as an actor, to never know when you're going to get that next script and you're done. — Jon Bernthal Copy Share Image
When we approach history, we are dealing with a conglomeration of irrational continua. Those who deal with history by nonrational processes are… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
I want everyone to feel as much as possible as if they inhabit the same space. They more fluid the relationship between… — Christine Jones Copy Share Image
I think it's really important for actors to have another creative outlet, or for anyone, really. — Mia Wasikowska Copy Share Image
I can now shed the child-actor thing, like the fat, and start a new career, because no one sees me as Dudley. — Harry Melling Copy Share Image
I'm focusing on my efforts behind the camera. I'm doing some producing and directing so that I can make projects for all… — Jonathan Keltz Copy Share Image
The apartheid people were actors, and they had to act out their part in their beliefs every day. That's why we always… — Hugh Masekela Copy Share Image
