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
“I seem finally to have stopped worrying about Elinor, and age. She seems now to be perfectly normal -- about twenty-five, a… — Emma Thompson Copy Share Image
I think I probably think about myself as an actor, which is the way most people do. I think I'm good, I… — Ashton Kutcher Copy Share Image
I enjoy the physicality a little more, with Vinnie Paz [in Bleed for This] that was the most prep I've ever had… — Miles Teller Copy Share Image
There are some scenes that you have to lose in order to win something at the end. A good director will keep… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
I shared a vagrant optimism that some of us were making real progress, that we had taken an honest road, and that… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I'm happy in a silent world - well, not a silent world but one that relies on - I'm in a pretty… — Guy Pearce Copy Share Image
Nothing can be left until the last minute, so that everyone knows exactly where they are. Everyone is comfortable and everyone feels… — Michael Sheen Copy Share Image
I think my mom is the inspiration of me wanting to do film and TV and be an actor because she loved… — Rick Gonzalez Copy Share Image
I began feeling the way I imagine an actor or athlete must feel when, after years of commitment to a particular dream...he… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I wanted to be cast because I'm an actor and not because of how I look or where I'm from. I'm brown.… — Priyanka Chopra Copy Share Image
Young actors, fear your admirers! Learn in time, from your first steps, to hear, understand and love the cruel truth about yourselves.… — Constantin Stanislavski Copy Share Image
With every action oriented or adventure film, there's going to be a moment when every actor becomes a stuntman and every stuntman… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
Actors play different characters, so you have to build a new base around each new movie - with few exceptions, most actors… — Troy Carter Copy Share Image
I'm there [on Moana] with the other actors, so you play off one another. It's not just your idea of what the… — Alan Tudyk Copy Share Image
If Mad Men had taken place in the '90s it would have been just as believable. But the fact is that was… — Christina Hendricks Copy Share Image
You're always having to live more to fuel something new. It's an obligation to yourself and to the audience. The personal baggage… — Sean Penn Copy Share Image
The advice you give to young directors for sure is to go out and become some version of a successful movie actor.… — Sean Penn Copy Share Image
If actors are making a little film with me at 2am in Nashville, they're not doing it to get paid. They're doing… — Dito Montiel Copy Share Image
For me, the best experience is to get to watch all of these different actors that come to the different seasons and… — Michael K. Williams Copy Share Image
I knew from a young age that I wanted to be an actor. I never even thought about other careers. The acting… — Archie Panjabi Copy Share Image
I don't like the strictly objective viewpoint [in which all of the characters' actions are described in the third person, but we… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I tell this joke about Barack Obama is the best communicator of our generation: The guy reads a teleprompter better than any… — Frank Luntz Copy Share Image
You fight for certain roles, and you realise they're being filled by television and film actors, because theatre is constantly fighting for… — Richard Armitage Copy Share Image
We have no companies now, not in the sense that I know, that nurture actors. It's very depressing that, given the money… — Diana Rigg Copy Share Image
If I were twenty or thirty years younger, I would start afresh in this field with the certainty of accomplishing much. But… — Eleanora Duse Copy Share Image
Ask any great athlete or the concert pianist or the successful actor if they have arrived at the place where they need… — Eric Butterworth Copy Share Image
This industry should behave like a mother whose child has just run out in front of a car. But instead of clasping… — Marilyn Monroe Copy Share Image
There's a reason why a lot of models turn actors. You have to connect with people, talk to people, be able to… — Camila Morrone Copy Share Image
I think I'm an actor. You can hire me. I can do a good job. But you also have to get lucky… — Rutger Hauer Copy Share Image
I think naturally, if you're an actor, there's a high level of assertiveness that you need to have to survive this business.… — Bryan Cranston Copy Share Image
[And on going from character to leading actor] I don't approach anything differently; I just approach it as a character. I'm always… — Steve Carell Copy Share Image
It was never my intention to be an actor, and I don't know if I'll ever call myself an actor because I've… — Edge Copy Share Image
![“I enjoy the physicality a little more, with Vinnie Paz [in Bleed for This] that was the most prep I've ever had to do for a film, that was a legit like 7 months of diet and working out. And then I was able to do like an accent, I was able to change myself physically, I was able to do a lot of the…” quote by Miles Teller](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/bc0/miles-teller-7696_able_i-enjoy-the-physicality-a-little-more-wi_264109.jpg)
![“I'm there [on Moana] with the other actors, so you play off one another. It's not just your idea of what the character is and what the world is like it would be in an animated [film], where it all sort of exists in your head. It's all right there, and if Diego's performance is doing what it's…” quote by Alan Tudyk](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/247/alan-tudyk-7208_actors_i-m-there-on-moana-with-the-other-actors_345834.jpg)
![“I don't like the strictly objective viewpoint [in which all of the characters' actions are described in the third person, but we never hear what any of them are thinking.] Which is much more of a cinematic technique. Something written in third person objective is what the camera sees. Because…” quote by George R. R. Martin](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/170/george-r-r-martin-2-926_action_i-don-t-like-the-strictly-objective-view_234026.jpg)
![“[And on going from character to leading actor] I don't approach anything differently; I just approach it as a character. I'm always astounded at the fact that I've ever played a leading character in anything [Laughs]. And my wife concurs with that, frankly. She always thought I would be, at best…” quote by Steve Carell](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/011/steve-carell-2000_actors_and-on-going-from-character-to-leading-a_2135330.jpg)
