Actors Quotes · Page 25

'The New York Times' thing... I think any actor would be thrilled to be profiled in that paper.

— John Hawkes

I like to work as an actor. Not just for money, but because I really enjoy acting.

— Peter Sarsgaard

Certainly there have been better actors than me who have had no careers. Why? I don't know.

— Richard Gere

It's much less interesting as an actor playing someone who's purely good or purely evil.

— Michael Chiklis

As actors we try to find different sides of ourselves.

— Alexis Bledel

The main thing I've done for my children is not to give them a stupid name, like actors do.

— Dervla Kirwan

Actors don't act, we're just being in a different circumstance and scenario.

— Aeriel Miranda

As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.

— Olga Kurylenko

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

— Jaime Murray

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

— Dominique McElligott

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

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

— Elia Kazan

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

There is a shortage of hard R. It was the story and the character. He's never played a character like this and…

— Todd Farmer

I just love the process of working with other actors. It's like jamming with a musician, except it takes a little more…

— John Cusack

In general all celebrities, no matter how they became a celebrity, or if they're an actor or singer or a model, whatever…

— Rachel Uchitel

I see a lot of actors that are doing things to please their coaches, their teachers in the past. They say 'No'…

— Terry Crews

I do prefer doing more takes. There's something very organic that comes from the first take, but certain things come out. More…

— Martin Scorsese

Remember that you are but an actor, acting whatever part the Master has ordained. It may be short or it may be…

— Epictetus

I had to work with Ben Mendelsohn who's one of the great actors of our time. I had a lot of scenes…

— John Leguizamo

If you are referring to the characters of The Room, each character has a different personality which you can see very clearly…

— Tommy Wiseau

It's about time we had trans actors in trans roles.

— Rebecca Root

One of the things I enjoyed the most is just working as an actor.

— Wes Anderson

But all actors go through the process, it's hit and miss, you have achievement and failure.

— Thomas Haden Church

My closest friend is canine. I have precious few close friends, and most of them are not actors

— Judd Nelson

I don't call myself an actor, I call myself an entertainer, because I don't just do one thing.

— John Barrowman

What we are as actors, for better and for worse, is visible.

— Scott Bakula

As an actor, of course, you want to be in something that's successful.

— Marina Sirtis

Every actor has a top 10 or top 15 list of actors they wish to work with someday.

— Jackky Bhagnani

Fame really works against actors, in a way, because our anonymity is a wonderful thing for us.

— Jeff Bridges

I didn't think it was possible for Asians to be actors.

— John Cho

Actors are greedy. They can never be satisfied. I want praise as well as box office returns.

— Anonymous

Actors cannot go on for over running around the trees.

— Rajendra Prasad

There are always going to be more actors than anybody can ever use.

— Edward Albee

Most actors will tell you that villains are the most interesting to play.

— Rob James-Collier

When you're working, nobody's a star. We're all just actors trying to figure it out.

— Kurt Fuller

It turns out that good actors can make anything believable.

— Paul Haggis