I love my job, I love being an actor and stepping into the shoes of different characters and exploring their lives. It's… — Hilary Swank Copy Share Image
I proceeded to prove everybody right as to how bad an economics student I was by failing as an assistant manager in… — William Shatner Copy Share Image
Of all the things I've done in life, directing a motion picture is the most beautiful. It's the most exciting and the… — Laurence Olivier Copy Share Image
My experience of singing, as an actor, was that there's a different creative feeling of freedom. The acting thing is a bit… — Orlando Bloom Copy Share Image
As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I really admire actors who have time, because time is really the greatest luxury for an actor to live with a character,… — Enrico Colantoni Copy Share Image
“I was always bad at reading scripts. Back then, I’d be offered millions of dollars to do movies and barely crack the… — Matthew Perry Copy Share Image
I don't love the business. I never wanted to be a part of it. I don't think any actor does. Most of… — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
I did four or five years in telly, and by the end of it was drained. I was a bit sick of… — Matthew Macfadyen Copy Share Image
There's this notion that actors choose their career. After a certain level, I think that that's true. I still take way more… — Dallas Roberts Copy Share Image
You know what? I never really factor Hollywood into anything. I'm a black actor, so I can't really control what Hollywood thinks.… — Jamie Foxx Copy Share Image
Amazon has included me in an opportunity to provide top-shelf television-style programming live on the world's computer screens. To hold forth with… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
The movie is so fun. I've done period pieces before but nothing with this twist. And the movie is just full of… — Douglas Booth Copy Share Image
It [RESIDENT EVIL: AFTERLIFE] has definitely been the biggest learning curve for me. As an actor, whenever I start on a movie,… — Ali Larter Copy Share Image
Everything can inspire me. I know that sounds like a cop-out answer, but I find inspiration in literally just about everything. As… — Josh McDermitt Copy Share Image
Chemistry is one of these crazy things you can't teach or learn or you can't fake. You go in hoping it will… — Jesse Tyler Ferguson Copy Share Image
I really think that everybody would like to be an actor. Why wouldn't they? It's great work if you can get it.… — Ben Affleck Copy Share Image
For me, some of the happiest moments on a live-action film are the awkward moments. One actor says something to another actor.… — Gore Verbinski Copy Share Image
You can be mediocre, the way most actors are, and you can still be a top movie star, even if your movies… — Mickey Rourke Copy Share Image
The techniques of different directors are very different, and people have different ways of expressing ideas in film. I'm happiest when working… — Howard Shore Copy Share Image
I like to try to shoot in the city in a way that allows the city to go about its business while… — Noah Baumbach Copy Share Image
People know that I have a great love for cinema. Not just for commercial cinema, but for the 'cinema d'auteur.' But to… — Harvey Weinstein Copy Share Image
I love movies and I love to watch movies and being a part of the whole film experience. Being a filmgoer is… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
It's nice getting to play a different version of yourself. You sign on for a show and think you're just going to… — Candice Patton Copy Share Image
comedy ... is much harder to do than drama. It's not true that laugh and the world laughs with you. It's very… — Glenda Jackson Copy Share Image
There's an inherent responsibility actors feel when portraying something that actually exists in the world. It's arguably something that not all actors… — Monica Potter Copy Share Image
I've stopped showing actors what to actually do. I rather just talk to them about it. Then I usually play music. That's… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
As an actor, doing it for 30 years, with every movie, you're trying to figure out a way to make it more… — Josh Brolin Copy Share Image
There are so many roles that actors like Nawazuddin Siddiqui or Manoj Bajpayee or Irrfan have done. And they make every character… — Hiten Tejwani Copy Share Image
I would actually like to establish myself as an actor first because both my parents are powerful and strong actors so, I… — Akshara Haasan Copy Share Image
Sometimes when I'm writing I'll play Cole Porter, just because the rhythms and the lyrics are so perfect that it's like having… — Nancy Meyers Copy Share Image
I was very much aiming to go into movies eventually, like a lot of 'SNL' people. But, soon after I arrived, all… — Seth Meyers Copy Share Image
All my characters are me. I'm not a good enough actor to become a character. I hear about actors who become the… — Ryan Gosling Copy Share Image
There are a lot of actors who don't like reality stars 'cause they feel these people aren't accomplished. They haven't done this… — Niecy Nash Copy Share Image
I think everybody else in Hollywood, including network execs, has the opportunity to ask for a raise or a change in scenery… — Jorja Fox Copy Share Image
The quantum death of Philip Seymour Hoffman. 24 hours before he was "officially" declared dead it was announced on the internet that… — Dean Cavanagh Copy Share Image
I've never been turned down for a role because I'm gay. I'm a character actor, and that's probably why. I don't find… — Jane Lynch Copy Share Image
That's really good for an actor - to like the people behind the scenes - because then you treat the camera differently.… — Emile Hirsch Copy Share Image
We're not actors, we're people behaving like ourselves on TV. We're both [me and Gordon Ramsay] exactly who we are on TV.… — Chelsea Handler Copy Share Image
I'd prefer not to act in the film I'm directing. I think, though, as an actor, you do learn how to turn… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image