It's weird that you have to work really, really hard just to be real or normal. Everybody's got their different techniques, but… — Scoot McNairy Copy Share Image
The pickings are pretty slim when you have to play the part of a housewife who doesn't go out of her apartment… — Shirley MacLaine Copy Share Image
But really, for the most part - doing a prequel is great because you do have room to kind of free this… — Jennifer Lawrence Copy Share Image
Can't remember a time when I didn't want to be an actor... though it felt like something I couldn't do until I… — Katherine Waterston Copy Share Image
It's very strange: I watch a lot of interviews with other actors that I know saying, 'Oh we had a great time;… — Kaya Scodelario Copy Share Image
I want to be remembered as an actor who put in some good work in the beginning of his career, even better… — Jonathan Brandis Copy Share Image
Whenever actors tout off about doing their own stunts, it's always ... they're so protective of you that I always know these… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
I feel I have to work hard to nurture whatever talent I have as an actor. I feel like it's not natural… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
Acting is one element in a film. Directing is sort of the painter using all of those elements - sound and music… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
As actors you have this trait to imitate very easily. I don't want to imitate anything or limit myself of finding this… — Zoe Saldana Copy Share Image
The thing about the books is that they really talked a lot about what was going on inside of Bond and the… — Barbara Broccoli Copy Share Image
You want to work with good people. When you're working with good people, it frees you up. There's nothing worse, as an… — James Badge Dale Copy Share Image
Writers can get very angry when an actor says, "I don't know, I don't feel very comfortable with this line." Sometimes though,… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
I love working with male actors, and I think there's a tendency to write really interesting characters that would work solely alongside… — Elisabeth Moss Copy Share Image
For example I don't work with William Hurt the same way that I will work with Viggo. They're different guys and they… — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image
The great thing about acting is, because you're constantly playing other characters and exploring yourself because you have to find those other… — Jeremy Irons Copy Share Image
The artist's personality must be left in his dressing-room; his soul must be denuded of its own sensations and clothed with the… — Sarah Bernhardt Copy Share Image
One thing people forget about is that behind the camera are hundreds of people without whom we couldn't make the show. Each… — Aidan Gallagher Copy Share Image
There are no trans roles, and if there are, they go to Jared Leto or Eddie Redmayne or Elle Fanning... Will there… — Hari Nef Copy Share Image
I know a lot of brown actors who play terrorists because they're physically intimidating. For me, it was like, 'O.K., you'll be… — Kumail Nanjiani Copy Share Image
Something that has always attracted me to even taking on the occupation of actor is the idea that I could be lucky… — Lake Bell Copy Share Image
How many actors have a shot at being a part of something that became a part of pop culture? It's been very… — Adam West Copy Share Image
Yeah... I like films, I like movies, I like playing different characters and working with different actors and filming in different places.… — Jonathan Jackson Copy Share Image
Really good director sometimes will kind of see what the actors are doing and then get in there. Because there's the realization… — Ron Livingston Copy Share Image
I'm not one of those playwrights who says, 'Show up, hit your marks, and don't talk to me!' I always want to… — Pearl Cleage Copy Share Image
I had to do some emergency cram sessions with the dialogue coach on set [of the Punisher: War Zone]. But it was… — Julie Benz Copy Share Image
You have hundreds of artists you're dealing with across the world and the scale of this movie [Kung Fu Panda] was insane… — Jennifer Yuh Nelson Copy Share Image
I wanted to be an actor, an astrologer, an astronaut; a lot of different things were going through my mind. But I… — Joan Jett Copy Share Image
When you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
The fact is, as actors, everything we do, bad or good, is a contribution. To me, it is a positive thing to… — Grace Zabriskie Copy Share Image
We set the actors on the scene through the banal discourse of "conflict" in ways that fully deflect from the history and… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
It's a very fascinating thing for an actor to play somebody who is suffering, and you have to express the suffering, but… — Eddie Marsan Copy Share Image
I feel that in order to truly be an actor, you have to differentiate yourself and your roles, and you have to… — Michelle Trachtenberg Copy Share Image
You could have a bunch of good actors but they can't keep a relationship to save their lives. Everyone thinks it's so… — Bruce Campbell Copy Share Image
It was always my dream to be a director. A lot of it had to do with controlling my own destiny, because… — Ron Howard Copy Share Image
I had watched 'Alfie,' but I didn't consider it a prerequisite. Michael Caine was just extremely fabulous. He's one of the most… — Emily Mortimer Copy Share Image
I was working with Peter Tolan, who was my writing partner on those two [Rescue Me and The Job], and he did… — Denis Leary Copy Share Image
I don't have any ambitions as an actor. I felt very uncomfortable doing it. The first take every day I'd open my… — Evan Glodell Copy Share Image
The reason that most British actors are better than most American actors in the end is that they don't make any money.… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
You cannot begin to imagine the shock I had when I came down on the floor for the first time. First of… — William Shatner Copy Share Image
![“Whenever actors tout off about doing their own stunts, it's always ... they're so protective of you that I always know these stunt guys are so good [and] they're never going to put you in danger. But it's fun to do something kind of exciting, even something as simple as driving 70 through a tunnel…” quote by Ethan Hawke](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/ecc/ethan-hawke-1828_actors_whenever-actors-tout-off-about-doing-the_3139242.png)
![“The artist's personality must be left in his dressing-room; his soul must be denuded of its own sensations and clothed with the base or noble qualities he is called upon to exhibit… [he] must leave behind him the cares and vexations of life, throw aside his personality for several hours, and move…” quote by Sarah Bernhardt](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/495/sarah-bernhardt-15072_acting_the-artist-s-personality-must-be-left-in_2414644.jpg)
![“I had to do some emergency cram sessions with the dialogue coach on set [of the Punisher: War Zone]. But it was fun, because every actor on that movie had to do an accent, so we were all talking the whole time in our accents.” quote by Julie Benz](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/db1/julie-benz-7666_accents_i-had-to-do-some-emergency-cram-sessions_2886249.jpg)
![“You have hundreds of artists you're dealing with across the world and the scale of this movie [Kung Fu Panda] was insane - we had a parallel pipeline going on where you had two versions recording Mandarin voice actors, getting it to be funny for Mandarin audiences going beyond a straight…” quote by Jennifer Yuh Nelson](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/da4/jennifer-yuh-nelson-9435_actors_you-have-hundreds-of-artists-you-re-deal_233519.png)
![“I was working with Peter Tolan, who was my writing partner on those two [Rescue Me and The Job], and he did The Larry Sanders Show with Garry Shandling, and he always said that the second season is better because you know the actors.” quote by Denis Leary](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/dd0/denis-leary-1350_actors_i-was-working-with-peter-tolan-who-was-m_1284470.png)
