When auditioning, I try to imagine that I'm the only person that they [directors] are seeing that day because it can be… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
It's just so crazy how we're still so starved for it and how excited I get when I do an audition for… — Megan Stalter Copy Share Image
I know as actors our job is usually to shed our skins, but I think as people our job is to become… — Felicity Huffman Copy Share Image
Sometimes what happens I think is that actors finish a movie and they go, oh my god, I'm never going to work… — Jonah Hill Copy Share Image
I always think that trying to push yourself as an actor in a direction that you've never been before, developing characters which… — Asa Butterfield Copy Share Image
It's weird because every movie that I do is always a role that reminds me of a role that 'Pac would have… — Bow Wow Copy Share Image
I mean, if you are directing actors to do one thing and then directing them to do something else entirely because the… — Atom Egoyan Copy Share Image
Well, I mean, the original is certainly the jump-off, it certainly is what it is, you know, I grew up around that… — Antoine Fuqua Copy Share Image
Well, I'm not able to work anymore as an actor and still at the level I would want to ... you start… — Paul Newman Copy Share Image
If you're an actor, you know people are going to recognize you in a restaurant. If you're a rock star, you know… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
The muscularly developed actor is not seen as a serious actor although he should be seen as a serious actor because he… — James Preston Rogers 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
![“When auditioning, I try to imagine that I'm the only person that they [directors] are seeing that day because it can be overwhelming, in the same sense that it could be overwhelming if you try to fulfil everyone's expectations rather than the people closest to you in the creative process, be it…” quote by Benedict Cumberbatch](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/b66/benedict-cumberbatch-1156_actors_when-auditioning-i-try-to-imagine-that-i_1350715.jpg)
![“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)
