Actors Quotes · Page 28

That's just part of the blessing of being an actor: you get to learn so many things about life.

— Tasha Smith

Actors should ACT. Not sell perfume, or write cookbooks.

— Lauren Graham

I work with all these amazing voice actors that do a kajillion voices.

— Katey Sagal

I like method actors who don't focus on the glamorous side, but on realistic acting.

— Sanam Saeed

It's not a pleasure torturing actors, although some of them enjoy it.

— Ang Lee

My goal was never to be famous, but to be a consistently working actor.

— Erin Cummings

Actors are actually very supportive of each other.

— Alan Rickman

As an actor, I look at first what I can borrow from what I really feel.

— Kristin Bauer van Straten

Before becoming an actor I kind of just wanted to paint and live somewhere and do something low-key and artistic.

— Norman Reedus

As an actor, you want a director who makes you feel comfortable in a place that you can really create and try…

— Ansel Elgort

I like to go off the other actors in the scene, which kind of stinks when you're acting with someone who's not…

— Ross Lynch

I just refuse to date actors. I've done that, and I don't want to do that anymore. It's just the stress of…

— Lea Salonga

It's fashionable for modern actors to talk about getting 'inside' a character. But you can't get to the inside without getting the…

— Charlton Heston

I'm an actor first and foremost, who happens to do improv. I've also done sitcoms, I've done stage.

— Wayne Brady

I think the most important thing for an actor is to stay current and stay relevant, and those are probably the hardest…

— Dylan McDermott

The great, rewarding thing about directing is that you're overseeing the whole thing. When you're an actor, you're just one department.

— Matt Dillon

There we were - demented children mincing about in clothes that no one ever wore, speaking as no man ever spoke, swearing…

— Tom Stoppard

Acting can be a difficult business. When I was younger, if my mates were doing better than me, I might be a…

— Max Beesley

I really appreciate an actor who has paid their dues and who has learned hard knocks and has been rewarded in the…

— Enrico Colantoni

Sometimes an actor performs a character, but sometimes an actor just performs. With writing, I don't think it's performing a character, really,…

— Joan Didion

Movies serve many purposes, and I've visited many of those genres, from the most light, frivolous comedy that is just trying to…

— Antonio Banderas

Unlike the people you see in Mathew Brady's photographs from the Civil War, the men and women of the Revolution seem more…

— David McCullough

As regards Hillary C;inton's foreign policy actions and the powerful vested interests she seems gleefully beholden to, including all the biggest players…

— Viggo Mortensen

I fall in love with all the people I'm working with, women, directors, everybody. As actors, that's actually one of the real…

— Annette Bening

You should be able to tell your child, "This is an actor. And she's older than Mommy!"

— Rosie O'Donnell

A conservative frame of mind is very limiting for an actor, and a human being, too.

— Vanessa Redgrave

In between, I go broke because I seem to do movies where you're not paid a lot as an actor.

— Sean Penn

My sensitivity level is high, but I think that's one of my assets as an actor.

— John Turturro

It's great to write for actors when you know who they are. I think I prefer it.

— Jason Gann

Idris Elba is a grand actor. He's very larger than life; he's bigger than life.

— Nicolas Cage

Actors wait tables, directors work at video stores.

— Joss Whedon

As an actor, you never know where the works going to come, so you have to be flexible about it.

— Lesley Nicol

The greatest all-around American film actor is James Stewart.

— David Denby

I don't have the passion for acting that actors might have.

— Jemima Kirke

I'm an eternal realist and the success rate for being an actor is pretty low.

— Tom Hiddleston

No matter what happens, we couldn't let people say Asian-American actors can't act.

— Mako

Most actors are pretty adaptable because we work with so many directors.

— Kyle MacLachlan

I'm not a method actor. I can't even explain so much what I do.

— Carice van Houten

As for actors, I'm hugely in awe of Cate Blanchett - and Meryl Streep, obviously.

— Phoebe Dynevor

I train like a pro-athlete, not like an actor who's just trying to look pretty.

— Joe Manganiello