Actors Quotes · Page 37

The idea that if you are very clever you shouldn't be an actor would be laughable in Russia.

— Samuel West

The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event.

— Ethel Barrymore

I'm fascinated with actors, and I've never quite understood the process.

— George Saunders

A film actor is just a victim of directors and editors.

— Helena Bonham Carter

The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis.

— Marlon Brando

I guess you could say I'm a model slash hotelier slash actor slash screenwriter.

— Vikram Chatwal

I enjoy working with actors so much and having the chance to be surprised by them.

— Diego Luna

“That's what I love most about writers--they're such lousy actors.”

— Vincent H. O'Neil

I resent having witnessed the survival of some very mediocre male actors and the professional demise of the very brilliant female ones.

— Helen Mirren

Curing environmental ills requires not a stance outside nature, but a stance within nature, a role not as onlooker without, but as…

— Valerius Geist

Viola Davis is just one of those actors who is never bad in anything. She could be in an awful film but…

— Nish Kumar

I have friends who are trans advocates, and they were upset that Jared Leto played a trans person.

— Sean Baker

In a way, putting actors deep into this sort of complicated universe frees them from thinking about who they should be. They…

— Michel Gondry

I have this assemblage of small facts, which looks like intelligence but no real depth of knowledge about anything. That's why I'm…

— Wayne Knight

I must have worked with over 100 actors, but I think there are four to five names I count on my fingers…

— Jasmin Bhasin

Many times, when a director reads a script and wants somebody who says 'Far out', then they let me do what I…

— Katherine Helmond

You never have any idea where your movie's going to go when you're shooting - you're in this little bubble. Everything you…

— Morten Tyldum

Actors are actors. They're all buddies. I've done so many movies and TV that you get to be friends with everyone. And…

— Michael Rooker

First off I want to thank God, because he's the one I look up to, he's graced my life with opportunities that…

— Matthew McConaughey

I realized that public affairs were also my affairs. I became active in politics because I saw the possibility, if we all…

— Helen Gahagan Douglas

As a philosophical problem, it comes down to a better way to engage with the passage of time; and I think we're…

— Bruce Sterling

I loved being on the other side of the camera and interacting with the crew. When you are an actor, you have…

— Angelina Jolie

I remember hearing a good story about Jack Nicholson working with Stanley Kubrick on The Shining [1980]. Nicholson was saying that, as…

— Owen Wilson

I understand the formula that producers hire directors and directors are hired to direct and actors are hired to act. I don't…

— Danny Trejo

But the one thing that I did do was establish myself as a good actor.

— Vincent D'Onofrio

I can't say I was unhappy as a child actor in films. I had a particularly wonderful time.

— Roddy McDowall

An actor remembers his first piece of published praise. It is written on his heart.

— Conrad Veidt

My parents were actors and my brother is a musician.

— Katy Wix

The actor in me would always like to be more dashing, or slimmer, or have nicer hair.

— Matthew Macfadyen

I think it's very important that, you know, gay actors get to play gay characters.

— Dustin Lance Black

Even actors are human beings, so we have issues to deal with - physical, emotional, and mental.

— Arjun Kapoor

Both my parents are actors, in very different ways.

— Linus Roache

As actors, you become an expert at starting over.

— Lupita Nyong'o

I admire a lot of actors; I think a lot of them have so much talent.

— Tara Reid

Most actors don't really have a director's sensibility. They have an actor's sensibility.

— Jodie Foster

A lot of good actors tend to be quite introverted as people.

— Antony Sher

I actually like working with the other three actors on the show.

— Sean Hayes

Sometimes actors come in, you record them, and they do their role.

— Walt Dohrn

I think actors should stay grounded and humble and open.

— Tanc Sade

I'm not a big method actor. I'm much more superficial.

— Colin Quinn