Actors Quotes · Page 41

I doubt I'm more secure than Meryl Streep... I guess actors just never feel secure.

— Zoe Lister-Jones

I always find that it's when a script is not detailed, then I have to do more work as an actor.

— Steve Buscemi

Instead of becoming an engineer like my brother, I moved to New York to be an actor.

— Anthony Mackie

As an actor, you never try to be someone else. You can't.

— Liam McIntyre

I'm an actor, and when I close the door at home I'm kind of off-duty.

— Warwick Davis

I think there needs to be more care taken for the actor. You know, we are not props!

— Anika Noni Rose

Working with any actor is like working with a monkey.

— Marlon Brando

Anything that you [as an actor] can change about yourself for a part is helpful.

— Michael Pitt

That's why I like old monster movie actors, because they transform into different characters or creatures.

— Tim Burton

Emerging actors know there's a whole lot to learn each time they are spending with someone who's done a lot.

— Debra Granik

“The actor's life offers, on a daily basis, the simulacrum of love; a mask can be satisfied, or at least consoled, by…

— Salman Rushdie

General improvisations often give actors an insight beyond their words by helping them to 'see the word' and achieve a reality for…

— Viola Spolin

My curiosity and my appetite for evolving as an actor is one of the main components of me still working today in…

— Kim Cattrall

I think actors are meant to have crises of faith; I think it's part of the job. I think it makes you…

— Hale Appleman

Being an actor is often very tedious, which is why it helps hugely if your fellow cast members are also good friends.

— Mark Strickson

As an actor I want to do as many takes as I can. I wanna shoot the scene... or shoot the shot…

— Tommy Lee Jones

I wanna do movies that in ten years time people will respect me for, as an actor. So if I do take…

— Frankie Muniz

When the movies first started, audiences were dumbstruck to see actresses walking around in evening gowns. They'd never seen anything like that.…

— Bette Midler

It's impossible to put your finger on what that is exactly other than protecting the environment that the actors get to find…

— Ewan McGregor

So the fact that a lot of straight men have gone on to play iconic gay roles and to be lauded for…

— Jonathan Bailey

It was difficult in India to find an eight year old who could play a widow. The reason for that is that…

— Deepa Mehta

The first time I made myself up, I was looking at my reflection in the mirror and it wasnt me looking back.…

— Rick Baker

You cannot study acting in books. Do it, do it, do it. And watch good actors. See what they are doing and…

— Max von Sydow

Not only do I look at the playback with the actors, but I look at the on-set assembly footage with the sequences…

— Park Chan-wook

Kids play pretend. I think that kids can be the best actors.

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

To be a great actor you just need to comprehend, so that's why I became a writer.

— Johnathon Schaech

I think actors do make really, really wonderful directors.

— David Wenham

I've worked with actors who were very helpful and a lot better than I was.

— Diane Kruger

It's great to have actors who are often cast against type.

— Tom Mison

As an actor, you're always reading scripts looking for something good.

— Kevin Nealon

As actors, we shouldn't worry too much about the language we are going to speak in a film.

— Anushka Shetty

I think a good actor will always know the character better than anybody.

— Fede Alvarez

I believe when actors say they can go crazy playing the same role, over and over again.

— Tyler Posey

I never consciously set out to be an actor. I just kind of did whatever acting I could do.

— Adelaide Clemens

Actors have to entertain viewers, be it on TV or in movies.

— Sharat Saxena

With a lot of actors, you've got to chip through the surface to see who the real person is.

— Kevin Bacon

As a writer, I am just an actor in a play, telling a story that needs to be told.

— Anonymous

The better the actor, usually the safer you feel working with.

— Morgan Freeman

The young actors coming out of the Universities are well trained.

— Tony Randall

I'm a good actor in that sense for directors because I always do what they say.

— Alex Cox