Actors Quotes · Page 44

I like being around actors. Imagine not liking actors.

— Sam Neill

There's nothing more boring than actors talking about acting.

— James Caan

I don't know how to ground myself without the other actor present.

— Garry Shandling

I didn't think I'd ever be able to do movies. That was for serious actors.

— Steve Buscemi

This is still a big barrier for me and it is for a lot of foreign actors.

— Chow Yun-Fat

As an actor, the minute you start getting real in interviews, you lose mystery.

— Shia LaBeouf

Never let your actors go before they are satisfied with a scene.

— Catherine Corsini

There's no such thing as a small part. There are just small actors.

— Sidney Lumet

I think if you don't stop an actor every two minutes, changing the position of the camera and the lighting, there is…

— Cristian Mungiu

Different actors have different rhythms. My goal as a director is to let these guys get their best work out.

— Jonathan Krisel

There are as many quality African-American actors and actresses as Caucasians, but it seems that they get a lot more opportunities.

— Columbus Short

I knew I wanted to be an actor. I just kept saying, "Until somebody tells me to stop, until I have to…

— Joel McHale

I'll take up crucial roles that regular actors have declined as I feel that they will showcase my potential better.

— Samuthirakani

Have we become so celebrity-obsessed that there is no longer a difference between a character and an actor? I hope not.

— Kevin Spacey

The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when [Holmes] became a specialist in crime.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

I wanted to be a stage actress. I wanted to be a New York actress and have a community with other actors.…

— Lily Tomlin

[As an actor] you're looking to crawl into an anonymous fictional person's skin, but then you have the ironic obligation to promoting…

— Jesse Eisenberg

I don't usually direct actors in the classic sense of that word. Instead, I try to remind the characters before the shoot…

— Gus Van Sant

I got my first job when I moved to Los Angeles. I worked at a coffee shop for five years and it…

— Katie Leclerc

If Michelle Pfeiffer gave Mel Gibson a vial of blood to wear around his neck in a movie you'd think it was…

— Billy Bob Thornton

I seem to have a soft spot in my heart for Australia and Australian actors. After having worked with one in 'Cinderella'…

— Lea Salonga

Movies are this thing that came into my life, and it still feels pretend in some way. I kind of do this…

— John C. Reilly

There’s a writer for you,” he said. “Knows everything and at the same time he knows nothing.” [narrator]It was my first inkling…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

All I'm saying is we got plenty of Texans, and people from Montana, and New Jersey, and Wyoming, or Kansas City. We…

— Billy Bob Thornton

I am more than glad to take tips from experienced actors.

— Shraddha Srinath

Of course, actors look forward to the day when they can do a big courtroom scene.

— Greg Kinnear

In the future, we'd like to support upcoming artists, people that are trying to be actors.

— Evan Spiegel

What did my parents say when I told them I wanted to be an actor? 'Be a plumber.'

— Samuel West

I feel like I'm more of a physical actor than a voice actor.

— Daniel Logan

It's my job as an actor to commit to the role and not - through my own inhibitions - run away.

— Nicole Kidman

Have you heard anything useful come out of an actor's mouth lately?

— Bruce Willis

I'm not one of these actors who's out of touch with reality, put it that way.

— Diego Klattenhoff

My whole family is very artistic - my uncles are all actors and theatre directors.

— Morena Baccarin

I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be.

— Milan Kundera

I've probably had more jobs than any other actor living.

— Dick Van Patten

The actor needs to find out what the basic fight is in every character in every scene.

— Michael Shurtleff

Film actors are, by nature, more complicated than stage actors.

— Margaret Rutherford

I usually prefer casting actors from our own industry.

— Vignesh Shivan

Inevitably, every part an actor plays contains some of himself.

— David Suchet

There has to be more opportunities for Asian or black actors.

— Adeel Akhtar