Actors Quotes · Page 46

Every actor thinks he can do comedy, and it's not true.

— Denis Leary

I've always been an actor. That's my job — I can be anything you want me to be.

— Sarah Jessica Parker

But actors at a certain point take the best of what's available to them.

— Kelly Lynch

I guess actors are very sensitive people. We're porous.

— Zoe Lister-Jones

There is a lot lacking on the intellectual side and on the values side when being an actor.

— Natalie Portman

I'm still trying to figure myself out as an actor.

— Anonymous

I try to get the best performance an actor can give.

— Taylor Hackford

Don't be an actor. Be a human being who works off what exists under imaginary circumstances.

— Sanford Meisner

Unfortunately, most actors want to play off their own personal mystique and good looks and whatever, but that will only carry you…

— Joe Morton

I love proving myself wrong. A lot of actors lack confidence - even if you're doing really well, you kind of feel…

— Sophie Cookson

I truly think any preparation you do only helps and adds dimension and complexity to the work [as an actor].

— Tom Hiddleston

I think that different actors go about their preparation differently, but when it comes to acting, I use my imagination.

— Edi Gathegi

Most of the time, actors respond to the thing that's so far from who they are. We all want to play the…

— Marc Blucas

People talk, or however about actors watching themselves, but no, no one likes to watch themselves. Come on. It's extremely difficult. You…

— Mike Faist

It's my first sort of commercial attempt, but it made sense for me because I'm not that kind of guy and I'm…

— Leonardo DiCaprio

I get to choose things that interest me as opposed to trying to get any job that will have me, which for…

— Neil Patrick Harris

The inner life of the [imagination], and not the personal and tiny experiential resources of the actor, should be elaborated on the…

— Michael Chekhov

As actors, if we are truthful to ourselves and we know what we can do and what we cannot do and just…

— Navid Negahban

I can easily say "no" to a project if the script isn't great, but when the script is good, then I start…

— Dominic Monaghan

I am a little in awe of Jeff Bridges. He's an actor I have admired for many years, and so I didn't…

— James Frain

Dean's California--wild, sweaty, important, the land of lonely and exiled and eccentric lovers come to forgather like birds, and the land where…

— Jack Kerouac

There's too many actors in LA. I mean, I'll go out there from time to time, but I always find it pretty…

— Michael Imperioli

I did quite a lot of fencing when I was a kid, I was a swimmer, and I played a lot of…

— Kieran Bew

I mean one of the weird things about TV and one of the things that some actors don't like but I kind…

— Mary McCormack

All actors almost always try to steal some of their wardrobe.

— Joe Lando

I'm sure that my wanting to be an actor had to do with a need for approval.

— Paul Rudd

Anyone who says there isn't pressure to look good as an actor in L.A. is lying.

— Camilla Luddington

You're always dealing with emotions as an actor.

— Clive Owen

Actors are often short. It can be hard to make others look good if you are three heads taller.

— Joonas Suotamo

You are what you know, as an actor, so you gotta try to know as much as you possibly can.

— Liev Schreiber

Becoming an actor made me way more interested in plot.

— David Duchovny

Im a career actor. And I question this constant reliance on TV fame and celebrity.

— Alexander Hanson

If you talk to any actor, they'll tell you that working is the best thing.

— Daniel Cudmore

New York is so full of the best unemployed actors on the planet.

— Rachel McAdams

It's up to the actor to make sure they don't get typecast.

— Bryan Cranston

I like to create an atmosphere where actors feel safe enough to take risks.

— David Yates

Trans actors, just like cisgender actors, need to build experience before getting lead roles.

— Rebecca Root

There are no small parts; there are only small actors.

— Melanie Griffith

I was never a child actor. I was a child performer.

— Christopher Walken

All human beings are Actors (they act!) and Spectators (they observe!).

— Augusto Boal