Actors Quotes · Page 54

I think, frankly, that I'm a better director than I was an actor.

— Jonathan Frakes

Wearing a monkey suit really lets you know where you stand as an actor.

— Kelly Stables

Gene Hackman is one of the great American actors of all time.

— Lane Garrison

I like actors who are sort of different and eccentric - not what you expect.

— Matthew Broderick

I want to be a man's man-not a kid actor or a glitzy pop star but a no-bullshit leading man.

— Scott Eastwood

I have only really gotten by with playing versions of myself as most young actors do.

— Amanda Seyfried

I never did stand-up. If I've been funny ever, it was with other actors.

— Valerie Harper

Working with actors is actually something I treasure a lot.

— Justin Lin

I'm not jumping into anything fast. I'm an actor that likes to choose my work and there's an element of good taste…

— Luke Ford

I've had the pleasure and the great luck to work with some incredible actors over the years and you have to observe…

— Cillian Murphy

Basically, I got into stand-up because I'm too egocentric to be an actor and not disciplined enough to be a writer.

— Christian Finnegan

I get involved with projects based on three parameters - the script, the actors involved and the director.

— Dominic Monaghan

“The human condition’s like an audience whose members are always surprised when they’re required to become actors.”

— Louis Armand

Non-disabled actors should not still be playing disabled characters in 2020. We're better than that. It's frankly offensive and archaic and it…

— Rosie Jones

I was mainly a stage actor. I found film acting mechanical, because it was so technical - there was so much technique…

— Erland Josephson

Because he's a character who's looking for his own identity, [He-Man is] an interesting role for an actor.

— Dolph Lundgren

I learned how to turn it on and turn it off. You learn that in theater, too, but for film work, I…

— Michael Rooker

I think a lot of female actors have a real fear of not looking their best. They learn to prize their vanity…

— Emma Stone

I have my set rigged with the biggest sound system possible and have a mini jack for my iPod attached to my…

— Alfonso Cuaron

Look at how many great actors or entertainers have been lost to the world because they did a performance one night and…

— Michael Jackson

They are, as it were, train-bearers in the pageant of life, and hold a glass up to humanity, frailer than itself. We…

— William Hazlitt

Who are these people who are taking these decisions of casting only young actors in films? It is the filmmakers and the…

— Konkona Sen Sharma

Actors actually have a feeling, like a sixth sense. They are like mediums. But it only works - you can only become…

— Vicky Krieps

It is very, very, very difficult for an American actor who wants a film career to be open about his sexuality. And…

— Ian Mckellen

I guess Ive always wanted to push the boundaries as an actor.

— Alessandro Nivola

When you're feeling very comfortable with an actor, you are doing nothing.

— Antonio Banderas

Nowadays, kids... young actors... they go straight to L.A. before they've even done anything.

— Peter Capaldi

I am not a method actor, though I studied for a year with Lee Strasburg.

— Ed Asner

I think actors tend to be in their element when they are pushed out of their comfort zone.

— Matthew Lewis

An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument.

— Marilyn Monroe

Sometimes you can do Shakespeare and you're still not an actor.

— Clark Gregg

Everybody who is an actor has been acting since they were three.

— Mia Wasikowska

I have a lot of actors I want to work with; Brad Pitt, Keanu Reeves, and Uma Thurman.

— Yuen Woo-ping

The fame of an actor is won in minutes and seconds, not in years.

— Bram Stoker

Theatre is a sacred space for actors. You are responsible; you are in the driving-seat.

— Greta Scacchi

I never wanted to be one of those actors with a political agenda.

— Ian Somerhalder

As the lead actor, you naturally get involved with a show.

— Melina Kanakaredes

An actor always wants to sink his teeth into something.

— Aden Young

A love story definitely demands a great onscreen chemistry between its actors.

— Pulkit Samrat

I don't know one actor that became an actor for healthy reasons.

— Judge Reinhold