Actors Quotes · Page 60

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

— Anthony Mackie

I think you can tell when someone is being dishonest as an actor.

— Kat Dennings

Actors should never be important. Only directors should have power and place.

— D. W. Griffith

As an actor, you always dream of having material that showcases what you can do.

— Michael B. Jordan

I think voiceover is an adjunct that actors have picked up that have given us some security.

— Robert Stack

I play a crazy talk-show host, but that's not me. It's like an actor playing a role.

— Jerry Springer

I think a good rapport is required between actors for any film.

— Yami Gautam

I decided to become an actor because I was failing in school and I needed the credits.

— Dustin Hoffman

Basically, you're selling a world as an actor, right? I mean it's like any sales person: if you believe in your product,…

— Paul Walker

I see my job as an actor to be as good a channel as I can be. Acting is a gift, and…

— Lili Taylor

As a writer, I always think about who my prototype actors are, in my brain. It's helpful, as a writer, to think…

— Carlton Cuse

I love working with actors. If you cast the right person in the right part at the right time, they make you…

— Todd Solondz

The only ambition I ever had going into and committing to wanting to be an actor was to live my life.

— Harrison Ford

It's difficult being a child actor. I don't think everything beautiful has to be exploited. Some things can be beautiful and left…

— Ricky Schroder

We all hope we have something else to do. We're going to be unemployed actors. It's a consistent state of being a…

— Terry O'Quinn

Follow the wisdom of the great actor, James Cagney, you hit your mark, you look the other guy in the eye, and…

— Larry Merchant

In the life of a director - these days in particular - when it really does take so long to do a…

— Holly Hunter

It's like they talk about how American actors have the method and English actors just kind of switch views faster. And John…

— Judd Nelson

I think there are probably a lot of actors like me who I think probably struggle to feel comfortable in their own…

— Jesse Eisenberg

There are plenty of actors who've caught the singing bug and vice versa, but with musical performers, you're constantly a persona -…

— Freddie Stroma

Being an actor, when you sign onto a project - whether it's good, bad, or indifferent - you kind of fall in…

— Matthew Lillard

We didn't have a script, but with Jean-Luc we didn't really need one. It was like an understanding between us. He would…

— Anna Karina

A lot of times, comedic actors are discriminated against. People just assume they can't do something other than what they do, rather…

— Brett Gelman

I'm certainly not going to tell other people what they should do with their own personal lives. I think it's certainly easier…

— John Waters

I don't like artists who are actors. I like artists, but I don't believe in that.

— Chris Stokes

Even trying it as an actor, I never thought I'd actually make it.

— Hank Azaria

Actors come up and just blatantly hit on my wife in front of me and don't even look at me.

— Chris Pratt

It's tough being an actor making music, because even I have a knee-jerk reaction to that.

— John Hawkes

I would like, in the long term, to be recognized as a writer-director-actor.

— Corey Feldman

Actors are professionals who deal with people's emotions and their thoughts.

— Park Chan-wook

Even though it's my job to be an actor, I have given my life to God.

— Angus T. Jones

After every single take, I laugh. It's my own awkwardness and discomfort about being an actor.

— Seth Rogen

I'm not a star, I'm an actor - there's a difference!

— Jonathan Pryce

Modesty is the artifice of actors, similar to passion in call girls.

— Jackie Gleason

I'm a writer. An amateur photographer. An actor.

— Ben Affleck

I feel lucky to be an actor because you always learn something from each part you play.

— Rosemarie DeWitt

As actors, we're a little faster than other people with breaking down the walls.

— Paula Malcomson

All the hard work means something. That's all you can really ask for, as an actor.

— Lucas Till

I love rehearsing, but a lot of directors don't, and some actors don't.

— Viggo Mortensen

One of the greatest things I've learned, as an actor, was how to talk to actors.

— Eric Balfour