Actors Quotes · Page 61

And to be honest, most actors are incredibly solipsistic.

— Molly Ringwald

Actors never retire, they just get less and less work.

— Desmond Llewelyn

I understand what it is that actors do. They embody someone that they aren't.

— Diana Gabaldon

My job as an actor is to serve the writing and help the author get his ideas across.

— Kevin Spacey

What you aim for, as an actor, is to be able to play a range of different roles.

— Ruth Wilson

I'm a journeyman actor, and I don't ever want to forget that. With romantic-lead dreams.

— William Sanderson

As an actor, if you were to simplify what acting really is, it's about letting go.

— Derek Magyar

You're always dealing with emotions as an actor.

— Clive Owen

I come from the stage. I started my career as a stand-up comedian and then later on became an actor.

— Patrick Huard

I seldom meet actors, they are to me bright strange fishes swimming in an element alien to me; I feel that to…

— Rose Macaulay

“A movie is not a movie, it is a potential nuclear furnace of inspiration, courage and conscience.”

— Abhijit Naskar

When you're rapping, you do have to perform to a certain degree, but not every rapper is necessarily a gifted actor.

— Queen Latifah

The way they do things in the U.S., if you have a show, you'll option your actors for five, six or seven…

— Donald Sumpter

Actors who perhaps are super-confident and have absolute belief in themselves I always admire, because I can't really be like that.

— Eddie Redmayne

As an actor, I've grown considerably. It's taken me years to get comfortable doing a romantic scene and dancing on stage in…

— Sanjay Dutt

I love writing for other actors, women of African descent and people who are generally underrepresented.

— Danai Gurira

Transformers' was important and defining for me because it taught me about what kinds of movies I want to make and the…

— Rachael Taylor

Most actors and actresses are performative as people. It goes part and parcel with the profession and New York actors who are…

— Zoe Lister-Jones

When somebody who makes movies for a living - either as an actor, writer, producer or director - lives to be a…

— John Carpenter

I think often I learn the most from other people's mistakes. If I'm in the audience watching an actor and thinking, 'I…

— Richard Madden

Remember that you are an actor in a drama of such sort as the Author chooses: if short, then in a short…

— Epictetus

“If my life were still a movie, this is the part that would end up on the cutting room floor. We were…

— Charles Martin

Movies are the biggest export in the world, the biggest American export. It influences people all over the world. Music and movies.…

— Brett Ratner

I find it very invigorating having Ken Lonergan, who's an established, Pulitzer-nominated playwright doing Howards End, or Chris Hampton who's won an…

— Colin Callender

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

— Joonas Suotamo

Becoming an actor made me way more interested in plot.

— David Duchovny

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

— Liev Schreiber

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

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

— David Yates

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

— Bryan Cranston

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

Most actors on most days don't think they're worthy.

— Shia LaBeouf

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

— Augusto Boal

Big actors want to work in television because they see it as being new and different.

— Nick Willing

Actors are always the last to see what they have created.

— Caleb Landry Jones

You dream as an actor's director of letting moments breathe through two-shots.

— Edward Norton