Actors Quotes · Page 63

There are many actors who, whatever they do, they pretty much play themselves.

— Rena Sofer

I'm really an actor first. I'd love to do more straight plays.

— Shuler Hensley

About the best thing an actor can do when all is said and done is to make people laugh.

— Ted Levine

As actors, the goal is to have resonance of some kind.

— Nicholas Galitzine

Actors may know how to act, but a lot of them don't know how to behave.

— Carrie Fisher

The key to every actor is deep, deep insecurity.

— Meryl Streep

I'm not a movie star like other actors in the way that I need to walk with a bodyguard.

— Olivier Martinez

It's a lot easier, I think, to be an actor in a movie than to spin a joke on a sitcom.

— Nicole Sullivan

The press concentrates on a divorce an actor's going through and they ignore the good performances he gives, or the causes that…

— Rob Lowe

I think a lot of actors, maybe who have been on a hit show and been lucky enough to get successful, might…

— Megan Mullally

There is some sadness for me now about acting because it used to be that there was a reverence for actors.

— Estelle Parsons

I wasn't interested in fame or fortune. I was interested in being an actor and being creative. I was very adamant about…

— Abbie Cornish

I never fully committed to the child actor thing. I also liked being a regular kid and being a student.

— Billy Eichner

I have great faith in the actors. When they improvise, it always sounds better than the stuff I write in my bedroom.…

— Woody Allen

I think it's possible to be free in a big production. It's the eye of the director and the actor and the…

— Adam Driver

I often wrangle with myself as an actor, and wrestle with the process. In striving for authenticity I often have the feeling…

— Juliet Stevenson

Me and Biggie share a storytelling ability--he was an actor on wax, too. His stories were so vivid and torrid, he made…

— Black Rob

I've got the best of all worlds. It's every actor's dream to wake up in New York City and go to an…

— Christopher Meloni

The smaller and younger kids are, the more patient you have to be. But if they're gifted, then it's a wonderful present…

— Michael Haneke

I do not believe that artists or actors and people should be out there like voicing their full-blown opinions on politics because,…

— Kid Rock

Make-up are the first people the actors go to on set every day - they see you at your most vulnerable. Then…

— Ncuti Gatwa

Whenever I've been asked to be in a film, directors only want me to play myself... I'm fascinated by the thought of…

— Tom Jones

I always tell Asian actors, especially Filipinos wanting to break into Hollywood, to study, study and study and show their best. I…

— Reggie Lee

I think what all actors share is that, somewhere down in your solar plexus, there's this fear that you're not going to…

— William H. Macy

Frankie [Avalon] ... was interested in eating everything so it didn't eat him first.

— Rona Barrett

I'm very much a jobbing actor who's still trying to find a place to rent down the road.

— Anonymous

There's an impression that actors make a lot of choices. I just take what's there.

— Christopher Walken

The process of doing plays will make you an actor.

— Stephen Collins

As an actor, I've been drawn to those characters that are further away from who I may be.

— Kurt Sutter

One of the wonderful things about being an actor is that every director is different.

— Jane Fonda

There are two types of actors: those who say they want to be famous and those who are liars.

— Kevin Bacon

When you're working with really good actors, it raises your own game and you get better.

— Richard Dormer

In my experience, it's usually up to the actor how a character is portrayed.

— Richard Dreyfuss

I still have the actor's disease. I always think I'll never get another job.

— Roddy McDowall

Every actor who has done an action film has a little tiny scar somewhere from that.

— Maggie Grace

England is a mecca for actors who want to do the classics.

— Sam Wanamaker

Unluckily actors don't get much free time, they are demanded every time and everywhere.

— Amaal Mallik

Your face needs to have character if you're an actor - otherwise you're just a face.

— Anne Hathaway

The thing with Ryan, you can look at him for hours. Very few actors have that. It's a gift.

— Nicolas Winding Refn

I am an actor and of course I respond very positively to flattery.

— Julia Roberts