Actors Quotes · Page 68

I used to work for a living. Then I became an actor.

— Roger Moore

We're improv comedians, we're not necessarily actors, we don't come across that way.

— Joe Gatto

Most actors and actresses are performative as people.

— Zoe Lister-Jones

I like it when actors depart from the script to find their characters.

— Fatih Ak?n

Ill never be as good an actor as I want to be…but I'll be good.

— Steve McQueen

A lot of actors and actresses pull from past experiences.

— Maisie Williams

There's a fine line between the Method actor and the schizophrenic.

— Nicolas Cage

If there is one thing I object to, its actors talking about how tough their jobs are.

— Kevin Spacey

If you ask me, we actors have this amazing ability to detach ourselves from an emotion and just do it for the…

— Abhinav Shukla

I'm one of those actors who likes to do it wrong nine ways before I come to the tenth way, which is…

— Wayne Rogers

I think I have much more appreciation for directing and movies overall versus a performance or an actor. Their body of work…

— Jamie Bell

Actors always have to fight for the good parts. There are so few good roles written for women each year, and when…

— Halle Berry

I'm sure it's not great fun for them, or for any parent, when their child says they want to be an actor,…

— Ewan McGregor

I like to have the actors do their thing. And then brief them what to do differently in take two.

— Vikramaditya Motwane

Honestly, puppets themselves are actors effectively. The joy of puppetry is that it is very simple and low-fi, which I love.

— James Bobin

With acting, you have to take it seriously because the other actors are putting in a lot of effort - and if…

— Ice T

Every actor has a different temperament. Part of my job is to know what those boundaries are. The actor has to know…

— Atom Egoyan

This is one of the things I don't like so much about French cinema - we have tendency to concentrate on actors…

— Jean-Pierre Jeunet

I'm unable to do the thing that Broadway actors do in plays, sometimes for years. The same exact blocking, the same exact…

— Mike Birbiglia

Thus, cases of injustice, and oppression, and tyranny, and the most extravagant bigotry, are in constant occurrence among us every day. It…

— Charles Dickens

Basically, actors arrive in a bubble. They have a little sealed bubble around them and it's basically [comprised of] their agents, their…

— Danny Boyle

I think one of the biggest things is the budget.For a studio, becomes a very big challenge to make sure that movie…

— Famke Janssen

As actors, we try to just do the character justice and try to make the writer's intentions come to life. If you…

— Tim Kang

When I was 18 I went to college for two years and didn't work for a year which was essential for me,…

— Claire Danes

Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.

— Frances McDormand

We should create an award here in our country. Hollywood actors should crave to get that.

— Manoj Kumar

The actors come and you start seeing things happen for real.

— Ramin Bahrani

I can be in 20 movies. But I'll never be an actor.

— Jon Stewart

To me, the screenplay only becomes the Bible of the film after the actors have been cast.

— Dito Montiel

In nighttime series, the actor gets billing up front on every episode.

— Michael Zaslow

Never meddle with play-actors, for they're a favoured race.

— Miguel de Cervantes

Some actors are okay with working with a taller heroine and some are not.

— Pooja Batra

Actors have these delicate appendages called Egos.

— Maynard James Keenan

I'm not one of these actors who feels a pressing need to direct, and I have no plans to do it.

— Dennis Franz

I always love to learn new things. That's the reason I like being an actor.

— Lupita Nyong'o

In a weird way, I live vicariously through the characters I play as an actor.

— James Badge Dale

When actors give their input, it can be very ego-driven, and directors are scared of that.

— Michael Pitt

Marlon Brando said any guy can become an actor. It takes a real man to quit.

— Clifton Davis

Acting isn't a profession, it's a way of living.

— Jeanne Moreau

I could not separate myself off stage from myself on stage, as so many actors can.

— Kate Smith