Actors Quotes · Page 72

As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!

— Laura Carmichael

To me, the series was the end of the actor, when the series ended.

— Jackie Cooper

I just wanted to be a guy who could earn a living as an actor, and I did that for a long…

— Gene Barry

There are three stages of an actor's career: Young, Old, and 'You look good!'

— Burt Reynolds

I came out of my mum's stomach going, 'I want to be an actor!'

— Emilia Clarke

The big thing for actors is the level of commitment.

— Shia LaBeouf

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

You know, it's a wonderful thing. I have to say that some of the greatest actors I've ever worked with have been…

— Steven Blum

I don't consider myself an actor, for me it's employment. Like the actor who's a waiter a lot, I'm an actor when…

— Henry Rollins

Eventually, if something pops up, that's cool, but I still wanna continue the process of learning how to be a good actor.

— Billie Joe Armstrong

There are actors I have very strong chemical responses to, and I strive always to figure out ways to work with them…

— Jason Robert Brown

The emotions of the actors are better when they understand the chronological factors that are adding to the story.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

There is a very particular feeling I get when I have the camera in my hand, looking at an actor talk, knowing…

— Haskell Wexler

There are a lot of actors that are insanely talented, so I don't say who my favorite is anymore.

— Max Thieriot

The TV industry works in this crazy system where everybody's trying to get the same actors at the same time.

— Mitchell Hurwitz

I've been offered lots of movies. There's always some actor who's doing a project and would like to have me do it.…

— Francis Ford Coppola

I wanted to be an actor ever since I got on stage for the first time, aged 13. Before that, I thought…

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

While you're making the film and working with the actors, if you want to have a little room to breathe and experiment…

— David Twohy

I don't think many actors are the best judge of careers. I think generally we have good instincts about what we can…

— Hugh Jackman

My idea is just to do something different each time; the next thing I do has to be completely different to the…

— Eddie Marsan

The first two actors we cast were Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen. Because we started so highbrow, we were able to get…

— Lauren Shuler Donner

Let's be honest, any show will live or die based on how good the characters are, how good the actors are, how…

— Eric Kripke

I do like taking on responsibility, sometimes too much. But I was aware of that early on and it's something that came…

— William Mapother

Most actors and actresses are performative as people.

— Zoe Lister-Jones

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

— Steve McQueen

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

— Fatih Ak?n

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

A lot of actors and actresses pull from past experiences.

— Maisie Williams

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

— Manoj Kumar

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

— Frances McDormand

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

— Ramin Bahrani

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

— Dito Montiel

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

— Jon Stewart

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

— Miguel de Cervantes

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

— Michael Zaslow

If life is a performance, and I am not an actor, am I supposed to lie down and die?

— Juliana Hatfield

I was a child actor. I was this spaz kid diagnosed with ADHD, and I worked all the time.

— Fergie

It is quite common for actors to think that every job they get could be their last.

— Nick Searcy