Actors Quotes · Page 78

Find in yourself those human things which are universal.

— Sanford Meisner

One of the best things about being an actor is that it's a meritocracy.

— Benedict Cumberbatch

The real stars are not good actors or actresses. They're personalities.

— Jayne Mansfield

The world 's a theatre, the earth a stage, Which God and Nature do with actors fill.

— Thomas Heywood

I think that an actor is more likely to be forgiven in the public's eye than an actress.

— Mila Kunis

Actors have to stay optimistic. The moment we start thinking otherwise, we're dead.

— Peter O'Toole

Some actors don't even read the stage directions at all.

— Edgar Wright

Honestly, I want to do films. I want to make that move from actor to producer, like Will Smith.

— Michael B. Jordan

I admire many actors, including Amitabh Bacchhan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Irfan Khan, and many more.

— Pankaj Tripathi

I really loved my dad. I was very, very close to my dad. He - you know, he was very, very nervous…

— Jeffrey Tambor

Why things get canceled or not is so unbelievably out of actors' hands that it's one of those things where you've just…

— Peter Jacobson

You couldn't make a cheap drama. That would be too low-budget. Drama has to have good photography and well-known actors.

— Bruce Campbell

Having a good actor as co-star is always a pleasure, as it gives you space to perform. It's nice to work with…

— Nithya Menen

Some actors say they don't know themselves at all, and that's why they act: because they can disappear into other people.

— Holly Hunter

A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints' was the first real actor-actor part I did, and I hope I to do more. Action…

— Channing Tatum

It's no good being the best actor in the world if nobody sees you because you didn't happen to be there at…

— Roger Moore

A lot of the people I'm working with are not actors, or it's their first time in a movie. I'm not trying…

— Joe Swanberg

I watch a lot of television and I watch a lot of film and I hate when you watch the action sequences…

— Raymond Cruz

Achieving success as an actor has not been easy for me. My biggest, probably most irrational complaint has been that I've had…

— James Woods

I think I might have been a more interesting actor, had more of a career earlier on, if I had more formal…

— Sam Elliott

Filmmaking is so heavy: there are so many people and trucks and teamsters and costume people and hair people and makeup people.…

— Jean-Marc Vallee

You know, I always say musicians, they can do it on their own. They can practice their violin on their own. A…

— Anne Archer

There are still actors who use emotional memory, affective memory, which was Lee Strasberg's emphasis, not his total emphasis. She taught everything…

— James Lipton

As the actors on the show we rarely get an opportunity to, as I said we get the scripts the night before…

— Rachael MacFarlane

As an actor you become that lighting rod between the person who made the play and the audience.

— Christopher Walken

I would tell the world that Shahrukh is the better actor

— Shahrukh Khan

The concealment of art by the actor is as great a mark of genius as it is in the painter.

— Francois Delsarte

Ninety-eight per cent of actors who actually make a living do so in front of a camera.

— Julian Fellowes

Twin Peaks' was the best job I ever had as an actor.

— Richard Beymer

I was getting to perform with an actor with whom I had never interacted before

— Deepika Padukone

As an actor, you should be willing to take challenges.

— Wilmer Valderrama

I went to Queen's University Belfast and stayed nine months, then I ran away to be an actor.

— Simon Callow

Actors like to play bad guys because they're more fun. They also win more awards.

— Dean Norris

Think of Frank Capra and Preston Sturges. They used the same actors over and over again.

— Matthew Modine

Actors are cave dwellers in a rich darkness which they love and hate.

— Iris Murdoch

I was an activist long before I even entertained the possibility of being an actor.

— William Baldwin

I certainly hated actors and, more importantly, they hated me.

— Hugh Grant

I think it's a room full of insecure actors, which is ultimately very comforting.

— Jesse Eisenberg

On the stage you try to act real. On the screen you try to be real.

— Shirley MacLaine

I think I've had more of a variety in what I've done than most actors

— John Turturro