Actors Quotes · Page 83

When they're good, I like working with new actors.

— John C. Reilly

Emotional power is maybe the most valuable thing that an actor can have.

— Christopher Walken

I don't know what else I could do but pretend to be an actor.

— Alec Guinness

I do this profession. I'm an actor. And it is, for me, an opportunity to meet people.

— Gerard Depardieu

You can't stop being a citizen just because you have a Screen Actors' Guild card.

— Paul Newman

I think there's a big misconception out there about actors and the choices they have.

— Famke Janssen

There's nothing more terrifying than an actor who comes with an idea.

— Lance Henriksen

I want to work with great filmmakers and great actors and get better as an actor.

— Bradley Cooper

An actor finds things in the moment with a director and other actors that you don't have time to hand-draw or animate…

— Andy Serkis

Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation...

— Aldous Huxley

I think having healthy relationships makes me feel much more confident and available to do good work as an actor.

— Rose McIver

They say God looks after kids and idiots, and I think actors are probably a combination of the two.

— Scott Glenn

As actors, it is our responsibility to read the newspapers, and then say what we read on television like it's our own…

— Janeane Garofalo

Maybe it took a little time, or we're a little late, but finally we're recognizing that international stars are fantastic. They're the…

— Rob Marshall

Arnold Schwarzenegger made his tax returns public, [and] now there's a problem about him stretching the truth. Apparently under occupation he put…

— Jay Leno

My path was to be an actor and it’s been very good to me in life. It’s broadened my horizons and given…

— Nicole Kidman

I always say YCDA: you can do anything. If you want to be a successful actor, you have to believe in yourself…

— Anonymous

I always hated when the studios just kind of said that anybody can act. You look at people like Spencer Tracy, Henry…

— Bob Newhart

When student-actors see people and the way they behave when together, see the color of the sky, hear the sounds in the…

— Viola Spolin

There are street artists. Street musicians. Street actors. But there are no street physicists. A little known secret is that a physicist…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I think one of the things that might distinguish me is when I'm going to work as an actor I really try…

— Peter Sarsgaard

I think the guy who has had the better films is Will Smith. I don't know if he's a better actor than…

— LL Cool J

Obviously as a kid, for probably anybody who chose animation voiceover as a career in their adult life, Mel Blanc was the…

— Tom Kenny

In general all celebrities, no matter how they became a celebrity, or if they're an actor or singer or a model, whatever…

— Rachel Uchitel

But actors with political views are a dime a dozen.

— Tom Hanks

I love getting to work with amazing actors because it kind of makes you look better.

— Noah Schnapp

You scratch a preacher a little bit, and you'll get an actor.

— John Cullum

I try to encourage actors to work harder off screen because that's where you find things.

— Denzel Washington

Jason Schwartzman's, like, one of my favorite actors, for sure.

— Johnny Simmons

Being an actor, we're so dependent on the writers.

— Amy Ryan

Actors don't have to be conscious all the time or up their game when it comes to fashion.

— Sanya Malhotra

But I refuse to believe that I am a better actor than myself.

— Jim Carrey

Trust is hard to get from actors, and for me to give to actors.

— Lee Daniels

Someone called actors 'sculptors in snow.' Very apt. In the end, it's all nothing.

— Vincent Price

I like the timeframe involved in being an actor.

— Karl Urban

I know actors with promising careers who get blown out of the business, never to return.

— Everett McGill

In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.

— Niels Bohr

I came from a generation of actors for whom TV was taboo.

— Alicia Silverstone

I'd been on all the television programs as an actor, as a writer, as a director, as a producer.

— James Lipton

Actors seem brave and unpredictable, but they're spontaneous as a tax return.

— Greg Gutfeld