Actors Quotes · Page 85

When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise.

— Lauren Bacall

One of an actor's fears is that your current project could be your last project.

— Katharine Ross

British actors behave like Europeans; they are also extremely well trained.

— Jean-Jacques Annaud

So many people are called but few serve as actors, you know what I mean?

— Faye Dunaway

I think film is a world of directors. Theater is a world of actors.

— Diego Luna

There's a whole catalogue of actors that never went to acting school.

— Dennis Farina

I never thought I actually could be an actor. I was always pretty shy and quiet.

— Danny Burstein

It is really hard when the actor you pictured can't do the film.

— Rebecca Miller

every actor knows that tragedy, being linear and inevitable, is taxing - but comedy, which depends on the element of surprise, is…

— Robin Morgan

Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference.…

— Alan Rickman

I'm always excited to be around other actors. I sometimes only get to work with myself, and it's so tedious. I was…

— Bruce Willis

It's weird, not to sound too actor but I think that any time you do a performance, you kind of take a…

— Alia Shawkat

In order to be an artist and an actor, like tackling the classics in the theater as well as film, there's lots…

— Val Kilmer

As an actor, your motives and your own crazy psyche is really all you're responsible for in the movie.

— Kate Beckinsale

I have nothing but admiration for the actors on soap operas. It is unbelievably challenging to put out an hour show in…

— Catherine Mary Stewart

If you put anger in the writing, then it's like an actor crying on stage. The audience will not cry with the…

— Roger Rosenblatt

I'm definitely happy with the way my career has gone, the success; but I even feel glad that I've experienced some failure…

— Reese Witherspoon

I've been in scenarios as an actor where you have to manufacture an emotion that's not really there, but it wasn't hard…

— Benjamin Bratt

There is a deep camaraderie of insecurity between us actors. You rehash choices you've made among those who are close to you…

— Lela Loren

That is the responsibility of the artist, of the actor, to inhabit these roles and put on somebody else's shoes. It's the…

— Christian Slater

I never saw myself so much as an actor. I wanted to be a cartoonist like Charles M. Schulz and create my…

— Mark Hamill

I don't have a burning desire to act, strangely enough. I don't know that if I hadn't been an actor as a…

— Jodie Foster

Every film for every actor is a make-or-break film. I believe every film has the power to break you or make you.…

— Abhishek Bachchan

The actors are different, although I didn't set out to be different. My inspiration came from people like Eddie Murphy, Martin Lawrence…

— Tracy Morgan

I joined the Actors Studio and began to work with Lee Strasberg, and that changed my work.

— Sally Field

You have to trust your instincts. There is a moment when an actor has it, and he knows it.

— Clint Eastwood

I never hoped that both my children would become actors. I expected them to do something else.

— Catherine Deneuve

I never have particular actors planned when I'm in the process of writing.

— Susanne Bier

The role of a do-gooder is not what actors call a fat part.

— Margaret Halsey

I still think that movies are amazing; I respect actors and directors.

— Joaquin Phoenix

I just don't feel like part of the fraternity of actors. I do geek out. All the time.

— Kurt Fuller

Maybe it's a personality thing individual to me, but actors always benefit from body awareness.

— Kristin Lehman

Ultimately, we are actors and let's leave our past absolutely behind us.

— Alok Nath

I want only dead actors. That way there'll be no jealousy.

— Simone Signoret

I think a movie is a media that is evoking feelings.

— Ang Lee

As an actor, at least from my standpoint, I can't not like who I'm playing.

— Megan Hilty

Actors' performances do not stand alone in any film, live action or whatever.

— Andy Serkis

I think any actor in their right mind is afraid of getting pigeonholed.

— Zosia Mamet

It's so funny, actors usually have a directing ambition. I've got no ambition for directing.

— Majandra Delfino

One has to be honest to the story and choose actors accordingly.

— Boney Kapoor