Actors Quotes · Page 94

I pray to be of service to the playwright, the audience, the other actors and my character.

— Lusia Strus

You know, people really don't understand what actors do.

— Sally Field

As an actor, I still dont really know exactly what I am doing most of the time.

— Sam Riley

All the actors go through ups and downs in their careers and in their lives.

— Ashish Vidyarthi

Normal Heart' was my most transcendent moment as an actor.

— Ellen Barkin

I want to prove a point. That point is, actors are artists, not narcissists necessarily

— William Hurt

I haven't even watched that many movies; I'm, like, a weird actor.

— Jane Levy

There is no question that sobriety has made me a better actor, made me a better person.

— Edie Falco

Playwrights are the most gregarious writers - to get our work done, we need actors, directors, set designers.

— Katori Hall

As an actor in the theater you're taught that you never play a bad guy. You have to love who you are.…

— Denzel Washington

Where I come from, you don't just say, 'Oh, I'm going to become an actor.' Talk like that and they think you're…

— Ellen Pompeo

I think I'm a very very nice director. Very supportive, very nurturing. I definitely try to challenge my actors but I think…

— David Schwimmer

Of course, at their best, movies are anti-literature and, as a medium, belong not to writers, not to actors, but to directors.

— Truman Capote

Actors have to stay ready and be ready. They need to adjust things in their life, whether it be hair, teeth, take…

— Vanessa Bell Calloway

I learned a lot about acting - watching not just myself but other actors and learning how to distinguish between two great…

— Ralph Fiennes

Everyone thinks I'm a comedian - which I am and are. I was born into a comedic family but I'm trained as…

— Marlon Wayans

Ideally, you have a company of actors who care more about the product than they do about themselves. In my experience, actors…

— Christopher Timothy

As soon as a person takes a part as a homosexual, the press says, "What do your wife and children think of…

— Quentin Crisp

In the Twenties, it wasn't a remarkable thing for a singer to be an actor, or even to be involved in politics.…

— Terrence Howard

I did a couple of movies in Brazil, and the actors were incredibly congenial and hung out together a lot. Even the…

— Alan Arkin

My mother was an extraordinary theater actor in Canada, and when I would finish school, I would go to the theater. I…

— Kiefer Sutherland

In discussing the process with the actors, I made it clear to them that they could improvise but that the sum total…

— Mike Figgis

The most important thing that certainly the United States and other Asian and Pacific actors have done is to urge that whatever…

— Anonymous

I had a really good time working with Jim Cameron. A lot of people didn't, but I did as I got on…

— Bernard Hill

Actors are almost impossible to treat successfully.

— Martin Grotjahn

What actor wouldn't want to work with Mel Gibson?

— Jim Caviezel

When you are an actor, you bring a tool in your craft but you are not that person.

— Pam Grier

I'm a working actor, so I do pretty much whatever comes along because it's my job.

— Katharine Isabelle

Every character actor, in their own little sphere, is the lead.

— Dabbs Greer

I was on the verge of quitting… The Acting Center actually saved me as an actor.

— Cady McClain

There are actors who don't get out of their Barbie Doll avatars, but that's not who I am.

— Neha Dhupia

You look for those actors or actresses that fit the personality to populate the film.

— Yuen Woo-ping

I'm really a director's actor. I rely heavily on a director.

— Patricia Clarkson

the role of the Do-Gooder is not what actors call a fat part.

— Margaret Halsey

I was able to capture on film things the actors didn't even know they were doing.

— Elia Kazan

It's incredibly moving to hear some of our greatest actors performing Shakespeare.

— Judi Dench

I'd maybe done about 12 movies when I decided that this was what I was going to do.

— Jeff Bridges

I think, you know, actors rely on each other all the time.

— Linda Cardellini

Seriously, I would go in a second. I'd be the first actor in space and I'd love to do it.

— Tom Cruise

I don't really consider myself one of those actors who takes his work home with him.

— Jeff Bridges