I've always identified as an actor. That's what I set out…

I've always identified with the misfits

— Stephan Jenkins

I've identified all my life with refugees.

— Vanessa Redgrave

When you're an actor and you can set your arm on fire, you feel kind of magical.

— Robert Englund

The visual stuff just lives inside of you. As far as really being able to take care of an actor on a set, how…

— Drea de Matteo

Definitely as an actor, the experience you have, at least I'm talking for me, my experience as an actor is you go to the…

— Rodrigo Santoro

The reason my films work is because every actor on set is very secure. They're able to fly.

— Mike Leigh

When you have an actor on set who is playing themselves in a movie that is about the most cathartic, most traumatizing event of…

— Holly Hunter

When I set out to become an actor, I had set myself a standard.

— Sidney Poitier

The funny thing as an actor is that you show up on the set, and your key goal really is to make the scenes…

— Benjamin Bratt

It's hard enough to just be a good actor. When you're on set, there's everything going against you. There are walkie talkies going off,…

— James Marsden

When you're an actor on set, people treat you like a giant baby. They don't let you do anything. Like, "Do you need any…

— Rooney Mara

As an actor, you can show up on a set and be on a TV show for three or four years, or whatever it…

— Michael Ian Black

There's an alchemy that happens in my eyes when you mix it up, when you have a seasoned actor on set and your first-timer.

— Sean Baker

There should always be that leeway because if you think of your character as sort of absolutely fixed, then you just try and find…

— Lenny Abrahamson

An Egyptian newspaper once publicly identified me as the C.I.A. station chief in Cairo. It seemed so stupid at the time. I was only…

— Richard Engel