I want actors. I want to be with other people. I don't…

Audiences want Burt, John Wayne and others to go on doing the same thing forever. It's critics and the actors themselves who want actors…

— Hal Needham

Actors always want to be musicians, and musicians want to be actors

— Marilyn Manson

I'm a professional singer. I have a theory that all actors want to be rock stars, and all rock stars want to be actors.…

— James Corden

Film and television are so piecemeal. You do one scene, and then you put it to bed, and then you do a scene that…

— Finn Wittrock

Sometimes when I do a musical, they'll be a scene that comes up, and I'm like, 'Oh, I hate this scene,' but you get…

— Gavin Creel

As actors, we want more people to love and appreciate us. We want more fans.

— Aditi Rao Hydari

Film has to be reflecting the world that we live in, and that's all you want to be a part of. Actors inhabit the…

— Alan Rickman

I don't want actors to be writers. I think it's too much responsibility.

— Susanne Bier

Because I write the screenplay entirely and precisely, there is the danger that an actor might feel that this finite role is being imposed…

— Asghar Farhadi

People want to see actors in funny attire and actors are getting paid to do it.

— Arshad Warsi

I've dated some actors that you probably never want to go out with, but that's not because they're actors, but because we didn't connect.

— Jennifer Love Hewitt

There are a handful of actors who sustain interest because it's exciting to watch them get better at what they do. I want to…

— Julia Stiles

I don't think you really have chemistry in the way that you want between two actors unless frustration is there as well.

— Omari Hardwick

I did an action series back in '97, and did very intense training; weapons, knives, hand-to-hand combat. The more an actor trains in that…

— Melinda Clarke

You act with your soul. That's why you all want to be actors, because your souls are not used up by life.

— Stella Adler