The actor's job is to divine and embody the truth, and…

“Man can embody the truth but he cannot know it.”

— William Butler Yeats

Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.

— William Butler Yeats

We are seekers of the truth, but we do not embody the truth. And in humility, we should recognize that the same can be…

— John C. Danforth

I don't think an actor's job is to be recognized. I think an actor's job is to facilitate the writing in a way that…

— Jeffrey Donovan

An actor's job is about putting across the author's intention; I don't think of myself on the same level as a creator.

— Jane Asher

Most actors will tell you that it takes a while to figure out what you want to be because we just want to do…

— Rachelle Lefevre

As an actor, it's my job to make everything interesting and exciting and new. If I'm not doing my job well, then I'm stealing.

— Allison Mack

As far as the creative side, the more I do this, the more I know that it's all about the writing. We don't always…

— Wes Bentley

As an actor, my job is to go to the set, read my scene and perform to the best of my abilities.

— Jasmin Bhasin

To be honest, as an actor, job security is not a trait.

— Taylor Kinney

Part of an actor's job is to find correlations between your own life and the life of the person you are playing.

— Daniel Radcliffe

Basically, the actor's job is to pay attention to the script.

— Joe Morton

An actor's job is to embrace emotions and situations that in real life we spend all of our time running away from.

— Wentworth Miller

As a filmmaker and an actor, my job is to react towards people, but I want a reaction from them.

— Tommy Wiseau

The audience basically likes complex characters, and bringing out the complexities is the actor's job. The audience doesn't have the script, the actor does.

— Neeraj Kabi