England is a mecca for actors who want to do the classics.

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

— Aditi Rao Hydari

Some actors want to keep riding the horse that made them famous, but it's not interesting to me. I like to turn an archetype…

— Bobby Cannavale

Actors want to act; actors want to emote. It's like the emotional equivalent of tearing your shirt off and screaming to the heavens: you…

— Joel Edgerton

I'm interested in the dark horse. It's too scary being the face of something, unless it's really right. A lot of young actors want…

— Sacha Dhawan

Some actors give you what you want. Some you have to make do what you want.

— Ang Lee

It's just an impulse, in some actors. You want to make the audience like you. That's the aim of the exercise.

— Ethan Coen

What I say about actors is you always want to find an actor you can play ball with. You throw the ball at them…

— Robert Knepper

As actors, we want to go find the humanity and make it more nuanced and fill in the colors, rather than just being suit…

— Juliette Lewis

I think all Latino actors want to be storytellers first. I want to be an actor first, and then I want to be Latina.

— Gina Rodriguez

Many actors want to play Hamlet and Macbeth. Ever since I became an actor, from the very beginning I just wanted to play a…

— Dustin Hoffman

Actors want to show off and dance in front of you and get your love, because they don't think they're worthy of it in…

— Frank Langella

The comic is today's western, so many movies, and I think that if actors want to optimize their longevity, it's important for them to…

— Erin Gray

People become actors because they want to hide, and it's not easy to talk about myself. I accept that a certain responsibility goes with…

— Jimmy Smits

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

I get why certain actors want to stay in the closet.

— Adam Lambert