Actor Quotes · Page 195

I just love the process of working with other actors,

— John Cusack

I like actors who, when you see them on screen, you sense a person, not just an actor.

— Alexander Payne

It's fatal to talk about acting. It sounds faintly ridiculous if you start analysing it.

— Jim Broadbent

“each person has his own scenario, but only a few can be a good actor for his life scenarios”

— Lugas Anegah

All I want is I am able to do any role that I get, comedy or not.

— Sunil Grover

I'm always amazed when any actor can decipher my direction.

— Spike Jonze

We've had no problems with the actors, but we keep a really loose set.

— Peter Farrelly

As an actor, you always want to find a piece of who you are in every role you take on.

— Larenz Tate

In high school, I did some musicals, but I never took acting until college. I was studying opera, classical voice, and a…

— Forest Whitaker

I don't mind talking about acting. I don't have anything interesting to say about it, but it's interesting talking about it.

— Paul Giamatti

My feeling is the moment the theatre is not full you have to do something else. But most people somehow think 'If…

— Keith Johnstone

Who would know that by playing a nerdy alien and a child killer, I would have a 30-year career in Hollywood? I've…

— Robert Englund

I did my Doctorate on the House Un-American Activities Committee's effect on the American theater.

— Robert Vaughn

My job as an actor is to cover and expose in varying allowance that - so that the audience can peek through…

— Lorraine Toussaint

For a child actor, its a matter of listening, reacting, and being able to put yourself in a new place without being…

— Jena Malone

I never thought about becoming an actor. Even when I applied for university, I didn't choose theater as a major to become…

— Gong Yoo

A flop is often the result of the fact that each of the talents involved, while working on the same project, may…

— Ethan Mordden

“The costumes help. They make it less real, disguise what it really is both for the actors and for the people who'll…

— Barbara Hambly

I've always loved movies, so I tried to get into an acting school. I saw an ad for the Oscar school on…

— Liam Cunningham

I did what every other actor did: there were agents all the way up the Charing Cross Road and up St. Martin's…

— Nigel Hawthorne

It's surreal. Here I was, a bhangra champion who had performed at an Indian festival in the U.K. and Germany, a television…

— Binnu Dhillon

I think people are used to seeing actors be wide open and desperately giving of themselves, and while I do that on…

— Kristen Stewart

[When you are an actor] it's not a burden to go to work whether it's hard work, whether it's super early work,…

— Vanessa Paradis

“With one finger, Yang Wen-li was capable of mobilizing a giant fleet of tens of thousands of ships in battlespaces all across…

— Yoshiki Tanaka

My long-term goal is to play a drag role or a female role in a Broadway production.

— Jinkx Monsoon

I believe in doing roles that make me explore new terrain as an actor.

— Vatsal Sheth

Being an actor is like being a monk: you have got to be dedicated.

— David Jason

I'm not sure people even think of me as an actor at all.

— James Corden

Guy Ritchie, he thinks going to drama school is the worst thing in the world.

— Jason Statham

I think that as actors age, the work becomes more organic to them.

— Ray Romano

People are ready to take good actors, irrespective of whether he is a TV actor or a filmstar.

— Hiten Tejwani

I find acting one of the easier things I've done.

— Robby Hoffman

You can always tell an actor by the bored look in their eye whenever someone else is talking.

— Natasha Leggero

I know what I love about acting - and it's the creative process

— William Hurt

I never will believe there is such a thing as a great actor.

— Robert Mitchum

I think it's damaging to know too much about a person, about an actor.

— Molly Parker

I had been in 760 performances of 10 different Shakespeare plays by the time I was 17.

— Sam Wanamaker

If an actor tries to understand too much, he will act in an intellectual and unnatural manner.

— Michelangelo Antonioni

I am just an actor, and this is my job. What I am doing is not extraordinary.

— Nithya Menen

I'm a director's actor; I'm a storyteller's actor.

— Michael Ironside