Actors who are not accepted are the ones who have to put in the extra effort to get somewhere in their careers.… — Arbaaz Khan Copy Share Image
In reading plays, however, it should always be remembered that any play, however great, loses much when not seen in action. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've been fortunate that the roles I've auditioned for, I auditioned because I felt I was the right actor to play that… — Asia Kate Dillon Copy Share Image
What’s the difference between and actor and a movie star. An actor is someone who pretends to be somebody else. A movie… — Nicholas Meyer Copy Share Image
Throughout Ireland, there's a brilliant community of filmmakers and actors, and I guess there was always a lure to do some work… — Jamie Dornan Copy Share Image
No actor forgets the times he couldn't get a job. I think everyone doing this operates from that fear. You don't want… — Ben Affleck Copy Share Image
You have to have wonderful actors for material, particularly difficult material that requires complicated performances. — John Wells Copy Share Image
Any actor will tell you, as soon as your ego and your vanity come into the mix, it destroys your work. Completely… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
“A.J. nods out of politeness, but he doesn’t believe in random acts. He is a reader, and what he believes in is… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
For me, I just feel as actors, you're never entitled to anything. It's tough out there. You have to really want it.… — Greta Lee Copy Share Image
I want to photograph what I see and put it in a dramatic context. I'm an actor and a writer, and I… — Tommy Lee Jones Copy Share Image
I wasn't even going to do acting. I don't know how it even happened, to be honest. I was going to go… — Amrita Acharia Copy Share Image
I've always thought of acting as a tool to change society. I watch a lot of actors and I see panic in… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
A big moment for me was when I did a play that was a new adaptation of Dostojevskij's 'Crime and Punishment,' and… — Joel Kinnaman Copy Share Image
You can't say you're an actor if you've never acted, and you can't act if no one gives you an opportunity, but… — Yvonne Orji Copy Share Image
I had to learn that a good actor, like an iceberg, reveals only a small part of his ability on the surface.… — Lilli Palmer Copy Share Image
I think most great actors have their own life trajectory, the character motion doesn't have anything to do with their life motion. — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
As an actor, you are always looking for something different and challenging... 'High Priestess' gave me that rare opportunity. — Amala Akkineni Copy Share Image
I think of myself as a journeyman actor. I've got some talent and I work hard, but people like Brando or Pacino… — Sam Rockwell Copy Share Image
Acting is a reflex, a mechanism for development and survival. . . . It isn't 'second nature,' it is 'first nature.' — Declan Donnellan Copy Share Image
The thing that I had saved up for myself and wanted most to bring off was a fully fledged professional production of… — Trevor Nunn Copy Share Image
An actor is like a piece of clay: you just keep moulding me. Even people who work with you every day want… — Erika Eleniak Copy Share Image
Any comic is a very good actor. Look at Don Rickles. He is saying the same joke every night for 20 years… — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
It's a feeling you get. You could have a hundred actors reading for one part, and they could all be spectacular, but… — Daren Kagasoff Copy Share Image
I'm the opposite of the actor that is bursting with confidence who just knows they're going to make it. I'm the guy… — Leigh Whannell Copy Share Image
I've taken so many kids out of Pittsburgh and onto the great white way in New York City right into a Broadway… — Abby Lee Miller Copy Share Image
The only question we should ask is, 'Are they good?' I've met great actors, black and white, and I've met bad actors,… — Noma Dumezweni Copy Share Image
I always thought acting was all lights, camera, action. It's a job; you have to do your job correctly. — Corey Haim Copy Share Image
What I've discovered is, really, acting is acting is acting. It's all the same. Seventy-five percent of the skills are the same… — William H. Macy Copy Share Image
I think I do have a good eye. It's quite liberating, being in a position to read a script and say, 'No.'… — Matthew Macfadyen Copy Share Image
I come from theatre and there have been roles where my job was to stand in the corner, with a sword in… — Varun Sharma Copy Share Image
It wasn't a mission to be a rock star. It wasn't a mission of mine to even be a movie star. I… — Don Johnson Copy Share Image
I've worked with little kid actors before, and when they start crying or anything like that, it makes my job so easy,… — Liam Hemsworth Copy Share Image
Any good actor has to have a good sense of humour, too; they have to be able to manipulate people. — Chevy Chase Copy Share Image
I am very fortunate to have a career. I always have to act. I don't know if I'll have a career to… — Lara Flynn Boyle Copy Share Image
I was supposed to have a relationship with Judy, but that never happened. Actors in series didn't have the control that they… — Mark Goddard Copy Share Image
They say that I won't last too long on Broadway. I'll catch a Greyhound bus for home. They all say but they're… — George Benson Copy Share Image
Actors are excused from a lot of things, and we get away with a lot... I find it equally interesting and exciting… — Joel Edgerton Copy Share Image
Every year, you can depend on having at least a couple really exciting Nicole Kidman performances, and that's a rare thing. — Adam Scott Copy Share Image
“- Do you have books? - Books on what? - any thing, comets, gravity, black holes ... - Yeah, I've got Shakespeare,… — Conversation Copy Share Image
