Actors Quotes · Page 104

British actors come at acting from a slightly different angle. Because a lot of the films are cast out there, they are…

— Jim Sturgess

When you're an actor, you show up and it's wonderful because you're in the world of make-believe.

— Joseph McGinty Nichol

There is an established tradition of actors directing films that have a particular, personal meaning for them - Warren Beatty, Clint Eastwood,…

— Steven Van Zandt

As an actor, you're always playing different people, so you yourself are always kind of going through an identity crisis.

— Josh Hutcherson

He wouldn't talk to me for two months. I was like, 'What an ass**le.' Actors are used to getting their way and…

— Jennifer Lopez

My mom had an audition for a commercial when I was about two and a half, and I ran in crying and…

— Mae Whitman

I get on with actors, and when I'm doing a theatre show, it's great being with them all the time. But we're…

— Phil Daniels

I lack confidence as an actor.

— Charles Durning

“Most of his face had been hidden by long, greasy bangs, and he mumbled in a low voice that made him difficult…

— Mizuki Mizushiro

If the helplessness and isolation of labour, who have nothing to sell but their labour, can be totally removed by connecting labour…

— Muhammad Yunus

Sitcom hours are silly easy compared to drama. Whenever an actor on a sitcom complains, I feel like smacking them!

— Tricia Helfer

And to be honest, most actors are incredibly solipsistic.

— Molly Ringwald

I really do think that if you're doing your job right, you're never gonna be what the other actor was, but you…

— Liev Schreiber

What's a celebrity anyway? Paris Hilton's a celebrity. I'm just a working actor.

— Denzel Washington

I never said, 'I'm going to be a big star.' I said, 'I'm going to be a good actor.' And that took…

— Jeff Daniels

In L.A., being an actor is like a pastime, everybody there is like, "I was on this reality show; I'm an actor."…

— Condola Rashad

I never planned to be an actor. It turned out I could make a living doing it.

— Wallace Shawn

I've been in scenarios as an actor where you have to manufacture an emotion that's not really there, but it wasn't hard…

— Benjamin Bratt

Actors enjoy being treated as ordinary people.

— Tom Hooper

I learned my business in the theater and in television, particularly working with the actors. You can learn much more in the…

— Michael Haneke

It's tough to be an actor and it's tough to portray a real person, and it's tough to play two people adding…

— Oren Moverman

I find music the the clearest and easiest way in to what a movie will feel like - more so than visual…

— David Michod

Even dramatically how you position some person, the depth, the existence [in 3D] is different than a flat image even though by…

— Ang Lee

As an actor you appreciate the security of a job. But I don't ever want to get too comfortable.

— Chris Noth

I'm not Shakespeare. I have no delusions of who I am, as a writer. I wrote a simply beautiful script that's a…

— Steve Antin

There is at the global level a very small number of actors who can meaningfully weigh in on global institutional design, who…

— Thomas Pogge

I think I'm an extremely conscientious producer and now equally as a director and it gives me the opportunity to look at…

— Tony Krantz

The fuss that actors began making about the difficulty of shifting to sound struck me as perfectly foolish.

— Gloria Swanson

A couple of clues came my way of what I might be getting myself into when I sat down with a number…

— Kevin Spacey

if your subject is an actor, he or she will also be shorter in person than they appear onscreen. This, also, you…

— Jancee Dunn

I became an actor by accident, not by design.

— James Lipton

New Kids on the Block are on season two [Full House ], so that was just a huge lifelong dream come true.…

— Andrea Barber

The director sent for me for Tarzan. I climbed the tree and walked out on a limb. The next day I was…

— Johnny Weissmuller

It's great to be black in Hollywood. When a black actor does something, it seems new and different just by virtue of…

— Will Smith

Well I'd really love to work with Robert De Niro, because he's still the most talented actor out there.

— Paul Thomas Anderson

My primary instinct as an actor is not the big transformation. It's thrilling if a performer can do that well, but that's…

— Colin Firth

Ive always been very comfortable in a set environment. All the collaborating going on, seeing how actors work - it all excites…

— Gia Coppola

When you're working on a television show with actors, what you hope you're doing is playing jazz with them all the time.…

— Remi Aubuchon

I don't know what acting is, but I enjoy it. I think we ask too many questions of ourselves. We make too…

— Anthony Hopkins

My co-stars aren't bad actors, but they're no Zach Braff.

— Zach Braff