Actors Quotes · Page 11

All people are half actors.

— Dana Andrews

I like to give my actors a lot of room.

— Nick Cassavetes

I feel that I am a good actor.

— Burt Lancaster

Actors should never give interviews.

— Daniel Day-Lewis

Everybody loves great actors.

— Chris Chibnall

I was an actor before becoming a comedian.

— Shelley Berman

A lot of directors don't really like actors.

— Joe Wright

It helps for actors if you have one director.

— James Watkins

One of the most important things for an actor is to observe humanity.

— Carla Gugino

The scenery in the play was beautiful, but the actors got in front of it.

— Alexander Woollcott

I like to think that I've grown as an actor and things have changed, and I think so.

— Maika Monroe

If my parents were alive, they'd giggle "John was an actor since day one!".

— John Kapelos

A magician is only an actor - an actor pretending to be a magician.

— Harry Houdini

In L.A. everyone is an actor. In Texas, everyone's a musician.

— Minka Kelly

I'd never worked with an actor-director before [Warren Beatty].

— Alden Ehrenreich

I've been a professional actor for almost 40 years.

— Ron Perlman

Till the age of 40, actors are pleasing others, but after that is the time to command characters and ask for what…

— Rajpal Yadav

The dance that happens, between actor and director, is a very delicate thing...it's why people tend to work together on many films…

— Sydney Pollack

Claude Rains was what we call an actor's actor. He was very involved with himself and his performance.

— Gloria Stuart

Going out with other actors is never good; actresses are neurotic, and actors are horrendous egotists.

— Chris O'Dowd

All my career, I've said this: Critics and producers think audiences want actors that only present the silhouette and hit the points…

— Patti LuPone

AMC has a track record for finding actors who have been working actors but not names yet and casting them.

— Mireille Enos

There are lots of wonderful old Italian actors. You don't need to take an Egyptian to play an Italian actor.

— Omar Sharif

[To reporter who telephoned with news of her Oscar:] If you are joking me, I will get up immediately and kill you…

— Anna Magnani

Actors act... Their job is to become this character. And I have, in fact, seen Sam Heughan become Jamie and Caitriona Balfe…

— Diana Gabaldon

In a rehearsal room, your real resource as an actor aren't the things around you; your resources are your imagination and your…

— Stephen Lang

I'm thrilled that Wonder Woman and that character endures because every actor wants a role that has some positive affect and causes…

— Lynda Carter

As an actor, I never really had a strategy. I just take projects, as they come. It all comes down to the…

— Chris Vance

The first people that have the information are the hair and makeup ladies and the wardrobe people, because they often have to…

— Gretchen Mol

You can't really appreciate anonymity until you've lost it. People say that's sour grapes, but it really isn't To be able to…

— Paul Newman

You know for years before the notion of sequels, actors were the franchise. John Wayne would rarely do sequels, but he kind…

— Joel Silver

Meryl Streep doesn't care how she looks. She just surrenders to the truth of the character. Not everybody has the ability to…

— Bill Duke

Morgan Freeman is a very giving actor.

— Austin Stowell

Every actor I know wants to be a pop star.

— Michael Hutchence

There are too many stars and too few actors.

— Bruce Lee

Actors were the first people to accept me.

— Michael Lindsay-Hogg

I became an actor because I couldn't not.

— Debra Winger

I'm an actor, coming from New York theater.

— Skeet Ulrich

Actors should be timeless and impersonal.

— Anne Parillaud

Actors are responsible to the people we play.

— Philip Seymour Hoffman