Actors Quotes · Page 113

Comedy holds the greatest risk for an actor, and laughter is the reward.

— Cary Grant

I hope Hong Kong and Asia wants to hire American Asian actresses as much as Hollywood has been hiring Chinese actors from…

— Ming-Na Wen

Because of my background in theater and radio acting, I knew that I could make a living as an actor.

— Casey Kasem

I'm not much of a preparer. I think sometimes as an actor you need to go out and learn some skills, but…

— William H. Macy

I know some actors feel classes are not cool or they create negative public relations, but I continue to crave the story…

— Michael Welch

What I observed about my fellow actors was that most gave up very easily.

— Harrison Ford

As an actor, you think you have to go really far and deep and cry and yell to be good in a…

— Berenice Bejo

Performance capture is a technology, not a genre; it's just another way of recording an actor's performance.

— Andy Serkis

That's the first time I've been involved in such a big way as a voice actor and this script [Voltron] is very…

— Rhys Darby

Most, actually, German actors have like some speaking of French. So, the French wasn't the problem. But, I was having a problem…

— Quentin Tarantino

The more you do it, the more you learn to concentrate, as a child does, incredibly intensively and then you sort of…

— Cate Blanchett

I've often said there's two kinds of actors. There's a more gregarious type and the shy type.

— Al Pacino

I want to prove to people that I'm an actor and not just a character.

— Daniel Radcliffe

Being a TV comedian, actor, writer, columnist, and all that is quite helpful to me in acquiring wide varieties of knowledge, which…

— Takeshi Kitano

I'm a stand-up comedian-turned-actor-turned-vampire at night.

— Vir Das

What we consider typical of the male is a question I ask myself quite often - it's relevant to my life as…

— Elliot Cowan

I consciously decided not to be a 'London' actor. Those gangster movies made a lot of East End actors think they were…

— Eddie Marsan

I come in as an actor, having read through the script a few times, made a couple of character-choices, thinking I'm going…

— Jason Graae

We did a lot of that in drama school: intellectualising and maybe justifying your position. 'I am a thinking actor and I…

— Michael Fassbender

You're an actor - people judge you and criticize you, and praise you and say you're great in equal measure.

— Laurence Fox

It's just unfair that talent of color aren't given the same opportunities as white and male actors, directors, producers, writers, et cetera.

— Darnell M. Hunt

People use the Method as a shield; it shields them from being vulnerable. I hear all these young actors who are like,…

— Mark Ruffalo

I told myself that I would not go back to the camps as an actor ever again, that I was very frightened…

— Ben Kingsley

To be an actor in the society in Israel, you have to be ten times better than the Israeli Jews. To get…

— Ali Suliman

I'm going to ask what is correct, what I deserve, especially in relation to male actors.

— Jessica Chastain

If people offer me decent roles in good films, of course I'll take it. But I just didn't like the actor lifestyle.…

— Harold Ramis

I came to New York to be an actor and I became a film producer first.

— Griffin Dunne

As far as actors go, you're not going to find many ballplayers better than me.

— D. B. Sweeney

I feel like with actors wanting to direct, you really only have a shot or two. You can't just make a bunch…

— Neil Patrick Harris

I always made a living as an actor when I came to California. I never had to do anything else.

— Bruce Dern

I think Russell Crowe is a brilliant actor.

— Rebel Wilson

It's so wonderful and creative to go in and tell the wardrobe department what you want to wear and how you want…

— Jim Piddock

Music is my main goal, but I'm not going to rush a record out. There are so many actors who have come…

— River Phoenix

That is a gift to have four weeks to rehearse something. But remember, when you're doing a play half of that time…

— Jeff Fahey

It's our job as actors to make it look like it's not manufactured. If you have two actors who understand their characters…

— Henry Cavill

They are the only honest hypocrites, their life is a voluntary dream, a studied madness.

— William Hazlitt

I've wanted to be an actor since I was eight years old and I did TV commercials when I was a kid.…

— Mike Myers

There is nothing worse than when actors come to a set - and it happens a lot with big stars - and…

— Paddy Considine

I think that I just need to work with great directors and actors, people who are better than me, so that I…

— Paul Walker

I like actors who don't have to think too hard about what they have to do to achieve their performance.

— Michel Gondry