Actors Quotes · Page 118

I try to cast really good actors and give them a chance to do their very best work, give them as much…

— Ben Affleck

The relationship between an actor and a director is like a love story between a man and a woman. I'm sure sometimes…

— Gerard Depardieu

In TV, there's so much compromise, it does start to grate a bit. But if you're a writer or an actor, it…

— Joss Whedon

The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them…

— Al Pacino

I know certain actors are totally screwed up on drugs, yet it gets covered up. Why wasn't I excused for 'exhaustion' or…

— Drew Barrymore

The delineation between the actor and his part is a practical matter. When the camera runs, you want the actor to be…

— Mike Leigh

I love actors who are wonderful - like John Cusack and Russell Crowe, and wouldn't it be a treat to eventually direct…

— Renee O'Connor

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

— Anna Magnani

The actor's relationship to the crew is really a big dynamic that influences everything. When actors are assholes, it becomes problematic. When…

— Paris Barclay

I think there's something so wonderful about being part of the process from the seed of the idea to seeing it come…

— Jennifer Aniston

As an actor, early on, you learn that the audience is never wrong. And if you think they are wrong, you need…

— William H. Macy

An actor would be foolish to do something that might hold up the picture, or more importantly incapacitate him. If an actor…

— Glenn Ford

I'm a geeky actor, in the way that I like the craft of acting. I trained as a stage actor and was…

— Alan Tudyk

I was selling real estate at the time, in Pacific Palisades, California, so imagine that: getting a note and a bottle of…

— Kurt Fuller

I had always been interested in screenwriting, ever since I could write things down as a child. Obviously, I started as an…

— John Francis Daley

With acting I am being led by the script, other actors, the director, etc. But with songwriting I feel it is much…

— Helen Slater

Michael Caine is a movie star, but he's also a great actor. I can't say that about every movie star. It's the…

— Norman Jewison

if i dont want to be known, i cannot be known.the best actor can divide role from self.the best liar can divide…

— Ming-Dao Deng

I don't think that there's much hiding that actors can do. If you're doing good work, you're showing a part of yourself…

— Kristen Stewart

The difference between my generation of actors and their generation is that they were bigger than life. We are not bigger than…

— Bruce Dern

My parents didn't want me to be an actor. They didn't think I could take the rejection, and I have to say…

— Rupert Penry-Jones

The best notes are action-based and less, I don't know, heady, theoretical, because, as actors, we're too much in our heads anyway.

— Josh Peck

I was sort of a jack-of-all-trades in show business for a long time. I was a singer and a dancer, and then…

— Christopher Walken

Sightseeing was ... based on imaginative invention, like rehearsing your own play in stage sets from which all the actors had fled.

— Paul Theroux

I'd always wanted to go to drama school. My life plan was to get into drama school and become an actor, but…

— Phoebe Fox

The great actors, like Cary Grant, and the gentlemanliness that they portray in the movies is something that I try to keep…

— Michiel Huisman

During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always…

— Rachel McAdams

If I spread myself too thin, I'm not a good actor, I'm not a good mother, and I'm just really high-strung -…

— Katherine Heigl

Actors who perhaps are super-confident and have absolute belief in themselves I always admire, because I can't really be like that.

— Eddie Redmayne

When I was on my way to the podium a gentleman stopped me and said I was as good a politician as…

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

I would encourage you as a screenwriter to trust your story and don't make notes for the actors or don't make notes…

— Ewan McGregor

The deepest change begins with men raising children as much as women do and women being equal actors in the world outside…

— Gloria Steinem

I'm pretty captivated by reality TV and I know that as an actor I probably shouldn't be saying that, but it's what…

— Nikki Cox

Black actors on the road, flying around the country working as poets. Those people are inspirations for millions of kids who write.

— Russell Simmons

As actors, we want to challenges ourselves and put ourselves in different situations to see how we react and deliver a performance.

— Eric Stonestreet

I think as an actor, it's very exciting when you have a really fully realized, complex, multifaceted character already established.

— Da'Vine Joy Randolph

“Give people films, they will forget after a few weeks, but give people ideas, they will assimilate them into their consciousness.”

— Abhijit Naskar

I guess George Clooney would be a wonderful silent actor, and Leonardo DiCaprio is such a wonderful actor he certainly could do…

— Michel Hazanavicius

Someone once told me that the most dynamic actors are people who have stories. People who have lived life. People with experiences.

— Emmanuelle Chriqui

I believe there can be dignity in the acting profession. And I think there ought to be more dignity in the publicity…

— Paul Newman