Actors Quotes · Page 15

I don't define myself as an actor at all. Nor is that my greatest passion in life by any stretch of the…

— Shenae Grimes

I definitely play roles that are close to my persona. I was dying to be an actor, my whole life. I just…

— Drea de Matteo

There's a level of confidence in the actor you're working with that really helps a lot. It makes all the difference.

— Christian Bale

I do believe we are actors in our own dramas, which, moment by moment, we ourselves write; that we are characters in…

— Norman Lock

I didn't really want to be an actor when I was growing up - I wanted to be whatever I was reading…

— Jason Sudeikis

I know [my label], in any case: a double face, a charming Janus, and underneath, the house motto: "Be wary". On my…

— Albert Camus

Conversely, the most powerful thing an actor can say is "no." If something is presented and it's a stereotypical role or something,…

— John Cho

I think I feel more like you're an actor for hire and you take the jobs you want to take, obviously, and…

— Ralph Fiennes

You see, in America, it's quite standard for an actor to sign, at the beginning of a series, for five or seven…

— Julian Fellowes

When actresses play actresses, or actors play actors, they have to find another level.

— Kristen Stewart

I just think there are a lot of celebrities who don't feel that they have a voice. A lot of actors come…

— George Clooney

There are a lot of actors who will sit here and talk to you about characters - 'He does this, and she's…

— Zooey Deschanel

Josh Radnor is that rare thing: a writer-director who thinks like an actor but still knows how to create a comedy with…

— Owen Gleiberman

I wanted to be a stage actress. I wanted to be a New York actress and have a community with other actors.…

— Lily Tomlin

If I wasn't an actor, I would probably be writing or doing something with psychology.

— Maddie Hasson

I always wanted to be normal. I tried really hard, but it's like I try so hard and then people still say…

— Zooey Deschanel

Having gone through editing process, I can see that in actor's faces there's point where they're not managing their performance and that's,…

— Ralph Fiennes

I love working with actors. That's what the set really is, for me. It's my time with the actors.

— Wes Anderson

Whatever talent I had, I'm sure it helped that my parents were in the business and that I grew up around actors,…

— Ben Stiller

David Cronenberg knows what we actors do as artists.

— William Hurt

Some of the downbeat pictures, in my opinion, should never be made at all. Most of them are made for personal satisfaction,…

— Doris Day

I'd moved to L.A., and everyone's actors here and writers, they were like super emotional and super in touch with their feelings,…

— Seth Rogen

When you are an actor, rejection and disappointment are an occupational hazard.

— David Morrissey

It's nice to know that if you've worked really hard at something, it gets recognised with a tick in the success column…

— Brendan Fraser

Don't be an actor. Be a human being who works off what exists under imaginary circumstances.

— Sanford Meisner