Actors Quotes · Page 181

I find I like to work with a lot of the same actors, because I find that there's sort of shorthand there,…

— Todd Phillips

Hollywood is a very strong machine that needs, and in... especially with female actors, fresh flesh. It's that cruel. But that's the…

— Antonio Banderas

I just did something on a show on UPN called "Girlfriends" that will be on television in February. I am actually a…

— Christopher Darden

I'm an actor... I do a job and I go home. Why are you interested in me? You don't ask a truck…

— James Gandolfini

I know that I'm better as an actor when I'm working with a good actor. I think anytime you're working with a…

— Ben Stiller

One of the reasons a lot of actors go into the business is that for a short period of time, you get…

— James Purefoy

I suppose it is submerged realities that give to dreams their curious air of hyper-reality. But perhaps there is something else as…

— Anonymous

I'm not naive to the fact that I'm an out gay actor.

— Ellen Page

As a film actor, you don't often get that opportunity to meet with your audience and take your applause on stage.

— Warwick Davis

If you're an English actor and turn up in America, they don't have an opinion about where you sit. They have no…

— Eddie Redmayne

As soon as a person takes a part as a homosexual, the press says, "What do your wife and children think of…

— Quentin Crisp

There's beauty in people who reinvent themselves. Actors live a thousand lives, as do hackers ... the personality can play around forever.

— Shia LaBeouf

If an actor tries to understand too much, he will act in an intellectual and unnatural manner.

— Michelangelo Antonioni

I live in New York, where people don't tend to go up to actors as much.

— Anonymous

There is a saying that every single person in the world has something to teach you. So the more people I get…

— Roberto Aguire

Any actor has their moments of being stressed, but the great part about this job is that it's so unpredictable, and that's…

— Liana Liberato

There are not a lot of places for an actor to explore what it's like to be a woman in her 60s.…

— Sally Field

There's things that I can do as an actor that I couldn't do in any other form of life and I've got…

— Denzel Washington

I like doing stand-up and I love putting out TV specials. I'm not an actor though, so I don't really have much…

— Dave Attell

I pray and try every day to be a better actor.

— Rod Taylor

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

— Michel Hazanavicius

When you're on set and you professionally listen to what the other actors have to say, then the emotion is naturally evoked.

— Shailene Woodley

An actor's life is like a series of - it's like the first day of school happening over and over again.

— John C. Reilly

Uncle Junior is a criminal, which makes him a villain, so it makes people want to watch him. My whole life as…

— Dominic Chianese

The most complex challenge for an actor is the ability to give dimension to the story from the time that it happened,…

— Benjamin Avila

Coming from Ireland, its quite hard to do a startup because youre culturally so far away from what everyone else is doing.…

— John Collison

I was like, what the hell is my life coming to? I'm a trained actor! I've done Shakespeare and here I am…

— Matthew Lillard

I just want to be a better actor. You can always get better.

— Nicholas Hoult

I can speak of actors that I love. I love Cate Blanchett, Viola Davis, her tenacity. I love Charlize Theron. She's so…

— Lupita Nyong'o

“ Morris Weissman [on the phone, discussing casting for his movie]: "What about Claudette Colbert? She's British, isn't she? She sounds British.…

— Julian Fellowes

There is a shortage of hard R. It was the story and the character. He's never played a character like this and…

— Todd Farmer

So from an actor's perspective, you really have no idea how you're acting.

— Ice T

I have always weirdly seen myself as more of a character actor. I have never been suave. I could never see myself…

— James Marsden

It's a blessing to be given a variety of roles to what I call an iconic action actor like myself.

— Donnie Yen

Many of us go through life feeling as an actor might feel who does not like his part and does not believe…

— Mignon McLaughlin

3D movie is tedious, its tedious for everybody, it's hard for the crew, it's hard for the actors. It adds more time.…

— Stanley Tucci

As a film director and as film actors, you get used to a certain rhythm that's slow. But with TV, it's hurry,…

— Lee Daniels

I'm the character actor in Hollywood movies, the girl who has to be annoying so the guy can go to the other…

— Parker Posey

The most important thing for me as an actor playing a character is to make you laugh. That's my No. 1 goal.

— Eric Stonestreet

Close girlfriends I don't have necessarily, as an actress. Perhaps there is a thing of competition there, you know, when you're doing…

— Charlotte Rampling