Actors Quotes · Page 186

I always love being an actor for the simple fact that, whenever you do a job, you have to read a lot…

— Kieran Bew

Some actors count their lines as soon as they receive a script. I'm the opposite. I try to see how many lines…

— Glenn Ford

When I decided I wanted to be an actor, I said I wanted to work with quality actors and directors.

— Anonymous

My ego's not the kind that says, 'I want to be an actor and be accepted as that.

— Joe Namath

I want only dead actors. That way there'll be no jealousy.

— Simone Signoret

I do tend to like movies that challenge me professionally. That's mostly on a smaller scale, when you have one or two…

— Ayelet Zurer

I've watched people who were better actors than me disappear, and they're selling insurance now.

— Robert Englund

When it comes to casting, I've been so lucky. I've worked with unbelievable actors who make me look better than I am…

— Jason Reitman

I love comics, very much, and I love being alone, but I also love the other part. I love actors, and I…

— Joss Whedon

No matter how big a name you are, how many big series you've been in or how good looking you are, in…

— Christopher Eccleston

I don't think there's a lot of actors out there right now who really know what they're doing at all.

— Jamie Bell

As actors, it is our responsibility to read the newspapers, and then say what we read on television like it's our own…

— Janeane Garofalo

Whenever I'm looking for actors, I'm always looking for actors who are intelligent and who feel fresh and who feel authentic to…

— Daryl Wein

When I told my parents, 'I'm going to be an actor,' they screamed and wept and freaked out.

— Alec Baldwin

I doubted Black-ish , and I'll tell you why. Because it doesn't matter if a writer wrote it for you. He could've…

— Tracee Ellis Ross

I still do a form of sense memory. It honestly depends on the job. It depends on the other people you're working…

— Alia Shawkat

I've worked with wonderful actors like Marlon Brando and Henry Fonda.

— Eli Wallach

Once we were on the set, we each did different kinds of work. I was doing more the technical stuff, the framing…

— Vincent Paronnaud

I just happen to like the work. I like preparing for a role. I like reading. I like analyzing. I like literature.…

— Elle Macpherson

I'm a different actor than you thought I was. Don't put me in a box. I'm not just some kid running around…

— Jonah Hill

I get asked all the time if I want to do more dramatic acting, and I really doubt that dramatic actors get…

— Chris O'Dowd

I grew up in Middle America and I don't think my family was very funny, but I watched 'The Princess Bride.' I…

— Missi Pyle

I prefer to take actors and put them in real settings and real locations and real situations rather than create artificial locations…

— Michael Winterbottom

I see my face in the mirror, and I said, No, my ambition is not to be an actor.

— Dino De Laurentiis

As an actor, if I just did sci-fi, I think it would get limiting, like if you just play lawyers or doctors,…

— Tricia Helfer

I have a bit of an obsession with the 1950's and all those actors from Montgomery Clift to James Dean and Anthony…

— Sebastian Stan

It's true that I don't think I'd be a good director. If I were a director, I'd try to hire the best…

— Christopher Walken

It's hard on an actor when you have to do a scene 45 times and you know damn well that three of…

— William H. Macy

I loved being on the other side of the camera and interacting with the crew. When you are an actor, you have…

— Angelina Jolie

There's something that sort of weirds me out about actors who want to be rock stars, and the other way around too.

— Gwyneth Paltrow

An animator is an actor with a pencil.

— Chuck Jones

I know that I'm an actor and I guess I could kind of put on an act, but it takes so much…

— Brie Larson

Modesty is the artifice of actors, similar to passion in call girls.

— Jackie Gleason

I'm not that complicated as an actor. I have a formula in which I work, yeah. But not like Sean Penn does.…

— Kiefer Sutherland

I've been married for 17 years and you know how the actors say, "It's really technical. Those scenes are not sexy. They're…

— Leslie Mann

“I hate actors. They never act like people. They just think they do.”

— Anonymous

The big reason why I became an actor in the first place was to communicate. I never acted in high school...I was…

— Bruce Dern

And, Bruce and I are pretty close as well. We're both from Texas and we both understand each other. When I'm having…

— Angie Harmon

I never had any classes or went to theatre school like a lot of actors, so all of my training has been…

— James Denton

I don't really get off on the anonymous love of strangers, which I think a lot of actors do. They're lacking something…

— John C. Reilly