Actors Quotes · Page 195

When I came into the acting profession, it was quite hierarchical. You didn't sit at the same table as the leading actor.…

— Helen Mirren

I kind of have an interest in all history. And I suspect it comes from being Irish - we like stories, we…

— Colm Meaney

I think you have to have different tools for each job - you know producer is very different from a director and…

— Renee O'Connor

I allow an area for improvisation because the chemical things actors bring to stories make it not work.

— Vincente Minnelli

Nobody became an actor because he had a good childhood.

— William H. Macy

There is a need for aloneness... for an actor.

— Marilyn Monroe

I wanted to work on a cable show and with a writer/director because that's a much more fulfilling and freeing experience, as…

— Tom Ellis

I mean, you know actors, we always want to do something else, something different.

— Lance Reddick

I think film is a world of directors. Theater is a world of actors.

— Diego Luna

I like the little chess match of how people move through space. I'm not comparing myself to Michelangelo with this analogy, but…

— Timothy Miller

I grew up in a family of actors. I grew up onstage. The choice for me wasn't, 'Do I want to be…

— James Badge Dale

If you're a young person who wants to become an actor, it's really important to walk into a casting room with a…

— Kenny Ortega

One of the things I like about my profession, and that I find healthy, is that one constantly has to break oneself…

— Liv Ullmann

Angelina wanted to make sure that any fighting in the movie would be comparable to any male actor. Everything from stick fighting…

— Jan de Bont

“I'm not a heroine, I just play heroines. Also psychotics, vamps, orphans, hookers, housewives, and ”on one memorable occasionâ ”a singing rutabaga.…

— Laura Resnick

I know that I've definitely found what I should be doing with my life. In my life, as far as my career…

— Steve Antin

Actors are steeped in a world of agents and where the next job is coming from and what are their expenses and…

— Danny Boyle

It's one thing to be sitting at a drawing board, alone in your home and coming up with a fantasy character, and…

— Frank Miller

A true priest is aware of the presence of the altar during every moment that he is conducting a service. It is…

— Constantin Stanislavski

As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.

— Olga Kurylenko

I think musicians oftentimes have the right skill set to be good actors. And with Rihanna, I noticed her and knew of…

— Peter Berg

I never write with particular actors in mind.

— William Monahan

I have this thing. I've always been uncomfortable going to any party where people don't understand why I'm there. One of the…

— Jim Parsons

Most of all, I want to thank my father, up there, the man who when I said I wanted to be an…

— Robin Williams

Here's the funny thing about the response I've been aware of to my dating famous people: It's been very negative. I'm either…

— Dax Shepard

I watched a lot of movies from all over the world. The Russians were very good at editing. They were specialists in…

— Michel Hazanavicius

Doing films as an actor, you spend maybe 40 percent of the year doing your chosen profession. If you are on a…

— Christina Ricci

James Franco is a Method actor. I respect Method actors, but he never snapped out of character. Whenever we'd have to get…

— Tyrese Gibson

The imagination is part of the arsenal that actors draw from.

— Bryan Cranston

I didn't back into being an actor, I was born one.

— Sally Field

Actors are part of a certain percentage of people on this planet who have an emotional vocabulary as a primary experience. It's…

— Mary McDonnell

Bridges - a master of subtle brilliance - plays the hell out of it. Not by showing off, but by going bone-deep…

— Peter Travers

I see very small movies being financed by crowdfunding. If you're a well-known actor or celebrity of some sort, you can probably…

— John Sayles

You know, Tupac is very near and dear to my heart. He started my career as an actor.

— Michael K. Williams

Action is pretty boring to do as an actor. Action and sex scenes are silly because it's all faking.

— David Duchovny

And as much as I love the gritty characters, I like to play all sorts of characters. I'm an actor. I love…

— Brittany Murphy

It seems to me that I never grow unless I'm actually working with other actors who have shed whatever shell it is…

— Morgan Freeman

Obviously, ["Fences"] is a character-driven piece in every sense of the word, and Denzel [Washington] knows the actor. He gave us two…

— Viola Davis

Obviously the actors are incredible at being the audience surrogates in this crazy universe.

— Hiro Murai

The script is a starting point, not a fixed highway. I must look through the camera to see if what I've written…

— Michelangelo Antonioni