Actors Quotes · Page 196

It's such a stressful environment, I find, being an actor, being put in the chair and 'Touch this, that, and the other,'…

— Paddy Considine

[Denzel Washington] was rustling with something and when he came back it was with a word about loving myself and the body…

— Viola Davis

Anthony Mackie in 'The Hurt Locker' is everything an actor can hope to be. So rock steady in his portrayal that you…

— Denis Leary

But the one thing that I did do was establish myself as a good actor.

— Vincent D'Onofrio

I just went into this business for laughs. I guess I don't mind being an actor so much now.

— Chevy Chase

I've been offered lots of movies. There's always some actor who's doing a project and would like to have me do it.

— Francis Ford Coppola

After a hit show is over, you soon realize this is a very tough business ... brutally tough. But I'm a better…

— Jack Coleman

I just can't afford to get bored, because if you've been blessed with a generous imagination, which a lot of actors have,…

— John C. McGinley

I'm a huge movie buff, so I'm a fan of a lot of actors and actresses.

— Jared Gilman

From a Buddhist point of view, emotions are not real. As an actor, I manufacture emotions. They're a sense of play. But…

— Richard Gere

I have no illusions about my position in this world as an actor or anything like that. I'm very realistic. Reality is…

— Anthony Hopkins

I love involving actors at all levels - and they have to know that I want to hear their contributions, with dialogue,…

— Lasse Hallstrom

As an actor, I think most people have a tendency to want to demonstrate that they can act, they can emote.

— James Norton

I remember all the kids picking their chosen career paths and I was thinking, If I'm an actor I can be an…

— Chris Lowell

As an actor timing is important, especially as a mother with small children, so a lot is chance.

— Nicole Kidman

The balance when you're catching people up, and the craft of what we do as actors, is to try to make sure…

— Jack Coleman

Every actor will tell you it's so much more fun to play the bad guy because usually those characters are more complex…

— Michael Vartan

Getting the correct writer is simply like casting. You wouldn't hire an actor in order to tell him how to work. He…

— William Monahan

Everybody has his own theatre, in which he is manager, actor, prompter, playwright, sceneshifter, boxkeeper, doorkeeper, all in one, and audience into…

— Julius Charles Hare

Once you become an actor, it's important to take care of yourself. I live in Santa Monica, where I can mountain bike,…

— Mark Feuerstein

When you recite you're giving a performance, in the way that an actor or a singer performs, and some poets are not…

— James Arthur

You make a choice to make music or be an actor, and people automatically think they can have access to your life.

— Meshell Ndegeocello

Actors don't act, we're just being in a different circumstance and scenario.

— Aeriel Miranda

I wanted to be a child actor so bad that every day I'd beg my parents if I could audition, but my…

— Zooey Deschanel

When I'm working as a director, I might have an idea of my own but I'm also trying to get great ideas…

— Julie Taymor

I'm an actor because I love movies, and always have loved movies. I'm a film buff. So, getting to work with those…

— Alden Ehrenreich

I've never been difficult to anybody or with anybody on a picture. Especially when you're in that nice status of hierarchy of…

— James Caan

Playwrights are the most gregarious writers - to get our work done, we need actors, directors, set designers.

— Katori Hall

There's an infantilization that happens to actresses in general - musical theatre, straight theatre, television, film - we're spoken to like children.…

— Laura Benanti

I found American actors quite scary because they're brilliant actors and brilliantly funny, and they never stopped once you wound them up...…

— Peter Capaldi

I don't like improv at all. It terrifies me. I like to know exactly what I'm going to say. Being surprised does…

— Jesse Tyler Ferguson

I haven't done any training. I come from a family of actors, but I haven't done any training.

— Eleanor Tomlinson

I don't have the slightest desire to speak over my dead brother. It gets on my nerves to always be compared with…

— Joaquin Phoenix

I never actually do rehearsals. That's one of the reasons that I write those bios and if I can meet with the…

— John Sayles

Each movie was a challenge for me, as a man, as an actor. After each movie, something changed in my life, in…

— Omar Sy

I've been an actor for 30 years, so I pretty much know how to do the basics of a fight without hurting anybody.

— Julie Benz

A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints' was the first real actor-actor part I did, and I hope I to do more. Action…

— Channing Tatum

An actor has many lives and many people within him. I know there are lots of people inside me. No one ever…

— Shirley MacLaine

I think maybe I was instrumental in taking the stereotype out of the Southern actor is some ways. I would hope my…

— Billy Bob Thornton

There are different types of art, and you just have to follow where things take you. It helps me with my desire…

— Natasha Leggero