Actors Quotes · Page 199

You know, I used to not understand fashion, a lot of it, but I completely understood being a playwright or a screenwriter…

— Reese Witherspoon

Laurence [Fishburne] is a great example of how to communicate to the audience as you're acting with another actor.

— Chad Stahelski

I much prefer to watch actors and writers create "humanizing" moments for characters. In a drama, "humanizing" is far more impactful and…

— Michael Muhney

You become funny for a reason. I became an actor because that's who I was, nothing else - it was the only…

— Matthew Lillard

In real life, every person is the leading man or woman. We don't think of ourselves as supporting or character actors.

— Wallace Shawn

Dane DeHaan, certainly, is kind of the best friend I've made through acting, in terms of another actor. He's fantastic.

— Daniel Radcliffe

My motto is that the audience should notice the actors, not the clothes.

— Edith Head

I think often I learn the most from other people's mistakes. If I'm in the audience watching an actor and thinking, 'I…

— Richard Madden

I love doing roles and movies that are different from each other. That's kind of why I like to be an actor…

— Josh Hutcherson

Really, you have to keep everything streamlined, and lined and sexy and close to their body. They really had to work very…

— Christine Bieselin Clark

As far as being an actor is concerned, you have to have passion. If you're not bringing the passion of the character…

— Zachary Levi

I believe there can be dignity in the acting profession. And I think there ought to be more dignity in the publicity…

— Paul Newman

I don't come to work as an actor. There are many directors who can direct without ever having acted and do a…

— Abdellatif Kechiche

At the end of the day, I'm not a model, I'm an actor. I didn't want to be a model for a…

— Ruby Rose

There's something about the evolution of television where it evolved from to the things that we're now watching and loving. It evolved…

— Steven Knight

With 'Twilight,' I felt the actors needed to be up-and-coming artists that haven't been recognized yet.

— Stephenie Meyer

It is very, very, very difficult for an American actor who wants a film career to be open about his sexuality. And…

— Ian Mckellen

I've had enough of being a gay icon! I've had enough of all this hard work, because, since I came out, I…

— Ian Mckellen

Custom developed digital weapons, cyber weapons nowadays typically chain together a number of zero-day exploits that are targeted against the specific site,…

— Edward Snowden

I want to try and do as much as I can as an actor. So far I think I've done pretty well…

— Barry Watson

I feel like part of your job as an actor is you're going to get noticed, and the more successful you get,…

— Lynn Collins

History is replete with proofs, from Cato the Elder to Kennedy the Younger, that if you scratch a statesman you find an…

— James Thurber

I'm not scared of doing movies that are just about entertainment. I'm not scared of doing movies that are really challenging and…

— Joel Edgerton

As an actor, you know, I love not being pigeonholed, which is great. No one really knows who I am. So that's…

— Kathryn Hahn

I'm one of relatively few stage-trained actors who doesn't much like acting on stage. It feels kind of like riding the Cyclone…

— Fred Melamed

Theres something important, as an actor, about allowing yourself to be approached by people to do roles. People see different things in…

— Damian Lewis

As soon as an actor has faith in a director, he just goes with it.

— Katia Winter

I hadn't heard the Gary Cooper thing so I'm not grounded now. I feel pretty good. That's incredibly nice. When I met…

— John Krasinski

I don't think I'm predominantly thought of as being a comedic actor.

— Michael Madsen

As someone who makes his living as an actor, my routine varies almost every day.

— Eric Lange

A lot of people do what their families do. Imagine if everyone in the family is a doctor and they decide to…

— Zoe Kravitz

Everything changes once we identify with being the witness to the story, instead of the actor in it.

— Ram Dass

It's horrid to be called a Shakespearean actor because that's incredibly limiting, and we love acting. We like telling stories; anything that…

— Timothy Dalton

I admire an actor that can do a lot with doing nothing really, for the most part. I like doing a lot…

— Taylor Kitsch

Next year, if no one gives me any work, that's fine. I'm not going to do well anyway. I'm not an actor,…

— James McAvoy

I always wanted to be an actor, but in Edmonton, Alberta, that's not a success-oriented career. So I said, 'I'll get my…

— Nathan Fillion

I'm a comedic actor, not to mix words, but it's something I think about. A comedic actor. I like to think that…

— Mike Myers

I always feel that I'm sort of co-directing with my fellow actors. And you can tell when something's going on that really…

— Warren Beatty

The actors I looked up to when I was a teenager, they all just disappeared into different characters.

— Michael Fassbender

I'm an actor. I'm not a performer. I'm not like a song and dance guy who can take a cane and a…

— Billy Bob Thornton