Actors Quotes · Page 200

I suppose that Paderewski can play superbly, if not quite at his best, while his thoughts wander to the other end of…

— Minnie Maddern Fiske

It's a point of pride that no one would treat me any differently because I'm an actor than if I was a…

— Mark Ruffalo

The goal with me, and the way I challenge myself as an actor, is to go from genre to genre. I like…

— Dwayne Johnson

I think as an actor you're lucky to have any film take on a life of its own long after it's left…

— Cary Elwes

I've always tried to be an actor who... I just plod on and try to keep my mouth shut, mind my own…

— Michael Gambon

“She looked Spencer over, tip to toe, as though she were considering buying him. Then she smiled her friendliest smile and said,…

— Garson Kanin

I mean, I understand that Scrubs was my big break, but sooner or later you have to move on. I've already directed…

— Zach Braff

Not every corporation is a great bunch of people. Like in any group of people, you're gonna have bad apples, bad actors…

— Rush Limbaugh

I'm a character actor, so as a character actor, I'm always looking for something interesting.

— John Noble

I was trying to figure out where my intellect, if I really have one, where it fit. And so I was searching.…

— Jake Gyllenhaal

It's a lot more fun for actors to cry and rant and rave, or have a drug problem or a drinking problem.

— Jerry Orbach

The Muppets have such a great tradition of bringing together all of genres of actors and all ages of actors.

— Amy Adams

An actor goes crazy in a hotel room, gets trashed, throws a bench, breaks a window, and he is considered a rock…

— Mila Kunis

My idea is just to do something different each time; the next thing I do has to be completely different to the…

— Eddie Marsan

I don't feel like a romantic lead; I guess I feel more like a character actor.

— Matthew Macfadyen

I love acting. I'm actually a very emotional actor.

— Rachel Bloom

Jason Alexander is a committed actor, he went from working on a show about nothing to actually doing nothing.

— Artie Lange

It is with some violation of the imagination that we conceive of an actor belonging to the relations of private life, so…

— Charles Lamb

I worked with creative people who were very demanding of me, and they helped me reach performances that I never could have…

— Ricky Schroder

The most brilliant actor that I have ever worked with. I've liked others very much more.

— Anna Neagle

I have definitely been curious and involved in the process; even as a young actor. I was always looking at where the…

— Keanu Reeves

You'll never see any two good actors approach a role in the same way.

— Constantin Stanislavski

I've never seen a great actor do a major role that didn't cost a lot. They're sacrificial animals of a sort.

— Tony Kushner

Some actors come to the set ready to do their parts a certain way.

— Alan J. Pakula

I think you have to have a little bit of a screw loose to think that you can [become an actor] because…

— Linda Cardellini

I had a real feeling of being fated to be an actor and do my work, and I remember so much speaking…

— Zoe Kazan

I feel very secure about the role of the actor in the future. They need us, because stories are about people.

— William H. Macy

I think actors who know their job know that's how you do it. You don't show up and make people miserable. That…

— Charlize Theron

Eventually, if your career goes higher and higher, that's just how it is, but it's a little frightening. When I was younger…

— Tinsel Korey

Not all shabby is chic, just like not every porn actor is a star.

— Sloane Crosley

In the writing phase, normally I try not to envisage any particular actors because I like to let the characters sort of…

— David Ayer

I'm an actor, that's what I do every day. Dressing up is part of my job. But whatever you wear you should…

— Vincent Cassel

Nine out of ten delinquents are frustrated actors.

— Peter Mullan

The actors at that time had to learn all that stuff, it wasn't just hyperbole. What was appealing to me about being…

— Alden Ehrenreich

I joined the Actors Studio and began to work with Lee Strasberg, and that changed my work.

— Sally Field

Seven actors have played Batman on the big screen, and if you can name all seven without reading any further, your youth…

— Grant Morrison

I've always written for actors, and if you want to write for good actors, you have to write parts that are surprising,…

— Peter Hedges

I'm a really private person. I just love my work. I feel like celebrity has changed so much, in this culture. Ever…

— Winona Ryder

If you play a gay role, it sticks more than it does if an actor were to play a murderer or a…

— Harry Hamlin

I might have been curious about actors' lives when I was growing up. That's human nature.

— Michael Fassbender