The best thing as an actor, the best tool you have is your imagination. That you kind of take things that have… — Vince Vaughn Copy Share Image
It's true that the skills required to be a conman are the same as those required for being an actor. Though those… — John C. Reilly Copy Share Image
“Without writers, stories would not be written, Without actors, stories could not be brought to life.” — Angie-Marie Delsante Copy Share Image
I think Michael Caine is a perfectly good actor but it's obvious he's not going to be in one of my films. — Mike Leigh Copy Share Image
With a role like Hedda Gabler, which is incredibly complicated, you often feel that you haven't even scratched the surface the first… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
I'm not a method actor, but I'm a big research kind of actor. — Ruben Santiago-Hudson Copy Share Image
I've played English a number of times, and used an English accent a number of times, so it becomes a little bit… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
I don't like the actors to work together beforehand. I trust my intuition, and I like when the actors are the same. — Olivier Dahan Copy Share Image
Sometimes your body language is enough for an actor to know that you're not happy. And you don't really need to say… — Tom Hooper Copy Share Image
The problem with acting is that there's really no control. You're at the behest of others. Everyone else decides if you did… — Leigh Whannell Copy Share Image
I'm so thankful for the Internet because actors and singers and performers now have a way to connect with their fans on… — Ariana Grande Copy Share Image
We were in production on a movie called All the Real Girls, which filmed in the Fall of 2001, and we really… — David Gordon Green Copy Share Image
I see myself as a character actor, and I've always been drawn to playing characters that are different from myself because acting… — Alessandro Nivola Copy Share Image
Crazy is so hard to play, there's nothing you can really tell an actor. — Paul Thomas Anderson Copy Share Image
All those [events in history] were such dramas as we see now, only with different actors. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
I'm never certain of a performance - my own or the other actors' - or the script or anything... But to me… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
I aspired to be a writer and then I just started getting acting work. I really didn't have a direct goal, I… — Jake M. Johnson Copy Share Image
Genre stuff is the most exciting stuff for an actor to play. I get to try new things, do things I would… — Amy Acker Copy Share Image
Every actor I ever meet goes, 'Ultimately I plan on having my own company and write and direct,' but yes, I too… — Jason Schwartzman Copy Share Image
“He seems, in manner and rank, above the class of young men who take that turn; but I remember hearing them say,… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
I had to work with Ben Mendelsohn who's one of the great actors of our time. I had a lot of scenes… — John Leguizamo Copy Share Image
I never had posters on my wall and when I meet actors that I really admire, it's exciting because I get to… — Carey Mulligan Copy Share Image
British actors behave like Europeans; they are also extremely well trained. — Jean-Jacques Annaud Copy Share Image
You couldn't make a cheap drama. That would be too low-budget. Drama has to have good photography and well-known actors. — Bruce Campbell Copy Share Image
It's dangerous for one actor to advise another one, especially when you're not in charge. On the set, I'm never gonna tell… — David Koechner Copy Share Image
The way that you have cut the film, you can take the audience out of the action if it becomes evident that… — Wade Eastwood Copy Share Image
When we play an unaccompanied Bach suite we may compare ourselves to an actor in Shakespeare's day, creating scenery which did not… — Pablo Casals Copy Share Image
With the type of actor I am, which includes really diving into a role and making it as real as possible, there's… — Michael Eklund Copy Share Image
I work very physically as an actor. The biggest thing for me has been the challenge of how to be this person… — Kerry Washington Copy Share Image
If you have to hire paid actors to impersonate people who politically support you, people don't actually natively politically support you. You… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
I try to do the same thing when I'm with young actors who are new and unsure. I try to do the… — Nia Long Copy Share Image
I am not an 'instant' actor... to really do anything, I've got to try it five or six or a dozen times. — Judy Holliday Copy Share Image
the audience is the controlling factor in the actor's life. It is practically infallible, since there is no appeal from its verdict.… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
I think actors, they maybe want more approval than I'm used to giving. Everybody does. Everybody needs a hug you know, all… — Timothy Miller Copy Share Image
That's one of the things about theater vs. film - with theater, actors have a little more control, and one of the… — Peter Dinklage Copy Share Image