Actors Quotes · Page 203

I want to direct and work with the youngins and the fabulous actors of today.

— Pam Grier

If there's anything I know about directing, it's how to make actors comfortable. It's where I started and it's what I know,…

— John Cameron Mitchell

I don't work with fear, and I don't work with actors that are fearful.

— Lee Daniels

I love the theatre. It's a perfect life for an actor: you can do a couple of movies and then go and…

— Alfred Molina

Scientists and religious leaders, activists and first nation leaders, CEOs of corporations and actors, all of us need to come together right…

— Ellen Page

A strange thing happens to me that I'm sure happens to a lot of actors when the camera starts rolling. I'm not…

— Emily Browning

As an actor, you're always in situations that can be compromising. But you can wipe away that gray area by making a…

— Kyle MacLachlan

I watch a lot of different films. A lot of different performances and I find a lot of little things from the…

— Wesley Snipes

I think there are always actor parts, and then there are movie-star parts, and an actors always an actor until he does…

— Lynda Obst

I think that the most important thing for me is how is the character that I would be reading for? Is it…

— Julia Garner

There are a lot of people who want to be famous nowadays: singers, actors and, you know, it's like a roller-coaster. And…

— Eva Green

Filmmaking is a creative process so there is a lot of collaboration that happens on set between an actor and director, but…

— Aamir Khan

“A movie is not a movie, it is a potential nuclear furnace of inspiration, courage and conscience.”

— Abhijit Naskar

More actors in action movies should be gangly because that way it's believable when they move through tight spaces.

— Sofia Coppola

I know the responsibility that entails from telling a story. The one thing I despise the most is when I go to…

— Zoe Saldana

I don't think the concept of "directing actors" exists in the sense that if you get what you order from an actor…

— Pirjo Honkasalo

It's almost a work-shopping process to create the characters with the actors.

— Doug Liman

I simply know what the actor's attitude should be and what he should say. He doesn't, because he can't see the relationship…

— Michelangelo Antonioni

I've never revised my opinion of myself as an actor. I've always thought I was as good as my material.

— Troy Donahue

I don’t mind looking like I need a good wash and a good meal... Any actor who starts taking ‘sex symbol’ seriously…

— Clive Owen

I think, as an actor, and particularly if you are playing the lead in something, you have to view yourself as the…

— Daniel Radcliffe

Usually I don't get specific advice from certain actors or actresses I work with.

— Kaitlyn Dever

It's frightening enough with a male actor and not a stunt person. If you accidently punch him with the wrong hand, then…

— Kate Beckinsale

I'm thrilled that Wonder Woman and that character endures because every actor wants a role that has some positive affect and causes…

— Lynda Carter

[ Chadwick Boseman] is a remarkable actor, and he's a remarkable person.

— Harrison Ford

I have been very lucky for most of my adult life to be working as an actor.

— Josh Hopkins

I think most of the time with independent films, you don't know where it's gonna end up. I've done a number of…

— Alison Brie

I am an actor and fiction will always be my priority

— Sanaya Irani

Sometimes as actors and artists, we don't really get to be an effective and integral part of the promotional process, other than…

— Jennifer Love Hewitt

No writer, painter, or actor - no artist - is ever handed a sharp knife (although a few people are handed almighty…

— Stephen King

I am not a politician going around bragging about family values or putting myself on some ridiculous virtuous pedestal. I write comedy.…

— Steve Coogan

I come from an acting family, my father was an actor, and I had to fight my way and just create my…

— Vincent Cassel

Emma Watson is my kids' favorite actor on the planet. They never took me more seriously than when I was working with…

— Ethan Hawke

Well the first thing I want to say is mandate, my ass... We've been convinced that 26% of the registered voters is…

— Gil Scott-Heron

A lot of being an actor is being something that people imagine you to be.

— Patricia Arquette

I like working with an actor who doesn't do the oneupmanship. One who has no trick and gives a true, honest performance.

— Erik Estrada

As an actor, whatever I get the opportunity to do, if it has a good story then I'm in. I thought 'Dead…

— Lin Shaye

There may be lots of questions that anybody - an actor or a director or anybody - can ask about a character…

— Edward Albee

The actor shouldn't edit themselves or be anxious. And the actors that I admire are always the ones who are inventive and…

— Ralph Fiennes

I think it's so important as an actor that you hang on to your own inner compass, because so many people want…

— Michelle Ryan