Actors Quotes · Page 208

There are always going to be more actors than anybody can ever use.

— Edward Albee

It started off for me as just wanting to be an actor and sort of resenting in a weird way being expected…

— Rob Corddry

There's something really special for a young person to sit in an audience and discover somebody, and it's rare to do because…

— Craig Brewer

A film is a director's vision... there is, however, much input an actor or actress can have.

— Natasha Richardson

Being an actor is definitely not about sitting around on set and having a cigarette or something. It's about acting. The more…

— Erika Christensen

I had the privilege of being able to choose, or at least have the opportunity to work at, being anything but an…

— Benedict Cumberbatch

When I was seven, I said, "I want to act." When I was 10, I realized that films exist, and I wanted…

— Eddie Izzard

I hate watching myself, as do a lot of actors.

— Callan McAuliffe

We had a showing of Battlestar in LA last week. I walked out the door and there were 50 people. I signed…

— Noah Hathaway

In the Twenties, it wasn't a remarkable thing for a singer to be an actor, or even to be involved in politics.…

— Terrence Howard

You know, a lot of actors I think go into acting for therapy from whatever trauma has affected them as children. But…

— Michael Ealy

I just want the actors to put their faith in the language. Just let the words do the work.

— Conor McPherson

Curing environmental ills requires not a stance outside nature, but a stance within nature, a role not as onlooker without, but as…

— Valerius Geist

The only thing we are as actors are messengers. That's all we are. Correct? We are delivering the playwright's intention through the…

— Patti LuPone

I think the greatest thing about being an actor is that you can become other people. ... You have the opportunity to…

— Ian McDiarmid

Growing up, Paul Newman seemed like the ultimate manly actor. And then, I got to work with him and we became friends,…

— Dermot Mulroney

I'm very cautious about talking about how actors got where they got, as though there is in fact a plan or a…

— Peter Jurasik

I guess it's a kind of a goal for any actor to be the lead of a movie. Not for ego reasons,…

— Seth Rogen

“A real actor can’t love anyone. Cause he/she only pretends to be lover. Cause he/she still in the role of a lover…

— Salman Aziz

It's a pretty good job being an actor, but it's work sometimes. And when I say work, I mean it's a job.…

— Matt Dillon

The reward is that you can actually create a world separate from reality with a story, actors, music, and camera design. When…

— Colleen Atwood

Not write, maybe develop. Direct, sure. As an actor, you work on so many films, you sort of start to see who…

— Scott Eastwood

I'm involved with Recording Artists and Actors Against Drunk Driving. I'm also involved with most children's causes, because children can't help the…

— Judd Nelson

Imported actors, like certain wines, sometimes do not stand the ocean trip. This can be as true of American actors in Europe…

— Edna Ferber

Timing: The alpha and omega of aerialists, jugglers, actors, diplomats, publicists, generals, prizefighters, revolutionists, financiers, dictators, lovers.

— Marlene Dietrich

The public must suffer untold pangs from the stiffness, the deliberate stifling of emotion, on the part of many British actors.

— Ivor Novello

I would love nothing more to participate in a real struggle to find a character, and really delve into and develop a…

— Amber Heard

Well, the first thing I wanted to be was a carpenter. Then I wanted to be a painter and then a singer.…

— Michael Pitt

Acting is a craft, and you need to study to be an actor.

— Jason Ritter

What you desire, as an actor, is to have an impact. That's why you did it. You want to move people, and…

— Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

I think I'm a very very nice director. Very supportive, very nurturing. I definitely try to challenge my actors but I think…

— David Schwimmer

As an actor, you are at the mercy of others for what role you can be seen for and then what you…

— Grace Lynn Kung

I don't think that I've had a career like anyone else's, but there are hosts and hosts of actors whose careers I…

— Ron Perlman

You have to start with the notion that you pick the actor who's going to embody the role, the best person that…

— Christopher Meledandri

I'm not a broad comedy guy. I've been funny in movies, but I'm not a comedian. I'm an actor who's sometimes funny.

— Matthew Lillard

And I think that's why I was going to be a musician. I was very rebellious. And I didn't want to be…

— Katey Sagal

I'm a character actor so I've jumped around to all kinds of things.

— Joe Mantegna

Everything can inspire me. I know that sounds like a cop-out answer, but I find inspiration in literally just about everything. As…

— Josh McDermitt

I had a background in theater as an actor, and then a photographer, and then as an experimental filmmaker and editor.

— Lynn Shelton

As an audience member, I like watching Rupert as an actor when he's most playful, ... I think Rupert is really adept…

— Benjamin Bratt