Actors Quotes · Page 209

I'm an actor who loves to get physical so any role that allows me to access that is glorious.​

— Grace Lynn Kung

When I write a play, my whole intent at bottom is to get the audience to be in the cast, to get…

— Jules Feiffer

My real training as an actor was when I started doing theatre.

— Steve Buscemi

Cary Grant is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life.

— Alfred Hitchcock

It was just like, "What am I going to do today, in L.A., as an actor? Well, I guess I could go…

— David Krumholtz

I'm just looking for things to steal [on working with great actors]. It's like going back to acting school. When you're around…

— Benjamin Walker

It's very true that non-actors feel more comfortable in front of a digital camera, without the lights and the large crowd around…

— Abbas Kiarostami

I guess confidence is the only thing that I take from project to project, but I'm always open to learning everybody's style…

— Freida Pinto

The shelf life of a movie actor or actress is so short, it's like milk.

— Graydon Carter

[In comedy] you never want to leave the actors hanging out to dry. So you need to come up with funny individual…

— Jeff Schaffer

An actor has power, and their power is very simple: it's the power to say no.

— Ken Stott

But I loved the script to 7th Heaven and couldn't say no. It made me laugh and cry, and I was hooked.…

— Stephen Collins

I think that among my friends I'm known as being a hard worker; I think if you want to be an actor,…

— Jeremy Irvine

For we cannot adequately understand 'man' as an isolated biological creature, as a bundle of reflexes or a set of instincts, as…

— C. Wright Mills

I wanted to shoot the sex scenes unadorned so that the actors could really live in the moment.

— Seamus McGarvey

I mean the most important thing you can have as an actor, writer, director, or whatever you are, poet or whatever it…

— Billy Bob Thornton

It's a nice challenge to escape your reality. I think that's why actors do what we do. We like to play other…

— Stella Maeve

You get better as an actor over time if you're growing. Like singers.

— George Clooney

Actors can't retire. What would they do?

— Larry Hagman

When committees gather, each member is necessarily an actor, uncontrollably acting out the part of himself, reading the lines that identify him,…

— Lewis Thomas

The writer creates the role on the page and then the actor takes it and makes it their own.

— Joanna Kerns

As much as there are intellectual choices to be made and all the rest of it, a great actor has the ability…

— Rebecca Miller

Acting on the stage is a luxury for me. I lose money. I make movies for financial reasons and this allows me…

— George C. Scott

I just think that's the job of an actor. I guess that's the variation that you're talking about. It's probably a byproduct…

— Eric Bana

For me, there are a lot of things you can imagine as an actor, and then there are things that you know…

— Rosemarie DeWitt

If someone says 'Give me one word of advice,' I say 'be fearless.' And knowing without any shadow of a doubt that…

— Patrick Stewart

Every little thing that people know about you as a person impedes your ability to achieve that kind of terrific suspension of…

— Edward Norton

I was a Shakespearean actor, I had preconceived ideas, line readings - everything was a gesture, everything was conscious.

— Dennis Hopper

All I've tried to do as an actor is follow the good writing. That's been my main drive. It's not always possible,…

— Cillian Murphy

One of the things we're taught as actors is restraint - don't jump off the cliff.

— Ted Lange

The second season is generally easier do because you know the actors better and they know the characters better and if everybody…

— Denis Leary

Stage actors look down on movie actors, movie actors look down on TV actors, and TV actors look down on... mass murderers.

— George Clooney

Having children has helped me become a better actor because they remind you to play make believe. It's the ease and naturalness…

— Matthew McConaughey

But what I've also really liked about it is that it not only has Marvel set about... if they just were slavishly…

— Clark Gregg

In the olden days, of course, cigarette companies would pay to have their product advertised in movies and to have actors smoke…

— Joe Eszterhas

Actors can be many things - vain, venal, self-serving, obnoxious, bullies - but all of the good ones are great storytellers. I…

— Paul Bettany

What's frustrating as an actor, when you want to work hard, you can only work once that phone rings and then you…

— Jason Bateman

I have three older brothers, and each one of them has chosen one of my parents' education. Two of them are actors,…

— Bill Skarsgard

An actor's life is the shadow of a cloud, the echo of a sound, the memory of a dream, nothing come of…

— Fanny Kemble

Giving yourself over to the fine line of a human-like droid means that sometimes you make choices that don't make you feel…

— Michael Ealy