Actors Quotes · Page 213

After my father had seen me in five or six things, he said, Son, your mother and I really enjoyed your recent…

— Dermot Mulroney

God bless him, I mean a lot of times you get non-actors on a set and they get really self-conscious, especially when…

— Ed Helms

Obviously as a kid, for probably anybody who chose animation voiceover as a career in their adult life, Mel Blanc was the…

— Tom Kenny

Part of the work is determining through what instrument you are playing. Actors are physical, olympian storytellers and we should be able…

— Ajay Naidu

I know this is going to sound corny, but I love my life. I love my baby, so I love getting to…

— Julianna Margulies

I've made the transition from star to character actor and I'm thoroughly enjoying it.

— Michael Caine

To stand up on the stage is to say to many people: Look at me. How can you do that without speaking…

— Judith Malina

The smaller and younger kids are, the more patient you have to be. But if they're gifted, then it's a wonderful present…

— Michael Haneke

I'll be in a series for three or four episodes, but then I'll be off the series, and downtime, as an actor,…

— Felicia Day

When Im not working... Im an actor! Im auditioning! I like to hang out, have fun, drink, club, meet boys, look for…

— Xosha Roquemore

I like to give my actors a lot of room.

— Nick Cassavetes

Actors don't like to read what they're supposed to do.

— Ewan McGregor

Many casting directors won't hire aspiring actors because you might be burning some chick's headshot under the table so she doesn't get…

— Olivia Wilde

I hope that audiences respond really positively. I think it's a very intense, entertaining film [The Last King of Scotland], because you're…

— Forest Whitaker

I think I became an actor because I couldn't sing.

— Ray Winstone

I acted in junior high in the junior high school group, and then when I got into senior high I was, you…

— Richard Foreman

Some of these guys... I've worked with Ice Cube, I think he's an immensely talented rapper and actor.

— Anthony Anderson

There are many interactions that an actor like me has in public when he gets recognized. The best are 'You're a great…

— Mark Feuerstein

I've always called myself a writer/performer, not an actor because I basically write what I perform.

— John Cleese

Working with [Robert] De Niro taught me a lot about being an actor's director.

— Angelina Jolie

Actors are crazy or we wouldn't be doing this.

— Eileen Brennan

The network shows tend to be run, in general, in my experience, by committee, and it's hard for actors and writers to…

— Hope Davis

[When you are an actor] it's not a burden to go to work whether it's hard work, whether it's super early work,…

— Vanessa Paradis

Before you start production, you have characters you have created without actors in mind, then all of a sudden you've got actors.…

— Charlie Kaufman

As a child, I always remember our home, which was a flat just on the Barnes side of Hammersmith Bridge in London,…

— Samantha Bond

In the middlegame, the king is merely an extra, but in the endgame, he is one of the star actors.

— Aron Nimzowitsch

Doing jobs that are completely different to the last thing I did pushes me as an actor to change as much as…

— Richard Madden

I don't see myself as a 'black actor,' I'm just Shemar Moore the actor.

— Shemar Moore

I was a failed actor but I still wanted to show off, so I ended up doing live comedy.

— Graham Norton

The art of persuasion. The actor persuades himself, first, and through himself, the audience.

— Laurence Olivier

A lot of times, actors give so much power to the producers and the producing companies because, quite frankly, they have it.…

— Michael Cudlitz

If you grow up poor you're always going to worry about money, no matter how successful or lucky you become. I'm not…

— Jason Flemyng

Shawn's (Shawn Weatherly - former beauty queen) acting ability is such that she could not convey the concept of falling if your…

— Dave Barry

I'm suffering from stage fright. I don't like making speeches. [...] I'm the kind of introvert actor who likes putting on other…

— Helena Bonham Carter

It is fun to see girls going mad about me or dancing around to get one glimpse of me. These are major…

— Emraan Hashmi

A lot of people want to judge the fact that I'm an actor. That's ridiculous. No one knows what I was doing…

— Taryn Manning

“Theatres are curious places, magician's trick-boxes where the golden memories of dramtic triumphs linger like nostalgic ghosts, and where the unexplainable, the…

— E.A. Bucchianeri

Nic [Cage] is more than just a fantastic actor. He will get your movie made. The first thing that we did is…

— Todd Farmer

For an actor, style comes last. You first have to implement the whole thing, but your style comes from the subconscious, which…

— Jack Nicholson

Acting is being susceptible to what is around you, and it's letting it all come in. Acting is a clearing away of…

— Meryl Streep