Actors Quotes · Page 218

Actors become actors because they loved entertaining their family by putting on the lampshade and dancing around as a kid, ... That's…

— Jodie Foster

Actors are basically drag queens. People will tell you they act because they want to heal mankind or, you know, explore the…

— Colin Firth

Comedians... they're different from actors. There's more ego there. They create the whole thing, I guess, so they're more precious.

— Sharon Horgan

I remember hearing a good story about Jack Nicholson working with Stanley Kubrick on The Shining [1980]. Nicholson was saying that, as…

— Owen Wilson

I'd never worked with an actor-director before [Warren Beatty].

— Alden Ehrenreich

Theatre, in which actors take on changing roles, has among its many functions the examination of identity. For the individual, theatre is…

— Richard Hornby

I don't know why British actors are getting big parts in American TV shows. Maybe it's because we're cheap.

— Dominic West

I think early on it's important to put that at the back of your mind and make your own choices. Sometimes you…

— Jacki Weaver

Working with Robert, Robert [Elswit] is a storyteller. He's not a cinematographer, he's a storyteller. And to me, that's the graduation I…

— Jake Gyllenhaal

Yes. My mother was and still is a Folk Singer. She was very involved in the political movements for Unions and Civil…

— Vicki Sue Robinson

My favorite newer movie is "Training Day." Denzel Washington is, to me, one of the greatest actors ever. The way he gets…

— Virgil Green

Who could have asked for anything better? I was cast in movies with great actors, with great leading men.

— Julie Adams

every actor knows that tragedy, being linear and inevitable, is taxing - but comedy, which depends on the element of surprise, is…

— Robin Morgan

I can't bring you absolute truth in the detailed factual sense. All I can do is bring you an interpretation as I…

— Colin Firth

It's funny, I don't even consider myself a rapper, I don't consider myself a designer, or even an actor. I just like…

— Andre Benjamin

Woody makes a movie as if he were lighting 10,000 safety matches to illuminate a city. Each one is a little epiphany:…

— Gene Wilder

I have tons of stuff that, you know, seems like it's a well-constructed sentence but it is not how people talk, it's…

— Carrie Fisher

That's always my ambition is to create a character out of what will help tell the story. I've never been an actor…

— Harrison Ford

The cast, staff, and crew of a live theater work together toward a common goal: a good performance. Thus, theater is necessarily…

— Laurence Sterne

The only boring part of it is finding the fact that got you from point A to point B. Most actors, if…

— Benjamin McKenzie

More than an actor, I am a performer. I'm a great believer

— Shahrukh Khan

I don't believe actors who say they don't bleed into their characters. It's absolutely impossible not to.

— Zoe Saldana

There's a real separation between actors and all the other functions of Hollywood. If you're an actor you're somehow not a member…

— Rider Strong

Now there's going to be some decisions [Donald Trump] is going to have to make as president regarding those folks, and I…

— Chris Christie

I hate it when people pray on the screen. It's not because I hate praying, but whenever I see an actor fold…

— Orson Welles

The most reliable pleasure afforded by theater is the intermission.

— Mason Cooley

I try to get the best performance an actor can give.

— Taylor Hackford

James Ivory comes close to the actors for the first rehearsal. He more or less lets you direct yourself and then will…

— Leslie Caron

It is dreadful to see actors reproducing the same image constantly.

— Emmanuelle Riva

I love any kind of recognition because as an actor I'm very hard on myself sometimes.

— Michael Welch

The celebrity mill is so active these days that actors can make careers out of being themselves, and I don't know that…

— Liev Schreiber

You've got to remember that improvisers are writers and actors and directors all simultaneously. That's what's happening in real time because you're…

— Mike Birbiglia

All that back-story stuff doesn't help. What you get paid for is to stand toe-to-toe with the other actor and get him…

— William H. Macy

A lot of the times the first take was the best, because the actors are not analyzing themselves as much; they just…

— Storm Saulter

I forget who said it, but someone said, your job as an actor is to communicate the most honest version of this…

— John Krasinski

I think it's really important for actors to have another creative outlet, or for anyone, really.

— Mia Wasikowska

I do have comfort, because as an actor you don't want that anxiety of wondering if you're going to continue with a…

— Tim DeKay

There are things to be afraid of - like extraordinary poverty and suffering beyond anything I've experienced, and climate change, despots -…

— Gaby Hoffmann

There's more to life than being an actor in a Hollywood movie. I'm not going to adapt my life after that existence,…

— Zach Galifianakis

I think that what's important as a director is to give your actors the feeling that they're protected, the feeling of confidence,…

— Michael Haneke