High-level actors can be all about their close-ups and the size of their trailers. I'd heard these horror stories of how a… — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
With actors, normally I don't like to have any conversation about background and about motivations and all this. — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Of course, if you have thought up to now that an actor relies merely on inspiration you will have to change your… — Constantin Stanislavski Copy Share Image
I can't say that I haven't done some bad acting in my time. I have. Usually that involves what we actors call… — Billy Campbell Copy Share Image
Our kids are growing up with more privilege than we had; that's true for most of my friends in L.A. I don't… — Matt Damon Copy Share Image
For me, I always have to establish a reality for the character. In very actor-y terms, you just have to understand his… — Patrick Wilson Copy Share Image
The thing about the books is that they really talked a lot about what was going on inside of Bond and the… — Barbara Broccoli Copy Share Image
I know that Philadelphians hate New York actors passing off New York accents as Philadelphian when they are quite different. — Jacki Weaver Copy Share Image
For me as an actor, it's absolutely so thrilling to hear anybody talk about the character that I play. — Jessica Pare Copy Share Image
She went out in the city with its lights like a radioactive phosphorescence, wandered through galleries where the high-priced art on the… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
Actors, said Granny, witheringly. As if the world weren't full of enough history without inventing more. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
When I used to do tours, I`d be anxious and nervous on the plane returning to New York. I now realize the… — Scott Bakula Copy Share Image
My favourite actors are all dead or dying. I just love Jimmy Stewart, Bette Davis, Katharine Hepburn - I was named after… — Katharine Isabelle Copy Share Image
other artists - poets, painters, sculptors, musicians - produce something which lives after them and enshrines their memories in positive evidences of… — Charlotte Saunders Cushman Copy Share Image
In a rehearsal room, your real resource as an actor aren't the things around you; your resources are your imagination and your… — Stephen Lang Copy Share Image
Being able to do lead roles in pictures or onstage or whatever it is that you're doing in acting is obviously what… — Jamie Campbell Bower Copy Share Image
Our life is managed from behind the scenes: we are actors in dramas that we cannot interpret. Of almost no decisive event… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What if everybody jumped on… — Marilyn Monroe Copy Share Image
Fat noses have no place in the Hindi film industry. But it is not so in the West - otherwise, Anthony Quinn… — Om Puri Copy Share Image
Its not easy for Chinese actors to do foreign films, and its not easy for foreign actors to do Chinese films. — Zhou Xun Copy Share Image
For actors, being successful is generally getting a job. If you can work a lot, you're really successful. If you work a… — Anne-Marie Duff Copy Share Image
Directors are the captains of the ship, and it's your job as the lead actor to make sure that the rest of… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
The relationship between an actor and a director is like a love story between a man and a woman. I'm sure sometimes… — Gerard Depardieu Copy Share Image
I've got actor friends who didn't get breaks, who struggle and worry about things that I'm fortunate not to have to worry… — Clive Owen Copy Share Image
Theres no way that I could be the president. You cant have a pacifist in the White House... Im an actor. This… — Martin Sheen Copy Share Image
The last thing you want is an injured actor. That, or having to use a stuntman too much. — Wade Eastwood Copy Share Image
I have a passion for words. I love words. And I'm just learning and developing my skills for words. I do books… — Geoff Thompson Copy Share Image
I love being an actor, and I don't want to be a spokesman for anything, I don't want to do anything crazy… — Rainn Wilson Copy Share Image
[As an actor] I have ideas, but things should always be fluid. You should always be ready to follow an instinct. Something… — Michael Fassbender Copy Share Image
Filmmakers tell actors to adjust their body language, and the famous presence of the actor is his or her body language. That… — Wim Wenders Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to be a voice actor. Well I think at first I wanted to be a singer. Then in middle… — Ashly Burch Copy Share Image
I'd done two years on a soap opera where I was shooting things every day and they gave me a hard time… — Iwan Rheon Copy Share Image
I suppose when I was a kid, and I went to movies, and later went to some plays on my own when… — Ray Walston Copy Share Image
I don't attribute an actor's great success to their own individual performance when it's something as collaborative as a movie. — Jesse Eisenberg Copy Share Image
Well, I made an announcement to my family at 8 that I wanted to be an actor, and I focused like a… — Jennifer Carpenter Copy Share Image
The film [Close Up] made itself, to a large extent. The characters involved were very real, I wasn't directing the actors so… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
The human condition is all about us pretending to be something sometimes that we're not. When you get into the core of… — Charlize Theron Copy Share Image
In terms of being Australian, I think a big part of it is the determination to prove yourself, just like Aussie actors. — Keiynan Lonsdale Copy Share Image