You really have to get out of an actor's head to write because actors only care about their part and it revolves… — Grant Heslov Copy Share Image
I love working with Liev [Schreiber]. I've known him for a long time. I just think he is a master. Few actors… — Peter Jacobson Copy Share Image
Honestly, puppets themselves are actors effectively. The joy of puppetry is that it is very simple and low-fi, which I love. — James Bobin Copy Share Image
I like actors who are themselves. I know in America you like actors who change their nose or wear a lot of… — Audrey Tautou Copy Share Image
You don't often get a chance to record with the other actors who are playing the characters, mainly due to the fact… — Elijah Wood Copy Share Image
There's just a feeling, when you're just an actor - I have great admiration for people who are just actors. I don't… — Nick Kroll Copy Share Image
People keep trying to make me a movie star but they just don't understand. I'm not a movie star, I'm an actor. — Ryan Phillippe Copy Share Image
I never wanted to be a mother, and when I got the show I was really upset. I was like "I'm not… — Jackee Harry Copy Share Image
I became an actor by doing school plays and youth theaters, and then National Youth Theatre of Great Britain. And then I… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
The old actors in the old days, they used to go on tour, to get the play ready for the West End,… — Tom Courtenay Copy Share Image
I really want my career to be as an actor-writer-director-producer, you know? I don't know what will be stronger than the other. — Danny Strong Copy Share Image
I enjoy being an actor largely; in part at least, because you get to walk a mile in another person's shoes, you… — Michael Chiklis Copy Share Image
I always try to approach things from the point of authenticity. I've done that for my short films, working with non-actors from… — Tom Green Copy Share Image
[In my pre-success years] there was a constant hunger, measuring myself against other actors, and there was sometimes fear. But, there was… — John Goodman Copy Share Image
As a director, I do very few takes, because I feel like you hire the right actor and they'll do the job… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
The genres are widening. I don't think that there's as many limitations on the kinds of projects that actors can do as… — Emile Hirsch Copy Share Image
But I've always felt that the less you know about an actor's personal life, the more you can get involved in the… — Eric Stoltz Copy Share Image
I run Willow Management, which is the biggest agency for other short actors. We look after performers who are either under five… — Warwick Davis Copy Share Image
I felt a certain modicum of success because I had been paid well to be an actor for the first time in… — Chris Carmack Copy Share Image
I felt as if I was the brunt of some massive joke at my expense: Can you believe this loser can be… — Kevin Bacon Copy Share Image
I just always liked the company. The people who hung around her were amazing storytellers, whether it was actors or crew. They… — Kiefer Sutherland Copy Share Image
The job is nothing but a twenty-ring circus-with a whole lot of bad actors. — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
I began feeling the way I imagine an actor or athlete must feel when, after years of commitment to a particular dream...he… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Living in L.A., I was embarrassed to say that I wanted to be an actor. — Elizabeth Olsen Copy Share Image
I took to it very quickly. I'm very imaginative anyway, and it just set off that part of my brain. It made… — Dennis Haysbert Copy Share Image
There's no set designer like your own self; you furnish the mise-en-scène, the wardrobe, the physical proportions of the actor, and the… — Norman Corwin Copy Share Image
I don't really study television or how things do or don't change. So I don't know anything about that. I'm just a… — Vincent Kartheiser Copy Share Image
I became a guy who wanted to be a comedian someday, or a comic actor. The way I put it was, I'll… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
When I work, I'm the actor. I'm going to do my job. I'm not going to direct the movie. If I wanted… — Tom Cruise Copy Share Image
You have to get through the Hamlet hoop as a young actor. Your classical qualifications are based on the quality of your… — Derek Jacobi Copy Share Image
I've been poked fun of throughout my career by fellow actors for my notes that I take. I have spiral notebooks that… — Anna Chlumsky Copy Share Image
It wasn't anything that I thought I was going to be - a singer or an actor or anything like that. I… — Meital Dohan Copy Share Image
Life-actors never rehearse and need no script. A life-actor uses whatever he has available, nothing more, nothing less. — Abbie Hoffman Copy Share Image
By instinct I'm an adventurer; by choice I'd like to be a writer; by pure, unadulterated luck, I'm an actor. — Errol Flynn Copy Share Image
An actor and a [theatre] director are both what I would call interpreters of work. We interpret a work, just as a… — George Ogilvie Copy Share Image
I'm an actor. I'm just a creative person. I figure if I wasn't a good writer, I'd take to renovating homes... not… — Andrea Gabriel Copy Share Image
To our real, naked selves there is not a thing on earth or in heaven worth dying for. It is only when… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
It's very rare that you get a part that you actually like. People have a misconception, whether it be because actors lie… — Zoey Deutch Copy Share Image
The popular image that Hollywood is ruined by difficult prima donna actors is nonsense. They're certainly very nice to directors. I can't… — Nigel Cole Copy Share Image
![“I love working with Liev [Schreiber]. I've known him for a long time. I just think he is a master. Few actors are so self-possessed and so focused and so confident.” quote by Peter Jacobson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/1d6/peter-jacobson-13237_actors_i-love-working-with-liev-schreiber-i-ve_3201910.jpg)
![“[In my pre-success years] there was a constant hunger, measuring myself against other actors, and there was sometimes fear. But, there was always a need for self-improvement, to help with the struggle to make myself a better actor.” quote by John Goodman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/532/john-goodman-16049_actors_in-my-pre-success-years-there-was-a-cons_3206845.jpg)
![“As a director, I do very few takes, because I feel like you hire the right actor and they'll do the job right. And the directors that I've worked with and had the best luck with - Jason and [ Steven] Soderbergh and the Coen brothers - all have been that kind of director.” quote by George Clooney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/8b2/george-clooney-1132_actors_as-a-director-i-do-very-few-takes-becaus_3207370.jpg)
![“An actor and a [theatre] director are both what I would call interpreters of work. We interpret a work, just as a musician will interpret a composer's work, we interpret the work of a playwright. We are servants of the theatre and I've always believed that. We must serve what has been written…” quote by George Ogilvie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/7a7/george-ogilvie-34528_actors_an-actor-and-a-theatre-director-are-both_3214543.jpg)
