Actors Quotes · Page 229

I don't know how that budget would have been worked out, but that was the initial idea. Obviously, we couldn't have had…

— Mitchell Hurwitz

I always call myself a stuntman first and then an actor.

— Akshay Kumar

Actors should be overheard, not listened to, and the audience is 50 percent of the performance.

— Shirley Booth

What makes an actor, I think, is a combination of a deep curiosity about life and a case of the crazies.

— Nina Arianda

There was one element of my childhood that was really a positive asset for me. By moving a lot, I learned to…

— Demi Moore

Let the child be the scriptwriter, the director and the actor in his own play.

— Magda Gerber

I learned early that you'd better know what you're talking about. You'd better realize that certain issues are going to be so…

— Robert Redford

I'm happy in a silent world - well, not a silent world but one that relies on - I'm in a pretty…

— Guy Pearce

The first part of my life was to be an actor and maybe have some success at that. Then [it was time]…

— Michael J. Fox

You can meet lots of actors who are in their own world and do their own thing, and they have no idea…

— Richard Madden

When I was a young actor... the more different you were from the part you played, the more talent it reflected.

— Dirk Benedict

As far as my dreams go, all I want to do is be a working actor, and I happily achieved that.

— Lucas Grabeel

Know your job and don't fake it. It looks easy, but the ones that make it look easy know what the hell…

— Dustin Diamond

There are some actors that want you to call them by their character's name and they have no relationship with you outside…

— Jeff Bridges

While you're making the film and working with the actors, if you want to have a little room to breathe and experiment…

— David Twohy

Actors always have to fight for the good parts. There are so few good roles written for women each year, and when…

— Halle Berry

I don't think a lot of people really understand the commitment it takes to being a character that an actor in Hollywood…

— Misty Copeland

I love it when actors come to you with a problem and you have to listen. You'd like them to just get…

— Jane Campion

I love writing for other actors, women of African descent and people who are generally underrepresented.

— Danai Gurira

Dog movies nowadays are not what dog movies were 50 or even 10 years ago. For one thing, the dogs have become better actors.

— Benjamin Cheever

Los Angeles is where you have to be if you want to be an actor. You have no choice. You go there…

— Harrison Ford

I don't think I've ever written anything even remotely naturalistic. The closest probably would be seen as 'Frankie and Johnny,' and that's…

— Terrence McNally

During my career as a standup and actor, I realized it was very frustrating for me to get hired because Hollywood was…

— Larry Wilmore

An actor is looking for conflict. Conflict is what creates drama. We are taught to avoid trouble [so] actors don't realize they…

— Michael Shurtleff

Both my parents were actors. I was schooled to think that acting was an important social service, that it was something that…

— Tyne Daly

I've had wonderful collaborators. They're very different, just as actors are. Working on a show with Nathan Lane is different from working…

— Terrence McNally

Why do all these people want [comedians] to be serious? The reason they want that is these are people who aren't funny.…

— Jon Lovitz

As an actor, you always want to try new things, so the fact that they set it up so that you can…

— Mark Consuelos

There aren't a lot of alternative roles for Indian actors. I think we've fallen short of portraying Indians in the media. We…

— Chris Eyre

If I have enough ego to say I'm a writer, a director, a producer, and an actor, I should have the energy…

— Peter Fonda

The basic skill of an actor is, in fact, empathy, and that's maybe not a skill, it's a disposition. I am an…

— Harrison Ford

I've been a musician longer than I've been an actor.

— Anonymous

You always absorb a lot from a great actor. What you want, as an actor, no matter where you are in your…

— Julianne Moore

Actors, who should pride themselves on their singularity, are forever trying to be someone else. It isn’t necessary for you, the actor,…

— Michael Shurtleff

Whenever you read interviews with actors, they always seem to be given three months to do something - get fat, get skinny,…

— Sam Riley

I think audiences are a lot more intelligent than what we give them credit for and understand that an actor is playing…

— Cillian Murphy

I really think that everybody would like to be an actor. Why wouldn't they? It's great work if you can get it.…

— Ben Affleck

I don't think any actor can be satisfied. I am still in the learning phase and I hope I am always in…

— Kajol

It was such an amazing experience to be able to spend nine days on a boat with these Greenpeace people. Some of…

— Alexander Skarsgard

The great thing about space films generally, with the exception of Apollo 13, is that big stars tend not to work in…

— Danny Boyle