I see a lot of actors for whom life becomes one big schedule. I guess I try to be more sensitive to… — Gerard Butler Copy Share Image
I fired a bunch of people and kind of went back to my roots. I fired my agent - I had this… — Matthew Lillard Copy Share Image
What I try to do is make sure that the directors I'm working with are on the same page and want to… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
“I am without any doubt whatever a NON-actor. For a start, the gushing pretension of would-be actors puts me off. Ergo ego.… — Aidan Chambers Copy Share Image
I found that with Rooney, her instincts in films was always to underplay and to sort of reduce down what was necessary… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
There's a very fine line between underacting and not acting at all. And not acting is what a lot of actors are… — Joan Blondell Copy Share Image
There's a dance that happens with you and that's why I really like doing it with stunt men, because they know how… — Channing Tatum Copy Share Image
I think it's a real danger, as an actor, when you try to make some statement through your career about what the… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
There's a lot of great stuff on television and that's very appealing to actors who want to work, who do good quality… — Wesley Snipes Copy Share Image
My childhood was really nice. My parents never forced me to do anything; it was always, "If you want to do that,… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
If the film isn't in some way going to study behavior then I'm not interested, but the reason why I'm not interested… — Bruce Dern Copy Share Image
As an actor you always want to be challenged and you always want to have someone tell you you can't do something,… — Chloe Grace Moretz Copy Share Image
Just coming to terms with the fact that I got to play April Wheeler [Revolutionary Road] and Hanna Schmitz [The Reader] in… — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
On movies, I like to involve the cast in the writing of the script. I like to have a rehearsal period, after… — John Cleese Copy Share Image
I also think the reason I like to do a one-man show is you're not limited into the confines of a role.… — Jason Graae Copy Share Image
No one is really a method actor, everyone has their way of going about it, preparing for it, but method is preparation,… — Morgan Freeman Copy Share Image
One of the many things I love about working with Ryan Murphy is that you're always thin-sliced in this business. You walk… — Matt Bomer Copy Share Image
I'm one of relatively few stage-trained actors who doesn't much like acting on stage. It feels kind of like riding the Cyclone… — Fred Melamed Copy Share Image
I always felt like I could be funny, but there was a part of me that always judged actors so harshly...I thought… — Lisa Kudrow Copy Share Image
The writing is really hard. You're alone. It really pulls it out of you. You pull it out of your head. But… — Tony Gilroy Copy Share Image
I try not to limit myself. The actors that inspire me are the comedians and the people able to shape-shift into different… — Gugu Mbatha-Raw Copy Share Image
The acting background helped a lot when I started writing. I was training for it. In acting class they teach you about… — Carol Higgins Clark Copy Share Image
Polly Findlay showed real insight and imagination in her production of my translation of Seneca's Thyestes at the Arcola. I enjoyed her… — Caryl Churchill Copy Share Image
I think it's important to create an atmosphere where actors feel like they can try things out. It doesn't mean that I'll… — Steve Buscemi Copy Share Image
When I [first] went to university, I was doing foreign languages, because I had done them since I was 13 years old.… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
As an actor, doing animation is definitely on the list of most actors because it is such a freeing, fun, different experience… — Eric Stonestreet Copy Share Image
There's a tacit belief that actors shouldn't write books, they're sort of allowed to direct movies but there will be a lot… — James Franco Copy Share Image
Lance Guest in 'The Last Starfighter' had such integrity and held himself to such a high standard that I just wanted to… — Catherine Mary Stewart Copy Share Image
In my first few years as an actor, I took one terrible TV job after another. But even as I laughed off… — Emily Mortimer Copy Share Image
Actors are citizens like any other person in the country. People idolize them and follow their activities. So, our involvement in social… — Poonam Dhillon Copy Share Image
It might be different for people that are A-list actors, but a lot of us really look at what's offered to us… — John Noble Copy Share Image
My dad was an actor, and my older sister is an actress, and so I very much remember thinking, "Well, of course… — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
What matters is performances, regardless of what the name is, whether it's The Rock - which is my nickname and people call… — Dwayne Johnson Copy Share Image
If I can play a scene in a master shot, I always prefer it. And the actors always prefer it. It's fun… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
...no man of genuinely superior intelligence has ever been an actor. Even supposing a young man of appreciable mental powers to be… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Improvisation sometimes seemed more like jazz than acting, like verbal jazz, with the actors playing a theme back and forth, and then… — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
I think it's important that when people are struggling, that you not run away from them if you love them. Kristen, I… — Jodie Foster 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
I'm one of those actors who's just standing there, waiting and ready for something to come my way. I don't really try… — Sarah Paulson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
![“Just coming to terms with the fact that I got to play April Wheeler [Revolutionary Road] and Hanna Schmitz [The Reader] in one year, let alone in my lifetime. I'm very, very aware of how rare that is as an opportunity for any one person. I can't tell you how much I've been able to take away from…” quote by Kate Winslet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f8f/kate-winslet-875_able_just-coming-to-terms-with-the-fact-that_2333637.jpg)
![“One of the many things I love about working with Ryan Murphy is that you're always thin-sliced in this business. You walk into a room and people want you to be how you look or how you're perceived or whatever it is in that 10 minutes that hey meet you. I think Ryan [Murphy] has an intuition that…” quote by Matt Bomer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/358/matt-bomer-2221_actors_one-of-the-many-things-i-love-about-work_775322.jpg)
![“When I [first] went to university, I was doing foreign languages, because I had done them since I was 13 years old. I had done French and German. I picked up Italian, just sort of blasted through the exams, [and then] took off overseas, because I wanted to be an actor. I thought, "I'm just not…” quote by Nick Offerman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/87b/nick-offerman-2326_academic_when-i-first-went-to-university-i-was-do_2190392.jpg)
