If you put on a lousy production with white actors, it's lousy. There is a problem, or can be, at this stage… — Howard Schultz Copy Share Image
Actors go, 'I just want to act.' And I say to them, 'You know, stop for a second and think about what… — Jason Alexander Copy Share Image
It was never my intention to be an actor, and I don't know if I'll ever call myself an actor because I've… — Edge Copy Share Image
I think I'm an actor. You can hire me. I can do a good job. But you also have to get lucky… — Rutger Hauer Copy Share Image
I think naturally, if you're an actor, there's a high level of assertiveness that you need to have to survive this business.… — Bryan Cranston Copy Share Image
[And on going from character to leading actor] I don't approach anything differently; I just approach it as a character. I'm always… — Steve Carell Copy Share Image
There's a reason why a lot of models turn actors. You have to connect with people, talk to people, be able to… — Camila Morrone Copy Share Image
Ask any great athlete or the concert pianist or the successful actor if they have arrived at the place where they need… — Eric Butterworth Copy Share Image
This industry should behave like a mother whose child has just run out in front of a car. But instead of clasping… — Marilyn Monroe Copy Share Image
I don't think that you necessarily need a certain type of background to take on roles. You see actors from very, very… — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
I think good actors can sort of see into people and immediately you have a chemistry with them or not. It's like… — John Cusack Copy Share Image
We did a lot of that in drama school: intellectualising and maybe justifying your position. 'I am a thinking actor and I… — Michael Fassbender Copy Share Image
Well, I always try to look at my characters as being better than I am. That's one of the reasons I guess… — Bruce Davison Copy Share Image
I consider myself an actress first, a dancer second, and a singer third. Why? Because the dancer needs a reason to move-that's… — Liza Minnelli Copy Share Image
I'm one of those actors who says, "Point me toward the work that matters to me and I don't care where you're… — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
I try to do the same thing when I'm with young actors who are new and unsure. I try to do the… — Nia Long Copy Share Image
The appearance and retirement of actors are the great events of the theatrical world; and their first performances fill the pit with… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Familiarity with any great thing removes our awe of it. The great general is only terrible to the enemy; the great poet… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
If I were twenty or thirty years younger, I would start afresh in this field with the certainty of accomplishing much. But… — Eleanora Duse Copy Share Image
We have no companies now, not in the sense that I know, that nurture actors. It's very depressing that, given the money… — Diana Rigg Copy Share Image
You fight for certain roles, and you realise they're being filled by television and film actors, because theatre is constantly fighting for… — Richard Armitage Copy Share Image
I tell this joke about Barack Obama is the best communicator of our generation: The guy reads a teleprompter better than any… — Frank Luntz Copy Share Image
I'm there [on Moana] with the other actors, so you play off one another. It's not just your idea of what the… — Alan Tudyk Copy Share Image
Actors play different characters, so you have to build a new base around each new movie - with few exceptions, most actors… — Troy Carter Copy Share Image
Young actors, fear your admirers! Learn in time, from your first steps, to hear, understand and love the cruel truth about yourselves.… — Constantin Stanislavski Copy Share Image
With every action oriented or adventure film, there's going to be a moment when every actor becomes a stuntman and every stuntman… — Nicolas Cage 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
I wanted to be cast because I'm an actor and not because of how I look or where I'm from. I'm brown.… — Priyanka Chopra Copy Share Image
I don't like the strictly objective viewpoint [in which all of the characters' actions are described in the third person, but we… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I knew from a young age that I wanted to be an actor. I never even thought about other careers. The acting… — Archie Panjabi Copy Share Image
For me, the best experience is to get to watch all of these different actors that come to the different seasons and… — Michael K. Williams Copy Share Image
You're always having to live more to fuel something new. It's an obligation to yourself and to the audience. The personal baggage… — Sean Penn Copy Share Image
The advice you give to young directors for sure is to go out and become some version of a successful movie actor.… — Sean Penn Copy Share Image
If actors are making a little film with me at 2am in Nashville, they're not doing it to get paid. They're doing… — Dito Montiel Copy Share Image
If Mad Men had taken place in the '90s it would have been just as believable. But the fact is that was… — Christina Hendricks Copy Share Image
It is tough to be a woman. Also as an actor, but more so as a director. And even more today, when… — Liv Ullmann Copy Share Image
You know, I always got offered other stuff. Not the romantic leads, obviously. But very often it's a role that's underwritten, where… — Harvey Fierstein Copy Share Image
Norms appearing in the form of law entitle actors to exercise their rights or liberties. However, one cannot determine which of these… — Jurgen Habermas Copy Share Image
I love expression and really connecting with people. As actors, we like to tell stories because they can influence or even change… — Denzel Whitaker Copy Share Image
I am not a politician or a public servant. I am still a journeyman actor and a peace and justice activist. I'm… — Martin Sheen Copy Share Image
![“[And on going from character to leading actor] I don't approach anything differently; I just approach it as a character. I'm always astounded at the fact that I've ever played a leading character in anything [Laughs]. And my wife concurs with that, frankly. She always thought I would be, at best…” quote by Steve Carell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/011/steve-carell-2000_actors_and-on-going-from-character-to-leading-a_2135330.jpg)
![“I try to do the same thing when I'm with young actors who are new and unsure. I try to do the same thing for them that I saw Laurence [Fishburne] and Angela [Dasset]do for all of us on Boyz n the Hood.” quote by Nia Long](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/5b9/nia-long-7528_actors_i-try-to-do-the-same-thing-when-i-m-with_2831502.jpg)
![“I'm there [on Moana] with the other actors, so you play off one another. It's not just your idea of what the character is and what the world is like it would be in an animated [film], where it all sort of exists in your head. It's all right there, and if Diego's performance is doing what it's…” quote by Alan Tudyk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/247/alan-tudyk-7208_actors_i-m-there-on-moana-with-the-other-actors_345834.jpg)
![“I don't like the strictly objective viewpoint [in which all of the characters' actions are described in the third person, but we never hear what any of them are thinking.] Which is much more of a cinematic technique. Something written in third person objective is what the camera sees. Because…” quote by George R. R. Martin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/170/george-r-r-martin-2-926_action_i-don-t-like-the-strictly-objective-view_234026.jpg)
