Actors Quotes · Page 28

I look for things that are going to challenge me as an actor.

— Devon Sawa

My influences were Peter Sellers and the great British character actors.

— Tracey Ullman

People do not necessarily reveal what is going on - only bad actors do.

— Martin Landau

I was obsessed with Jim Carrey growing up. It's why I wanted to become an actor.

— Sebastian Stan

Movie actors are just ordinary, mixed-up people - with agents.

— Jean Kerr

I think theater has given me the opportunity to show what a character actor I can be.

— Mark Hamill

Actors are rogues and vagabonds. Or they ought to be.

— Helen Mirren

I always think politicians and even my dentist have more egos than actors.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

At times, actors do not really get what they want to do. Most of them are not in a position to pick…

— Arshad Warsi

I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor and I just wanted to get…

— Adam Sandler

Every actor you learn from, take something from everyone - big actor or not. Whether they're big movie stars or not doesn't…

— Diane Kruger

When you're young, you kind of take yourself seriously, and you think, like, "People need to see what I can do." And…

— Will Arnett

My hunger and desperation, being an actor, an out of work actor - my memory of that is as fresh as an…

— Griffin Dunne

If the actor points a fake gun and pulls the trigger, and you have to fall to your knees, you really do…

— Gregory Nicotero

I'm a very cerebral person and I like to do my homework and break it down. I like to feel like I…

— Emmanuelle Chriqui

I think the toughest thing for me to figure out, as an actor, was how to translate all those layers that are…

— Alycia Debnam Carey

I became an actor to escape my own personality. Acting is the most therapeutic thing in the world. You see, through acting…

— George C. Scott

Every role is challenging in its own way, but the most challenging roles are the ones that are badly written - then…

— Richard Schiff

I never think of an actor as a model. A model wears what you tell them to wear, that's their job. An…

— Patricia Field

But George Lucas is carrying about Black actors, about Black men, about Black history, which really incorporates and tells all of history.…

— Terrence Howard

“On one of those nights in January 2014, we sat next to each other in Maria Vostra, happy and content, smoking nice…

— Tomas Adam Nyapi

I am waiting for the right story to tell. Just like 'Man of Tai Chi' just seemed to be the right story…

— Keanu Reeves

Women are always murdered and maimed, and they’re never given their rightful place as lead characters! And I think [creator Michael Hirst]…

— Clive Standen

I understand the opposite side of the camera. I have a profound respect for that. I have worked with people who, when…

— Jake Gyllenhaal

Good actors, actually, in real life, are shy and very quiet people a lot of the time.

— John Waters

My inspiration are actors like Rajkummar Rao, Ayushmann Khurana, Ranveer Singh.

— Angad Bedi

I would rather be called a character actor than a star.

— Louis Jourdan

I'd say I'm definitely an actor first and foremost, but I love filmmaking.

— Derek Magyar

Actors are very emotional, whereas sports people are used to criticism.

— Craig Revel Horwood

'Parenthood' has been the beneficiary of wonderful performances by child actors.

— Jason Katims

An actor has to evaluate his own abilities and be honest with himself.

— Paul Newman

Being an actors' family, we generally didn't think about any other profession.

— Supriya Pathak

I'm very interested in directing actors - many directors direct cameras.

— Richard Marquand

Some actors are brilliant character guys. They submerge.

— Sylvester Stallone

An actor has no more right to be temperamental than a bank clerk.

— Fredric March

When actors begin to think, it's time for a change. They are not fitted for it.

— Stephen Leacock

I want to make it clear that I don't have any competition with other Bhojpuri actors.

— Ravi Kishan

The imagination is closer to the actor than real life-more agreeable, more comfortable.

— Stella Adler

... actors of the first water are not more plentiful than playwrights of genius.

— Sarah Bernhardt

As actors, we have to constantly look after our appearances.

— Jeetendra