Actors Quotes · Page 296

I'm just an actor who happened to love these [Marvel] comics when I was a kid, and got to rediscover them.

— Clark Gregg

Without discipline and detachment, an actor is an emotional slob, spilling his insides out. This abandonment is having an unfortunate vogue. It…

— Bette Davis

I saw a commercial for an above-ground pool, it was 30 seconds long. Because that's the maximum amount of time you can…

— Mitch Hedberg

The interesting thing with child actors is that kids are natural actors. They're wonderful actors, and most kids are acting all the…

— Clint Eastwood

I think that being a producer is business and being an actor is art.

— Vincent D'Onofrio

Mr. Hitchcock did not say actors are cattle. He said they should be treated like cattle.

— James Stewart

I think in a play it's wise to just sit back and watch other actors and be able to shape it from…

— Zach Braff

This is a dream come true. To wake up in a place that I own and go to work in New York…

— Christopher Meloni

I knew from the time I could walk that I wanted to be an actor.

— Joely Fisher

There are so many filmmakers who are so talented, and actors and writers who work so hard, and it's really hard to…

— Brit Marling

Before Michael Caine you had to have been in the RAF to be an actor.

— Bob Hoskins

As an actor, you have an accumulated knowledge base. But there's also something about it that every time you really feel like…

— Brit Marling

I've always had, like, from the age of about 11, I've had such an intolerance for bad behaviour of actors that I…

— Daniel Radcliffe

In the creative process there is the father, the author of the play; the mother, the actor pregnant with the part; and…

— Constantin Stanislavski

Life actors never rehearse and need no script. A life actor uses only what is available, nothing more, nothing less.

— Abbie Hoffman

When I was writing the book, I thought "Who wants to hear another story about some actor who lost his way?" But…

— Leslie Jordan

I always get a little bit pissed off when stand-up comedy is not recognised as being as good a craft as being…

— Jim Jefferies

I wish I could say I had some sort of master plan where one role leads to the next role, but a…

— Dermot Mulroney

I really love being a character actor.

— Missi Pyle

When you envy actors, only envy them for their good roles. Keep in mind they have to do a lot of roles…

— Bob Odenkirk

People forget that we are character actors and we can do other things.

— Robert Englund

I would have started the National Actors Theatre 30 years earlier

— Tony Randall

I know a lot of actors who've just gotten bitter because they did something and then nobody ever saw it or whatever.

— William Petersen

I'm most excited that the hard work has paid off for myself and the team. You put your heart and soul into…

— J. Robert Spencer

The theater has never been any good since the actors became gentlemen.

— W. H. Auden