Actors Quotes · Page 30

I have to say from an actor's perspective, to work with a director who has been an actor through most of their…

— Karen Allen

I think fear is one of the natural states of most actors, to be honest.

— James McAvoy

But long story short, I didn't start doing stand-up because I wanted to have a TV show or be an actor or…

— Demetri Martin

God felt sorry for actors, so he gave them a place in the sun and a lot of money. All they had…

— Claude Rains

An actors' tribute to me is in his work.

— Lee Strasberg

Movies are in a much longer production conversation before an actor is even involved. I always thought of actors as the last…

— Elizabeth Olsen

John Doyle just knows how to feed actors, and what comes out of us, good, bad, right, wrong, doesn't matter. There's no…

— Patti LuPone

Whenever you're making a dark comedy, you're always looking for the yin and yang in an actor.

— Jamie Babbit

I dont think I could compare myself to Macaulay Culkin, because were pretty much two different kinds of actors. Hes done a…

— Brian Bonsall

What I try to do is give each actor an environment in which they can do their best work.

— Curtis Hanson

I expect I should be more calloused by now, but I am so sensitive about not ever living up to anybody's worst…

— Sarah Jessica Parker

I still feel like I'm trying to make it. It's hard to shed the struggling actor thing.

— Mark Ruffalo

Downtime is where we become ourselves, looking into the middle distance, kicking at the curb, lying on the grass or sitting on…

— Anna Quindlen

For as long as I can remember, the thing that gave me a sense of wonderment and renewal... has always been the…

— Daniel Day-Lewis

I think a reason why TV is exciting and getting so much better is because we [authors] get to play off of…

— Michael Brandt

I think a lot of good actors - for instance, Gary Sinise - have no training. His training was really entirely on…

— Glenne Headly

One of the strangest things about being an actor is that people you don't know feel that they are allowed to comment…

— Anonymous

I'm just a stage actor from Chicago.

— Jeremy Piven

Marlon Brando said any guy can become an actor. It takes a real man to quit.

— Clifton Davis

I have always wanted to do a book about actors because I think that the death of a character is a tremendously…

— Scott Cohen

There are two kinds of actors -- one sits in a dressing room waiting for his call and the other gets out…

— Clint Eastwood

I come from a very small rural village in northern Germany, and being an actor never even seemed like a possibility. I…

— Diane Kruger

I think one of the biggest things is the budget.For a studio, becomes a very big challenge to make sure that movie…

— Famke Janssen

I always considered myself as a character actor. I always try to be versatile to show different sides of human experience.

— Robert Duvall

I think the best comedic actors don't play it for comedy, they play it for reality. Then you find it funny because…

— Zooey Deschanel