Actors Quotes · Page 31

You're out there on a high wire without a net, and that's the way actors operate. They have to be fearless about…

— Charles Durning

As actors, the thing we have to fight, more than even the business part of making movies, is boredom.

— Linda Fiorentino

There's certainly enough writers and directors and actors who secretly aspire to make movies and films that agree with the center-right perspective,…

— Andrew Breitbart

It's all through the actors; I cannot write in that idiom

— Woody Allen

This industry should behave like a mother whose child has just run out in front of a car. But instead of clasping…

— Marilyn Monroe

As an actor, sometimes you feel a pressure to change yourself from time to time.

— Charlie Day

Feelings are universal, and if an actor's doing his job, I think he's making people sit there, and if it's in a…

— Jeffrey Combs

For me [being a kid actor], it's a bit like when you see your mom's friends, and they're like, "I remember when…

— Mara Wilson

I've been very fortunate, because I've cooked for a lot of actors and actresses and musicians. I've cooked for presidents and I've…

— Emeril Lagasse

I'm not sure I'm the sort of actor people are hugely interested in finding out an awful lot about.

— Iain Glen

I don't understand the actor that chooses to play the same role in everything all the time.

— Guy Pearce

I always love working with young actors, because there's always something to learn. It's always exciting to see the next generation and…

— Helen Mirren

As a director, I wouldn't like me as an actor. As an actor, I wouldn't like me as a director.

— Robert Redford

Uta Hagen is our greatest living actor; she is, moreover, interested and mystified by the presence of talent and its workings; her…

— Fritz Weaver

I enjoy the physicality a little more, with Vinnie Paz [in Bleed for This] that was the most prep I've ever had…

— Miles Teller

Because I write the screenplay entirely and precisely, there is the danger that an actor might feel that this finite role is…

— Asghar Farhadi

There is always one person on the set who has a lot of anxiety, an actor who is really intense and has…

— Maria Bello

The reason that I'm an actor, or an artist, is ultimately because I'm trying to paint a self-portrait, and the most complete…

— Terrence Howard

I do not comment on my client's personal lives in the media. As for Luke, he did so once, a long time…

— Luke Evans

The difference between me and Tiny Lister is that he has never been the greatest actor, he hasn't been able to do…

— Terry Crews

There are actors who spend 20 years working and still don't achieve what I've achieved so quickly. So I think my only…

— Zhang Ziyi

Actors are greedy. They can never be satisfied. I want praise as well as box office returns.

— Anonymous

I had to learn the image is not the word, which is a jolt for a literary soul. But it has served…

— Rita Mae Brown

I'm a journeyman actor, and I don't ever want to forget that. With romantic-lead dreams.

— William Sanderson

We attend to his later performances as a dramatic actor with respect, but watching the nondancing, nonsinging Astaire is like watching a…

— Fred Astaire