Actors Quotes · Page 323

I start with actors that I know personally or I know their work, and there are things about their work or their…

— Jim Jarmusch

Actors want to work. Give them characters they want to play, or a story they want to tell, and hopefully the budget…

— Lorene Scafaria

I always give one actor an emotion to make it very easy so he or she can root to it.

— Baran Odar

To me, Fight Club was a comedy. When [David] Fincher sent me the book and I read it, the first thing I…

— Edward Norton

It's never happened to me before, in my career, and never will again. It's a one-off experience. It's a rare treat to…

— Hugh Bonneville

I always set out to just work, as an actor, and try to do as many different things as I possibly could,…

— Jason Lee

Acting is my true love. I would like to have been a serious actor, and I plan to in the next life.…

— Joan Rivers

For the actor, The Lee Strasberg Notes are an indispensable companion.

— Johnny Depp

My first love is acting, but the reality is that I just don't get too many opportunities to stretch, and grow, and…

— Matthew Lillard

John Barrymore was a serious actor who did a great deal of research for all his parts, until, I guess, he was…

— John Carradine

We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold.

— Milan Kundera

Being a writer is a solitary life. So the little part of me that's an actor still enjoys the theatrical part of…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

I would like to do more dramas when I find a good role that will allow me to politely upset people's expectations…

— Ben Stiller

I would love to do more acting; I really would love to do it, particularly character acting. I'm a character type of…

— Sharlto Copley

I would like to do a lot more of it, I feel comfortable with it and basically it's all in the writing.…

— Ray Liotta

I think when your image becomes so big that it's hard for a viewer to see a character, then I think you're…

— Hugo Weaving

There tends to be this hierarchy of film and television, and theater is somewhere else in its own milieu. However, as actors,…

— Tim DeKay

Everyone the world over talks about British actors and British talent and I think thats because we were trained - until now…

— Brenda Blethyn

There's a lot of actors out there or people who want to be actors. It's unique to find somebody that, you know,…

— Jeremy Sisto

“I was always bad at reading scripts. Back then, I’d be offered millions of dollars to do movies and barely crack the…

— Matthew Perry

Why do I use the same actors in different movies? One of the things I really stress in casting is I need…

— Stephen Chow

The plight of the actor, even if he's a star, is the plight of the women's movement. They're saying the same thing…

— Dustin Hoffman

Hollywood is designed to check the box office on Monday morning and see: "How'd we do? How much?" It's another facet of…

— Danny Glover

It's great to have actors who are often cast against type.

— Tom Mison

I don't think there have been many alien movies where the actors have actually seen the aliens.

— Joel Kinnaman