Actors Quotes · Page 34

People are more willing to accept a singer as an actor, than an actor as a singer.

— Zachary Levi

I live in New York, where people don't tend to go up to actors as much.

— Anonymous

I don't remember what made me want to be an actor. In fact, I'm always curious.

— Robert De Niro

I don't consider a lot of actors that I really admire movie stars.

— Greg Kinnear

As a director, I have to feel realism from actors, and they can't be plastic.

— Tommy Wiseau

Most child actors were lucky enough to get the part in the first place.

— Danny Bonaduce

As an actor, I would call it a role where you get to stretch out a bit.

— Miranda Otto

No, actors go out with actresses as a form of self-flagellation.

— John Cusack

I always thought that Elvis could have been a great actor, and that he was put in a lot of unimportant movies…

— Patti Page

It's tricky playing people that you don't like and finding a way to empathise with them. It's challenging and very exciting for…

— Carey Mulligan

There is always a half-malicious curiosity amongst actors to witness the shortcomings of a novice. They invariably experience strong inclinations to prophesy…

— Anna Cora Mowatt

Scientists and religious leaders, activists and first nation leaders, CEOs of corporations and actors, all of us need to come together right…

— Ellen Page

Being an actor is like winning the lottery. It's not really about your talent, it's right time, right place, right face.

— Vincent Kartheiser

I think it's very important for any actor to eventually produce, and create the projects they want to create. I believe it's…

— Michael Eklund

As actors, we are so privileged to do what we do and to give to the world and to choose the subject…

— Juliette Binoche

I was appalled at the amount of study necessary in order to qualify in medicine, and gradually my desire was blunted by…

— Conrad Veidt

I don't really have a method or a technical process. I studied [Sanford] Meisner, and that's the thing that really works for…

— Maria Bello

If you know why someone is doing what they're doing, why they're behaving the way they are, then that's your job to…

— Cate Blanchett

There are tons of actors and actresses I admire. But I really admire Jennifer Lawrence because she has won awards and made…

— Isabela Moner

You really have to get out of an actor's head to write because actors only care about their part and it revolves…

— Grant Heslov

Actors, their greatest tool, their greatest resource is imagination. You can take things, power objects, you can recruit your dreams, you can…

— Nicolas Cage

It's great to have people to bounce off and I love working with people my age. I think young actors have such…

— Kaya Scodelario

One of the things I noticed about the world was - it's funny, in the movie business, you meet a kind of…

— Steven Conrad

I've always just simply seen myself as an actor. And I believe that it serves me well to just think in terms…

— Viola Davis

I think actors' careers have highs and lows, and ups and downs. It just really all depends.

— Tricia Helfer

Actors are always looking for ways to build a character.

— Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

If I am not right for something there are many talented actors out there that will get it.

— Tara Strong

It surely gives you a high to be an international actor with quality work.

— Irrfan Khan

When you are an actor, rejection and disappointment are an occupational hazard.

— David Morrissey

A tin horn politician with the manner of a rural corn doctor and the mien of a ham actor

— H. L. Mencken

TV is a wasteland. It's a bunch of news actors that read off a prompter.

— Cenk Uygur

Scripts and directors make great actors, not the other way around.

— Ali Fazal

There's really one character for every actor. The voyage is to find that one character.

— Richard Gere

I like collaborating with actors. I love finding that moment where it all comes together.

— Jeff Baena

“Do you think he's the murderer?" "It's worse than that -- he's an actor!”

— Julian Fellowes

The freshest moments in my films have always been with unknown actors.

— John Singleton

It's down to the actors to show the writers the potential of the character.

— Sarah Lancashire

Martin Sheen is my pinup! And Allison Janney, oh my God. They're brilliant actors.

— Sophie Thompson

It often strikes me that the actors in high school movies look too old.

— Roger Ebert

I can bring in experiences that other actors who only grew up in television do not have.

— Richard Sammel