Actors Quotes · Page 34

An actor's job is to embrace emotions and situations that in real life we spend all of our time running away from.

— Wentworth Miller

It was difficult every ten days having a new director. I'm a real collaborator and, as an actor, I want to be…

— Jeanne Tripplehorn

I like actors who, when you see them on screen, you sense a person, not just an actor.

— Alexander Payne

In order to be able to work with somebody in acting, you've first got to think that person's a good actor before…

— Tim DeKay

Eventually, I'd love to be known as a character actor.

— Jess Weixler

I want to be remembered as a great actor - and a shining example of humanity.

— Jesse L. Martin

I was just excited by the whole prospect of working in a television series in Hollywood. I had never anticipated that as…

— Patrick Stewart

The TV industry works in this crazy system where everybody's trying to get the same actors at the same time.

— Mitchell Hurwitz

For me as an actor, daring is to tell the truth - to be yourself, no matter how the world interacts with…

— Taylor Schilling

For an actor, there is no greater loss than the loss of his audience.

— Charlton Heston

I have like 10 actors and 100 aliens in the film [Valerian]. And they come from the four corners of the universe.…

— Luc Besson

I know as actors our job is usually to shed our skins, but I think as people our job is to become…

— Felicity Huffman

Before 1972, no actors got residuals. They just got paid. No residuals.

— John Ratzenberger

An actor said recently that, unless you're a parent, you shouldn't play a parent in a film. I don't know who said…

— Colin Farrell

Because he's a character who's looking for his own identity, [He-Man is] an interesting role for an actor.

— Dolph Lundgren

Every actor has to make terrible films from time to time, but the trick is never to be terrible in them.

— Christopher Lee

When I was a waiter I was fired twice from the same restaurant. I guess I was that good of an actor…

— Nathan Fillion

A movie has its own fate, which often doesn’t depend on the performances of the director and actors.

— Zhang Ziyi

The self divided is precisely where the self is authentically located. . . We all have identity crises because a single identity…

— James Hillman

I'm an actor - it's not brain surgery. If I do my job right, people won't ask for their money back.

— Sean Connery

Michael Caine is a movie star, but he's also a great actor. I can't say that about every movie star. It's the…

— Norman Jewison

I think people will be curious to see what I can do as a dramatic actor.

— Ben Stiller

As an actor, you have to get used to being told no, develop a thick skin, and just keep persevering.

— Emun Elliott

It [smoking] was like an aphrodisiac. Actors would say let's have another cigarette on that great scenes, and they'd blow smoke in…

— Chris Matthews

Bill Powell is the only intelligent actor I've ever met

— Carole Lombard