Actors Quotes · Page 341

Actors are crazy or we wouldn't be doing this.

— Eileen Brennan

The network shows tend to be run, in general, in my experience, by committee, and it's hard for actors and writers to…

— Hope Davis

[When you are an actor] it's not a burden to go to work whether it's hard work, whether it's super early work,…

— Vanessa Paradis

Before you start production, you have characters you have created without actors in mind, then all of a sudden you've got actors.…

— Charlie Kaufman

As a child, I always remember our home, which was a flat just on the Barnes side of Hammersmith Bridge in London,…

— Samantha Bond

In the middlegame, the king is merely an extra, but in the endgame, he is one of the star actors.

— Aron Nimzowitsch

Doing jobs that are completely different to the last thing I did pushes me as an actor to change as much as…

— Richard Madden

I don't see myself as a 'black actor,' I'm just Shemar Moore the actor.

— Shemar Moore

I was a failed actor but I still wanted to show off, so I ended up doing live comedy.

— Graham Norton

The art of persuasion. The actor persuades himself, first, and through himself, the audience.

— Laurence Olivier

A lot of times, actors give so much power to the producers and the producing companies because, quite frankly, they have it.…

— Michael Cudlitz

If you grow up poor you're always going to worry about money, no matter how successful or lucky you become. I'm not…

— Jason Flemyng

Shawn's (Shawn Weatherly - former beauty queen) acting ability is such that she could not convey the concept of falling if your…

— Dave Barry

I'm suffering from stage fright. I don't like making speeches. [...] I'm the kind of introvert actor who likes putting on other…

— Helena Bonham Carter

It is fun to see girls going mad about me or dancing around to get one glimpse of me. These are major…

— Emraan Hashmi

A lot of people want to judge the fact that I'm an actor. That's ridiculous. No one knows what I was doing…

— Taryn Manning

“Theatres are curious places, magician's trick-boxes where the golden memories of dramtic triumphs linger like nostalgic ghosts, and where the unexplainable, the…

— E.A. Bucchianeri

Nic [Cage] is more than just a fantastic actor. He will get your movie made. The first thing that we did is…

— Todd Farmer

For an actor, style comes last. You first have to implement the whole thing, but your style comes from the subconscious, which…

— Jack Nicholson

Acting is being susceptible to what is around you, and it's letting it all come in. Acting is a clearing away of…

— Meryl Streep

But it's interesting being directed by someone who is a very good actor. There's nothing like it. It might sound like a…

— Colin Firth

I always change my words in everything I do. I make the language fit, because I know the character from the inside…

— James Cromwell

Daniel Day-Lewis is my favorite actor walking the planet right now. He never ceases to amaze me.

— Les Claypool

There's a strange sensation - you recall it from childhood - about sleeping in the afternoon. You rise into a different world…

— Jacquelyn Mitchard

The appearance and retirement of actors are the great events of the theatrical world; and their first performances fill the pit with…

— Samuel Johnson