Actors Quotes · Page 354

Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation...

— Aldous Huxley

I'm a little less hungry as an actor than I used to be. When you're a director, you're the conductor of the…

— Josh Radnor

Some of these things I saw in foreign films - African films, Cuban films - long before I decided to really go…

— Danny Glover

There is no legimate actor who can resist the powerful lure of the movies. It isn't the money that fetches him. It…

— George Jean Nathan

Artists have always been the front line; that's part of our responsibility. But a lot of the big actors come out, they…

— Mark Ruffalo

I feel that TV and film feed off each other well. It's more in the perception of the viewer than it is…

— Benedict Cumberbatch

If you fill your time as a director talking about lights and technique with the crew then it's frightening for the actors…

— Pirjo Honkasalo

I still don't think I'm a good actor. The only reason I'm doing it is because I've got a lot of support…

— Israel Broussard

Directors are always changing things at the last minute. Actors will do a scene, and the director will say, ‘Okay, that was…

— Dave Barry

That's probably the most boring conversation you could hear - an actor talk about politics. I won't go there.

— Anne Heche

I don't really think there's much difference between a character actor and a leading man besides aesthetics.

— Jeremy Renner

My attitude as an actor, because I'm a stage actor, is whatever the director tells you to do, you try it. You…

— Anthony Heald

Nothing else is as fulfilling as playing a part in which you are able to have a significant say in the creative…

— Tom Hollander

The actors I respect are the real character actors, who are the real chameleon actors that completely change from role to role.…

— Fran Kranz

I'm a character actor. I have to find work in good movies where I can make something of my role. I'm a…

— Christopher Walken

High-level actors can be all about their close-ups and the size of their trailers. I'd heard these horror stories of how a…

— Neill Blomkamp

With actors, normally I don't like to have any conversation about background and about motivations and all this.

— Werner Herzog

Of course, if you have thought up to now that an actor relies merely on inspiration you will have to change your…

— Constantin Stanislavski

I can't say that I haven't done some bad acting in my time. I have. Usually that involves what we actors call…

— Billy Campbell

Our kids are growing up with more privilege than we had; that's true for most of my friends in L.A. I don't…

— Matt Damon

For me, I always have to establish a reality for the character. In very actor-y terms, you just have to understand his…

— Patrick Wilson

The thing about the books is that they really talked a lot about what was going on inside of Bond and the…

— Barbara Broccoli

I don't have any [favourite role]. I'm just a working actor.

— Anthony Hopkins

I know that Philadelphians hate New York actors passing off New York accents as Philadelphian when they are quite different.

— Jacki Weaver

For me as an actor, it's absolutely so thrilling to hear anybody talk about the character that I play.

— Jessica Pare