Actors Quotes · Page 356

I don't attribute an actor's great success to their own individual performance when it's something as collaborative as a movie.

— Jesse Eisenberg

Well, I made an announcement to my family at 8 that I wanted to be an actor, and I focused like a…

— Jennifer Carpenter

The film [Close Up] made itself, to a large extent. The characters involved were very real, I wasn't directing the actors so…

— Abbas Kiarostami

The human condition is all about us pretending to be something sometimes that we're not. When you get into the core of…

— Charlize Theron

In terms of being Australian, I think a big part of it is the determination to prove yourself, just like Aussie actors.

— Keiynan Lonsdale

There are different kinds of actors, and movie actors tend to be exceedingly precise and mechanical in a way that's really admirable…

— Ana Gasteyer

There are so many talented people in film today. There seem to be poor scripts, but the actors and actresses are very…

— Frederick Lenz

I never think of an actor as a model. A model wears what you tell them to wear, that's their job. An…

— Patricia Field

When [actors] are talking, they are servants of the dramatist. It is what they can show the audience when they are not…

— Cedric Hardwicke

Good actors go to emotional places where nobody else wants to go.

— Arthur Penn

There's something about the first time an actor runs the material over his or her face you know when they kind of…

— Clint Eastwood

I look at a pilot and go, "I see the landscape. I see the characters. I see the direction and the potential…

— Matt Bomer

I don't remember if I've been asked seriously to direct a picture. I understand that. I'm very good business for people as…

— Jack Nicholson

I was born a character actor.

— Charles Durning

I know it sounds very typical to say, but the best part of being an actor, and the reason why I think…

— Jerry Ferrara

Often, people ask if it's different doing live-action and voice-over, but the only thing that's different, really, is that we're in a…

— Emmanuelle Chriqui

Elijah can register such subtle emotion on his face that I loved doing close-ups on him. He really brings a superb emotional…

— Peter Jackson

The dog actors and the relationship they have with their trainers is one of the most beautiful things I've ever watched happen…

— Jamie Lee Curtis

I mean, I enjoy my work as an actor. But to make a difference in people's lives through advocacy and through supporting…

— Michael J. Fox

Any good movie or script usually, if they're doing their job, gives the highest platform possible for an actor to leap off…

— Justin Theroux

I mean, I hate when actors talk about how hard their job is. It's ridiculous, because we have the best job in…

— Jon Bernthal

The body is an actor's tool, like the face, malleable. I never thought that being naked was immoral or outrageous.

— Emmanuelle Beart

I had a very low voice for the character in the show. I said, "That's not actually my voice. That's the character's…

— Richard Masur

Every character lives in ever actor and if you're doing your job right, you're just accessing that part of your fantasy life.…

— Matthew Lillard

The scariest people to turn a movie over to are always the people who are drawing up the poster, because that's the…

— Jesse Eisenberg