Actors Quotes · Page 365

I just always liked the company. The people who hung around her were amazing storytellers, whether it was actors or crew. They…

— Kiefer Sutherland

The job is nothing but a twenty-ring circus-with a whole lot of bad actors.

— Herbert Hoover

I began feeling the way I imagine an actor or athlete must feel when, after years of commitment to a particular dream...he…

— Barack Obama

Living in L.A., I was embarrassed to say that I wanted to be an actor.

— Elizabeth Olsen

I took to it very quickly. I'm very imaginative anyway, and it just set off that part of my brain. It made…

— Dennis Haysbert

There's no set designer like your own self; you furnish the mise-en-scène, the wardrobe, the physical proportions of the actor, and the…

— Norman Corwin

I don't really study television or how things do or don't change. So I don't know anything about that. I'm just a…

— Vincent Kartheiser

I became a guy who wanted to be a comedian someday, or a comic actor. The way I put it was, I'll…

— George Carlin

When I work, I'm the actor. I'm going to do my job. I'm not going to direct the movie. If I wanted…

— Tom Cruise

You have to get through the Hamlet hoop as a young actor. Your classical qualifications are based on the quality of your…

— Derek Jacobi

I've been poked fun of throughout my career by fellow actors for my notes that I take. I have spiral notebooks that…

— Anna Chlumsky

It wasn't anything that I thought I was going to be - a singer or an actor or anything like that. I…

— Meital Dohan

Life-actors never rehearse and need no script. A life-actor uses whatever he has available, nothing more, nothing less.

— Abbie Hoffman

By instinct I'm an adventurer; by choice I'd like to be a writer; by pure, unadulterated luck, I'm an actor.

— Errol Flynn

An actor and a [theatre] director are both what I would call interpreters of work. We interpret a work, just as a…

— George Ogilvie

I'm an actor. I'm just a creative person. I figure if I wasn't a good writer, I'd take to renovating homes... not…

— Andrea Gabriel

Jason Lee is the most famous actor from Hawaii I can think of.

— Tia Carrere

To our real, naked selves there is not a thing on earth or in heaven worth dying for. It is only when…

— Eric Hoffer

It's very rare that you get a part that you actually like. People have a misconception, whether it be because actors lie…

— Zoey Deutch

The popular image that Hollywood is ruined by difficult prima donna actors is nonsense. They're certainly very nice to directors. I can't…

— Nigel Cole

I don't know how that budget would have been worked out, but that was the initial idea. Obviously, we couldn't have had…

— Mitchell Hurwitz

I always call myself a stuntman first and then an actor.

— Akshay Kumar

Actors should be overheard, not listened to, and the audience is 50 percent of the performance.

— Shirley Booth

What makes an actor, I think, is a combination of a deep curiosity about life and a case of the crazies.

— Nina Arianda

There was one element of my childhood that was really a positive asset for me. By moving a lot, I learned to…

— Demi Moore