Actors Quotes · Page 38

British actors behave like Europeans; they are also extremely well trained.

— Jean-Jacques Annaud

When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise.

— Lauren Bacall

One of an actor's fears is that your current project could be your last project.

— Katharine Ross

I think Star Trek has been very double-edged for all of us - as actors, writers, directors.

— Jonathan Frakes

I don't want actors to be writers. I think it's too much responsibility.

— Susanne Bier

As an actor, you have to be open to doing things where you look stupid, to be experimental.

— Jesse Eisenberg

I love independent films, it's the only place as an actor you're totally allowed to breathe.

— John Leguizamo

I had always planned to be an actor, and the music was just in my DNA, it's always been.

— Creed Bratton

Somebody might get criticized for doing some movie that totally sucks, then turn around and be incredible. Every actor goes through that,…

— Lance Bass

If you work with amazing actors, you've got a master class happening in front of you. But [also] it's just acting at…

— Luke Evans

With any actor, if you know your character well enough, you'll know pretty much what he would say under any circumstance, or…

— Denis Leary

Believe me, you can be in the middle of a beautiful take and the next thing you know you're awash in people…

— Victor Levin

I'm always envious of the actors who get to come to work every day and really grow deep roots there, but it…

— Jaime Ray Newman

We attend to his later performances as a dramatic actor with respect, but watching the nondancing, nonsinging Astaire is like watching a…

— Fred Astaire

I think I'm much more afraid of making a mistake in raising my daughters than I would be with any work that…

— Bruce Willis

Great actors come with depth about how their character sees the world, and they completely defend it. They could defend it in…

— M. Night Shyamalan

Everyone has a different path. I knew no one in the acting industry growing up. I never did a play until college.…

— Peter Facinelli

I was very familiar with both actors, as well as Christina Hendricks and Bill Sage, Jimmi Simpson, Polly McIntosh, but the other…

— Joe R. Lansdale

There is no such thing as a good influence. Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He…

— Oscar Wilde

The script is a starting point, not a fixed highway. I must look through the camera to see if what I've written…

— Michelangelo Antonioni

Most actors try to do as many different things as possible. I like the encouragement I get from doing new things. I…

— Joanne Whalley

Performance is made in the editing room, and I've come to see the truth in that - the idea that they say…

— Ralph Fiennes

What does it say about our culture that personality is now considered a technology, a tool of the trade, not only in…

— Albert Gore

A great deal of my battle, as an actor, is to whittle away the things that make me self-conscious and try to…

— Billy Campbell

I'm a big Pacino fan. He's a great actor: so much passion and intensity.

— Judah Friedlander

Generally a wise actor will be very careful about the person to whom he gives that power.

— William Mapother

I love actors. I married one. OK, I married a fantastic one.

— Felicity Huffman

I think all actors have addictive personalities.

— Jonathan Rhys Meyers

The big gap between the ability of actors is confidence.

— Kathleen Turner

Artist by nature, actor by instinct, poet by accident, and vagabond by choice.

— Don Blanding

I think that you always learn something from working with good actors.

— Marion Cotillard

When actresses play actresses, or actors play actors, they have to find another level.

— Kristen Stewart

Even as an actor, when you have a kissing scene it's still weird.

— Jennifer Lopez

I've made the transition from star to character actor and I'm thoroughly enjoying it.

— Michael Caine

There are some actors who see a show as something to do before going out.

— John Tiffany

I might have been curious about actors' lives when I was growing up. That's human nature.

— Michael Fassbender

You have film actors doing TV, rap stars doing TV, with everyone kind of crossing the line.

— Anthony Michael Hall

I'm an actor. I'm trying to be the character and do what they're doing.

— Sally Field

I have always been a Malibu Man, like all actors.

— Nick Mancuso

Actors seem brave and unpredictable, but they're spontaneous as a tax return.

— Greg Gutfeld