Actors Quotes · Page 41

The hardest thing to walk away from, over a long-form TV show, is the comradery of the company, both with the crew…

— Joshua Jackson

As soon as I said to myself, "Oh I'm not a dancer; I'm not an actor," it made me so free to…

— Sergei Polunin

I'm there [on Moana] with the other actors, so you play off one another. It's not just your idea of what the…

— Alan Tudyk

One of the joys of being an actor is that you're always learning new things. And I've been doing this since I…

— Richard Gere

As an actor... at some point you've got to forget that the crew's there in order to do your job.

— Cliff Curtis

There's a dance that happens with you and that's why I really like doing it with stunt men, because they know how…

— Channing Tatum

We really enjoy that, having a relationship with writers, developing material and getting a director, actors, that we have kind of that…

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

The only thing I wanted to do when I was a young naive kid was to become a New York stage actor.

— Oliver Platt

As a young actor, there's a very small group of kids, just a handful. As you get older, all of a sudden,…

— Ricky Schroder

I had to go in and do the work of toning [invented "historical" bits] down in order to make them fit [in…

— George Saunders

As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!

— Laura Carmichael

I'm such a fan of actors, and also enjoy watching them work, so that I can help their acting in any way…

— Dito Montiel

I'm a young actor and I haven't learned everything there is about acting.

— Lucas Neff

On set I keep myself to myself; I'd rather the director speak up. I'm not gonna direct a younger actor. I think…

— Gary Oldman

I don't want to be a movie star like Angelina Jolie. Nothing about being a celebrity is desirable. I'm an actor. It's…

— Kristen Stewart

Denzel [Washington] just knows the actor. He knows the process, and you don't often get that.

— Viola Davis

Actors who have tried to play Churchill and MacArthur have failed abysmally because each of those men was a great actor playing…

— William Manchester

The first audition I ever went on, I was accompanied by my mother at the instruction of my father. 'You have to…

— Michele Lee

Actors are merely the medium through which a story happens.

— Ian Mckellen

WHY is the most important word in an actor's vocabulary.

— Sanford Meisner

I always hated the world "acting" - to say, "I'm an actor." It should be more like a believer.

— Michael Jackson

I really enjoy working with younger actors. I just feel like we're all peers together.

— Sigourney Weaver

If I wasn't an actor, I think I'd have gone mad. You have to have extra voltage, some extra temperament to reach…

— Laurence Olivier

Most writers write haphazardly. The actor is fighting unjustified words all the time.

— Marlon Brando

Acting is a weird, kind of alienating job because you're in an isolated place. Even if you're working with a lot of…

— Jesse Eisenberg