Actors Quotes · Page 49

There's the pressure of being a No. 1 on the call sheet, being a lead actor. There's almost this feeling like being…

— Joel Edgerton

You can keep yourself alive. That's the magic of being an actor.

— Sonia Braga

As actors you don't want to have one label. You'd rather have seven.

— Neil Patrick Harris

Wanting to be on television is a mental illness. Wanting to be president of the United States, wanting to be an actor…

— Keith Olbermann

The best type of government comes from a government that is scrutinized by the people when they have true information about our…

— Julian Assange

The audience perceives only what the actor wants to do to the other actor.

— David Mamet

My father's ashes are not yet interred.strangely, I find the fact that he isn't properly laid to rest helps me when I'm…

— Lynn Redgrave

I was still thought of as a kid actor even though I was in my mid twenties.

— Tommy Rettig

Actors only have our bodies, voices, and the text. So I think actors need to have a fit and in-tune body. I…

— T. J. Thyne

When youre the lead actor in a drama, you have 2 1/2 months at the end of a season to do other…

— Melina Kanakaredes

I think having healthy relationships makes me feel much more confident and available to do good work as an actor.

— Rose McIver

Television is a big roulette table on so many levels. That's all it is for actors.

— Gary Cole

I've done movies where I've had to cast actors and teach them to rap, and cast rappers and teach them to act.

— Craig Brewer

I mean, being shot in slow motion doing cocaine by Martin Scorsese is, like, maybe every actor's dream. Nothing will compare to…

— Jonah Hill

Actors are born, good actors are trained. Dancers are born, good dancers are trained.

— Mithun Chakraborty

My first part was in a film where I played a sadomasochist who killed people and created fun orgies. I'm a method…

— Javier Bardem

I like the Baldwin boys a great deal. Alec is super-smart, super-articulate, almost too smart to be an actor.

— Anthony LaPaglia

Authentic stardom ... is a gift which, if it is to have any permanent significance, must be bestowed by a public rather…

— Katharine Cornell

When I was younger, people used to say you only really prove yourself as an actor on stage. And I disagree with…

— Clive Owen

She [Virginia Madsen] and I had a really long relationship after that movie ['Class'] I love her, and I can imagine it…

— Rob Lowe

An actor is an actor is an actor. The less personality an actor has off stage the better. A blank canvas on…

— Arthur Lowe

There are several types of movie space, the three most important being: (1) the field of the screen, (2) the psychological space…

— Manny Farber

I feel much more comfortable as a writer than an actor. I feel like I am a much better writer than I…

— Seth Rogen

We can compare classical chess and rapid chess with theatre and cinema - some actors don't like the latter and prefer to…

— Boris Spassky

Creating my own roles, as an actor, is great. You're so at the mercy of other people, and you're waiting for a…

— Catherine Bell