Actors Quotes · Page 5

It can be tough as a jobbing actor.

— Johnny Vegas

You should never ask actors about politics.

— Liev Schreiber

As an actor you have one great fear: pimples!

— Jonathan Brandis

Actors have a social responsibility.

— Ali Fazal

I consider myself a novice film actor.

— James Earl Jones

As an actor, you have to have your history.

— Nora Dunn

We have too many actors for the jobs available.

— Tony Randall

Child actors don't have great track records.

— Leslie Mann

You have to love, without judgment, every actor that you're working with to make beauty.

— Nicole Kidman

Whether arrogantly or what, I view myself simply as an actor.

— Martin Short

You can always pick out stage actors at the Oscars: they know how to walk.

— Ian Mckellen

And the test for any actor is whether you stay at the table or go away.

— Frank Langella

Dan Curtis, our producer, has the idea that people like to see a stock company of actors.

— Thayer David

I think actors make for very good directors, and I would like to do that one day.

— Omari Hardwick

When you're an actor, you're a slave to other people's visions.

— Sylvester Stallone

All you have to do to be a camera actor is tell the truth.

— Bill Oberst Jr

I've been able to reinvent myself and to keep an audience going at whatever age. This is terrific. I mean, how many…

— Adam West

I've always slightly envied other actors I know who have different reputations. I think, 'God, you don't get people coming up to…

— Martin Freeman

Screen work always boils down to that moment between the camera and the actor or the actors. It always boils down to…

— Alfred Molina

When you're an actor working in the theater, you would never say anything to the writer, never alter the dialogue, never dream…

— Jill Hennessy

As an actor, I think most people have a tendency to want to demonstrate that they can act, they can emote.

— James Norton

I knew I was a good stage actor but I had no idea about movies. And I wasn't a Paul Newman type…

— Ed O'Neill

I know all actors are different, but I've never sat down and asked the writers, 'Where are we headed? Am I good…

— Blair Brown

So often actors only mix with actors, which is quite incestuous, and doesn't give them the insight into how other people work.

— Penelope Keith

Of course you're nervous, but we're really excited to be able to share what we're going to share. And it's cool, because…

— Matt Reeves

I think the best comedic actors don't play it for comedy, they play it for reality. Then you find it funny because…

— Zooey Deschanel

A lot of the characters I play have problems, they are marginalised, they have serious psychological problems, problems with relationships, with childhood.…

— Robert Carlyle

The biggest considerations I had were practical: how do you move such a large number of actors around a small space? So,…

— Hirokazu Koreeda

An improv artist's best instrument is their ability keep their antennae clean so they're able to receive what I call the connection…

— Reggie Watts

In a movie, you need good actors, whereas in a book, you don't, unless you have a really bad imagination. In a…

— Yann Martel

Those people that have hardened to rejection or hardened to life in general, it's pretty hard to feel them. You know, to…

— Emma Stone

One of the unique things about 'American Horror Story' is, it's very respectful to actors. Actors in many cases don't want to…

— Ryan Murphy

Hey, I think comic actors are the best actors.

— Chris O'Dowd

In live stage, the actor lives.

— Peter Boyle

I'm an actor and my job is to interpret.

— Richard Madden

I'm a professional actor, not a celebrity.

— Pam Ferris

Actors just need each other to act together.

— Steven Spielberg

Scratch an actor and you'll find an actress.

— Dorothy Parker

Actors will say 'yes' to anything.

— Michael Keaton

My father was a great actor.

— Stephen Humphrey Bogart