Actors Quotes · Page 61

Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we…

— Vincent D'Onofrio

George [Lucas] wanted to know whether we'd be interested. He did say that if we didn't want to do it, they wouldn't…

— Mark Hamill

I was a writer. I just wasn't a very good one. I was lucky enough to have a playwriting teacher who told…

— Liev Schreiber

Actors basically do their thing on the set, and then you put all the pieces together, switch them around, and maybe put…

— Michael Rooker

Your job as an actor is to be a storyteller and communicate to people. And I think it's very easy to see…

— Sadie Calvano

Working with amazing people, you continue to learn and develop yourself, as an actor and as a person.

— Josh Hutcherson

This great imperialistic world called the United States has made us believe that an Oscar is the most important thing in the…

— Javier Bardem

I really think music and movement - dance, you know - and literature inform my visuals. I think film is also based…

— Christopher Doyle

I never know what to call the subjects in my pictures because I'm uncomfortable with the word actor. I think maybe subjects…

— Gregory Crewdson

When you're an actor, your body isn't your own. Your body is part of a tool that you use. Everybody else there…

— Mara Wilson

Mr. [John] Barrymore's smile was the smile of an actor who hates actors, and who knows that he is going to kill…

— John Barrymore

Many times when you make a movie, it feels like your biggest mistake. But even if a film isn't a hit, you…

— Ang Lee

I hear about actors being exterior actors and actors being instinctual actors and I always think it's crap. Anybody who knows anything…

— Edward Norton

I find human behavior to be fascinating, which is probably why I'm an actor, and I think that there are a lot…

— Laura Benanti

I keep reading about people who want to be famous - it's not that they want to be great songwriters or great…

— Barry Manilow

They say God looks after kids and idiots, and I think actors are probably a combination of the two.

— Scott Glenn

Despite all the wonderful advances that have been made, it's still dangerous for an actor to talk about that in our extremely…

— Richard Chamberlain

This word gets overused in describing actors but I think it applies to Mike [Tyson] in this case - he was totally…

— Ed Helms

I already love acting and I love actors, so being able to communicate with actors and to bring performances out of them,…

— Eric Balfour

I think people think I'm accessible. I'm never treated as a star, either by fans or other actors, and I like it…

— Kate Mulgrew

A lot of British actors will look at America as a land of opportunity. In England, there's such a small pool of…

— Aml Ameen

I suppose I can do more for a script as an actor than as a writer - in the film sense.

— Jack Nicholson

I will no longer be an actor to hire, I have a passion for producing and making films.

— Ryan Phillippe

Being actors is a strange job. To try to go live that out, it's a very strange thing to want to do…

— Paul Dano

The job of an actor is disclosure, not pretence!

— Max Reinhardt