I'm used to American actors who have a movie career thinking television acting is beneath them. — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
Theres this little box that African-American actors have to work in, in the first place, and I was able to rise above… — Eddie Murphy Copy Share Image
The hardest thing about being an actor, and especially when you're a woman trying to also have a family and a relationship,… — Julianna Margulies Copy Share Image
As an actor, you're listening to the other person and always trying to be present and take everything they're giving you, but… — Tatiana Maslany Copy Share Image
When I came to faith, I thought I would have to stop being an actor, because it's all about artifice and manipulation.… — Tamsin Greig Copy Share Image
My great joy in working on anything is stepping out in front of the camera and working with the actors. — Rob Marshall Copy Share Image
It's not unlike the movies for human actors. Once a dog stars in a movie, they don't work very much anymore. It's… — Jamie Lee Curtis Copy Share Image
It's no good being the best actor in the world if nobody sees you because you didn't happen to be there at… — Roger Moore Copy Share Image
Mark Twain was so good with crowds that he became, in competition with singers and dancers and actors and acrobats, one of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I got an agent when I was 12, and I started working in more amateur productions well before that. But even as… — Claire Danes Copy Share Image
If you're a certain type of actor, then eventually stepping into a director's shoes is a natural transition. I've always been the… — Russell Crowe Copy Share Image
I think actors like to be directed. Actors like to know where they're headed and what they want, so I'm very encouraging. — Dan Mazer Copy Share Image
It's important for a director to provide as much information, especially when we're working with things that we have to conceive out… — Zoe Saldana Copy Share Image
Method actors are absolutely terrible. They want to direct themselves, and it's a disaster. — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
An inebriated elderly gentleman in the last depths of shabbiness... played the calm and virtuous old men. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Racing's very much like the world of acting. You have your front runners and you have guys that are there for the… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
When you do a play, you have all this time to rehearse and grow into the character. In television, even though you're… — Aja Naomi King Copy Share Image
If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Even when I was an actor in training, one criticism my teachers had was that I should think about directing instead of… — Jason Alexander Copy Share Image
I've been given lots of great advice, in my life. As an actor, just being as honest and as present as you… — Rachel McAdams Copy Share Image
There's nothing wrong with an actor that can't improvise, but if you're going to improvise, you gotta make sure you got people… — Denis Leary Copy Share Image
In the first place, I'm pretty thorough about whom I choose. I instinctively look for the kind of actor who is going… — Mike Leigh Copy Share Image
I think diversity for most actors is such a blessing. It's something definitely I've strived for. — Rose Byrne Copy Share Image
I wanted to be an actor. Maybe a comic actor, but an actor. That's what got me into acting was putting on… — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
I don't think that writers or painters or filmmakers function because they have something they particularly want to say. They have something… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
I do just want to be an actor. The thing I get out of it is actually doing the job and inhabiting… — Andrew Garfield Copy Share Image
I'm a Navy brat. You find that a lot of stage actors are Army or Navy brats, because they have the ability… — John Michael Higgins Copy Share Image
I think, for some artists, the fear of taking on a political identity stems from not wanting to be pigeonholed as political… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I try not to limit myself. The actors that inspire me are the comedians and the people able to shape-shift into different… — Gugu Mbatha-Raw Copy Share Image
I've obviously made a very nice amount of money. I have a very nice lifestyle. I get to do what I love.… — Erika Slezak Copy Share Image
My father was a waiter basically, and when I got my first professional job as an actor, I left a job that… — Alfred Molina Copy Share Image
The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage. — Ethel Barrymore Copy Share Image
I am open to doing anything. I don't think in this day and age that, aside from two or three people, there… — Adam Pally Copy Share Image
I think I would not be described as a character actor in that I don't take on characteristics which are very alien… — Jeremy Irons Copy Share Image
As an actor, you’ve got to live and learn, and you gotta just kind of form a hard shell and be confident… — Jessica Stroup Copy Share Image
A lot of American actors when they do Shakespeare put on a phoney English accent and it drives me crazy. You're always… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
When I got into the film world, I got sucked into the secular aspect of the entertainment field and I really drifted… — Chuck Norris Copy Share Image
