Actors Quotes · Page 73

Too many young actors are strutting about and doing films without having developed some of the depth you need to bring off…

— Christopher Walken

I like to direct landscapes just as I like to direct actors and animals.

— Werner Herzog

When I hear people comparing Mike's [Jordan] work to Denzel [Washington] I think it's amazing.. Because Denzel is such an amazing, textured…

— Michael B. Jordan

I'm one of the lucky actors in television. I don't make a lot of big waves, but there's constant activity, and that's…

— Patrick Duffy

I know actors come around and they always talk like that, but I don't do publicity if I don't like the film.

— Barbara Hershey

Sometimes there are certain things that you gotta grow into. Sometimes, for some actors, they know it spiritually at a young age.…

— Elias Koteas

I'm a positive thinker and actor. I look at a glass; a negative person sees the glass and says: too bad it's…

— Maya Angelou

Much of the time, as an actor, you sit around waiting. Most of your life and career, you're waiting for your agent…

— Dylan McDermott

I think it's my job to risk looking foolish. One of the things I've learned from the actors I've worked with is…

— Ethan Hawke

Sometimes actors' mistakes give me ideas I can use, because mistakes are always sincere, absolutely sincere.

— Michelangelo Antonioni

I always wanted to be a journeyman actor. I wanted to be able to do comedy and drama, classical and contemporary. I…

— Wendell Pierce

My dad has always been very proud of me but I think I have exceeded his expectations. When I told him I…

— Jesse Tyler Ferguson

Age is as much an asset for character players as it is for good wine. Human experiences, both good and bad, leave…

— Strother Martin

Any good director creates a playground. That's what they do. They hire the right actor, open the door and let them play…

— Martin Landau

Many an actor does the stage more ham than good.

— Evan Esar

It's weird that you have to work really, really hard just to be real or normal. Everybody's got their different techniques, but…

— Scoot McNairy

You dream as an actor's director of letting moments breathe through two-shots.

— Edward Norton

It's obvious that I must explain what I want from an actor, but I don't want to discuss everything I ask him…

— Michelangelo Antonioni

I get a headache when films are too filled up with people. And I don't understand what's going on if there are…

— Eran Kolirin

I could wish there were a treaty made between the French and the English theatres, in which both parties should make considerableconcessions.…

— Lord Chesterfield

I'm a Methodist, but not as an actor.

— James Garner

I don’t think that actors are necessarily any more uncomfortable in their skin than anyone else. I suppose I feel more comfortable…

— Ben Whishaw

Of all the things I've done in life, directing a motion picture is the most beautiful. It's the most exciting and the…

— Laurence Olivier

I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a…

— Hank Azaria

Actors and actresses who say they never go to see their own pictures are talking through their hats. You don't have to…

— Paulette Goddard

It's every actor's dream to work in a hit show on Broadway and also shoot a television show.

— Aaron Tveit

[On Marilyn Monroe:] I think my response to her death was the common one: it came to me with the impact of…

— Diana Trilling

Running my show is really like an actor being in repertory but where, in one day in one performance, you do scenes…

— Dick Cavett

I think when you're an actor and you're drawing on your emotions all the time, you need to be quite steady.

— Kelly Reilly

I was sort of a jack-of-all-trades in show business for a long time. I was a singer and a dancer, and then…

— Christopher Walken

I like letting takes play out, beginning to end. I don't like doing pick-ups of one line or another. I like letting…

— Jason Winer

I'm always curious about how actors cry on film.

— Anne Hathaway

For better or worse, I take my acting seriously. I may not have been in the best movies ever made, but I…

— Matthew Lillard

My job as an actor has inspired generations of children to become doctors. My job as a writer has opened up the…

— Zach Braff

I think the young actor who really wants to act will find a way ... to keep at it and seize every…

— John Gielgud

When I'm trying to imagine something, I have a few elements, a few ideas, maybe a certain actor or actress I want…

— Jim Jarmusch

I remember running up to my dad and saying, 'I want to be an actor when I grow up!' And him saying,…

— Allen Leech

The actor has a constant problem of personal identity.

— Cyril Cusack

Despair is your friend in show business. I don't believe you can act if happiness is your lot. It's the ups that…

— Ruth Gordon

I've come to this conclusion: What makes a great actor is great need. A huge need of acting.

— Simon Callow