When you are an actor, you bring a tool in your craft but you are not that person. — Pam Grier Copy Share Image
I think that the process of figuring out what kind of leader I wanted to be was challenging, because as an actor,… — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
It was shameful and embarrassing that there were two years in a row without a single actor of color nominated. That's insane. — Matt Damon Copy Share Image
I had improvised a lot in classes and at the Actors Studio, but I never did it in front of the camera. — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
I know so many amazing actors who don't get work... and then there are a bunch of real duds that work all… — Jenna Fischer Copy Share Image
We film in front of a live audience, and I was a theater actor before I got into television, so I like… — Jillian Bach Copy Share Image
When I first started acting in movies - as probably a lot of naive young actors do - I made a list… — Justin Bartha Copy Share Image
Everything in The Room, we did it the same way the big studios do it. The only difference is the budget and… — Tommy Wiseau Copy Share Image
It's a very, very rare moment when another actor hurts you. I mean, that's not normal. — Katee Sackhoff Copy Share Image
There are a lot of actors who will watch the monitors. They'll do a scene, and then the director will look back… — Ray Liotta Copy Share Image
In the old days when I first was coming up, you would turn up on set in the morning with your coffee,… — Paul Bettany Copy Share Image
As a director/writer/producer, all you ever want is to work with actors who make you look better, who make the work you… — J. J. Abrams Copy Share Image
I train like a pro-athlete, not like an actor who's just trying to look pretty. — Joe Manganiello Copy Share Image
Great powers reserve the right to police bad actors in their neighborhoods. — Thomas P.M. Barnett Copy Share Image
We're interested by public personas and private personas, otherwise we wouldn't put on with actors rambling on with the same kind of… — Toby Jones Copy Share Image
As an actor, it is easy to be so self-critical, saying to yourself, 'Am I good enough? Am I good looking enough?… — Chris Pine Copy Share Image
Why isn't the movie industry forced to open its shooting locations to an organization that is there to advocate for animal actors?… — Elayne Boosler Copy Share Image
The real meaning of persona is a mask, such as actors were accustomed to wear on the ancient stage; and it is… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
[In New York,] when you say you're an actor, there's a certain level of respect that goes with that. — Condola Rashad Copy Share Image
An actor rides in a bus or railroad train; he sees a movement and applies it to a new role. The whole… — Eleanor Robson Belmont Copy Share Image
There's a great charm in theatre; I enjoyed doing it for twelve years and did lots of plays. At this chapter of… — Boman Irani Copy Share Image
I put Liam at the top of the list, the male actor list, because I had just seen Schindler's List again and… — Maggie Grace Copy Share Image
In the movie, you have to decide as an actor how you are going to give a character presence. You can't really… — Mark Strong Copy Share Image
I was a stage actor for 20 years or so; I was leading men in classical things. 'Shakespeare,' you know. And now,… — John Michael Higgins Copy Share Image
There are some directors, lesser in confidence or skill, who make the actor feel very uncomfortable because you feel you're auditioning for… — Ben Kingsley Copy Share Image
The most important thing that certainly the United States and other Asian and Pacific actors have done is to urge that whatever… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As an actor, no matter what, you're at the whim of so many other people all the time. — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
I only worked on Men of Honor for three weeks, but I walked away with so much. Because Bob is the kind… — Charlize Theron Copy Share Image
For me as an actor because I've been at it so long, it becomes much harder to watch movies because you really… — Gabriel Mann Copy Share Image
You have to understand that crew members make movies so they're seeing a lot of actors all the time in their career… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
Certainly people are always very envious of me. When I join a new theater company, the other actors look down the program,… — Caroline Blakiston Copy Share Image
I think when you get the opportunity to work with someone like Lars Von Trier... I mean, Alexander Skarsgård, Charlotte Rampling, John… — Kiefer Sutherland Copy Share Image
I am not one of those actors who dwells on the histrionics and the subtext and future text of the character. I… — John Barrowman Copy Share Image
One of the things that I learned in television, and one of the beauties of television, is that, if you have a… — Kyle MacLachlan Copy Share Image
You have to be a great storyteller. And you have to master the tools that you have to tell the story which… — John Frankenheimer Copy Share Image
Some people just can't handle that they will never be a better actor than me — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
When I told my parents I wanted to be an actor, my mom was, like, 'I think I heard you say lawyer.' — Maz Jobrani Copy Share Image