Actors Quotes · Page 84

My fun as an actor and my task as an actor is to transform myself to become other people. I enjoy becoming…

— David Suchet

If I do a scene with an actor who doesn't have much experience, I say, 'I tell you what we're going to…

— Jon Voight

I did quite a lot of fencing when I was a kid, I was a swimmer, and I played a lot of…

— Kieran Bew

I'm a professional actor, not a celebrity.

— Pam Ferris

The performance is created by the director. The actor is the material. And I think that has to be true.

— Ian Mckellen

We don't want bores in the theatre. We don't want standardised acting, standard actors with standard-shaped legs. Acting needs everybody, cripples, dwarfs…

— Sybil Thorndike

It is through you, actors, that the forces which are understood by millions and that tell of everything that is beautiful on…

— Constantin Stanislavski

As an actor sometimes we sit and wait for projects to be handed to us and we don't really work. We expect…

— Navid Negahban

Speaking as an actress, I wish all actors would be more like Duke Wayne. And speaking as a person, it would be…

— Maureen O'Hara

Scientists and religious leaders, activists and first nation leaders, CEOs of corporations and actors, all of us need to come together right…

— Ellen Page

All the hard work means something. That's all you can really ask for, as an actor.

— Lucas Till

Every actor-performer says this, and it sounds so irritating, but I'm not the most outgoing person.

— Billy Eichner

With a profound first-hand knowledge of participants, encompassing linguistic competence, and engaging prose, Padraic Kenney recreates the simultaneously serious and playful currents…

— Charles S. Maier

When I was in New York, I was making a living. We had a summer house and a car that I could…

— William H. Macy

I don't have any ambitions as an actor. I felt very uncomfortable doing it. The first take every day I'd open my…

— Evan Glodell

It's hard to compare actors from different generations.

— Kim Hunter

Some actors - you work with them once and don't even think about working with them again.

— Ridley Scott

From my point of view, when I was thinking about the prospect of [Michael Douglas] in this part, I wondered if he…

— Curtis Hanson

As a playwright, you are a torturer of actors and of the audience as well. You inflict things on people.

— Tony Kushner

Here's what I knew about doing a play: I knew it would make me a better actor.

— Chris Rock

I'm definitely happy with the way my career has gone, the success; but I even feel glad that I've experienced some failure…

— Reese Witherspoon

The secret of being a great actor is a love of food.

— Yash Chopra

The first time that I performed as an actor was the first day on the set of 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.'

— Will Smith

The one thing all famous authors, world class athletes, business tycoons, singers, actors, and celebrated achievers in any field have in common…

— Mike Dooley

My concern is to continue respecting my work as I've done since I began as an actor and I could only do…

— Javier Bardem

I think the most important thing is to establish myself as an actor. As much as it's a performing art, I'm not…

— Zac Efron

I don't think RADA wanted me, actually. When I was at Oxford I had a boyfriend at Central [School of Speech and…

— Rosamund Pike

It's hard to find actors that don't feel contemporary when you put them in a period piece.

— George Clooney

I'm a better actor now than I ever was, I wish I could have hurried that up, but there's no way. Anyway,…

— Christopher Walken

In enforcement, you always have to have both a focus on the really worst actors - you know, gang bangers, in this…

— Mark Krikorian

Acting isn't a profession, it's a way of living.

— Jeanne Moreau

If there is one thing I object to, its actors talking about how tough their jobs are.

— Kevin Spacey

I'm focusing on my efforts behind the camera. I'm doing some producing and directing so that I can make projects for all…

— Jonathan Keltz

I'm a big fan of James Garner. That was the other thing. When I heard that I'd get to play his younger…

— Drew Waters

I love actors, number one. There's probably nobody that you could name that I don't like, depending on what it is they're…

— Mark Hamill

For an actor to go to work every day is an extreme blessing.

— Boyd Holbrook

We exaggerate the difference between documentary and fiction. I think that on some level a fiction film is also a documentary on…

— Pirjo Honkasalo

Being on 'Batman' allowed me to do something we actors are taught never to do: overact.

— Victor Buono

Michael [Douglas] is, I think, a great actor. He's made some very interesting pictures. When he was going to college, I was…

— Kirk Douglas

Only a madman or an actor would want to be President of the United States.

— Mick Jagger