You spend your life training to be an actor, observing people's characteristics so that you can design characters around what you've seen. — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
The virtue you would like to have, assume it is already yours, appropriate it, enter into the part and live the character… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Very quickly I realized that directing is a combination of things: It's visual, it's directing the actors, it's telling a story. And… — Julie Delpy Copy Share Image
I love working with younger actors because they always come into the game full of energy and ideas that challenge me and… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
Working is the best way to understand and grow, as an actor, in my opinion. That's been my experience. — Britt Robertson Copy Share Image
The greatest gift an actor can have is not revealing who he is but through the parts he plays. Unfortunately, we live… — Jude Law Copy Share Image
'Parenthood' has been the beneficiary of wonderful performances by child actors. — Jason Katims Copy Share Image
That mental grind is the same, and this show has to be approached with the same mentality. Rest is paramount. Taking care… — Eddie George Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'm considered, I guess, a subtle actor. Maybe I'm less of a showman and more just trying to tell the story.… — Kelli O'Hara Copy Share Image
When actors are the real deal, all that star whatever goes right out the window and you're there to tell a story. — Mireille Enos Copy Share Image
Actors always talk about taking their work home and I always think: 'What are you on? You just turn it off. You… — Bill Nighy Copy Share Image
I never thought about being an actor. I was just going to play music and baseball. That’s all I was going to… — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
You have to have the passion. I could not live if I wasn't an actor. If you're just in it for beautiful… — Diane Kruger Copy Share Image
I watch and listen to movies today and am shocked by the way actors deliver their lines. Everybody mumbles now and I… — Maureen O'Hara Copy Share Image
I feel it's so hard for young actors; It's a different world that they're coming up in; there's so much money to… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
As a movie-goer, I really like to watch all different kinds of movies and, as an actor, I always feel like I… — Luke Wilson Copy Share Image
I don't want to be an actor or nothing but if I have to, I'll act if it's the right thing. — Obie Trice Copy Share Image
In contrast to the inorganic thereness of lifeless matter, living beings are not mere appearances. To be alive means to be possessed… — Hannah Copy Share Image
My goal as an actor, as an up-and-coming actor in this business is to stay consistent with the work, you know, and… — Michael K. Williams Copy Share Image
When becoming a character, you have to steal. Steal whatever you see. You can even steal from other actors' characterizations; but if… — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
Focus on making you the best you can be as an actor, and follow your own path. — Craig Sheffer Copy Share Image
It's much less interesting as an actor playing someone who's purely good or purely evil. — Michael Chiklis Copy Share Image
As actors, we deal with rejection so much more than any other business. So I don't care how much of a genius… — Ryan Kwanten Copy Share Image
I tell this joke about Barack Obama is the best communicator of our generation: The guy reads a teleprompter better than any… — Frank Luntz Copy Share Image
I think the best advice I'd say to any actor when you do comedy is play it straight. — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
If I can be a working actor, if I can be an actor and not have a day job, I'll be fine. — Colin Hanks Copy Share Image
I was doing a lot of web design at the time. And anybody that has an agent thinks, "Why do I need… — Jeff Vespa Copy Share Image
My instinct is to keep people guessing. I think as an actor your greatest strength is your versatility, I suppose. The blanker… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
If I didn't get a job, between 16 and 18, that wasn't significant, I was just going to go to college. I… — Jessica Alba Copy Share Image
I am selective, but at the same time, I want to be out there as an actor and show people my range. — Sasha Grey Copy Share Image
Competition [in a scene] is healthy. Competition is life. Yet most actors refuse to acknowledge this. They don't want to compete. They… — Michael Shurtleff Copy Share Image
There is a need for aloneness, which I don't think most people realise for an actor. It's almost having certain kinds of… — Marilyn Monroe Copy Share Image
I want to become a superstar, but for that, I first have to be a super actor. — Ranbir Kapoor Copy Share Image
I try to get to know the actors as much as I can. I feel like I'm friends with them for starters… — Gus Van Sant Copy Share Image
What's the classical moment that every actor or actress deals with? A tragic thing. They get that blank, faraway look in their… — Skeet Ulrich Copy Share Image
When I was 16 and wanted to be an actor, people told me to go work at the supermarket. — Steve Valentine Copy Share Image
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