Actors Quotes · Page 87

In the beginning you can think, "The world is like a stage. I am only an actor. God is the director. All…

— Sathya Sai Baba

An actor should refine public taste.

— Aristophanes

I think there's always pieces of yourself that bleed into your character. That's inevitable. In some ways, we have similarities, but in…

— Dustin Clare

Start drinking vodka instead of beer, and try to get a six-pack as early as possible and you'll be a much more…

— Robert Pattinson

I was always the hero with no vices, reciting practically the same lines to the leading lady. The current crop of movie…

— Ramon Novarro

You want the actors to disappear into roles and stay under the radar, and that gets harder when someone is known for…

— Sarah Silverman

Of course, when you work with actors and when you work on a script everything that you know about the human experience…

— Deniz Gamze Erguven

I'm a lot more selective with work these days. My perfect plan is to do one movie every nine months. It would…

— Gwyneth Paltrow

I was 3 when I told my mom that I knew what my dharma was and that I wanted to be an actor.

— Brie Larson

Actors are con men and con men are actors.

— Edward Burns

I've always created solo work. When I first came to New York I was working in a few different areas; I was…

— Guillermo E. Brown

Heart of America is a movie I'm very proud of. The young actors are great and the story has impact.

— Uwe Boll

I blame Walt Disney; well he has to find voice actors better than me somehow doesn't he?

— Zach Braff

All the things that are negative in me as a person - the incompetence and despair and weakness and pain - are…

— Elizabeth Ashley

Normally, filmmakers would just write a script and cast people to act as certain characters in the story. But in my way…

— Wong Kar-wai

I have the most fun writing and directing. And I always choose myself as the lead actor.

— Isabella Rossellini

I couldn't care less about actors' trailers and food on sets and stuff like that - I just want to act

— Chow Yun-Fat

People want to see realism in action now. People want the actors to perform than the computers performing. Though I have done…

— Akshay Kumar

As an actor, we are, in a way, a mirror of other people.

— Chris Sarandon

Secure writers don't sell first drafts. They patiently rewrite until the script is as director-ready, as actor-ready as possible. Unfinished work invites…

— Robert McKee

It's kind of interesting to be a director who is all of a sudden being an actor playing an agent. This is…

— Mark Rydell

I'm much more a writer than an actor. Although I have a great respect for that and I enjoy acting still, it…

— Jason Gann

I wish I were a character actor. Of course, if I played hockey without a mask, I could become one

— Michael Vartan

I love stand-up. I look at it as a way to always stay productive. I couldn't imagine only being an actor or…

— Hannibal Buress

Oh yeah, I'm the president of the lucky club. There are so many talented people who don't work. And the crop of…

— Shia LaBeouf

I think most actors jump at the chance to do something where the camera's on them all the time.

— Zoe Kazan

To go into more specifics regarding actors, whether they're from Korea or the U.S., all actors know if they are loved by…

— Kim Jee-woon

We're not allowed in the cutting room - and that's extraordinary. So, when a director is asking for certain nuances and colours…

— Dustin Hoffman

The terrain of the face is the most dynamic thing you can point the camera at, to me. I love production design…

— Ava DuVernay

I was entirely wrapped up in the idea of becoming an actor. I learned how to write on the job, basically out…

— Glenn Howerton

I also think the reason I like to do a one-man show is you're not limited into the confines of a role.…

— Jason Graae

Norms appearing in the form of law entitle actors to exercise their rights or liberties. However, one cannot determine which of these…

— Jurgen Habermas

No one has ever asked an actor, 'You're playing a strong-minded man…' We assume that men are strong-minded, or have opinions. But…

— Meryl Streep

The only lesson I really learned from [Gigi Does It] was that I shouldn't bite off more than I could chew. I've…

— David Krumholtz

Im so lucky to have the opportunity to work with some directors and some actors I wouldnt have dared to think I…

— Marion Cotillard

I got very self-conscious about the way I look. So I, especially with young people coming into the industry and young actors,…

— June Diane Raphael

Sometimes in the life of an actor you're not getting offered any jobs that speak to you. The trouble with acting is…

— Ethan Hawke

But I've always been hard to cast, I've never been an ingenue, I've never been the romantic lead. I'm an actor; give…

— Edie Falco

I think that all actors find they go down and then they come back up if you work on your craft. They…

— Johnathon Schaech

I'm not that comfortable with actors receiving honours, partly because I think they ought to go to those who really help others.

— Jim Broadbent