Actors Quotes · Page 94

I think it's very rare, as an actor, that you get to a script, or an idea of a script, and you…

— Oliver Jackson-Cohen

But I've never been really rebellious. I've got a lot of support and I'm not pushed so hard that I feel like…

— Ellen Page

Good actors, you always know what they're thinking. That's why they're good actors.

— Ron Livingston

I think acting is a mixture of instinct, imagination and inventiveness. All you can learn as an actor is basic technique.

— Christopher Lee

I've never trained as an actor. I've always thought I'm not a good actor. I've been told I'm not a good actor…

— Jo Brand

You want to try and bring a character to life in an honest a way as you possibly can. It doesn't matter…

— Scott Bakula

I think that the process of trying to become somebody else, and obviously the director/actor relationship in trying to do that, is…

— Rupert Friend

There's more substance in my prose and my poetry than in all my films together. Writing is a more direct way of…

— Werner Herzog

Theater is like going to the gym for actors.

— Julia Stiles

There are actors who make no decisions about how to play something until they're in the moment, looking into their scene partner's…

— Anthony Heald

Because technically actors are just public servants really. They just tell stories because people need to be told stories. That's all it…

— James McAvoy

The good thing about being an actor, and the gift of being an actor, is that you are beautifully forced to see…

— Javier Bardem

When actors are being defensive and defending their position, that is when you get less than good acting.

— John Boorman

I was not what you'd call a first-class actor, but I did all right.

— Elia Kazan

I was working with Peter Tolan, who was my writing partner on those two [Rescue Me and The Job], and he did…

— Denis Leary

I think the biggest shift for me is - this is going to sound like a wanky actor, but - getting in…

— Zoe Bell

As an actor, you usually live your life with faith.

— Molly Parker

My mother was an extraordinary theater actor in Canada, and when I would finish school, I would go to the theater. I…

— Kiefer Sutherland

Becoming an actor made me way more interested in plot.

— David Duchovny

I've worked with actors before where I was like, this is not working, and then I've seen their work on the screen…

— Vincent Kartheiser

In the next couple of years, part of every film's process is going to be to adjust the images. And it'll be…

— Robert Zemeckis

Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits and Are melted into air, into thin…

— William Shakespeare

I wound up auditioning, wound up getting in, and I was off to the races: I was putting in four more years…

— Peter Jacobson

If you are a great dramatic actor then you often don't know if people are enjoying your stuff at all because they…

— Steve Coogan

I was actually away in Africa doing 'Generation Kill' while everyone was auditioning for Twilight. They all had, like, five different auditions:…

— Kellan Lutz

I've had the pleasure and the great luck to work with some incredible actors over the years and you have to observe…

— Cillian Murphy

The number one thing I am earnestly attracted to is intelligence. Writers are thus the pinnacle of intelligence. While actors are great…

— Rachel Bloom

It's actually really great to be a student and an actor, because I get to do this job that I love, then…

— Julia Stiles

The actors I respect are the ones who see it as a career and manage to live reasonably normal lives, like Meryl…

— Max Irons

Actors often behave like children, and so we're taken for children. I want to be grown up.

— Jeremy Irons

I recognized that I had a window of opportunity that had opened because of my exposure as an actor.

— Zachary Quinto

You have to believe in yourself and always strive for the best. Whether that is getting the best actor, the most talented…

— Nicholas Ozeki

A good actor's director, first of all, is prepared, so there's not an exorbitant amount of wasted footage.

— William H. Macy

When I was younger I saw a movie called 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' with Paul Newman and Robert Redford. Those…

— Peter Facinelli

You become the movie you are making.

— Ang Lee

I've worked with some actors who can't act.

— Anthony Anderson

Basically, actors arrive in a bubble. They have a little sealed bubble around them and it's basically [comprised of] their agents, their…

— Danny Boyle

When you first start out as an actor, you're just looking for a good part. As time goes on, if you're being…

— George Clooney

As an actor we're just like workers in a factory, we provide our services to directors

— Chow Yun-Fat

Personally, I wouldn't advise a gay leading man-type actor to come out.

— Richard Chamberlain