Actors Quotes · Page 95

Actors always loved props and-so instead of a hat or an umbrella, they feel really comfortable with a cigarette as a prop.

— Joe Eszterhas

I did all the musicals in high school, and I loved it. And then I got to theater school at college, and…

— Timothy Omundson

As an actor, it's great to play a strong leader with a heart of gold.

— John C. McGinley

My capacity as a monk was to passionately believe utter nonsense, and when you're an actor you have to do the same…

— Tom Baker

If you're an actor, always be true to your character. If you are not an actor, have character and always be true…

— Robert De Niro

For acting, darlings, is the world's most perilous trade. Compared with actors, steeple jacks and deep-sea divers lead snug and placid lives.

— Tallulah Bankhead

It's so funny, actors usually have a directing ambition. I've got no ambition for directing.

— Majandra Delfino

“Take the clapper and become the alarm that the world so desperately needs.”

— Abhijit Naskar

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms.

— Thornton Wilder

I think every young actor in Los Angeles went up for that role. It was between Frankie Muniz and me, and he…

— Shia LaBeouf

Having a mood disorder is not synonymous with having artistic talent, but it is true that people in the so-called creative professions-writers,…

— Tracy Thompson

I didn't need the insurance. I do it again if my DP tells me it didn't look good in the camera or…

— Debbie Allen

I can't remember ever staying for the end of a movie in which the actors wore togas.

— Jimmy Cannon

Competition is healthy. Competition is life. Yet most actors refuse to acknowledge this. They don't want to compete. They want to get…

— Michael Shurtleff

There was once a great actor named George C. Scott. He was on stage in the Delacourt Theater in Central Park, where…

— Al Pacino

Singers come and go, but if you're a good actor, you can last a long time.

— Elvis Presley

You work with seasoned actors, and sometimes you realize that they phone it in.

— Oliver Jackson-Cohen

Actors love mental disorders, dialects, and corsets. Give them one of the three and they're happy

— Robin Tunney

Remember that you are in actor in a play of such a kind that the author chooses...For this is your duty, to…

— Epictetus

Well, good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some sort…

— Nicolas Cage

I realize I have a lot of amazing opportunities, but I don't know how you can play a human being going through…

— Emma Stone

Films were never in my budget. Didn't occur to me till much later. I hoped for a long, good life, which I've…

— Peter O'Toole

What's actually amazing is that, after a couple of years of living with characters and writing characters and talking about characters, as…

— Jeff Pinkner

Leonard [Nimoy] was such a teacher for me. He was one of the most fully realized human beings I have ever known…

— Zachary Quinto

I worked with Roger Moore on three episodes of 'The Saint.' He is a lovely man, a good director, and was my…

— Shirley Eaton

As a filmmaker you get typecast just as much as an actor does, so I'm trapped in a genre that I love,…

— George A. Romero

Its very hard trying to talk to an actor about how they should deliver lines, or cut their hair, unless it comes…

— Tony Scott

You must create the character's internal life. What do I mean by internal life? I mean the thoughts, feelings, memories, and inner…

— Larry Moss

I played guitar. I've always considered myself an actor, but I wasn't making a living as an actor. So I was in…

— Alan Arkin

I love movies and I love to watch movies and being a part of the whole film experience. Being a filmgoer is…

— Zooey Deschanel

A lot of writers, because they don't understand actors, feel like, in order to be better at their performance, they have to…

— Giovanni Ribisi

I think actors have a greater responsibility when doing comedy. It's as easy as anything to get cheap laughs, but that's not…

— Peter Bowles

Animators do amazing working translating and interpolating the characters [in the Planet of the apes], the facial performances. What we're creating on…

— Andy Serkis

I was born a character actor. I was never really a leading man type.

— Burgess Meredith

So I started to learn Russian and I was one of those probably way too eager, annoying young actor kids who was…

— Jared Leto

In every real actor, there is a need to feel for a few hours like the center of the world. Egocentrismo, we…

— Vittorio Gassman

When you see a person, do you just concentrate on their looks? It's just a first impression. Then there's someone who doesn't…

— Brad Pitt

There's a lot of great stuff on television and that's very appealing to actors who want to work, who do good quality…

— Wesley Snipes

Being pigeonholed is the death of all actors.

— Jack Nicholson

Um, musicians are funnier you know, than actors on the whole.

— Tim Curry