Actors Quotes · Page 111

I know other actors who are relieved when their shows get cancelled, and I've never felt that way about 'Community.'

— Gillian Jacobs

The way an actor is trained doesn't ultimately have much bearing on my work. I'm interested in the actor as artist.

— Mike Leigh

As actors, we need to do our parts exactly the way they have visualised it, because if we don't, we have to…

— Karan Singh Grover

I do not want actors and actresses to understand my plays. That is not necessary. If they will only pronounce the correct…

— George Bernard Shaw

When I was younger, people used to say you only really prove yourself as an actor on stage. And I disagree with…

— Clive Owen

As an actor you always wanna protect your character. You wanna make them loveable, likeable. You wanna make them strong, you want…

— Katrina Law

I'm largely interested in people who are just great actors, and they're not necessarily hugely famous.

— Tobias Menzies

Recently an actor asked me to teach him how to speak fast. Wasn't I once criticised for speaking too fast? Now they're…

— Shahrukh Khan

Working with people you adore and love. There's just a sense, all the way through all of the movies [Planet of Apes],…

— Andy Serkis

Theres this little box that African-American actors have to work in, in the first place, and I was able to rise above…

— Eddie Murphy

As an actor, it made me realize a really important lesson. I didn't have to put any spin on the ball as…

— Julie Benz

[Washington, DC] feels like you're watching performance art. A lot of the time. I don't believe them, I don't believe what they…

— Kevin Spacey

When I was an actor, I worked with lots of men who had a bit of success early on, who were very…

— David Nicholls

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

The great character actors are now the actors whose work has the element of ritual sacrifice once claimed by the DeNiros of…

— Tom Junod

It's not easy being an actor, and having said that, everybody's an actor. Do you know what I mean? Paris Hilton's an…

— Patti LuPone

If you have the right actors and you can give them the freedom to explore, you've done a lot of your work…

— Andy Garcia

I'll tell you what I probably would prefer to happen less and less: actors that I know and respect in shampoo ads.…

— Sean Penn

I had to learn how to become a real actor, I had to suffer and be rejected and face that 100 times…

— Donnie Wahlberg

A lot of Indian actors are booking shows in Hollywood like 'Quantico' and 'Homeland,' and the audience is accepting that.

— Pooja Batra

Shakespeare teaches you how to act. You come out of this process as a better actor. It's just the nature of the…

— Condola Rashad

My dad was a college football coach, so we're a big athletic family. I was either going to be an athlete or…

— Matt Barr

Most actors, unless they're big movie stars and can carve out huge chunks of time to focus on one movie that takes…

— Richard Schiff

When I think about actors I know, I'd much rather hear about who they're shagging than what film they're doing next.

— Hugh Grant

A lot of gay-themed films are terrible. And mainstream audiences and the press aren't interested, understandably.

— Andrew Haigh

I thought 'I can't be an actor, I can't'. Then this film came up and it was like someone saying to me,…

— Keisha Castle-Hughes

I acted when I was a real little kid. My mother was an actress in a Miami theater company comprised of actors…

— Yul Vazquez

Cumberbatch - it sounds like a fart in a bath, doesn't it? What a fluffy old name. I can never say it…

— Benedict Cumberbatch

As an actor, you're a color of paint on someone else's palette. But as a director, it's your canvas and you make…

— Denzel Washington

The finished product is not finished when the actor is. The work is completed by a pair of shears.

— Josef von Sternberg

As much as I loved [Al] Pacino and [Robert] De Niro and wanted to be a dramatic actor, I also grew up…

— Eric McCormack

I really enjoy talking to actors or filmmakers that enjoy that process of creating and how they go about doing it.

— Jim Caviezel

You may look at us actors and think that, 'Oh my God, they are so pretty, so perfect.' But that's not how…

— Ileana D'Cruz

That's the first time I've been involved in such a big way as a voice actor and this script [Voltron] is very…

— Rhys Darby

Working in theater, film, or television are three different jobs for an actor, and I accept them as such.

— James Spader

An actor shouldn't have to leave the set and go home and write a bunch of stuff for a bunch of other…

— Johnny Depp

Actors devote a lot of our time and energy to the work that we do, but there shouldn't come a sense of…

— Lili Reinhart

I feel very lucky to be part of this amazing show [Exorcist] with such an amazing cast of actors, with a really…

— Alfonso Herrera

Being an actor is really odd. So, don't take that as your reality - take your family, take your friends, take your…

— Lorna Luft

You know, there was not much wire work for any of us actors to do because the extent of what they did…

— Julian McMahon