Actors Quotes · Page 117

There are people out there with three jobs and small children. Being an actor is a walk in the park compared to…

— Anne-Marie Duff

The good writer and the good actor are always searching for what is essential. It is a never-ending task because what is…

— Glenda Jackson

I work with intuition. With interpreters. I have my own method. I know exactly what I want from actors. Sometimes, I even…

— Sergio Leone

As an actor, you can steer a scene in another direction by playing it a little differently. And honestly? I like being…

— Ben Affleck

I think English is a fantastic, rich and musical language, but of course your mother tongue is the most important for an…

— Max von Sydow

I think in a play it's wise to just sit back and watch other actors and be able to shape it from…

— Zach Braff

It'd be nice if Asian actors could be perceived as profitable, which is the bottom line. We're perceived as not mattering much…

— John Cho

Writing has made me a better actor. Acting has made me a better writer. So why wouldn't directing make me a better…

— Jonah Hill

It's only human and natural that an actor should see the film in terms of his own part, but I, as a…

— Michelangelo Antonioni

That's one of the challenges of acting. You can't expect that you're going to be successful, but you've got to put your…

— Jason Clarke

Actually way back when Abhishek and I were just co-actors, I kept telling him 'let's be a part of a troupe and…

— Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

New Kids on the Block are on season two [Full House ], so that was just a huge lifelong dream come true.…

— Andrea Barber

Laurence Olivier said if you have ambition to be a serious classical actor, you must be as fit as an athlete. For…

— Patrick Stewart

Actors have a platform, especially during awards season. Which I respect. Everyone should speak out. Here's the thing: When it comes to…

— Dwayne Johnson

Acting is being susceptible to what is around you, and it's letting it all come in. Acting is a clearing away of…

— Meryl Streep

Your desire to please... actors are people pleasers and if somebody says your vocal choice in this was ridiculous or whatever you…

— Romola Garai

The audience is not the least important actor in the play and if it will not do its allotted share the play…

— W. Somerset Maugham

When I opened my mouth to sing as a kid, I kind of randomly had a really good singing voice. And so…

— Billy Eichner

After I began to explore what an actor actually is, I studied for three years before I had the guts to go…

— Gale Harold

I love to improvise, but I always thought "Man, it's like the final frontier for improvisational actors, to really go for something…

— John C. Reilly

I find that communication as an actor and person is an important part of who I am. And I'm really drawn into…

— Zachary Quinto

Actors want to surprise themselves. When it's really good, you kind of transcend yourself, and that happens infrequently. Very, very rarely.

— Claire Danes

We ask the public to believe that every time they see an actress or actor that they are a different person.

— Edith Head

This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity.

— Albert Camus

I've just never been the kind of actor that things have stayed with. I've never needed to carry a character off stage.

— Morgan Freeman

A lot of directors in television have come up through the technical ranks. They have all the technical skills in the world.…

— Arthur Penn

I ended up an actor, did my first professional union gig in 1974, and I've been doing it ever since.

— Michael Ironside

If some actors were more realistic and others bordering on caricature, that would have been imbalanced. It would be as if we…

— Xavier Durringer

The way I see it, when I go out as an actor, it should be on a type of film I'm never…

— Edward Burns

I've never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind.

— Stephen Fry

When you're in Los Angeles, nobody bats an eye, they're so used to seeing actors, they just act really cool

— Luke Wilson

My stage fright gets worse at every performance. During the overture I hope for a theater fire, typhoon, revolution in the Pentagon.

— Hildegard Knef

You hang around actors, or dancers, the minute you sneeze, everybody has a remedy, and we're all on a million different kinds…

— Anna Deavere Smith

I can remember when a good politician had to be 75 percent ability and 25 percent actor, but I can well see…

— Harry S. Truman

There are a lot of things that dancers can do that actors cannot and actors can do that dancers cannot.

— Wim Wenders

But then there is the one who seems to have a hard time separating the actor's work from reality.

— Audrey Meadows

I suppose expectations are strange and I shy away from them. And the whole point of being an actor is to connect.

— Nicole Kidman

I'm involved with Recording Artists and Actors Against Drunk Driving. I'm also involved with most children's causes, because children can't help the…

— Judd Nelson

When actors are too good-looking, I can’t memorize them. For example, I have never seen a picture of Sienna Miller where I…

— Tina Fey

I don’t like writing for comedians. I like writing for actors. The best comedians are the best actors.

— Neil Simon