Actors Quotes · Page 132

If you put anger in the writing, then it's like an actor crying on stage. The audience will not cry with the…

— Roger Rosenblatt

I have nothing but admiration for the actors on soap operas. It is unbelievably challenging to put out an hour show in…

— Catherine Mary Stewart

It's weird, not to sound too actor but I think that any time you do a performance, you kind of take a…

— Alia Shawkat

I'm always excited to be around other actors. I sometimes only get to work with myself, and it's so tedious. I was…

— Bruce Willis

In order to be an artist and an actor, like tackling the classics in the theater as well as film, there's lots…

— Val Kilmer

every actor knows that tragedy, being linear and inevitable, is taxing - but comedy, which depends on the element of surprise, is…

— Robin Morgan

I admire the actors that truly can impersonate someone - become someone, inhabit someone. It's amazing when you see it done.

— Jason Schwartzman

Every actor wants to break out of the box that they put you in and that's where I'm heading, out of the…

— Rick Springfield

I went whole hog at the actor's lifestyle - really embraced it. I had by then known how much I loved acting…

— Peter Jurasik

I don't think I've ever written anything even remotely naturalistic. The closest probably would be seen as 'Frankie and Johnny,' and that's…

— Terrence McNally

Over the years, many young actors have approached me: Vusi Kunene, Sello Maake ka Ncube, and Seputla Sebogodi. They all said, 'Hey…

— John Kani

I'm a comedic actor, not to mix words, but it's something I think about. A comedic actor. I like to think that…

— Mike Myers

I'm in awe of actors, I think they're amazing because, I don't think I can even play me in anything. I'm really…

— Sarah Millican

I read the script and I really liked it. It was high energy, crazy and it goes to any level to get…

— Amy Smart

I stopped acting when I was about nineteen, twenty, when I got thrown out of college. I did act for about ten…

— Edward Albee

I considered a lot of different jobs as a kid. I thought about becoming a priest or a lawyer. My father had…

— John C. Reilly

Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference.…

— Alan Rickman

It's amazing how the world has changed because, at that time [2005], a lot of actors didn't want to play a gay role.

— Jake Gyllenhaal

I personally believe the film turns out better when shot in one short schedule, plus it doesn't stress the actors.

— Shahrukh Khan

Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we…

— Vincent D'Onofrio

I'm not one of those actors who sits around the table and intellectualizing anything, or discusses much of anything. Everything for me…

— Chris Bauer

I don't have any money to hire actors. I just need to get people who are going to do a good job…

— Grimes

The first draft is just a skeleton-just bare bones. It's like the very first rehearsal of a play, where the director moves…

— Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Arnold Schwarzenegger made his tax returns public, [and] now there's a problem about him stretching the truth. Apparently under occupation he put…

— Jay Leno

Maybe it took a little time, or we're a little late, but finally we're recognizing that international stars are fantastic. They're the…

— Rob Marshall

My path was to be an actor and it’s been very good to me in life. It’s broadened my horizons and given…

— Nicole Kidman

As actors, it is our responsibility to read the newspapers, and then say what we read on television like it's our own…

— Janeane Garofalo

I think having healthy relationships makes me feel much more confident and available to do good work as an actor.

— Rose McIver

They say God looks after kids and idiots, and I think actors are probably a combination of the two.

— Scott Glenn

Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation...

— Aldous Huxley

Most of the time, my favorite drama has comedy in it as well. I think most good dramas have comedy in there.…

— Adam Brody

I was a writer. I just wasn't a very good one. I was lucky enough to have a playwriting teacher who told…

— Liev Schreiber

An actor finds things in the moment with a director and other actors that you don't have time to hand-draw or animate…

— Andy Serkis

I'm the most out-of-work actor I know. In the last two years I've basically taken meetings for a living.

— Macaulay Culkin

I think it's very dangerous for an actor to take [shooting] too seriously because I think it could really damage you if…

— Michael Pitt

I'm passionate about being an actor, but I'm definitely not passionate about being a sex symbol.

— Dustin Clare

I snootily say I can't take too many dramatic parts, as it's taking work from actors who aren't funny.

— Robert Webb

As an actor, you're putting yourself out there when you perform. You're bound to experience feelings of vulnerability because of this.

— Mpho Koaho

I am a sensitive writer, actor and director. Talking business disgusts me. If you want to talk business, call my disgusting personal…

— Sylvester Stallone

Developing films with directors, developing films with actors, is a poor percentage play for a screenwriter.

— Tony Gilroy