Actors Quotes · Page 136

I think actors, they maybe want more approval than I'm used to giving. Everybody does. Everybody needs a hug you know, all…

— Timothy Miller

A lot of people consider the actors as their role models and look up to them for guidance. When your decision affects…

— Suresh Gopi

I don't want to just be an actor my whole life. I mean I do want to be an actor my whole…

— Ansel Elgort

I think there are a lot more writers who are actors than you know; they just don't have roles on famous TV…

— Danny Strong

I was a film-directing major at NYU. I'm still not sure why I became a directing major, when I was really an…

— Billy Crystal

Josh Brolin is an actor that I really, really like; he's fantastic. I worked with him once; he's a really great actor.

— Rob Zombie

My parents were both actors my dad sort of quite early on. My mother acted for a while, and now she's a…

— Sam Rockwell

You're an actor who's Irish, not an Irish actor. And you shouldn't be limited by your extraction.

— Cillian Murphy

When I'm acting, I have zero control, and it's the scariest thing anyone can do in that field because, you know, your…

— Amber Tamblyn

I think there are definite parallels between sport and art. There's a real sense of sacrifice. There's a real sense of dedication…

— Matt Smith

The world has obviously changed in terms of the way filmmakers and actors and writers often look at their own careers. They…

— Mark Canton

I think I would co-direct because I love actors and I've got a very good eye. I'm not a second-guesser. I don't…

— Lance Henriksen

I do have comfort, because as an actor you don't want that anxiety of wondering if you're going to continue with a…

— Tim DeKay

If there is a snobbery, then they haven't been on set to see how a show like 'EastEnders' works. Because I know…

— Tamzin Outhwaite

I remember Chris Cooper saying to me - I was doing October Sky with him - and he said, "You know, you're…

— Jake Gyllenhaal

Being present is the actor’s job. Being aware of your body, in space, and the emotions that are occurring inside, is essential.…

— Sandra Oh

In a way, putting actors deep into this sort of complicated universe frees them from thinking about who they should be. They…

— Michel Gondry

I must have worked with over 100 actors, but I think there are four to five names I count on my fingers…

— Jasmin Bhasin

I have this assemblage of small facts, which looks like intelligence but no real depth of knowledge about anything. That's why I'm…

— Wayne Knight

Many times, when a director reads a script and wants somebody who says 'Far out', then they let me do what I…

— Katherine Helmond

I'm not that comfortable with actors receiving honours, partly because I think they ought to go to those who really help others.

— Jim Broadbent

I'd like to be a working actor. It sounds really trite, but there really are no small parts, only small actors. And…

— Anne Hathaway

I think movies are a director's medium in the end. Theater is the actor's medium. Theater is fast, and enjoyable, and truly…

— Sam Mendes

Curing environmental ills requires not a stance outside nature, but a stance within nature, a role not as onlooker without, but as…

— Valerius Geist

I resent having witnessed the survival of some very mediocre male actors and the professional demise of the very brilliant female ones.

— Helen Mirren

Viola Davis is just one of those actors who is never bad in anything. She could be in an awful film but…

— Nish Kumar

I have friends who are trans advocates, and they were upset that Jared Leto played a trans person.

— Sean Baker

I knew the President would run for reelection in 1984. Why not? Actors love sequels ... and returns.

— Bob Hope

Like all independent movies, the first thing you're looking for is a name actor who will justify your financing.

— Steven Shainberg

He[John Cassavetes] was just being an actor. A very successful actor, especially in live TV. He did many wonderful performances.

— Gena Rowlands

We do assess that hostile actors gained access to the private commercial email accounts of people with whom Secretary Hillary Clinton was…

— James Comey

Casting is so important in horror. It's so important to have strong actors to tell a story because, if you don't believe…

— Alexandre Aja

Although there was a screenplay, the actors never knew what questions I was going to ask them, and all of my character's…

— Griffin Dunne

As an actor, you ask yourself what you can do to put yourself in a position where you can play that role.

— Jeremy Northam

It's like playing tennis, you play a different rally with different people. Every actor is different and the chemistry between actors is…

— Tom Hiddleston

Every time I work with real Southern actors... we immediately go into white trash, and we just get along really well within…

— Lucas Till

This created world really helped me as an actor. It heightened everything, which made it more dangerous, more interesting and more liberating.

— Leonardo DiCaprio

Inspiration can come from anywhere. But I do love actors. I wish I could drop a bunch of names, but there are…

— Kevin Corrigan

A lot of people say, 'What's the worst part about being an actor?' And the worst part is that you're not a…

— Paul Rudd

When you're a short actor you stand on apple boxes, you walk on a ramp. When you're a short star everybody else…

— Michael J. Fox