Actors Quotes · Page 142

A lot of actors, we aren't that special; you get a well-written scene, and it's virtually actor-proof.

— Timothy Olyphant

You always absorb a lot from a great actor. What you want, as an actor, no matter where you are in your…

— Julianne Moore

I allow an area for improvisation because the chemical things actors bring to stories make it not work.

— Vincente Minnelli

Acting is my true love. I would like to have been a serious actor, and I plan to in the next life.…

— Joan Rivers

As an actor I've been attracted to the sort of films that I want to go and see. That tends to usually…

— Eric Bana

Gay people, we die in all the movies, like we almost always die in the movie, because that's what you can do…

— Guy Branum

As an actor, particularly in theatre, you're trying to get jobs on TV; but you're also losing jobs in theatre to people…

— Andrew Rannells

One of my favourite sorts of actors...the rat actor. The rat actor knows his job and gets it done.

— Joss Whedon

I enjoy the physicality a little more, with Vinnie Paz [in Bleed for This] that was the most prep I've ever had…

— Miles Teller

There are some scenes that you have to lose in order to win something at the end. A good director will keep…

— George Clooney

“I seem finally to have stopped worrying about Elinor, and age. She seems now to be perfectly normal -- about twenty-five, a…

— Emma Thompson

I think I probably think about myself as an actor, which is the way most people do. I think I'm good, I…

— Ashton Kutcher

In fact, my methodology is based on the idea of waiting for when inspiration arrives for the actors. And that means that…

— Albert Serra

If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it, and do it honestly. I also…

— Olivia Colman

The libertarian view is that human actors are self-owners and these self-owners are capable of appropriating unowned scarce resources by Lockean homesteading…

— Stephan Kinsella

It's funny how in the long time of me working in various countries and various situations that there is this kind of…

— Werner Herzog

I think I'm inspired mostly by other artists that aren't actors, like writers or singers or artists, for being so brave.

— Kristin Scott Thomas

If youre not concerned about maintaining an image, you can pursue roads that another actor might not take.

— Kevin Spacey

You just hope that you will get the opportunity to do what you love and pay your bills, and that is being…

— Debra Messing

I'm glad to be an actor to be employed by people who are now 12, probably. I look forward to that.

— Alden Ehrenreich

I really have no ulterior motive in taking on certain roles. I have no larger issue that I really want to show…

— Sally Field

I think all actors have a strange quirk about them. They're different than the usual run of people. They have a way…

— Agnes Moorehead

As actors, that has been challenging for us to pick up the nuances of the living legends we are playing.

— Tahir Raj Bhasin

I was an actor in college and it was much easier than being a waiter. I thought it was fun to get…

— Dom Irrera

When I said I no longer wanted to be a painter, that I wanted to be an actor, the first thing I…

— Rod Taylor

The Baha'i celebrity, or the Belebrity, is a character actor with a big head playing an annoying creep on a TV show.

— Rainn Wilson

For the actors, there's something very important about that first showing of the scene to the crew, becomes like a little performance.

— Ewan McGregor

Sometimes you need to put your own characteristics into the actor, and you take different things from the character that you admire…

— Bonnie Wright

I don't know where actors go after they die, but I know people who help other people have a nice place to…

— Jeff Conaway

My mom is an art teacher and my dad owns a women's shoe store, so they're not actors by any means. Well,…

— James Wolk

Working with actors who are directors is magnificent. Because they understand the art form intimately, and they know exactly how everything works.

— Robert Zemeckis

Actors and magicians are both performers, and they represent things that are not necessarily who they are.

— Steve Carell

I'm sure I cause just as much consternation for editors as any other actor, it definitely makes me feel more comfortable understanding…

— Ed Helms

Soap Actors are fun and interesting. They all have something special that you want to be around.

— Austin Peck

I love the life of an actor because you spend brief amounts of time with other people and then you just leave.…

— Madeleine Stowe

I just have always been so interested in the way actors and actresses present themselves to the world because I think it…

— Allison Williams

It can be a bit annoying if another actor is trying to talk to the director and the wife is sitting on…

— Colin Farrell

You know, a lot of actors I think go into acting for therapy from whatever trauma has affected them as children. But…

— Michael Ealy

Sometimes it only takes three words, so long as they're the right words, to direct an actor in the right way.

— Patrice Leconte

My mother is a professor of early childhood education. When I was two she would say she knew I was going to…

— Matt Damon