Actors Quotes · Page 145

I believe in making all movies at their most reasonable. That I get a lot of money as an actor is because…

— Jack Nicholson

I was always ambitious. I always wanted to be more than I was…I always wanted to be a movie actor.

— Morgan Freeman

It's always a pleasure to see John. I'm fond of telling people that when I was a young actor in NY and…

— Harvey Keitel

The actor's role in the community is quite unlike anyone else's. Businessmen, for example, don't take their clothes off or cry in…

— Wallace Shawn

My parents didn't want me to be an actor. They didn't think I could take the rejection, and I have to say…

— Rupert Penry-Jones

I read the script, and I knew it was a good part. It was written for a white actor. That's what I'm…

— Gregory Hines

The Old Vic has always been first and foremost an actors' theatre, a home for great talent and memorable performances.

— Kevin Spacey

I don't like actors who try to talk directors into making their part bigger and that's really lame.

— Franka Potente

Because I produce a comedy festival and because I write and all of that stuff, I've seen the relationship that actors can…

— Janet Varney

I feel like Hollywood likes to use gay people to tell either really sad gay stories starring straight actors, or everything's about…

— Tommy Dorfman

Men, you are about to embark on a great crusade to stamp out runaway decency in the west. Now you men will…

— Harvey Korman

My job as an actor has inspired generations of children to become doctors. My job as a writer has opened up the…

— Zach Braff

We are now at a point where because we in fact have been successful at stopping a number of plots, a threat…

— Barack Obama

I have a final word of advice to our students. If you work very, very hard, this is the kind of actor,…

— Alan Alda

I think that's what we're all trying to do as actors, is create some sort of passion from people and allow them…

— Serinda Swan

Actors used to carry films because people would have to actually go to the movies to see them. It was the only…

— Eva Mendes

Each movie was a challenge for me, as a man, as an actor. After each movie, something changed in my life, in…

— Omar Sy

Sightseeing was ... based on imaginative invention, like rehearsing your own play in stage sets from which all the actors had fled.

— Paul Theroux

I'm an actor, in particular, that likes to have a mask or something that can help me distance myself from the character.…

— Corey Stoll

There's posh character actors. For God's sake, Olivier was one of the greatest character actors in the world. Hamlet, Shylock, Othello -…

— Timothy Spall

When you feel betrayed by someone that you trust the most... As an actor, you look for something that's going to let…

— Terrence Howard

Animating is a very slow, pain-staking process and the animators become the actors at that point.

— Wes Anderson

Actors need to know why they're saying what they're saying, more than just learning their lines.

— Dee Rees

I gotta make a living. I make no bones about that. Most actors do. But within that context, I've never not tried…

— Alan Arkin

I think you have to have a little bit of a screw loose to think that you can [become an actor] because…

— Linda Cardellini

In England or America, actors do not have to cater to an image. In India, it is almost demanded of us. Very…

— Abhishek Bachchan

I don't consider myself much of an actor. I have a face and a voice that allows me to do certain things,…

— Adrian Pasdar

I've been a professional actor now for 38 years. A long time. And it's wonderful to earn your living doing something that…

— Derek Jacobi

For me as an actor, daring is to tell the truth - to be yourself, no matter how the world interacts with…

— Taylor Schilling

Communication is the key, and it's one thing I had to learn-to talk to the actors. I was so involved with the…

— Steve Buscemi

When you find a waiter who is a waiter and not an actor, writer, musician or poet, you've found a jewel.

— Andre Soltner

I had improvised a lot in classes and at the Actors Studio, but I never did it in front of the camera.

— Gene Wilder

I look at careers like Ben Stiller and think that's a great career to have where you're doing movies that you write…

— Eli Roth

I think there were bad actors in the government and bad actors in the finance, mortgage, markets industries that need to be…

— Hillary Clinton

I try not to write for actors because A, they're not the character, and B, it's really depressing when you don't get…

— Theodore Melfi

The offers were, like, a lot of money - maybe not for other actors, but definitely for me. But I don't want…

— Joaquin Phoenix

All that day she had had the feeling that she was playing in the theatre with actors better than herself and that…

— Leo Tolstoy

I wish I'd never been an actor. I'd rather have been a streetwalker, selling my body, than selling my tears and my…

— Klaus Kinski

I think it makes a difference when the actors are enjoying it more than anything because we have a real blast on…

— Burn Gorman

Commercial jobs are pretty easily adjustable because they only take a few hours to complete, which is one of the reasons they…

— Thayer David