Actors Quotes · Page 149

I think I'm a very very nice director. Very supportive, very nurturing. I definitely try to challenge my actors but I think…

— David Schwimmer

Playwrights are the most gregarious writers - to get our work done, we need actors, directors, set designers.

— Katori Hall

As an actor in the theater you're taught that you never play a bad guy. You have to love who you are.…

— Denzel Washington

I'm never going to be the lead actor guy. I'm real quiet and real happy and real fortunate to keep working. It's…

— Michael Ironside

I've met big-name actors doing Hollywood films, and they've said that all they want is an in at HBO and their own…

— Chris Lilley

A strange thing happens to me that I'm sure happens to a lot of actors when the camera starts rolling. I'm not…

— Emily Browning

I mean, I didn't ever watch 'Gilligan's Island' and think, 'Those people are actors.' I lived in West Virginia. Hollywood just felt…

— Jennifer Garner

My father wanted to be an actor, dreamed about being an actor, but he gave it up because my mom and his…

— David Copperfield

When it comes to thinking about how a character talks, there are literary and language considerations. For actors to be able to…

— Mike Leigh

I don't have any conscious memory of wanting to be an actor, but early on, there was something in my makeup that…

— Martin Sheen

Well, actors get very frustrated with giving control to other people. They have their own ideas and wants for their characters. Warren…

— Alec Baldwin

Getting the call to be in The Goblet of Fire was like being welcomed into the most exclusive upper circle of some…

— David Tennant

I always figure hey, look, I'm not a rock star, I'm an actor. I'm somebody who's meant to be other people and…

— Christian Bale

I just don't think I'm special because I'm an actor and I never would. Of course I take what I do seriously…

— Ellen Page

One of the things I tried to do is to kind of talk my actors through the scene, but at the same…

— James Wan

Listen, I like great actors. You can be a movie star without being a great actor - this has been proved several…

— Jose Padilha

I'm not a wealthy person because I was never a star. I was a working actor and a supporting actor.

— Ed Begley, Jr

It seems to me that I never grow unless I'm actually working with other actors who have shed whatever shell it is…

— Morgan Freeman

In the writing phase, normally I try not to envisage any particular actors because I like to let the characters sort of…

— David Ayer

I've always felt that actors in my experience have a very good and accurate instinct about whether something feels right or not.…

— Richard Ayoade

Actors are the best and the worst of people. Theyre like kids. When theyre good, theyre very very good. When theyre bad…

— Oladapo Rid Wan

It's not often as an actor you get to be involved with a project that seems to be on the right side…

— Justin Bartha

There are actors in this town who made important careers for a long, long period just by taking the parts that Cary…

— Louis Jourdan

There is also a distinct possibility that there are other actors ? whose names have not leaked to the press ? who…

— Daniel Craig

Im not the kind of person to just sit back and lose something I worked hard on, so, naturally, Ive taken steps…

— Amber Heard

I grew up watching American movies. My favorite movies have always been American, since as long as I can remember. I always…

— Noomi Rapace

I feel like any time you, as an actor, can be surrounded by other amazing actors, you can't do anything but grow.

— Anonymous

I don't think a lot of actors talk about it, but there's usually a process where you essentially purge yourself of the…

— Vin Diesel

I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on…

— D. H. Lawrence

Good actors have always supported each other's performances in a film, and the same happened in 'Bareilly Ki Barfi.' We all supported…

— Rajkummar Rao

My view of actors is that basically they're all harmless lunatics who'd be on the psychiatrist's couch.

— Michael Caine

It's a tiny industry. Actors all know each other to a point where you always know someone who knows the other person…

— Jamie Dornan

Some of the roles that are challenging are more in theater and TV. In movies, there's a tendency to cast actors in…

— Al Pacino

I'd like to be a director who gives my actors complete freedom while collaborating with them to find performances.

— Tom Holland

Actors are fighting at all time. The love you get is amazing. When you don't get it, it is the most excruciating…

— Parineeti Chopra

An actor shouldn't undergo psychoanalysis, because there are a lot of things you're better off not knowing.

— Paul Lynde

You don't need qualifications as an actor or a politician. And I didn't want to be a politician.

— James Garner

[This kind of strange mythology about me.] I've pulled a huge steamboat over a mountain; I've done a feature film with all…

— Werner Herzog

I toyed with the notion of being an actor, and am so glad that this whim did not go any further.

— Martin Parr

I love villains. You know, I am a character actor, and any chance to get to play a really outrageous villain. I…

— Bruce Davison