Actors Quotes · Page 153

The director sent for me for Tarzan. I climbed the tree and walked out on a limb. The next day I was…

— Johnny Weissmuller

I'm so envious of certain actors that have that natural facility to hear a cadence and the rhythm of an accent, that…

— Geoffrey Rush

For me, honestly, I'm an actor. There's one thing I know how to do - act. And that's all I know how…

— Wilmer Valderrama

Actors will change their face, will change their hair, will change their voice, will disappear into the role. A movie star doesn't…

— Nicholas Meyer

If you're a serious actor, it's when you know you're going to die tomorrow that you really start to feel it.

— Rowan Atkinson

It's more enjoyable to shoot in a studio on a single location with two actors... if they are good.

— Michael Haneke

Characterization in a play is like a blank check which the dramatist accords to the actor for him to fill in.

— Thornton Wilder

I wanted to be a child actor so bad that every day I'd beg my parents if I could audition, but my…

— Zooey Deschanel

'King Lear,' I've been seeing all my life. I mean, the great actors of my lifetime... to join their company, as it…

— Ian Mckellen

I don't like to meet the actor and have a lot of conferences and talk about their sub-life and their off-screen life…

— Woody Allen

I think that so many actors are defined by the first thing that people see them do, and there were people who…

— Stephanie D'Abruzzo

Remember this practical piece of advice: Never come into the theatre with mud on your feet. Leave your dust and dirt outside.…

— Constantin Stanislavski

One of the worst things about being an actor, besides people being nice to you and getting free stuff all the time…

— Nick Kroll

If painters left nothing of themselves after their deaths, so that we were obliged to rank them as we do actors according…

— Eugene Delacroix

No one else in my family is an actor or aspires to be, and most of my friends aren't actors. Most of…

— Chris Lowell

Josh Radnor is that rare thing: a writer-director who thinks like an actor but still knows how to create a comedy with…

— Owen Gleiberman

As an actor, I only play what is in the moment, rather than in the future, but sometimes the past is more…

— John Barrowman

Unfortunately, in Hollywood, there are those directors that have some contempt for actors. We've all experienced that, in one way or another.

— Vin Diesel

For me cinema is image, sound, and the faces and bodies and, yes, voices, of my actors, and sometimes the words that…

— Julia Loktev

I've worked opposite so many male actors whose egos have been so delicate that it was just so hard to do the…

— Andrea Riseborough

Directors have so much else to do besides tell actors what to do. There are so many issues and problems.

— Michael Douglas

I think ever since I was a kid I knew subconsciously that I wanted to be an actor. I would walk around…

— Kelly Blatz

Actors, you kind of have these ebbs and flows. These moments where you're in your glory - where you're really cracking -…

— Mark Ruffalo

When are we going to stop labeling everyone? How many times have I been referred to as 'out gay actor?' Do we…

— Bryan Batt

Actors always talk about taking their work home and I always think: 'What are you on? You just turn it off. You…

— Bill Nighy

And I think it is the genius of actors to be able to escape whatever people are expecting of them. Otherwise you…

— Olivier Martinez

I go to the theater because I need help dealing with my life; I want to see the greatest questions addressed. I…

— Ellen McLaughlin

As actors, you do have to be aware of your audience. You can't act in a vacuum, even if that audience isn't…

— Tom Irwin

Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big…

— Al Pacino

Fortunately and unfortunately, people don't see me as a character actor. They see me as a leading man or nothing, which makes…

— Josh Holloway

Some of the actors that I love most have challenged themselves throughout their entire career. That's my goal.

— Taylor Lautner

I'm not one of those actors who romanticizes his trials working out and brags that he can bench press a panda now.

— Ryan Reynolds

I want everyone to feel as much as possible as if they inhabit the same space. They more fluid the relationship between…

— Christine Jones

When we approach history, we are dealing with a conglomeration of irrational continua. Those who deal with history by nonrational processes are…

— Carroll Quigley

I think it helps, as an actor, to never know when you're going to get that next script and you're done.

— Jon Bernthal

In all of my press junkets for 'Spy Kids,' I was saying that my two favorite actors are Johnny Depp and Steve…

— Mason Cook

I think actors always have that fear of unemployment so when the opportunities are there, you just jump on them.

— Rosemarie DeWitt

Actors are an insecure breed. It's hard to have your career depend upon other people's opinions of what you do.

— Alyssa Milano

What was good was that I had friends who were actors and in theatre who were really good, because I think my…

— Rob Urbinati

The difference between being an actor and a director is simple. The director has to hide his panic; the actor doesn't.

— Alan Rickman