Actors rarely stay in touch with directors after they've filmed together. We go back to real life. — Chloe Sevigny Copy Share Image
I am beyond critical of my own work. I always tell actors they have to watch themselves 4-7 times in a given… — Julie Ann Emery Copy Share Image
As an actor I'm rather hit and miss, I throw a lot out there, and some of it works and some of… — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
I always felt I was a nobody, and the only way for me to be somebody was to be - well, somebody… — Marilyn Monroe Copy Share Image
Actors always have things that they're not thrilled about on a show and have a hobby of bellyaching about those things. — Jon Cryer Copy Share Image
The actor playing Lee got really irritated. He tried to escape by turning, running, or twisting and talking or yelling above the… — Pete Earley Copy Share Image
I think the thing that interests most actors these days is the strength and the quality of the writing. I think that's… — Philip Baker Hall Copy Share Image
Feelings are universal, and if an actor's doing his job, I think he's making people sit there, and if it's in a… — Jeffrey Combs Copy Share Image
My parents are very modern. My father is a cosmopolitan person. He always supported the fact that I will be an actress.… — Kareena Kapoor Copy Share Image
Quite honestly I never had a desire to be an actor. I tell people, I did not choose acting; acting chose me.… — Ving Rhames Copy Share Image
There’s a writer for you,” he said. “Knows everything and at the same time he knows nothing.” [narrator]It was my first inkling… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
All I'm saying is we got plenty of Texans, and people from Montana, and New Jersey, and Wyoming, or Kansas City. We… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
Female directors, directors of color are a big thing for me, which are both important voices and potent voices that need to… — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
Imagination! Imagination! I put it first years ago, when I was asked what qualities I thought necessary for success upon the stage.… — Ellen Terry Copy Share Image
In L.A., I was meeting people who were all actors. My mind started to open up to what acting was. I didn't… — Kellan Lutz Copy Share Image
On indies it's hard to do, but in rehearsals, you make mistakes in rehearsal. It's really hard rehearsing a play or what… — Jeff Daniels Copy Share Image
Actors are always a little high at work. Acting is their drug. So when you put the brakes on, they're naturally a… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
I always hate it when I hear actors talking about the process of what they do, so I'll keep my thoughts to… — Rachael Stirling Copy Share Image
I have never wanted to be a queen! Cleopatra was a role, and I am an actor, so it was fun to… — Elizabeth Taylor Copy Share Image
I think all actors - they'll hate me for saying this - but we are babies. We like to be loved, and… — Anjelica Huston Copy Share Image
The best actors instinctively feel out what the other actors need, and they just accommodate it. — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
As an actor it's always easier to shave or cut your hair for a role, but it's hard to put fake hair… — Chris Pratt Copy Share Image
An expression of feeling isn't worth anything unless it interferes with what the other actor in the scene wants. — Michael Shurtleff Copy Share Image
With some actors, you can tell when they're acting all by themselves, no matter who else is in the screen. — John Travolta Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, I'm not a model, I'm an actor. I didn't want to be a model for a… — Ruby Rose Copy Share Image
I knew an actor's career goes up and down and back up again. Your standing in this business can't be your whole… — Lisa Kudrow Copy Share Image
If the scene bores you when you read it, rest assured it WILL bore the actors, and will then bore the audience,… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
I got my first job as a card-carrying actor in New York in 1967. Before that, I was a very desperate wannabe. — Morgan Freeman Copy Share Image
Sigmund Freud said we act out our own dreams, but if you are only an actor you are not acting out your… — John Malkovich Copy Share Image
As actors, we're always asked to portray and react to these extreme circumstances, otherwise it's not interesting. They are agonizing things to… — Kristin Scott Thomas Copy Share Image
Just to get the actors to relax, listen to each other, and actually affect each other, there are a number of techniques… — Terry Zwigoff Copy Share Image
The media has gone through lots of things that make it a less foreign thing to have your lead character be gay. — Gus Van Sant Copy Share Image
I want to be a great actor someday, and I've decided there's no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
The critic is the duenna in the passionate affair between playwrights, actors and audiences - a figure dreaded, and occasionally comic, but… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
There's always an imbalance with actors and actresses in the industry. And I think because there are just fewer movies overall being… — Michelle Pfeiffer Copy Share Image
It's rough to feel creatively satisfied, as an actor, for the most part, because you don't initiate your own work. — Daryl Hannah Copy Share Image
When people warned me there would be long periods out of work if I became an actor, I couldn't keep a straight… — Bill Nighy Copy Share Image
...I will not be a sight gag for anybody. I will not do anything degrading to myself or other fat people. — Darlene Cates Copy Share Image
Certain actors wanna get paid, they think working in a low-budget movie is being ripped off. But for others it's like, 'Yes,… — Abel Ferrara Copy Share Image
A great while ago the world begun, With hey, ho, the wind and the rain; But that's all one, our play is… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
![“There’s a writer for you,” he said. “Knows everything and at the same time he knows nothing.” [narrator]It was my first inkling that he was a writer. And while I like writers—because if you ask a writer anything you usually get an answer—still it belittled him in my eyes. Writers aren’t people…” quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/38d/f-scott-fitzgerald-72_actors_there-s-a-writer-for-you-he-said-knows-e_438126.jpg)
![“Imagination! Imagination! I put it first years ago, when I was asked what qualities I thought necessary for success upon the stage. And I am still of the same opinion. Imagination, industry [hard work], and intelligence-the three I's-are all indispensable to the actor, but of these three the…” quote by Ellen Terry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b30/ellen-terry-28904_actors_imagination-imagination-i-put-it-first-y_717643.jpg)
![“On indies it's hard to do, but in rehearsals, you make mistakes in rehearsal. It's really hard rehearsing a play or what rehearsal you get on any movie. That's where you get to make your mistakes, and you make big ones. So when you shoot [the movie] or you finally get the play in shape and do it…” quote by Jeff Daniels](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6bf/jeff-daniels-12465_actors_on-indies-it-s-hard-to-do-but-in-rehears_814269.jpg)
