Actors Quotes · Page 176

I think a lot of comedic actors, on their close-up they can deliver. But when it comes to reacting to other people…

— Ken Jeong

As an actor, I'm limited to re-in acting someone else's vision or portraying a fictitious character.

— Denzel Whitaker

One of the things I love about acting is other actors, looking into their eyes, and working off them, and listening and…

— Allison Janney

I really respond to diversity, a broader landscape, with actors of different ages and races and backgrounds.

— Ryan Phillippe

Celebrity stalkers also are not necessarily fixated on one person as the public thinks. Rather, they tend to switch targets, going from,…

— Park Dietz

I know their is no such thing as being 'perfect' but I do know that their is a such thing as 'actors'

— Jamiee Leen

I had very few skills. If I hadn't been a producer I'd been a failed actor. That would have been really disastrous.

— Laura Ziskin

Directors are the captains of the ship, and it's your job as the lead actor to make sure that the rest of…

— George Clooney

You have to make sure that you find projects that are not too similar and roles that are not too similar, so…

— Stellan Skarsgard

People still tweet me like, "Oh my god, I just found out you guys are married!" Which makes sense to me because…

— Mary Elizabeth Ellis

You become funny for a reason. I became an actor because that's who I was, nothing else - it was the only…

— Matthew Lillard

You're an actor, you want to do a scene in class. But one of the things I've always had is I've always…

— Quentin Tarantino

The inner life of the [imagination], and not the personal and tiny experiential resources of the actor, should be elaborated on the…

— Michael Chekhov

As actors, if we are truthful to ourselves and we know what we can do and what we cannot do and just…

— Navid Negahban

I can easily say "no" to a project if the script isn't great, but when the script is good, then I start…

— Dominic Monaghan

I want to attack and to lead my life with vigor, but I'm in the watching stage at the moment. Younger actors…

— Timothee Chalamet

Actors aren't stupid, mostly, and if there's a sensibility and an aesthetic that a director's going for, if you're aware of that…

— Alan Cumming

In that Freak Show environment, I got to spend time with so many of the actors who were part of that world.…

— Matt Bomer

The only thing I wanted to do when I was a young naive kid was to become a New York stage actor.

— Oliver Platt

Regardless of how dark and heavy the character is the actor has to approach it with that frame of mind.

— Tom Mison

There is a bit of a once a soap actor always a soap actor thing, but I do think people still recognise…

— Judi Shekoni

There's a level of confidence in the actor you're working with that really helps a lot. It makes all the difference.

— Christian Bale

Directing made me realise what I do as an actor that's extraneous, it focuses your mind on story, story, story.

— Matt Smith

I always tell other young actors to go to school, or at least watch movies to learn as much as you can.

— Rutina Wesley

I always try to keep the confidence of the actors, and try my best to make them feel comfortable or confident.

— Sean Durkin

Many actors in films are willing to go to Broadway, and screenwriters are writing plays. It's almost commonplace.

— Marc Platt

Sometimes actors' mistakes give me ideas I can use, because mistakes are always sincere, absolutely sincere.

— Michelangelo Antonioni

Sometimes casting falls in place easily and sometimes it takes a while. Fifty per cent of my job is done when I…

— Mani Ratnam

I don't do stunts and I don't think many actors do. For an actor to say they do their own stunts I…

— Nick Stahl

I started a production company out of necessity, the need for great narratives for actors of color.

— Viola Davis

I don't like the actors to work together beforehand. I trust my intuition, and I like when the actors are the same.

— Olivier Dahan

The leader shows that style is no substitute for substance, that creating an impression is more potent than acting from one's center.

— Lao Tzu

I choose movies, I never choose roles. I look at the script. I look at the director. I look at the other…

— Elle Macpherson

The people I look up to the most - politicians, actors, artists - are the people who manage to do a high-powered…

— Emma Stone

In film, there's so many little things where not just the actor can blow his lines, but technically, it doesn't quite come…

— Ali MacGraw

Actors never say they're poor. They're always broke. It's always just temporary. 'Broke' is 'poor with hope'.

— Alison Arngrim

I think if you try to look for something to show off as an actor, vanity can get the better of you.

— Steve Coogan

My main interest in being a director, and the most important thing to me, is that world with the actors.

— Matt Reeves

It's not unlike the movies for human actors. Once a dog stars in a movie, they don't work very much anymore. It's…

— Jamie Lee Curtis

I'm good with dialect. Some actors do it immediately; other actors never quite get it. It's something I've always really enjoyed and…

— Scarlett Johansson