Doing a scene is like opening a bottle. If it doesn't open one way, try another - perhaps even give it up… — Marilyn Monroe Copy Share Image
There is just a lot of creativity and theatricality in performers who happen to be gay. Maybe there's a success in numbers,… — Neil Patrick Harris Copy Share Image
There's a lot of romanticisation of the intuitive actor and method acting and all kinds of notions about getting inside a character… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
Both my parents were actors. I was schooled to think that acting was an important social service, that it was something that… — Tyne Daly Copy Share Image
I'm convinced that theatre is a horrible business. Make this the headline. You have to be on the spot every night as… — Walter D. Asmus Copy Share Image
I've never seen a great actor do a major role that didn't cost a lot. They're sacrificial animals of a sort. — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
Actors are a great subject for a comedy. They're inherently funny because, like sportsmen, they take themselves so seriously. — Matt Berry Copy Share Image
Writers, Composers, Painters, - also artists like directors and actors fall into the same category. They have to be handled with kid… — Marlene Dietrich Copy Share Image
“The theatre is an attack on mankind carried on by magic: to victimize an audience every night, to make them laugh and… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
I'm really into sci-fi. The reason I'm an actor is because of 'Star Wars' - I saw that and I knew that's… — Ricky Schroder Copy Share Image
A lot of people have a fear of Shakespeare. Even actors do. People are like, "Oh, I won't go and see Shakespeare… — Hugo Weaving Copy Share Image
What you realize is it's not about financial success as an artist. A lot of actors and actresses, producers, writers, and the… — Jennifer Lopez Copy Share Image
I don't usually direct actors in the classic sense of that word. Instead, I try to remind the characters before the shoot… — Gus Van Sant Copy Share Image
[As an actor] you're looking to crawl into an anonymous fictional person's skin, but then you have the ironic obligation to promoting… — Jesse Eisenberg Copy Share Image
I got my first job when I moved to Los Angeles. I worked at a coffee shop for five years and it… — Katie Leclerc Copy Share Image
If Michelle Pfeiffer gave Mel Gibson a vial of blood to wear around his neck in a movie you'd think it was… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
Actors are magical people. They can take words you wrote and say them in a way that, although you thought the line… — Kenya Barris Copy Share Image
I do understand sometimes when actors say there's no one to talk to, or you can't react to, there's truth in that,… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
The best actors in the world are the actors who don't keep the walls up all the time and allow themselves the… — Mick Garris Copy Share Image
When you know what an actor has, you can reach in and arouse it. If you don't know what he has, you… — Elia Kazan Copy Share Image
If in an actor there appears an utter vacancy of meaning, a frigid equality, a stupid languor, a torpid apathy, the greatest… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I was never ambitious to be a good actor. I just love doing it and I seem to be quite suited for… — Katherine Helmond Copy Share Image
With the other fellow actors who have gone astray, I think it's sad that society wants to label the business as doing… — Tina Yothers Copy Share Image
There are certain actors who are very good at improvising, like Dustin Hoffman and Glenda Jackson. — John Schlesinger Copy Share Image
As actors, we are always playing other characters. It's so exhausting and time consuming to figure them out, so when you get… — Alia Bhatt Copy Share Image
I wasn't one of those people who went to see a play and said, 'I want to be an actor.' I fell… — Henry Czerny Copy Share Image
I put it forth as a challenge to the industry to continue thinking of actors, regardless of sexuality, with open eyes and… — Dan Amboyer Copy Share Image
Sisters, brothers and the whities, Blacks and the crackers, Police and their backers, They're all political actors — Curtis Mayfield Copy Share Image
My daughter's wanted to be an actress since she was six years old, but I didn't want her to go through the… — Ricky Schroder Copy Share Image
I do not know if it is true that all actors want to direct and all directors want to act, but in… — James Earl Jones Copy Share Image
I am glad that many, especially actors, have started opening up about their mental health issues. — Bhumika Chawla Copy Share Image
I didn't want to be a former child actor for the rest of my life, although in some ways I suppose I… — Mara Wilson Copy Share Image
To my mind, the actor has this great responsability of playing another human being… it’s like taking on another person’s life and… — Edward G. Robinson Copy Share Image
Oftentimes, actors are looked at as court jesters. They are not looked at as deep-thinking, smart people who do many other things… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't know of an actor that the Coen brothers would come to and say, "Hey, I've got a movie for you… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
In the middlegame, the king is merely an extra, but in the endgame, he is one of the star actors. — Aron Nimzowitsch Copy Share Image
One of the things I find about acting is that the less the audience knows about the actor, the more they're able… — Hayden Christensen Copy Share Image
A lot of actors try to sabotage other actors, and that's sad because then you're never going to get that beautiful scene. — Erica Durance Copy Share Image
'Fargo,' man, with so many actors playing so many great characters, and then they do another season, and it changes all over… — James L. Brooks Copy Share Image
As actors, you meet people that you are working with and it's tricky. It's blurry... how do you decipher things? I have… — Sutton Foster Copy Share Image
![“[As an actor] you're looking to crawl into an anonymous fictional person's skin, but then you have the ironic obligation to promoting the movie in such a public way that it almost undermines the initial intention of going under the radar.” quote by Jesse Eisenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bba/jesse-eisenberg-2642_actors_as-an-actor-you-re-looking-to-crawl-into_1504086.jpg)
![“As actors, you meet people that you are working with and it's tricky. It's blurry... how do you decipher things? I have definitely dated [a co-star], oh yeah, multiple times. It's easy.” quote by Sutton Foster](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d2a/sutton-foster-8208_actors_as-actors-you-meet-people-that-you-are-w_1265621.jpg)
