I look forward to the day when indigenous actors can play Hamlet and Ophelia and not just Othello and Desdemona. — Shari Sebbens Copy Share Image
There are some actors who can only play themselves, but good actors must really be separated from the people they play. — Stephen Humphrey Bogart Copy Share Image
I love character actors. If I'm switching channels, and something with Slim Pickens is on, or Walter Brennan, I'm stuck. I have… — Les Claypool Copy Share Image
If you're a boy, you always want to be in a western; and any actor I know would like to be in… — Timothy Dalton Copy Share Image
I think that I've still not been successful at playing the role of the retired actor, and I'd like to work on… — Sean Penn Copy Share Image
As an actor, there was that freedom of not having to worry about lights or marks or other people. It was just… — Jeff Foxworthy Copy Share Image
It's weird talking about projects as an actor because you're so in them. I would prefer to write a paper and deliver… — Kristen Stewart Copy Share Image
Doctor Who' has always been a landmark show, but I feel it's becoming an even more landmark show due the stories that… — Sacha Dhawan Copy Share Image
I find that in the process of making a film you're constantly discovering things that you never even imagined would work at… — Peter Jackson Copy Share Image
And then, with a European director and Norwegian actors speaking in Norwegian, it was going to be very interesting. So, whatever initial… — Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Copy Share Image
You can kind of ask around for details. You might get a little information here and there, even from the other actors,… — Gretchen Mol Copy Share Image
His overriding life necessity was not love, it was his profession…He had come to medicine not by coincidence or calculation but by… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I've had the chance to work with some really good filmmakers. It's put me in a situation where I've been surrounded by… — Alicia Vikander Copy Share Image
Unless you're playing a real character based on a real person, if someone else has done it before, you're probably better off… — Dolph Lundgren Copy Share Image
Loving photography and wanting to be a painter, it all ended up in the process of filmmaking. It's strange professionally be to… — Wim Wenders Copy Share Image
I just think that's the job of an actor. I guess that's the variation that you're talking about. It's probably a byproduct… — Eric Bana Copy Share Image
After filming I like to go home and lie down with my daughter and have a glass of wine so I don't… — Izabella Scorupco Copy Share Image
I like actors who just are who they are, with a little bit of qualification to adapt to their character. But mostly… — Michel Gondry Copy Share Image
Show business is like riding a bicycle - when you fall off, the best thing to do is get up, brush yourself… — Gilda Radner Copy Share Image
I can tell you that from the director's chair, young actors love to be challenged, to be given killer lines that take… — Mark Waters Copy Share Image
A rapper is about being completely true to yourself. Being an actor is about changing who you are. — Will Smith Copy Share Image
You should always challenge yourself, as an actor, to find the connection between you and the character. — Michael Ealy Copy Share Image
I think that I just need to work with great directors and actors, people who are better than me, so that I… — Paul Walker Copy Share Image
Acting requires absorption, but not self-absorption and, in the actor's mind, the question must always be 'Why am I doing this?,' not… — Maureen Lipman Copy Share Image
Are you genuine? Or just an actor? A representative? Or what it is that is represented?In the end, you might merely be… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Its not easy for Chinese actors to do foreign films, and its not easy for foreign actors to do Chinese films. — Zhou Xun Copy Share Image
As an actor, it's exhausting being someone else. It's not physically demanding, but it's mentally demanding, if you do the job the… — Brendan Fehr Copy Share Image
I really am a character actor, in my heart of hearts, because I really do like developing characters and painting a past… — Dylan McDermott Copy Share Image
I suspect, for a lot of people who become actors, there's a feeling of wanting to be someone other than who they… — Ben Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
I just try to do the best job that I can, as an actor. Hopefully, that carries through. That's all I can… — Luke Mitchell Copy Share Image
I have seen no men in life loving their profession so much as painters, except, perhaps, actors, who, when not engaged themselves,… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
I just crushed Stranger Things. It's got one of my favorite actors, David Harbour. And obviously Breaking Bad and stuff like that. — Boyd Holbrook Copy Share Image
I think what's great about that relationship between an actor and a Director is you have to really blow away all your… — Hilary Swank Copy Share Image
As a director, I've been able to combine with what I've learned as an actor and as a producer: it melds quite… — Griffin Dunne Copy Share Image
Directing, you have to put yourself in a certain state, it's all about the energy you have and the energy you transmit… — Thomas Bidegain Copy Share Image
“The art of filmmaking is the most influential form of art that has ever existed throughout the history of human artistic endeavors.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
As an actor, you wouldn't be able to play a character if you were worried about the reaction to what you're doing. — Jessica Capshaw Copy Share Image
I've always had a natural affiliation with nature. If I wasn't an actor, I'd be some sort of biologist working in the… — Callan McAuliffe Copy Share Image
What's monotonous about being an actor and often makes me want to throw in the towel or drive a car off a… — Chris Messina Copy Share Image
In terms of men I fancy, I think the actor James Franco is gorgeous. But I find it odd to be described… — Emma Watson Copy Share Image