Actors Quotes · Page 191

I'm an actor I'm not a politician. I always kick myself when I talk too much about family, or personal things.

— Christian Bale

It was difficult every ten days having a new director. I'm a real collaborator and, as an actor, I want to be…

— Jeanne Tripplehorn

A lot of actors never talk to other actors about how they're doing things, or why. I think it's important to share…

— John Travolta

John Wayne is not just an actor, and a very fine actor - John Wayne is the United States of America.

— Maureen O'Hara

From the time I became an actor my whole approach was to try to do as many different things as possible. It…

— Lance Reddick

I don't like the way some actors, when playing a nasty character, will try to grab hold of something good about them.

— Peter Mullan

I want to become actor not because I want money and become more famous. No I don't want that. It is not…

— Terence Lewis

Good actors are a dime a dozen, but I want actors that are gonna be part of my team and collaborative.

— Joe Pantoliano

Acting is many things. Acting is playing lines, of course, but it's much more profound than that. Acting is truth-telling, and trying…

— Paul Greengrass

There's one difference between me and them: I know I'm not qualified. In my opinion, Arnold Schwarzenegger wasn't qualified to be governor…

— James Garner

I'm very interested in starting to produce, and direct, and have an umbrella over an entire project in the future. I'd like…

— Neil Patrick Harris

I watched a film with a very famous, great, great actor, I won't mention his name because everyone loves his memory, but…

— Anthony Hopkins

One of the joys of being an actor is that you're always learning new things. And I've been doing this since I…

— Richard Gere

I became super claustrophobic with Hollywood. I don't like Hollywood. I don't like what it represents. I think that Hollywood is great…

— Brody Jenner

As far as I'm concerned, the world is composed of stories. For architects, the world is composed of buildings, for actors the…

— Neil Gaiman

I think a lot of times it just looks like Hollywood actors in Halloween costumes, you know? And I think what we’re…

— Miles Teller

I don't like to direct the actors by telling them what to do. If anything, it's reminding them where they are in…

— Drake Doremus

There are not that many jobs as an actor where you don't get to know what your character will be doing from…

— Linda Cardellini

You see people who, because they are leading actors, think they're of a higher echelon than mere mortals. And that really annoys…

— Geraldine James

It's not really about confidence. It's just something that isn't really in the vocabulary of what goes on at work. The writers…

— Simon Helberg

In the business of acting, those are the actors that make the trains run on time, you know? There's nothing without them.

— Rob Lowe

I always say that I can play sort of six variations on one girl, all of whom are a variation on me.…

— Lena Dunham

Most of the time, actors respond to the thing thats so far from who they are. We all want to play the…

— Marc Blucas

As an actor, you deal in fantasy, imagination, and concentration. Those are your three weapons. Those are your bullets.

— Rob Lowe

I always think that I'm the best thing in a lot of bad movies. Personally, I have to. I think that I…

— Matthew Lillard

Laurence [Fishburne] is a great example of how to communicate to the audience as you're acting with another actor.

— Chad Stahelski

[As an actor] I have ideas, but things should always be fluid. You should always be ready to follow an instinct. Something…

— Michael Fassbender

Actors are players and if they're hot, or onto something, you let them go, or you and the actor can both get…

— William Monahan

Michael Keaton is amazing. He's one of my favorite actors. To get to work with him was a privilege and really was…

— Linda Cardellini

So many actors say, 'Oh, I can't bear to see myself on screen,' but it's not true. Everyone loves to see themselves…

— Pete Doherty

How many impressionist painters painted the same damned thing? How many actors have played the same part in renditions of a play…

— Paul Provenza

People are confusing me with a good actor when I'm just a good mimic. When someone asks me to play a nun…

— Jemima Kirke

As an actor, you’ve got to live and learn, and you gotta just kind of form a hard shell and be confident…

— Jessica Stroup

I really feel that the best actors out there are very centric. They're really connected. They're not in a, 'What about me'…

— Cameron Mathison

I don't believe in overcooking the actors too much. Especially when it's a real performance that I'm looking for.

— Jennifer Yuh Nelson

Iran is a state sponsor of terrorism. And for them to be able to provide nuclear technology to non-state actors, that's unacceptable.

— Barack Obama

It's good to feel tired at the end of the day. It's not often as an actor that you're like, "Oof. Ow.…

— Melanie Lynskey

Raving mad is quite easy. You just chew up the scenery or something. It's quiet mad that's hard.

— Sarah Caldwell

In Bollywood, the film's stakes are as high as the actor. In Hollywood, they are way above, and the day we realise…

— Ali Fazal

I don't know, I find that honestly, the stand-up thing in some ways is a little bit of a cliche to carry…

— Jim Gaffigan