Actors Quotes · Page 195

There's something really natural to me about being what they call in the business a "hyphenate." Being a musician-actor or writer-musician-actor.

— Lola Kirke

What great comedians, great comic writers, great comic actors do is that they just read the headlines with the right eyebrow position…

— David Salle

As an actor, I look at scenes much differently than I would look at them as a director, and I never realized…

— Jensen Ackles

I don't think I'm even close to fulfilling my potential. And I think also that, unlike a pianist or a flutist, an…

— Kerry Washington

I think there's something fun about television where, as an actor, when you read the script each week, it's like how the…

— Matt Barr

I've worked with actors who treat the first two takes like rehearsals. And that's okay. If the camera is on you and…

— Alfred Molina

As you get older, you suffer fools less easily. That's why there's all those cranky character actors. I'm an exception. I'm a…

— Willem Dafoe

The first and most important thing you need to be creative is to relax, particularly for the actors.

— Holly Hunter

I don't think of an actor. I think in the character, and then I search for the actor. Usually I'm thinking without…

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

All the theories that acting is reacting to imaginary circumstances as though they are real, and directing is turning psychology into behavior,…

— Mike Nichols

I'm suffering from stage fright. I don't like making speeches. [...] I'm the kind of introvert actor who likes putting on other…

— Helena Bonham Carter

I wasn't a class clown, I never developed this comedic flair as a kid. Even when I decided to become an actor,…

— Steve Carell

I'm living every ten-year-old boy's fantasy. The other day, Chris and I had this big scene where we had to pull out…

— Mariska Hargitay

When I started acting, my mom said, "If you want to go to film school and eventually direct, being on set is…

— Jay Baruchel

Life is like a lunchroom at school. In this industry you've got little individual tables of actors, singers, rap stars, this, that,…

— Hayden Panettiere

When you're an actor or actress in this business, usually the natural progression is to direct, but a lot of times, we…

— Jamie Foxx

I think the challenge for an actor is always to see which parts of you you can explore and go have fun…

— Ally Walker

At culinary school, none of the things we use to define ourselves outside that world - actor, producer, student - none of…

— Eric Christian Olsen

I think every actor is looking for a challenge, and to play something different, and to be a part of a project…

— Hilary Duff

Being a theater actor, I've done a lot of plays where I've seen someone else play the same role in another production.…

— Jacki Weaver

The caliber of actors I'm getting to work with and learn from on a daily basis is phenomenal for me as a…

— Graham Phillips

You have actors who begin at a certain young age and there's very little change in their technique and the depth of…

— Alec Baldwin

I know you hear horror stories about child actors, but I think in my family when I did start acting it was…

— Ashley Johnson

You've seen how actors make movies like Star Wars and stuff. They're never really there. They're in front of a green screen…

— Rider Strong

Every industry has actors good and bad. Crypto is no exception. The best actors should be left to innovate, while the worst…

— Ritchie Torres

You know, actors lie all the time. 'Can I ride on the horse? Are you kidding? Of course! I was born on…

— William Lucking

Actors are intelligent. Yet, many of them do not communicate well. That's what makes it so hard to have a relationship with…

— Omari Hardwick

I always wanted to be an actor, but I was always fighting it. It never seemed that honorable to me, and I…

— Rooney Mara

I would love to get great performances from actors as a director, because that's what I'm always looking for, a director that's…

— Aaron Eckhart

Regeneration, however it is described, is a divine activity in us, in which we are not the actors but the recipients.

— Sinclair B. Ferguson

I think even if you're on a screen or you're in a play, it's always a group effort. It's not just the…

— Stockard Channing

We actors always say how difficult and physically demanding a role was. But give me a break, it's only a movie.

— Javier Bardem

I know that Philadelphians hate New York actors passing off New York accents as Philadelphian when they are quite different.

— Jacki Weaver

You can't ignore the system and the power you acquire as an actor if you're in films that are successful.

— Saffron Burrows

“They are actors playing parts that are real only for us; they are the masks behind which we see our own faces.”

— Neil Gaiman

“One of the problems in mainstreaming queer characters is that people think in order to get a character accepted, they have to…

— Anonymous

“A real actor can’t love anyone. Cause he/she only pretends to be lover. Cause he/she still in the role of a lover…

— Salman Aziz

As an actor, most of the time, you only have so much say in how, what and where things go. As a…

— Eric Balfour

I have lost someone I loved as a brother, as a closest friend, and a remarkable human being. We have also lost…

— Jack Lemmon

I think it would be a problem if Hollywood was casting British actors only as villains; if that were the case, then…

— Alfred Molina