Actors Quotes · Page 198

I stay away from the elf roles; I stay away from playing a leprechaun. All the roles I try to do are…

— Verne Troyer

People should realize that I shot a Coke commercial back in 1986. So, you know, I've been around a long time. I…

— Kato Kaelin

Almost every actor goes into almost every picture very frightened. He is positive he really can't do it. The bigger the star,…

— Paul Mazursky

That's what I tell young actors. "You don't have to compromise. Go do some theater and wait for an appropriate role."

— Denzel Washington

Being an actor: that's a pretty big net. That's a big playing field. The Screen Actors' Guild is filled with many, many,…

— Timothy Olyphant

You need three things in the theatre - the play, the actors and the audience, and each must give something.

— Kenneth Haigh

I'm not a comedian. I'm what you call a good, old-fashioned working actor who has had delusions of grandeur for my entire…

— Chris Diamantopoulos

I knew how to act and had studied acting and enjoyed it, but I'd never pushed myself to really perform as an…

— Eli Roth

I also think the more experienced you get as an actor, you start to hear the conversations about why people get cast…

— Gillian Jacobs

I always ask my actors with whom they'd like to work. Before shooting we discuss how their characters are supposed to have…

— Erika Lust

The hardest thing for everyone, for the writer, for the director and certainly for the actors, is not to panic when they're…

— Ivan Reitman

As an actor you want people to know you and there are times you want your pictures taken, but it's unnerving to…

— Ashley Greene

When I started out as an actor, I thought, Here's what I have to say; how shall I say it? I began…

— Alan Alda

I want to work with great directors. I want to work on good material with good actors. I've probably done 20 movies…

— Famke Janssen

I approach my work the way an actor approaches their work. The only difference is that I do comedy, and my job…

— Samuel L. Jackson

This business can be very frustrating but there is success story after success story of people who take the bull by the…

— Tony Shalhoub

Seven actors have played Batman on the big screen, and if you can name all seven without reading any further, your youth…

— Grant Morrison

Forget the credit, they (male actors) take all the money as well. We don't get paid even one-third of what male actors…

— Kangana Ranaut

My mother, Evelyn, was an actress and singer, and my father, Jack, was an actor. My earliest recollection of my father is…

— David Cassidy

Actors love the big speeches and love to be the center of attention. I mean, that's why we do it.

— Michael Pena

It's difficult to judge other actors, because as an actor you're looking at different things than what an audience is looking at.

— Henry Cavill

I'd rather a young black actor read about success as opposed to how tough it was. I get these roles because I…

— Idris Elba

On the way up here to the podium, a gentleman came up to me and said, "Governor, you are as good a…

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

Many of us go through life feeling as an actor might feel who does not like his part and does not believe…

— Mignon McLaughlin

When I talk about character work, I don't really feel like i do much as an actor when I look at other…

— Alex O'Loughlin

After working with so many great actors and acting students in film school, it was a whole other thing working with Luke…

— Paul Dalio

It's always fun to do action and explosion, but I really enjoyed directing the emotion of the actors.

— Roel Reine

I've always been interested in films where you can identify with the actors. Where you can be in their shoes and therefore…

— Adrian Lyne

I just happen to like the work. I like preparing for a role. I like reading. I like analyzing. I like literature.…

— Elle Macpherson

I wish I was super-serious, anguished. I see those actors, and I am like, 'Oh God, they are so cool, and they…

— Elisabeth Moss

I love it when actors come to you with a problem and you have to listen. You'd like them to just get…

— Jane Campion

It's always a good collaboration between the actor and the writer and the director to try stuff out, during the process.

— Mark Consuelos

I even asked [Saniyya Sidney] why she wanted to be an actor and she said, "I'm serious about this. These other little…

— Denzel Washington

I think I've been lucky, being my frequent appearances on Court TV have brought to me another level than just the actor…

— Robert Downey, Jr

I've never had a desire to be famous. Lots of actors are actually extremely shy. I have shy areas.

— Jeremy Northam

To me, casting is all about finding a character within the actor off the screen as much as on the screen.

— Rupert Sanders

Writers are not always right however, but then again, I've been on shows where the actors have complete control and change everything…

— William Devane

I mean, being shot in slow motion doing cocaine by Martin Scorsese is, like, maybe every actor's dream. Nothing will compare to…

— Jonah Hill

I played a role. That is what actors do. But I played it too well. I went too far. And by the…

— Jennifer Donnelly

I always found something strangely paternal about the director-actor relationship. Actors want so much approval.

— Adam Driver