Actors Quotes · Page 209

When you've got good actors, they're going to come up with good stuff, but you're never quite sure how the dynamics are…

— Martin McDonagh

I never achieved my first goal in the National Actors Theatre, which is to have a permanent Acting Company

— Tony Randall

I think it shouldn't matter at all what character people play, but of course there is a narrative that's very clear, that…

— Jonathan Bailey

Even now, there are young actors who want careers as romantic leading men, and the best thing is not to reveal you're…

— Ian Mckellen

Nothing can replace human interaction, looking into the co-actors eyes and performing with them. That is what acting is.

— Arjun Mathur

It's not enough for Hollywood to make a bunch of gay movies. That's obviously a big part of the equation, but then…

— Billy Eichner

For an actor, style comes last. You first have to implement the whole thing, but your style comes from the subconscious, which…

— Jack Nicholson

The applause is a celebration not only of the actors but also of the audience. It constitutes a shared moment of delight.

— John Charles Polanyi

I hope that audiences respond really positively. I think it's a very intense, entertaining film [The Last King of Scotland], because you're…

— Forest Whitaker

Being a fiction writer is really like being an actor, because if you're going to write convincingly it has to sound right…

— Ridley Pearson

You take the quote from Sam Jackson about how he'll never work with a rapper and I can understand where he's coming…

— Anthony Anderson

Working with the actors, working with production designers, working with the creative people who surround the process is really fun, it's really…

— Marc Webb

I don't have a problem with big name actors coming into animation. It actually has been done for years and we are…

— Frank Welker

But you really - I always think that a director has got to adapt to whatever the needs of the actor are.…

— Bill Condon

I think what makes so many other actors miserable is focusing completely on making other plans. They're obsessed with their haircut and…

— Nick Offerman

The world is changing so quickly, and actors now have this huge platform of social media to interact with their audiences, but…

— Natalie Dormer

The guy who wins the Oscar for Best Actor has a much higher bar to clear than the woman who wins best…

— Aaron Sorkin

I truly love being an actor. I love it with all my heart and soul, and I hope that I get to…

— Chris Klein

I think the greatest thing about being an actor is that you can become other people. ... You have the opportunity to…

— Ian McDiarmid

Life actors never rehearse and need no script. A life actor uses only what is available, nothing more, nothing less.

— Abbie Hoffman

All the characters play an important role. For me, as an actor, for my character to come out so beautifully, I would…

— Rajkummar Rao

Bill Murray, we've got to get people worthy to be on the screen with him, as opposed to just a bunch of…

— Ruben Fleischer

I think actors always retain one foot in the cradle. We're switched on to our youth, to our childhood. We have to…

— Derek Jacobi

It's nice to bring the changes with everything you do. As an actor, that's what you want to do, all the time.

— Joanne Froggatt

An awful lot of actors shy away from the uglier aspects of the human condition. They want to be liked, which is…

— Diana Rigg

I certainly think that he [Alan Rickman] was a kind of actor who needed to grow into his maturity to realize the…

— Helen Mirren

I have some friends who are actors. I've watched them work. And I would say that of all the arts, acting is…

— Kristen Stewart

I wanted to be a stage actor but I got stuck on television. It took a couple of years to get used…

— Kevin Whately

I don't aspire to direct like many actors. I would aspire most likely to do some writing, but I haven't had a…

— Stephen Root

Whatever you do, make sure you want to write more than you want to be a writer. Make sure you want to…

— Bradley Whitford

The face and the actor is great, but if you were to start out and you said, "my name is Humphrey" somebody…

— Jamie Farr

As an actor, I like to get a bit of momentum going with a character and kind of work a bit quicker.…

— Colm Meaney

I didn't come to Hollywood to drink or get high, and I don't want to be considered a cool actor - I…

— Tom Sizemore

We, as actors, see luxury around us, but when we step out, we see the struggle and reality which people are going…

— Mrunal Thakur

As an actor... at some point you've got to forget that the crew's there in order to do your job.

— Cliff Curtis

I loved old movies, and it would really bother me when actors clearly weren't playing the instruments they were supposed to be…

— Tara Fitzgerald

I have my dream job! As a young person training as an actor, walking on the WB studio lot is a dream…

— Keegan Allen

If I get the opportunity to be an actor and do some cool, fun and interesting projects, I'm going to do that.

— Anthony Mackie

As an actor, when you're doing comedies, you're around fantastic, funny people and you hopefully have a really good time doing it.

— Ari Graynor

Often our onscreen personas are different from who we are. Actors like Kamal Haasan, who is such a genius, has never played…

— Suhasini Maniratnam