Actors Quotes · Page 24

I want to direct and work with the youngins and the fabulous actors of today.

— Pam Grier

I work through the actors, and the more successful I am, the less my work is apparent.

— George Cukor

Cary Grant is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life.

— Alfred Hitchcock

You grow up in a Sicilian household, becoming an actor is not a big leap.

— Vincent Schiavelli

Acting of some actors seems natural, because they have no talent.

— Jules Renard

No one tells actors anything; we're always the last people to find out.

— Clare-Hope Ashitey

I'm a grinding actor. That's how I've always viewed myself. You go from one job to the next.

— Anonymous

As an actor, the first thing you learn in drama school is you never judge.

— Jason Clarke

Sometimes everything you need to know to be an actor in your mid-forties, you learn before you were 15 years old.

— Robert Downey, Jr

There are some actors that are so gifted, that move you in such a way that every time you see their names…

— Demian Bichir

Sir Larry could be very strict and a disciplinarian, too. He had many faces; he wore many hats. But, ultimately, he loved…

— Derek Jacobi

I'm very used to working with first time actors - you can just look back at 'E.T.' with Drew Barrymore, and Christian…

— Steven Spielberg

I didn't go into this business to do action because I'm a classically trained actor. But I'm good at kicking and punching.

— Wesley Snipes

Michael Caine is a movie star, but he's also a great actor. I can't say that about every movie star. It's the…

— Norman Jewison

I don't really study television or how things do or don't change. So I don't know anything about that. I'm just a…

— Vincent Kartheiser

I just hate the idea of being well known. I know that is almost impossible if you're an actor who has done…

— Michael Gambon

I've learned more and more on each show that I've done. I've been blessed and I've gotten to work with some very…

— Steven R. McQueen

Too many young actors are strutting about and doing films without having developed some of the depth you need to bring off…

— Christopher Walken

Most good actors you work with, they actually bring something to the creative process and to the script. They help shape the…

— Zoya Akhtar

For an actor to be working at all is a kind of miracle, because most actors aren't. So it's just silly for…

— Richard Chamberlain

My stuff is generally quite collage-y anyway. So it's sort-of suited to gathering raw materials like shooting actors, then making stills or…

— Dave McKean

A man writing a letter is a man in the act of thinking, and it was an exercise Reagan obviously enjoyed. After…

— Russell Baker

If I was ever to ask advice, it could be from any actor or showrunner or writer. I wouldn't necessarily ask an…

— Steve Dildarian

I just wanted to be a composer; I became an actor by default, really. I got a scholarship to a college of…

— Anthony Hopkins

Alan Ball, he's good at challenging his actors, I'll say that.

— Nelsan Ellis

Actors don't make a project; a project makes the actors.

— Bhumi Pednekar

“We’re actors in our own lives, pretending to be who we want people to think we are”

— Simone Elkeles

I never think of myself as an actor who takes work home with them.

— Julia Stiles

Matching character and actor is what a good director does.

— Bruno Dumont

I think I have more of a director's brain than an actor's brain, in a way.

— Helen Hunt

Romeo Must Die was the first film that I did where I was able to just be free as an actor.

— Anthony Anderson

I think the best advice I'd say to any actor when you do comedy is play it straight.

— Ricky Gervais

I believe you can't be an actor if you haven't had the feeling of being abandoned as a child.

— Isabelle Adjani

Other Asian actors, especially American-born actors, sometimes shy away from immigrant roles.

— Jimmy O. Yang

It'd be hard to be a lead actor if I didn't have lips. Those are tough to graft back on.

— David Walton

With actors, I have very close, intense working relationships with actors in theater.

— George C. Wolfe

Cicely Tyson was my inspiration to become an actor.

— Viola Davis

I don't think a Hollywood actor is safe from acting in the rain: it all depends on the film.

— Isabella Rossellini

“Take the clapper and become the alarm that the world so desperately needs.”

— Abhijit Naskar

You must become the producer, director and actor in the unfolding story of your life.

— Anonymous