Actors Quotes · Page 30

Any actor worth his salt has a responsibility to reinvent himself from part to part.

— Matt Smith

Acting isn't a profession, it's a way of living.

— Jeanne Moreau

Characters actors don't usually get noticed until they're about 38 or so.

— Larry Drake

A great actor is simply just seeing him or herself, and reacting to what exists around them.

— Shailene Woodley

I loved B.I.G., but not like I liked Tupac, because he was an actor, so I related to him.

— Derek Luke

Anyone that knows me knows what I'm about, and I'm very much a British actor, a European actor.

— Robert Carlyle

As an actor, I need to get excited about something that I can actually relate to.

— Mike Colter

I have never ever hung out with actors and comedians. I can't stand it.

— Keith Allen

I was very introverted. I had glasses and was kind of weird. A lot of actors are pretty weird people.

— Jennifer Sky

I spent so long studying really hard to become a fine actor, but threw it all away because I got the adulation…

— Mickey Rourke

Taxi Driver' is a movie that changed my life and made me a serious actor. Scorsese and De Niro. I give credit…

— Michael Biehn

People often look up to actors. It is not right on their part to do songs whose lyrics are not good. Actors…

— Kumar Sanu

It is all about marketing; that is where the real craft comes in. The best actors do not necessarily become the biggest…

— Dirk Benedict

It's really hard for actors to cross over and get any respect as a singer, and if I could just keep it…

— Taryn Manning

Being a writer is a solitary life. So the little part of me that's an actor still enjoys the theatrical part of…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

You have to remember that Hollywood is in the business of making movies that they can sell tickets to, they're not in…

— Julianne Moore

I'm still learning to be the best actor I can be, and I have a long way to go to get to…

— Sean Faris

I got knockback after knockback at auditions. Just before ‘Mulholland Dr.’ my agent told me I was so intense I was freaking…

— Naomi Watts

“[T]he question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again night after…

— Elaine Dundy

When I shoot, I try to feel the body and the face and the weight of the actor, because the character until…

— Bernardo Bertolucci

I am voice actor Roger Craig Smith. You may know me as Batman, Captain America, Sonic the Hedgehog, Ezio from Assassin's Creed,…

— Roger Craig Smith

There are movies where actors aren't characters but movie stars, being cool beyond belief throughout the whole movie. That is what it…

— Christian Bale

My parents are actors as well, so I grew up around that world. It was always a very romantic, mythical world. They…

— Phoebe Fox

Television can become a bit of a treadmill for directors. You come in, nobody knows you, the actors are already doing what…

— Michael J. Bassett

Good actors can make a huge difference to a scene that might sound or read flat.

— Karthik Subbaraj

If I wasn't an actor, I would probably be writing or doing something with psychology.

— Maddie Hasson

One of the things you can do as an actor, is compensate for the things you can't do in life.

— Dustin Hoffman

Actors are like race horses. They like to run - they don't like to be hanging about.

— Adrian Dunbar

Directing has only increased my admiration and respect for what it is that actors do.

— Eric Stoltz

I'm an actor. I try to play a character in a really cool story, the very best I can.

— Matthew Fox

Among the actors, I think my name has been misused the maximum number of times in the industry.

— Riya Sen

My experience has been that actors always want to be directed.

— John Wells

I have a lot of repression. So repression is what I make movies about.

— Ang Lee

Paul Newman is simple not an actor and possibly not even alive.

— Dwight Macdonald

I'm best known as a stand-up comedian, but I'm a good actor in the right role.

— Marcus Brigstocke

“Hadn't the actors acted of their own volition?”

— Anthony Doerr

Actors don't like to read what they're supposed to do.

— Ewan McGregor

Actors don't request what scenes to be written in. That's just not how it works.

— Nicholas Gonzalez

I don't think there have been many alien movies where the actors have actually seen the aliens.

— Joel Kinnaman

I've always considered myself an actor, but I wasn't making a living as an actor.

— Alan Arkin