Actors Quotes · Page 32

I'm forever testing myself. As a person and as an actor, I have no sense of competition.

— Michael Caine

There isn't a switch that I turn on. I'm an actor. This is what I do.

— Anthony Anderson

Actors between plays are like ghosts looking for bodies to inhabit.

— Gail Godwin

My biggest fear as an actor is being involved in something mediocre, or being mediocre myself.

— Jonathan Brandis

At the end of the day, if you are an actor, you definitely know that you're just work-for-hire.

— Malik Yoba

Method actors are absolutely terrible. They want to direct themselves, and it's a disaster.

— Michelangelo Antonioni

My father was an actor, and we have the most important theatre company in Montreal.

— Gilles Duceppe

There's a personal side to me of challenges as an actor that I like to take on myself.

— Ray Liotta

In comedy, beware the split focus. The audience should focus on the face of the actor. The audience must see the setup.…

— James Carver

Rajni Sir is very dedicated and punctual. It was great experience acting with him both as a person and as an actor.…

— Nayantara

Anytime you have an opportunity as an actor to really grow along with your character, I think thats a real gift.

— Alan Ritchson

I think that the process of trying to become somebody else, and obviously the director/actor relationship in trying to do that, is…

— Rupert Friend

You can tell when you watch a movie, usually, what the actors' experience was on the movie, because even the smallest of…

— Jesse Eisenberg

There's a certain thought process about actors that they are in Hollywood and they sit around pools and get suntans and just…

— Chris Klein

I went and saw him [ John Hurt ] here in L.A.He did a one-man Beckett show of Krapp's Last Tape. I…

— Judd Nelson

With Superman, there are certain limitations for an actor. You can't go past certain boundaries because then you cease to be what…

— Henry Cavill

It's only human and natural that an actor should see the film in terms of his own part, but I, as a…

— Michelangelo Antonioni

New Kids on the Block are on season two [Full House ], so that was just a huge lifelong dream come true.…

— Andrea Barber

Actually way back when Abhishek and I were just co-actors, I kept telling him 'let's be a part of a troupe and…

— Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

I've had wonderful collaborators. They're very different, just as actors are. Working on a show with Nathan Lane is different from working…

— Terrence McNally

As a kid, as a young actor, I really wanted to pop. I wanted to create something different. I wanted to be…

— Matthew Lillard

Show business has never been my everything. It's a means; it's not the end. It's a means to the end. I want…

— Steve Guttenberg

I still think acting is something that you're born with and I think the greatest actors today, they don't need training, it…

— Sistine Stallone

The movies I did before were movies with a lot of characters, a lot of locations, and low budgets, which meant that…

— Denis Villeneuve

Uta Hagen would say, there's the representational actor and the presentational actor.

— Jake Gyllenhaal

As an actor you're used to being the focus of attention.

— Yasmine Bleeth

I'd see child actors and I'd get so jealous, because they're just completely wide open.

— Joaquin Phoenix

I don't believe that all actors should end up being directors.

— Rebecca Hall

Gay actors have been playing straight since Euripides.

— Bryan Batt

Focus on making you the best you can be as an actor, and follow your own path.

— Craig Sheffer

As a model you do play a certain role and you know as an actor you play another role.

— Gemma Ward

Theater actors like to change character roles. They don't like to always do the same thing.

— Marcello Mastroianni

Any actor or actress that tells you that they don't watch their stuff is lying.

— Amy Poehler

I would never assume to tell another actor how to do his job!

— Joseph Morgan

The reason I'm an actor is because I'll never be able to be perfect.

— Sam Claflin

I'm not crazy. I play a lot of crazy characters, but I'm an actor.

— Randy Quaid

Most writers write haphazardly. The actor is fighting unjustified words all the time.

— Marlon Brando

Every actor is great in his own right but certain actors suit certain roles.

— Rajkumar Hirani

I wanted to be the best actor possible. I worked very hard at the craft of it.

— Jack Nicholson

It's a difficult thing as an actor not to repeat one's self.

— Michael Fassbender