Actors Quotes · Page 33

I think all actors have a sadomasochistic streak, because acting is kind of brutal, you know.

— Michelle Pfeiffer

I'm an actor, I'm not a comedian, I never was a comedian.

— Jonah Hill

I’m a comedian who got into movies, so I don’t really think of myself as an actor.

— Eddie Murphy

I feel that I have grown so much as an actor being on 'Homeland.

— Morena Baccarin

[ Chadwick Boseman] is a remarkable actor, and he's a remarkable person.

— Harrison Ford

Whence are we, and why are we? Of what scene The actors or spectators?

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

I don't pay attention to what other actors are doing, or what their PRs are doing.

— Mallika Sherawat

It was very clear to me I wanted to be an actor when I got out into civilian life.

— Adam Driver

I don’t want kids to think it’s okay to drop out of school and get high, and they’ll be famous actors, too,

— Cory Monteith

As a professional actor, I don't have much choice about what I've gotten into. I tend to be cast in comedies and…

— Fran Kranz

For actors coming out of long-running soaps, it's really important to have a little break from the screen and look for roles…

— Bradley Walsh

There's a lot of us idiot actors that get tattoos and they cover them with makeup when you do a film.

— Anonymous

There are two kinds of actors: those with one job too few, who have to take every one that comes along, and…

— Peter Stone

“ Morris Weissman [on the phone, discussing casting for his movie]: "What about Claudette Colbert? She's British, isn't she? She sounds British.…

— Julian Fellowes

It's really weird to be in more than one franchise because an actor's life is so nomadic, and so it's a real…

— John Cho

The thing about romance and romantic movies is that they can be somewhat melodramatic. For a lot of actors, there's a certain…

— David Lyons

I had, like, two goals in my career: One was to try to get into 'Second City.' When I moved to Chicago,…

— Steve Carell

When I started doing television, I thought that I would change the way that I shot, the way that I blocked, and…

— Len Wiseman

The hardest thing as an actor is that you work really hard constantly for these roles, and you invest so much in…

— Adrianne Palicki

I only worked on Men of Honor for three weeks, but I walked away with so much. Because Bob is the kind…

— Charlize Theron

I don't want to do only movies that I'm in. I definitely want to start to branch out and do TV and…

— Channing Tatum

For actors, being successful is generally getting a job. If you can work a lot, you're really successful. If you work a…

— Anne-Marie Duff

My first love is acting, but the reality is that I just don't get too many opportunities to stretch, and grow, and…

— Matthew Lillard

There is a lot of hype about drama school, I think. If you're an actor in England, that's just the way to…

— Eleanor Tomlinson

As an actor, you use the things from yourself that you can apply to the character.

— Robert De Niro

I'm a people's actor, not a critics' actor, and I always have been.

— Chuck Norris

Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he'd be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.

— Bela Lugosi

Playing a Black trans character on a TV show is a story that needs to be told.

— Brian Michael Smith

I have trouble sometimes watching actors - even when they do a great job - with an accent.

— Ellen Page

As an actor, I still have to remind myself of daring to let go and not to repeat myself.

— Alicia Vikander

I am more than glad to take tips from experienced actors.

— Shraddha Srinath

There's no such thing as a small part. There are just small actors.

— Sidney Lumet

Never let your actors go before they are satisfied with a scene.

— Catherine Corsini

What did my parents say when I told them I wanted to be an actor? 'Be a plumber.'

— Samuel West

In the future, we'd like to support upcoming artists, people that are trying to be actors.

— Evan Spiegel

Of course, actors look forward to the day when they can do a big courtroom scene.

— Greg Kinnear

Have you heard anything useful come out of an actor's mouth lately?

— Bruce Willis

I'm not one of these actors who's out of touch with reality, put it that way.

— Diego Klattenhoff

It's my job as an actor to commit to the role and not - through my own inhibitions - run away.

— Nicole Kidman

I feel like I'm more of a physical actor than a voice actor.

— Daniel Logan