Actors Quotes · Page 34

Film actors are, by nature, more complicated than stage actors.

— Margaret Rutherford

I've probably had more jobs than any other actor living.

— Dick Van Patten

The actor needs to find out what the basic fight is in every character in every scene.

— Michael Shurtleff

My whole family is very artistic - my uncles are all actors and theatre directors.

— Morena Baccarin

I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be.

— Milan Kundera

There has to be more opportunities for Asian or black actors.

— Adeel Akhtar

I usually prefer casting actors from our own industry.

— Vignesh Shivan

Inevitably, every part an actor plays contains some of himself.

— David Suchet

As an actor, it's your job to find the way to play a character. I think you can latch on to some…

— Justin Timberlake

"I've never see you do something like this before and I'd love to see you try." For a young actor, that's about…

— Dan Stevens

Most actors are either a shower of bloody scruffs or think they should dress like Hamlet off stage.

— Martin Freeman

I want to keep working with the best, keep going and be a better actor each time I go and dive into…

— Taylor Kitsch

I wanted to just surround myself with people who I think are better than I am, whether they're actors or directors or…

— Mila Kunis

People say I'm a one-note actor, but the way I figure it, those other guys are just looking for that one right…

— Joel McCrea

So often when you meet child actors, they're weird - they're freaks. No, I mean it, they're really odd people.

— Helen McCrory

I've been wanting to go into music ever since I can remember. I mean even before I became an actor. I just…

— River Phoenix

Ask any great athlete or the concert pianist or the successful actor if they have arrived at the place where they need…

— Eric Butterworth

This industry should behave like a mother whose child has just run out in front of a car. But instead of clasping…

— Marilyn Monroe

There's a reason why a lot of models turn actors. You have to connect with people, talk to people, be able to…

— Camila Morrone

I think I'm an actor. You can hire me. I can do a good job. But you also have to get lucky…

— Rutger Hauer

I think naturally, if you're an actor, there's a high level of assertiveness that you need to have to survive this business.…

— Bryan Cranston

[And on going from character to leading actor] I don't approach anything differently; I just approach it as a character. I'm always…

— Steve Carell

It was never my intention to be an actor, and I don't know if I'll ever call myself an actor because I've…

— Edge

Actors go, 'I just want to act.' And I say to them, 'You know, stop for a second and think about what…

— Jason Alexander

As an actor, you get humbled all the time. Everyone is a critic.

— Joe Regalbuto

I may be a B-movie star, but I work. I'm an actor.

— Robert Englund

I think once you've allocated an actor to the role that the character will evolve slightly.

— Nathalie Emmanuel

Working with talented people and challenging myself as an actor [excites me].

— Mark Wahlberg

I always hated the world "acting" - to say, "I'm an actor." It should be more like a believer.

— Michael Jackson

As an actor, you try to put a little bit of yourself in everything you do.

— Michael Cudlitz

Every actor chooses their story at the beginning.

— Shia LaBeouf

I admire a lot of actors, but I don't covet people's careers.

— Jesse Spencer

I don't really have any limitations for what I want to do, as an actor.

— Jason Momoa

I think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies.

— Patricia Clarkson

It's hard to find actors that don't feel contemporary when you put them in a period piece.

— George Clooney

There's a personal me, there's an actor me and there's a star me.

— Shahrukh Khan

Actors who are super successful are the ones who thrive on the image by creating their forte.

— Ranvir Shorey

When I told my parents, 'I'm going to be an actor,' they screamed and wept and freaked out.

— Alec Baldwin

I consider myself a blue-collar actor, just chugging away.

— Aaron Stanford

The actor's job is to divine and embody the truth, and find it.

— Paul Greengrass