Actors Quotes · Page 35

He's hard-core, but I think he's actually more of an actor.

— Taylor Hanson

As a director, my job is to protect. I protect scripts, actors, cameramen, designers.

— Stephen Frears

When you're an actor, you're mollycoddled and you're treated with kid gloves.

— Tanc Sade

Modesty in an actor is as fake as passion in a call girl.

— Jackie Gleason

The actor is not quite a human being-but then, who is?

— George Sanders

An actor is part illusionist, part artist, part ham.

— Oscar Wilde

My advice to young actors is to push yourself and to aspire to be great.

— Adriane Lenox

Actors shouldn't be scared. Don't get scared on film.

— Kodi Smit-McPhee

There are actors who are really fantastically talented at being natural on screen and appearing to be themselves, but I like the…

— Toni Collette

All good actors are easy to work with. It's the ones that aren't very good who tend to be very difficult.

— Tom Wilkinson

I think as actors, or anybody that is in public life, you are constantly dependent on validation from other people.

— Kunal Kapoor

How strange or odd some'er I bear myself, As I perchance hereafter shall think meet To put an antic disposition on.

— William Shakespeare

Some film actors want to sit back and look at every scene and all that crap. No, you're an actor - tell…

— Clarke Peters

I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements…

— Sam Neill

I was a commercial artist when I left school, but luckily I became an actor. I've painted for many, many years. Now…

— Pierce Brosnan

The idea of exploring character relations and their development over a decade has to be appealing for any actor who cherishes his…

— Vin Diesel

I have friends of mine that are actors or singers, and they're the classic guys where, they're onstage, and they're like, 'Okay,…

— Jaime Camil

If you put on a lousy production with white actors, it's lousy. There is a problem, or can be, at this stage…

— Howard Schultz

Familiarity with any great thing removes our awe of it. The great general is only terrible to the enemy; the great poet…

— L. Frank Baum

The appearance and retirement of actors are the great events of the theatrical world; and their first performances fill the pit with…

— Samuel Johnson

I try to do the same thing when I'm with young actors who are new and unsure. I try to do the…

— Nia Long

I consider myself an actress first, a dancer second, and a singer third. Why? Because the dancer needs a reason to move-that's…

— Liza Minnelli

I'm one of those actors who says, "Point me toward the work that matters to me and I don't care where you're…

— David Oyelowo

Well, I always try to look at my characters as being better than I am. That's one of the reasons I guess…

— Bruce Davison

I have made decisions based from purely an actor's point of view.

— Jessica Lange

I like directors who have worked as actors. They know the experience.

— Gabrielle Union

Good actors go to emotional places where nobody else wants to go.

— Arthur Penn

Inside I never said I wanted to do theatre or be an actor.

— Sebastian Bach

Good actors can tell you more about your play than 1,000 hours alone at your desk.

— Stephen Karam

Your duty as an actor is to try to make it as real as possible.

— Christopher Abbott

I don't feel like a romantic lead; I guess I feel more like a character actor.

— Matthew Macfadyen

I respond in the moment which is what makes me a good actor.

— Russell Crowe

As an actor, the minute you start getting real in interviews, you lose mystery.

— Shia LaBeouf

This is still a big barrier for me and it is for a lot of foreign actors.

— Chow Yun-Fat

There's nothing more boring than actors talking about acting.

— James Caan

I don't know how to ground myself without the other actor present.

— Garry Shandling

I like being around actors. Imagine not liking actors.

— Sam Neill

I didn't think I'd ever be able to do movies. That was for serious actors.

— Steve Buscemi

When I was 18, I joined the Screen Actors Guild, and after college I came to New York.

— Marla Maples

Interviews are good if you want to be an actor because they raise your profile.

— Jack Gleeson