Actors Quotes · Page 39

There are a lot of actors out there who don't have an arena to present their stuff.

— Joe Penny

Like any other actor, I draw on life experience.

— Donnie Yen

I trained for three years at drama school to be an actor - not a celebrity.

— Orlando Bloom

I don't enjoy being told what to do, I'm not that kind of actor, I'm a thinking actor.

— Priyanka Chopra

I always call myself a stuntman first and then an actor.

— Akshay Kumar

I like actors who like to change and transform to other things.

— Tim Burton

I was one of the good-looking, educated actors, and that is like a disadvantage in theatre!

— Himani Shivpuri

As a director you come in and tell the actors how good they are.

— Bryan Cranston

A fan club is a group of people who tell an actor hes not alone in the way he feels about himself.

— Kenneth Williams

The film business is absurd. Stars don't last very long. It's much more interesting to be a proper actor.

— Tom Courtenay

I have boxes full of stuff. Most actors do have a trunk full of stuff, paintings or scripts. It never comes to…

— Christopher Walken

As an actor, you really want to resonate with your audience. I played a character on Oz and people still approach me…

— Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

In terms of jobs, I'm an actor. There's gotta' be depth there. I'd never say yes to something just to play the…

— Bill Skarsgard

I have a career I am proud of as a child actor. I'm not running away from it or embarassed with anything…

— Ricky Schroder

As actors, if you get a pilot on HBO or on USA, your odds are good that it's going to get picked…

— Tim DeKay

A lot of shows are more script-driven, like a prose script. As an actor, you never see a storyboard.

— Tom Kenny

When I think of character actors, I think of Spencer Tracy; I think of Gene Hackman, Robert Duvall. When I was a…

— Eddie Marsan

I know for a fact the reason I'm an actor is because one, two, maybe three people when I was younger saw…

— David Oyelowo

As an actor, you want people to see you as a whole person, not just a single facet of your emotional spectrum.…

— Scott Porter

If you've got 15 actors on stage who are all trying to shine a light on themselves, they are all trying to…

— Rachael Stirling

I am a bit of a gourmet chef. I love cooking mostly Thai food. And a lot of times on movies, you…

— Will Ferrell

I knew that they were going to be reading actors for Manute, and I wanted to give it a shot. I wanted…

— Dennis Haysbert

What I love about him [Robert Rodriguez] is that he understands that actors are transformational. It's a natural instinct to ask people…

— Carla Gugino

Auditions are great, and you definitely want to continue to make progress as an actor, you want to continue to see some…

— Mike Colter

You'd be surprised how much being a good actor pays off.

— Ronald Reagan

The life of an actor is a bit easier to take if you admit you're bonkers.

— Michael Shurtleff

An actor should always let humility outweigh ambition.

— Anna Kendrick

I'm not one of these actors who's rolling in money.

— Drea De Matteo

What's a celebrity anyway? Paris Hilton's a celebrity. I'm just a working actor.

— Denzel Washington

I would like to see the big, mainstream actors experiment with their roles.

— Harshvardhan Kapoor

I am admiring of my fellow peers, black filmmakers and black actors and actresses.

— Cuba Gooding, Jr

I consider myself a very lucky actor that, approaching 60, I'm still employed and employable.

— John Lithgow

I don't agree with the concept of actors quitting shows.

— Sargun Mehta

I liken actors and movies and TV shows to football teams. We all have our favorite ones.

— Kristoffer Polaha

I'm an actor. 99.9% of all actors in the world have been in denial towards the military.

— Pilou Asbaek

As an actor, sometimes you feel a pressure to change yourself from time to time.

— Charlie Day

I fit into the quirky, character class type of actor.

— Debra Wilson

I'm not a selfish actor. I believe that it's a team effort. You're not in a scene by yourself.

— Taraji P. Henson

The American actor is very lucky. Why? Because so little is asked of him.

— Sanford Meisner

I just personally feel like the best writing for actors exists in cable television.

— Donal Logue