Actors Quotes · Page 40

Actors who say they can dive inside a character are either schizophrenic or lying.

— Bruce Campbell

Two actors can be friends very easily. I think two actresses can also be friends.

— Arjun Kapoor

I'm a self-confessed genre nerd. I'm a very serious actor, but a genre nerd, all the same.

— Penelope Mitchell

Part of being an actor is letting things come about organically as opposed to forcing them.

— David Duchovny

I care more about the directors that I get to work with as opposed to the actors.

— Lisa Haydon

My favorite actor who played villains - who could play anything, really - was Jimmy Cagney.

— Malcolm McDowell

I feel very privileged working with other actors. Actors tend to be the best company I know.

— Sam Neill

Actors are no strangers to self-doubt, fear, and rejection.

— Monica Raymund

Oh yes. I'm an actor, so I just learn my lines, and show up and do it. I gave it a little…

— Anthony Hopkins

I'm a character actor, so I don't take the hit if the movie's bad, the lead does. So, I don't want to…

— Brion James

I like to think of myself as a fairly educated human being, but I'm a very uneducated actor when it comes to…

— Shailene Woodley

If you give an actor any wiggle room to whine in situations where they want to whine, you're gonna whine.

— Emile Hirsch

If actors could actually make a living doing theater, that would be my first choice. Sitcoms are the closest thing to being…

— Enrico Colantoni

Tonight I'll be interviewing Ken Watanabe, Keisha Castle Hughes, Benecio Del Toro and Djimon Honsou - and yes, those are actors, not…

— Joan Rivers

Every actor's different. It seems to me the older veterans, they don't need to hear as much. But younger actors need a…

— Robert Lorenz

There are actors who just bring an enormous amount of empathy. They just have that"it" that makes you want to follow them…

— Doug Liman

In the (film) industry, body size doesn't matter. What matters is how much an actor contributes through his performance and not his…

— Deepika Padukone

But this is where you get all the market research and things get in danger of becoming formulaic, and where you depend…

— Colin Firth

I've had this unbelievable amount of good fortune and I'm just so thankful for it. But at the same time I feel…

— Matthew Gray Gubler

A lot of actors, whatever movie you're working on, you make up a back story just for your own, to work off,…

— Jacki Weaver

There's nothing worse - I don't like listening to actors talk about the process, especially when - I mean, for me I've…

— Scott Speedman

I don't approve of the John Waynes and the Gary Coopers saying "Shucks, I ain't no actor - I'm just a bridge…

— Humphrey Bogart

I come from Nova Scotia, and I'd never seen a theater or been inside of a theater. When I was 17, my…

— Donald Sutherland

I wouldn't date an actress. There's only room for one actor in my life and I'm it. Too difficult. On the one…

— Jonathan Rhys Meyers

What is it in the actor, the stage, that casts so powerful a spell on the young imagination?

— Joyce Cary

I think female actors should also play male characters.

— Sunil Grover

I am just an actor and we actors are a lucky lot because we get to play many lives in one life.

— Anoop Menon

Actors are always the pawns. They're the last ones in the food chain.

— Patricia Mauceri

“world is a drama, we are the actors with our play role”

— Michale Callahan

I went to Queen's University Belfast and stayed nine months, then I ran away to be an actor.

— Simon Callow

As an actor, you should be willing to take challenges.

— Wilmer Valderrama

Ninety-eight per cent of actors who actually make a living do so in front of a camera.

— Julian Fellowes

Twin Peaks' was the best job I ever had as an actor.

— Richard Beymer

I was getting to perform with an actor with whom I had never interacted before

— Deepika Padukone

Think of Frank Capra and Preston Sturges. They used the same actors over and over again.

— Matthew Modine

Actors like to play bad guys because they're more fun. They also win more awards.

— Dean Norris

On the stage you try to act real. On the screen you try to be real.

— Shirley MacLaine

Actors are cave dwellers in a rich darkness which they love and hate.

— Iris Murdoch

I was an activist long before I even entertained the possibility of being an actor.

— William Baldwin

I certainly hated actors and, more importantly, they hated me.

— Hugh Grant