Actors Quotes · Page 43

Every actor wants to get their two cents in about a scene at the end of the day.

— Madonna Ciccone

It is dreadful to see actors reproducing the same image constantly.

— Emmanuelle Riva

Working at BBC, at the head of one of the top dramas, is a tradition for great actors.

— Idris Elba

Um, musicians are funnier you know, than actors on the whole.

— Tim Curry

Actors have to have conversations not just with dialogue but with silences.

— Aaron Pedersen

As soon as an actor has faith in a director, he just goes with it.

— Katia Winter

I think the better you know yourself as a person, the better an actor you can be.

— Michael Angarano

What is it about actors? God knows I get bored with actors talking about themselves.

— Alan Rickman

I'm an actor/singer who moves well... sometimes. I'm actually a great mover but not every style fits my body and a dance…

— Erica Schroeder

Actors are able to trick themselves into treating anything as if it's fantastic. It's a kind of madness really.

— Tom Baker

It's just an impulse, in some actors. You want to make the audience like you. That's the aim of the exercise.

— Ethan Coen

An actor is an impersonator; he plays many different roles. If you played the same role all the time, God that'd be…

— Robert Loggia

Actors always feel more comfortable when there's an actor directing, in terms of vocabulary and breaking down a scene.

— Kurt Sutter

The Internet kept the joke going. Abevigoda.com was devoted to updating the actor's status, as was @AbeVigodaUpdate, a Twitter account.

— Audie Cornish

I always considered myself as a character actor. I always try to be versatile to show different sides of human experience.

— Robert Duvall

I put Liam at the top of the list, the male actor list, because I had just seen Schindler's List again and…

— Maggie Grace

I realize how much I rely on the actors to really know the lines because I tend to forget what they are…

— Noah Baumbach

Our job as actors is to invent the things that bridge ourselves with the characters, so you have to build something if…

— Johnny Flynn

There is an established tradition of actors directing films that have a particular, personal meaning for them - Warren Beatty, Clint Eastwood,…

— Steven Van Zandt

That's how I digest it, 'cause I can press the fast-forward button and I know that I'm gonna have to continue to…

— Viola Davis

Interpreting gives me a chance to do what I do well and have done since I was a kid. At one time,…

— Jack Jason

As an actor, you're completely at the mercy of other people. You basically go begging for the opportunity to work. As a…

— Harold Ramis

The atmosphere and the environment that you get on a Chris Nolan film that he and Emma [Tomson] create is one where…

— Christopher Nolan

The attitude of the actor is his interpretation of what he reads, and the written word is what creates the role in…

— Gene Barry

“All of these stars, the most powerful actors in film, they were all gone in an instant.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

I was a failed actor but I still wanted to show off, so I ended up doing live comedy.

— Graham Norton

I do not welcome advice from actors; they are here to act.

— Otto Preminger

I'm an actor, I'm always looking for work. I was born to do that.

— Tommy Lee Jones

I have been a depressed kid. I wanted to lead a quiet life, never wanted to be an actor.

— Pawan Kalyan

Growing up, I never imagined I would be an actor.

— Lance Reddick

If an actor or actress is recognizable, that changes our perception of them.

— Nicolas Winding Refn

Acting really suited me because I could connect as an actor to emotion.

— Mia Wasikowska

There are some actors who are my contemporaries who I think of as purebreds and I'm not.

— Sally Field

I think there's a real joy in going to see movies when you discover them yourself.

— Jeff Bridges

I never started out trying to be an actor. That was not my passion, this was not my thing.

— Rose McGowan

Some actors have an affinity for dance, and they should explore it, train in it, and get good.

— David Leitch

As an actor, you get hired to repeat yourself. It wears you out.

— Paul McGann

I kind of knew it wasn't going to be until my 30s that I really hit my stride as an actor.

— Carla Gugino

I like to think of myself as a character actor, though there's some redundancy in that.

— Jeff Bridges

I can't watch a movie where the actors are great and the photography sucks.

— Alexandre Desplat