Actors Quotes · Page 44

Actors always want to be musicians, and musicians want to be actors

— Marilyn Manson

I think when you work with older actors, who are so good, it's rare that they are egotistical.

— Ruth Bradley

I would think, as an actor, it's just much more fun to be the bad guy.

— Karl Urban

There are some fantastic parts for older actors.

— Ian Mckellen

Jeff Bridges is one of my favorite actors in the history of ever.

— Ben Barnes

There's a reason people love watching blooper reels of actors falling about laughing.

— Mathew Baynton

I demanded two weeks of rehearsal because to me as an actor, that's the most important time.

— Christine Lahti

I'm a character actor so I've jumped around to all kinds of things.

— Joe Mantegna

Some actors count their lines as soon as they receive a script. I'm the opposite. I try to see how many lines…

— Glenn Ford

I couldn't be a cameraman or a designer or an actor - I have to be a director because I learned how…

— Joe Wright

I love theatre, and you learn too much as an actor and enjoy too much of it not to want to go…

— Benedict Cumberbatch

Those offers come in now and again. They're not knocking down my door. I'm only an old character actor, and I'm not…

— Carroll O'Connor

I'm not just an actor born in L.A. I was born in the Griffith Park Hospital. You can't get any more clichéd…

— Val Kilmer

You know, when you're an actor, you want to go to Hollywood. When you're a musician, you want to go to Nashville.

— Richie Sambora

We know that ISIL and other terrorist groups are actively encouraging people, around the world and in our country, to commit terrible…

— Barack Obama

I'm not sure I'm the sort of actor people are hugely interested in finding out an awful lot about.

— Iain Glen

I think it's my job to risk looking foolish. One of the things I've learned from the actors I've worked with is…

— Ethan Hawke

They were all wonderful [on Andy Griffith Show], but I enjoyed Andy and Don and Ron the most. Ron played little Opie…

— Betty Lynn

other artists - poets, painters, sculptors, musicians - produce something which lives after them and enshrines their memories in positive evidences of…

— Charlotte Saunders Cushman

Perhaps society should give actors the same sort of protection it gives to those who follow a religious life. Actor/priest was originally…

— Jennifer Stone

I always wanted to be an actor, but in Edmonton, Alberta, that's not a success-oriented career. So I said, 'I'll get my…

— Nathan Fillion

Good information architecture enables people to find and do what they came for. Great information architecture takes find out of the equation:…

— Jeffrey Zeldman

I worked with some of the best actors I've ever worked with: Mel Blanc and Don Messick. They could play a scene…

— Tim Matheson

Not that it entirely matters: There is a perception that all actors make their movies. A lot of people assume you're responsible.…

— Ben Affleck

After 9/11 and the impending actors' strike of a few years ago, roles dried up for everyone.

— Alfre Woodard

A stage actor has to be 10% aware of the audience as he's performing.

— William Shatner

Most actors I'm in touch with are struggling financially.

— Sheryl Lee

Keegan-Michael Key and Lindsay Sloane are two of the best, literally, just dramatic actors.

— Jessica St. Clair

One job is to be an actor, the other job is to be a spectator.

— Isabelle Huppert

It's quite common for actors to have that, to play younger than themselves.

— Dylan Llewellyn

I've always preferred actors who sing to singers who act in all the shows I've done.

— Stephen Sondheim

There's a phase for everyone, where actors need to slow down and reinvent themselves.

— Johnny Lever

[Making movies is] 80% script and 20% getting great actors. There's nothing else to it.

— William Wyler

Sometimes the better an actor is, the less he's noticed.

— Kate Jackson

I thought I was going to go back to Stanford, and then I got Election. I loved being an actor.

— Reese Witherspoon

Samuel L. Jackson is one of the best actors there is.

— Joel Siegel

I feel that nudity is sort of what we do as actors.

— Katherine Waterston

Working with a bunch of actors is like trying to tune each violin.

— Patrice Leconte

TV does not have anything meaty to offer the male actors. It is a female-dominated industry.

— Shaheer Sheikh

They treat kid actors more like an object than persons.

— Judy Norton