Actors Quotes · Page 47

I was a professional dancer before I was an actor.

— Alex Meraz

I am the most fortunate self-taught harpist and non-speaking actor who has ever lived.

— Harpo Marx

I get to watch stories I wrote brought to life by the most brilliant actors in cinema.

— Chris Claremont

Contrast of emotions is definitely something interesting that you like to do as an actor.

— Alfie Allen

I think a good director casts a film so that the actors bring a lot to the table.

— Debbie Allen

A lot of actors in my age bracket look at being still standing as pretty good.

— Gary Cole

I don't think actors should have to do anything but come in and act.

— Billy Crudup

Well, if I hadn't have been an actor I would have gone on to play college sports.

— Joe Manganiello

You know, many actors when they get older are afraid to be around young people, but I welcome their views.

— Agnes Moorehead

“Make films that purify the soul with the flow of rational, vigorous and compassionate thinking.”

— Abhijit Naskar

I have never acted he has never been cast in a romantic lead or has been cast opposite a female love interest…

— Morgan Freeman

That takes a lot of confidence to let your actors come up with something that could be theoretically funnier than what you…

— Jackie Schaffer

I've watched other directors as an actor and I picked up little things here and there about cameras, [but] I wouldn't consider…

— Billy Bob Thornton

Conversely, the most powerful thing an actor can say is "no." If something is presented and it's a stereotypical role or something,…

— John Cho

The best type of government comes from a government that is scrutinized by the people when they have true information about our…

— Julian Assange

It's hard to work, in general, in our business, on more than one thing. How some actors go from back-to-back films, I…

— Faith Ford

Words are words, but the way an actor says them, the way it's framed, puts you either in the world that looks…

— Peter Sarsgaard

So, most of it was done over the phone. But one of the first things I did as a director, because it's…

— Dustin Hoffman

I always tell actors, "Don't think of it as unemployment when you don't have a job. You have to think of it…

— Virginia Madsen

It is only the untalented director who imagines him or herself in every part, wants his or her own thoughts and emotions…

— Liv Ullmann

I'm an actor, and, beyond that, the thing I do most compulsively is writing. So I come at it very much from…

— Edward Norton

I think I had the good fortune to watch Sly the Artist [Sylvester Stallone]; to watch him in all arenas. As an…

— Milo Ventimiglia

The biggest concern for most actors has and always will be getting enough work - it's just part of our profession -…

— Ken Howard

There are the jobs you get that do something for your confidence, like, 'I can do this with my life' kind of…

— Rosemarie DeWitt

“The Earth Is My Stage And The Sun Is My Spotlight”

— Joshua Teya

To be a character actor is to be open, to be a chameleon.

— Giancarlo Esposito

But history is a faithless teller whose cruel recourse to hindsight makes fools of its actors.

— Kate Morton

An award doesn't necessarily make you a better actor.

— Javier Bardem

In the story, I think as an actor you're just trying to fit into the world.

— Charlize Theron

I've been on the stage my entire life as an actor.

— Jeremy Piven

You are always damned by things that you do well as an actor.

— Christine Baranski

I'm a stage actor, and we never get to see our performances.

— Clarke Peters

In general, I did what a lot of character actors do: I did it to get girls.

— Kurt Fuller

We have to be vulnerable as actors, but we have to protect ourselves.

— Glenn Close

It's a super super strange world when the actors are the less weird ones.

— Michael Rooker

There's no rule that you have to like Henry Rollins the musician or the actor.

— Henry Rollins

I'm not one of those actors that knows everything about politics.

— Justina Machado

In a way, all actors are gypsies, or much like a traveling circus.

— Danny Huston

Look, I'm an actor, I don't profess to understand much of anything

— Eric Stoltz

The actor is merely a crude empiricist, a practitioner guided by vague instinct.

— Antonin Artaud