Actors Quotes · Page 52

As an actor, I usually have to find something to love about my character in order to play her.

— Lorraine Toussaint

I'm sure one reason I became an actor is my basic unwillingness to live one life.

— Scott Glenn

Acting is characterization, the process of two entities merging-the actor and the role.

— George C. Scott

Eventually, I'd love to be known as a character actor.

— Jess Weixler

What you look like, whether you're Brad Pitt or Charles Laughton, is significant for actors.

— Jack Davenport

It helps if you don't date other actors, but actresses are beautiful. How can you say no?

— Adam Brody

You know, actors are fans, too. And talent is very attractive to me.

— Kevin Kline

Most dear actors, eat no onions nor garlic, for we are to utter sweet breath.

— William Shakespeare

Other actors are not my concern, and that's their life and that's their journey. Everybody has to get to a point in…

— Zachary Quinto

If the actor has a problem, I can just go in and fix it right away. I think it speeds up the…

— Tommy Wirkola

We use important words too frequently and they lose value; for instance, charm and great. An actor or musician often is proclaimedgreat…

— Eleanor Robson Belmont

I wouldn't even begin to presume that the talent of an able actor is anything like the talents of a prodigious musician.

— Juliet Stevenson

Good actors I've worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.

— Bette Davis

Being actors is a strange job. To try to go live that out, it's a very strange thing to want to do…

— Paul Dano

You can pick out actors by the glazed look that comes into their eyes when the conversation wanders away from themselves.

— Michael Wilding

At a certain level, great actors who are successful actors don't have to worry about it. They can just go for it…

— Eric Balfour

We got the best actors imaginable [in Kung Fu Panda]. If we could have made a wish list I don't think there…

— Jennifer Yuh Nelson

I do very little on-camera acting, so within a phrase as a voice actor you have to know how to convey when…

— Jim Cummings

I like to be a lot of different things at once and dress different ways and I change my hair all the…

— Mae Whitman

I consciously decided not to be a 'London' actor. Those gangster movies made a lot of East End actors think they were…

— Eddie Marsan

All of my favourite actors are American and I grew up watching American movies. It's weird, but I used to do a…

— Robert Pattinson

If you choose to do both [acting and directing] on a set, than you're admitting that you understand that everyone is in…

— Rebecca Hall

I always say about acting: the audience doesn't come to see you, they come to see themselves. So if you're able to…

— Julianne Moore

To make good films, you have to have a good relationship and good collaboration as composer-director, composer-editor, composer-production designer-actor because you're working…

— Howard Shore

My mother was an actress. My father was an actor and a director. I am the son of filmmakers.

— Sergio Leone

You never know where you're going to find a great actor.

— Lenny Kravitz

I love working with good actors as it gives me a lot of experience.

— Vatsal Sheth

Directing, editing, and everything about filmmaking has definitely changed me as an actor.

— James Franco

From Amitabh Bachchan to Ranveer Singh, I have sung for different generations of actors.

— Bappi Lahiri

Actors are real egomaniacs. They get into a movie, they think the whole movie's about them.

— Frank Vincent

Oliver Stone's strategy is to unnerve the actors so as to make them alert and alive.

— Claire Danes

I like small actors. They are my absolute favourite.

— Claudia Winkleman

There are not that many parts for actors who are not white - even less substantive ones.

— Cassandra Clare

A brick layer, lays bricks... I'm an Actor, that's what I do.

— Michael Chiklis

In the scenes of moral life the soul is at once actor and spectator.

— Joseph Marie, baron de Gerando

I'm just like James Stewart, because I never studied to be an actor.

— Chris Burke

I came to New York to be an actor and I became a film producer first.

— Griffin Dunne

I don't know any black actors who are as short as I am.

— Paterson Joseph

The hardest thing to do as an actor is to be simplistic, and to just be.

— Julie Benz

When I was 16 and wanted to be an actor, people told me to go work at the supermarket.

— Steve Valentine