Actors Quotes · Page 58

I would have started the National Actors Theatre 30 years earlier

— Tony Randall

I'm the sort of actor who likes to talk about what we're going to do.

— Donald Pleasence

I'm the empty stage where various actors act out various plays.

— Fernando Pessoa

Everything makes me vulnerable, you just have to use it as an actor. It's a constant balance.

— Pom Klementieff

I've seen Jay-Z and Kanye West. I've seen actors like Tom Hanks and Nicholas Cage.

— Spencer Paysinger

I'm not a leading man. I'm a character actor. That's what I want to be.

— Dave Bautista

When I was five, I always told my mom I would want to be an actor.

— Rick Gonzalez

I didnt know any actors growing up. My dad was a builder, and we didnt know any arty types.

— Stephen Mangan

Show business is like riding a bicycle - when you fall off, the best thing to do is get up, brush yourself…

— Gilda Radner

I can tell you that from the director's chair, young actors love to be challenged, to be given killer lines that take…

— Mark Waters

After filming I like to go home and lie down with my daughter and have a glass of wine so I don't…

— Izabella Scorupco

Doctor Who' has always been a landmark show, but I feel it's becoming an even more landmark show due the stories that…

— Sacha Dhawan

It's weird talking about projects as an actor because you're so in them. I would prefer to write a paper and deliver…

— Kristen Stewart

If you're a boy, you always want to be in a western; and any actor I know would like to be in…

— Timothy Dalton

I think that I've still not been successful at playing the role of the retired actor, and I'd like to work on…

— Sean Penn

As an actor, there was that freedom of not having to worry about lights or marks or other people. It was just…

— Jeff Foxworthy

Everyone's a little nervous when you all get together and meet the actors, meet the director. But once you get on set,…

— Kyle Chandler

I don't move until an actor is happy, but it was very important to me as a so-called "first time director" to…

— William Monahan

I was a stage actor for 20 years or so; I was leading men in classical things. 'Shakespeare,' you know. And now,…

— John Michael Higgins

It's funny - sometimes people think we, as actors, have this wide range of choices of the roles we're doing, and in…

— Mike O'Malley

But having said that, regardless to what reviews come out whatever, I like love the movie. I think it's great, and so…

— Nicholas Stoller

I'm probably infuriating to work with, particularly in 'Offspring,' because I'm in pretty much every scene so I need the other actors…

— Asher Keddie

When your body is your instrument, it needs maintenance and it needs to be held in a certain way. That's a universal…

— Josh Peck

I appeared with many leading men. But working with Cary Grant was different from working with other actors. He was much more…

— Irene Dunne

An actress is not a lady; at least, when she is, she is not an actress.

— George Bernard Shaw

The writer creates the role on the page and then the actor takes it and makes it their own.

— Joanna Kerns

In motion pictures, the actor rules. The camera served the actor.

— Richard Donner

On the stage one must not confuse the nature of a personality with the naturalness of a person.

— Karl Kraus

I'm a typically lazy person. It is sort of characteristic of actors.

— Liev Schreiber

God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.

— Honore de Balzac

Marriage is hard, and it can be tough when you're both actors.

— Sarah Parish

I think, at the end of the day, if youre a good actor, then youre a good actor.

— John Benjamin Hickey

As an actor, anything that you have to help get you into character is helpful.

— Scarlett Johansson

I never understood actors who could just wait around.

— Scott Eastwood

I'm sure most actors, after a while, get a bit jaded.

— Ralph Ineson

Independent film is for actors that love to act.

— John Leguizamo

I'm an athletic actor. I'm known for my action; I'm a guy who does my own stunts on screen.

— Akshay Kumar

The American actor is very lucky... Because so little is asked of him.

— Sanford Meisner

I certainly was an actor and then I drifted more towards writing and directing.

— Thomas Haden Church

As an actor, your main goal is to tell the truth.

— Johnathon Schaech