Actors Quotes · Page 62

I think all actors have addictive personalities.

— Jonathan Rhys Meyers

When actresses play actresses, or actors play actors, they have to find another level.

— Kristen Stewart

I think that you always learn something from working with good actors.

— Marion Cotillard

I'd been on all the television programs as an actor, as a writer, as a director, as a producer.

— James Lipton

I came from a generation of actors for whom TV was taboo.

— Alicia Silverstone

Actors seem brave and unpredictable, but they're spontaneous as a tax return.

— Greg Gutfeld

I could care less about being an action actor like Stallone or Schwarzenegger.

— Vin Diesel

No actor is a success unless he feels inside himself, as long as he lives, that he is good.

— Stella Adler

Acting, music, painting... it's very subjective. So what I might think is a great actor, you might think is not a very…

— Billy Boyd

For me it would be unhealthy to be a method actor; I'm not mentally stable enough for that - I need to…

— Emily Browning

Doing films as an actor, you spend maybe 40 percent of the year doing your chosen profession. If you are on a…

— Christina Ricci

I think actors are brave souls that have to use parts of themselves that I'm just not comfortable doing anymore.

— Joe Mantello

An actor needs something to stabilize his personality, something to nail down what he really is, not what he is currently pretending…

— Humphrey Bogart

My nomadic childhood dramatically fed my eventual decision to be an actor, but not in the way you might think

— Josh Lucas

Marlon Brando changed everything for actors. After him, everyone wanted to be Marlon. No one wanted to be a type: they all…

— Peter Bogdanovich

I want to tell human stories not solely based on race. There are so many great actresses and actors that are out…

— Jurnee Smollett-Bell

Having a child makes you strong and gives you chutzpah. It relaxed my attitude to the job; my center of focus shifted,…

— Imelda Staunton

I like to imagine a person's psyche to be like a boardinghouse full of characters. The ones who show up regularly and…

— James Hillman

I am very aware that playwrights, particularly good ones, have a intention for everything they write. Language and punctuation is used specifically,…

— Laura Linney

When I shoot actors, I have that dilemma. I want the actor to be good, and sometimes I have to push them…

— Michel Gondry

I definitely play roles that are close to my persona. I was dying to be an actor, my whole life. I just…

— Drea de Matteo

There's nothing like watching a live performance of, frankly, anything. You have to make sure that people believe everything is improvised. I…

— Amy Poehler

Know your job and don't fake it. It looks easy, but the ones that make it look easy know what the hell…

— Dustin Diamond

Improvisation, the main thing is it teaches you to be in the moment and present in the moment and be reactive and…

— John C. Reilly

It's really important for actors to feel that they're more than something for hire.

— Mary McDonnell

I have always been a Malibu Man, like all actors.

— Nick Mancuso

Billy Campbell who is... I... truly one of the most talented actors today.

— Sela Ward

British actors behave like Europeans; they are also extremely well trained.

— Jean-Jacques Annaud

When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise.

— Lauren Bacall

One of an actor's fears is that your current project could be your last project.

— Katharine Ross

So many people are called but few serve as actors, you know what I mean?

— Faye Dunaway

There's a whole catalogue of actors that never went to acting school.

— Dennis Farina

I think film is a world of directors. Theater is a world of actors.

— Diego Luna

I never thought I actually could be an actor. I was always pretty shy and quiet.

— Danny Burstein

I joined the Actors Studio and began to work with Lee Strasberg, and that changed my work.

— Sally Field

It is really hard when the actor you pictured can't do the film.

— Rebecca Miller

You have to trust your instincts. There is a moment when an actor has it, and he knows it.

— Clint Eastwood

Generally a wise actor will be very careful about the person to whom he gives that power.

— William Mapother

I love independent films, it's the only place as an actor you're totally allowed to breathe.

— John Leguizamo

I don't want actors to be writers. I think it's too much responsibility.

— Susanne Bier