Actors Quotes · Page 63

As an actor, you have to be open to doing things where you look stupid, to be experimental.

— Jesse Eisenberg

I had always planned to be an actor, and the music was just in my DNA, it's always been.

— Creed Bratton

I think Star Trek has been very double-edged for all of us - as actors, writers, directors.

— Jonathan Frakes

I'm a big Pacino fan. He's a great actor: so much passion and intensity.

— Judah Friedlander

I would like to go on that path of evolving into a better actor.

— Arjun Kapoor

Kelsey Grammer is one of the best actors I've ever worked with.

— Sanaa Lathan

We become actors without realizing it, and actors without wanting to.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

It's good for actors to confront those things we have to act: panic, pain and death.

— Antony Sher

I love being around great actors and film-makers, and I try to hide the fact that I'm in awe of them.

— Jessica Chastain

There was a time when television was sort of frowned upon among people who wanted to be serious artists. John Travolta kind…

— David Rasche

If you give the actors the characters that they are comfortable with, they've no issues with what another actor is doing.

— Luv Ranjan

As in a theatre, the eyes of men, after a well-graced actor leaves the stage, are idly bent on him that enters…

— William Shakespeare

You can't be bad when you're working with a kid. They have the instincts that all great actors have.

— Laurence Fishburne

There seem to be two sorts of actors. Some people play themselves marvellously, and others, like me, rather like to become someone…

— Eileen Atkins

For old actors, just remember that inside you're only 14. Acting is for kids. You poor old grown-ups, you've forgotten how to…

— Ian Mckellen

Eighty percent of a picture is writing, the other twenty percent is the execution, such as having the camera on the right…

— Billy Wilder

Having grown up in the theater family, having done a huge amount of acting from a very little boy to precocious teenager…

— John Lithgow

Lying about one's sexuality seems to be one of the ridiculous rules of what constitutes being a Hollywood movie star. Obviously, my…

— Ben Daniels

There's no way, of course, to fully understand what an illness does to someone or what emotional state or physical state it…

— Hayden Panettiere

So many actors are lively-minded, creative people who just tread water in this awful way, waiting for the phone to ring and…

— Nina Conti

I think Ryan Gosling is a really great actor who's meticulous about his work. And I'd love to have the guts that…

— Ashton Kutcher

Why do all these people want [comedians] to be serious? The reason they want that is these are people who aren't funny.…

— Jon Lovitz

As an actor, and especially as a young woman, there's so much pressure to look good all the time and it really…

— Emmy Rossum

I'm not saying that Sam J. Jones was Flash Gordon - there's no such thing. No actor can be the person, that's…

— Sam J. Jones

I feel my job as an actor is to explore all sides of humanity.

— Kyra Sedgwick

Emotional power is maybe the most valuable thing that an actor can have.

— Christopher Walken

When they're good, I like working with new actors.

— John C. Reilly

I think there's a big misconception out there about actors and the choices they have.

— Famke Janssen

I don't know what else I could do but pretend to be an actor.

— Alec Guinness

You can't stop being a citizen just because you have a Screen Actors' Guild card.

— Paul Newman

I do this profession. I'm an actor. And it is, for me, an opportunity to meet people.

— Gerard Depardieu

There's nothing more terrifying than an actor who comes with an idea.

— Lance Henriksen

I want to work with great filmmakers and great actors and get better as an actor.

— Bradley Cooper

I've always considered myself a character actor. That's the way I was trained, really.

— Dennis Quaid

I have a lot of friends that are actors, and I'm blessed to even have a job.

— Josh Segarra

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms.

— Thornton Wilder

It's wonderful to work with actors we haven't worked with before.

— Lisa Joy

When actors are big divas, I always think there was always a current of that in them.

— Nicola Coughlan

The biggest compliment I think an actor can get is I can't imagine anyone else in the role.

— Jeff Daniels

Because I'm now successful, what I'm being offered as an actor is more and more of the same.

— Jeremy Irons