Actors Quotes · Page 69

A fool cannot be an actor, though an actor may act a fool's part.

— Sophocles

I don't think it's the case that 'posh actors' get more work than others.

— Richard E. Grant

At times as an actor, it's often times unclear as to what the directors envision for a project.

— Carmen Ejogo

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

— Spencer Paysinger

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

— Pom Klementieff

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

— Fernando Pessoa

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

Hollywood is a very strong machine that needs, and in... especially with female actors, fresh flesh. It's that cruel. But that's the…

— Antonio Banderas

The first movie I saw where it convinced me I could be an actor was 'Mean Streets,' so whenever I see Robert…

— Denis Leary

Actors sure have stories. We always have stories. At the end of our careers, all we have to take with us is…

— Michael Eklund

I had admired Richard Burton for years and years before I had ever worked with him. He was a great, great actor.…

— Gale Gordon

Everybody has his own theatre, in which he is manager, actor, prompter, playwright, sceneshifter, boxkeeper, doorkeeper, all in one, and audience into…

— Julius Charles Hare

I suppose when I was a kid, and I went to movies, and later went to some plays on my own when…

— Ray Walston

If you're an actor, a real actor, you've got to be on the stage. But you mustn't go on the stage unless…

— Edith Evans

I'm an actor - it's not brain surgery. If I do my job right, people won't ask for their money back.

— Sean Connery

Great actors are so easy to direct. It's like they're big 747s that you just have to move left and right, and…

— Louis Leterrier

Norms appearing in the form of law entitle actors to exercise their rights or liberties. However, one cannot determine which of these…

— Jurgen Habermas

I love expression and really connecting with people. As actors, we like to tell stories because they can influence or even change…

— Denzel Whitaker

I am not a politician or a public servant. I am still a journeyman actor and a peace and justice activist. I'm…

— Martin Sheen

A lot of actors say that theater's the thing for them. And that's great, and I'm not one to speak with any…

— Christian Bale

I knew from a young age that I wanted to be an actor. I never even thought about other careers. The acting…

— Archie Panjabi

For me, the best experience is to get to watch all of these different actors that come to the different seasons and…

— Michael K. Williams

I don't like the strictly objective viewpoint [in which all of the characters' actions are described in the third person, but we…

— George R. R. Martin

Being a celebrity has taught me to hide, but being an actor has opened my soul.

— Meryl Streep

I generally don't think of prospective actors when I write.

— Misha Green

I'm often confused with other actors. But the people who know my work don't have that problem.

— Bill Pullman

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

— Johnathon Schaech

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

— Thomas Haden Church

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

— Sanford Meisner

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

— Akshay Kumar

I was never a struggling actor, for which I feel very blessed.

— Ving Rhames

Actors don't get to pick movies; movies pick the actors.

— Benicio Del Toro

If someone plays a brooding actor in a film, people think they're brooding all the time.

— Joe Rogan

My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.

— Orson Welles

Fear, anxiety and neurosis: that's just in the suitcase when you're an actor.

— Laura Linney

James McAvoy is one of my favorite actors of all time.

— Betty Buckley

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

— Scarlett Johansson

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

— John Benjamin Hickey

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

— Sarah Parish