Actors Quotes · Page 71

Some of the greatest love affairs I've known have involved one actor-unassisted.

— Wilson Mizner

First of all, i'm not an actor - I'm an asshole.

— Chelsea Handler

The job of an actor is disclosure, not pretence!

— Max Reinhardt

I've had a lot of operations. I'm kind of like Franken-actor.

— Sylvester Stallone

Here's what I knew about doing a play: I knew it would make me a better actor.

— Chris Rock

My life's a sequel to a movie where the actors' names have changed.

— John Mayer

Being typecast is a great thing for an actor. I was considered one of the New York mob actors.

— Debi Mazar

In the end, the actor's main power is the power to say, 'No.'

— Viggo Mortensen

You know what I would like to do: make a film with actors standing in empty space so that the spectator would…

— Michelangelo Antonioni

I think you have to have different tools for each job - you know producer is very different from a director and…

— Renee O'Connor

I think athletes in general are actors. We perform in front of big crowds. People pay to come see you play. So,…

— Wade Boggs

I've had to deal, a lot, with my own sense of intimidation at meeting famous people - especially actors, but really any…

— Charlie Kaufman

When a director is making a movie after four years, it's not considered his comeback. It should be same with actors.

— Mahima Chaudhry

I just want to keep doing things completely different from the other. I just want to keep working with great people, great…

— Christopher Egan

I had to choose between American and British actors, and it didn't take me more than a second to decide: Russians are…

— Jean-Jacques Annaud

The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors.

— Stella Adler

I'm an actor and a writer and a showrunner and I edit my show. ... I have a job that three people…

— Mindy Kaling

Directors like Satyajit Ray, Rossellini, Bresson, Buñuel, Forman, Scorsese, and Spike Lee have used non-professional actors precisely in order that the people…

— John Berger

I've met a lot of actors who have three dreams: You dream of making a sci-fi, you dream of making a Western…

— Richard Sammel

I am a slave to fashion. I love to get into what's hot and current when I dress myself or somebody else.…

— Ruth E. Carter

I found American actors quite scary because they're brilliant actors and brilliantly funny, and they never stopped once you wound them up...…

— Peter Capaldi

When I went to do my big audition with actors for Mr. Blonde, the thing that was very interesting was the first…

— Quentin Tarantino

An actor uses his body as a tool and an instrument. In the same way a musician plays an instrument, the actor…

— Rob Minkoff

When I got into the movie business, working with actors was the one thing I was really weak at. I didn't know…

— John Carpenter

If I can be a working actor, if I can be an actor and not have a day job, I'll be fine.

— Colin Hanks

An actress' best friend is a body which responds instinctively to thought.

— Katharine Cornell

I love film people and actors and I am in the right world because I am one of those people.

— Ewan McGregor

When I was an actor, I liked throwing a challenge to other actors.

— Nizhalgal Ravi

To grow: that is your deepest and truest need when you say, 'I want to be an actor.'

— Stella Adler

I think of being an actor as a blue-collar profession.

— Joe Mantegna

I want to be remembered as a great actor - and a shining example of humanity.

— Jesse L. Martin

Every once in a while as an actor, you do something that the kids really like.

— Ernie Hudson

I like Joaquin Phoenix. He's an amazing actor and he's so buff.

— Katie Leung

It's an actor's job to play all the human conditions - light, dark, and medium.

— Tim Daly

We must overact our part in some measure, in order to produce any effect at all.

— William Hazlitt

What I ended up doing was becoming an actor who didn't mind doing other people's words.

— Gregory Harrison

What you try to do, as an actor, is just make it work somehow.

— Giles Matthey

Life is boring. The weather is boring. Actors must not be boring.

— Stella Adler

Being an actor lets me be a million different things.

— Meryl Streep

I was never an actor. I had done one or two random projects in my advertising career.

— Steve Dildarian