Actors Quotes · Page 78

As a director, my job is to protect. I protect scripts, actors, cameramen, designers.

— Stephen Frears

My advice to young actors is to push yourself and to aspire to be great.

— Adriane Lenox

The actor is not quite a human being-but then, who is?

— George Sanders

An actor is part illusionist, part artist, part ham.

— Oscar Wilde

When you're an actor, you're mollycoddled and you're treated with kid gloves.

— Tanc Sade

Modesty in an actor is as fake as passion in a call girl.

— Jackie Gleason

I think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies.

— Patricia Clarkson

It's hard to find actors that don't feel contemporary when you put them in a period piece.

— George Clooney

I've done movies where I've had to cast actors and teach them to rap, and cast rappers and teach them to act.

— Craig Brewer

I usually hang out on the set. I get to know everybody. I have a nice time with the other actors.

— Kurt Russell

I've worked with lots of actors who sit at home for years waiting to get a job, then as soon as they…

— Martin Kemp

I like actors that are good with pantomime and that can transmit a lot by their presence and attitude more than through…

— Guillermo del Toro

I don't know that many Australian actors in Los Angeles, but there are a few of us. I mean, we kind of…

— Xavier Samuel

The deepest change begins with men raising children as much as women do and women being equal actors in the world outside…

— Gloria Steinem

Actors want to work. Give them characters they want to play, or a story they want to tell, and hopefully the budget…

— Lorene Scafaria

The more and more I work with really great actors, the more it's about opening yourself up to what they bring.

— Tom Hooper

It's the media that take an isolated incident and make it a deciding factor in a presidential campaign, as opposed to the…

— Rob Lowe

I think there's no question that, even though we may not have the evidence as Richard (Perle) says, that there have been…

— Wesley Clark

The motives to actions and the inward turns of mind seem in our opinion more necessary to be known than the actions…

— Sarah Fielding

It's hard not to be enthusiastic when you like what you're doing and I love what I do. I love writing stories,…

— Stan Lee

In general, the few directors that I've worked with that I really respect have taught me a lot about who I am…

— Dave Franco

We actors are superstitious creatures. We do all the homework, and we put all of the components together, but there's always one…

— Lorraine Toussaint

If I do a scene with an actor who doesn't have much experience, I say, 'I tell you what we're going to…

— Jon Voight

Growing up in a family of actors, what's great about it is that they're very supportive and they understand what it's like…

— Chris Pine

There's a personal me, there's an actor me and there's a star me.

— Shahrukh Khan

I don't really have any limitations for what I want to do, as an actor.

— Jason Momoa

I admire a lot of actors, but I don't covet people's careers.

— Jesse Spencer

He's hard-core, but I think he's actually more of an actor.

— Taylor Hanson

I consider myself a blue-collar actor, just chugging away.

— Aaron Stanford

The actor's job is to divine and embody the truth, and find it.

— Paul Greengrass

Actors who are super successful are the ones who thrive on the image by creating their forte.

— Ranvir Shorey

When I told my parents, 'I'm going to be an actor,' they screamed and wept and freaked out.

— Alec Baldwin

I respond in the moment which is what makes me a good actor.

— Russell Crowe

Good actors can tell you more about your play than 1,000 hours alone at your desk.

— Stephen Karam

Inside I never said I wanted to do theatre or be an actor.

— Sebastian Bach

Your duty as an actor is to try to make it as real as possible.

— Christopher Abbott

I don't feel like a romantic lead; I guess I feel more like a character actor.

— Matthew Macfadyen

There's nothing more boring than actors talking about acting.

— James Caan

I don't know how to ground myself without the other actor present.

— Garry Shandling

I like being around actors. Imagine not liking actors.

— Sam Neill