Actors Quotes · Page 79

I didn't think I'd ever be able to do movies. That was for serious actors.

— Steve Buscemi

This is still a big barrier for me and it is for a lot of foreign actors.

— Chow Yun-Fat

As an actor, the minute you start getting real in interviews, you lose mystery.

— Shia LaBeouf

Good actors go to emotional places where nobody else wants to go.

— Arthur Penn

I like directors who have worked as actors. They know the experience.

— Gabrielle Union

I have made decisions based from purely an actor's point of view.

— Jessica Lange

Actors shouldn't be scared. Don't get scared on film.

— Kodi Smit-McPhee

It's my job as an actor to commit to the role and not - through my own inhibitions - run away.

— Nicole Kidman

[To the British actor who annoyed her by repeated references to his busy 'shedule':] I think you're full of skit.

— Dorothy Parker

As an actor, that's nerve-wracking enough [drunk and doing coke] because you have to do it at the right level.

— Ray Romano

What I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing. When…

— Alan Alda

“People never forget two things, their first love and the money they wasted watching a bad movie.”

— Amit Kalantri

I've had a lot of failures as well and rejection. As actor, it's actually mostly rejection but people think it's mostly success…

— Emma Roberts

As actors, we have to say yes to everything for a really long time. You say 'Yes' to anything you can get.

— Carrie Coon

You know, I've never been much of a method actor. I feel like, with every project I go in extremely prepared and…

— Elisha Cuthbert

I want people to feel connected to the show the minute they start watching it, and that is the reason why I…

— Sargun Mehta

I was so lucky to be working with amazing actors like Shia and Evan and James Buckley and Mads Mikkelsen and Rupert…

— Fredrik Bond

So yeah, a good director will be able to listen and hear everything, but have a confident vision of his own that…

— Christian Bale

I think a lot of actors, sometimes what happens I think is that actors finish a movie and they go, 'Oh my…

— Jonah Hill

If you think back to the moments when you've gone through the most pain in your life, or the most severe anxiety,…

— Joel Kinnaman

Why do I use the same actors in different movies? One of the things I really stress in casting is I need…

— Stephen Chow

I think it's important to keep your personal life to yourself as much as you can. It protects your sanity and you…

— Dianna Agron

I always say if you're going to do a movie about Charles de Gaulle get a Frenchman, you know. I'm not French.…

— Billy Bob Thornton

I never wanted to be a director. I came into this industry by the little door, so I never learned anything; I…

— Olivier Megaton

I feel like I'm more of a physical actor than a voice actor.

— Daniel Logan

Have you heard anything useful come out of an actor's mouth lately?

— Bruce Willis

I'm not one of these actors who's out of touch with reality, put it that way.

— Diego Klattenhoff

My whole family is very artistic - my uncles are all actors and theatre directors.

— Morena Baccarin

I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be.

— Milan Kundera

The actor needs to find out what the basic fight is in every character in every scene.

— Michael Shurtleff

I've probably had more jobs than any other actor living.

— Dick Van Patten

Film actors are, by nature, more complicated than stage actors.

— Margaret Rutherford

Never let your actors go before they are satisfied with a scene.

— Catherine Corsini

There's no such thing as a small part. There are just small actors.

— Sidney Lumet

I am more than glad to take tips from experienced actors.

— Shraddha Srinath

Of course, actors look forward to the day when they can do a big courtroom scene.

— Greg Kinnear

In the future, we'd like to support upcoming artists, people that are trying to be actors.

— Evan Spiegel

What did my parents say when I told them I wanted to be an actor? 'Be a plumber.'

— Samuel West

I think once you've allocated an actor to the role that the character will evolve slightly.

— Nathalie Emmanuel

Working with talented people and challenging myself as an actor [excites me].

— Mark Wahlberg