Actors Quotes · Page 81

As an actor, you use the things from yourself that you can apply to the character.

— Robert De Niro

I have trouble sometimes watching actors - even when they do a great job - with an accent.

— Ellen Page

As an actor, I still have to remind myself of daring to let go and not to repeat myself.

— Alicia Vikander

Playing a Black trans character on a TV show is a story that needs to be told.

— Brian Michael Smith

I'm an actor, I'm not a comedian, I never was a comedian.

— Jonah Hill

I’m a comedian who got into movies, so I don’t really think of myself as an actor.

— Eddie Murphy

I feel that I have grown so much as an actor being on 'Homeland.

— Morena Baccarin

It's a difficult thing as an actor not to repeat one's self.

— Michael Fassbender

With time, I am getting to work with actors who are known for their work. I am liking that, enjoying every bit,…

— Kriti Kharbanda

It's destiny that pushed me towards showbiz. I wanted to start off as a technician, but out of compulsion, I became an…

— Pawan Kalyan

C'mon, we're actors. We love the attention. We love the applause. We sure don't like to be rejected.

— Rita Moreno

My favorite actors are Jim Carrey and Chris Farley, Tom Hanks, Robin Williams. Robin Williams is the best - to be able…

— Evan Peters

There's no shame in stealing - any actor who says he doesn't is lying. You steal from everything.

— Benedict Cumberbatch

Sometimes you can just have a dialogue with an actor beforehand and shape the performance then, but other actors need more guidance…

— Sam Levinson

Actors have become much more savvy about the nature of television celebrity these days. We were not. The kind of celebrity culture…

— John Nettles

It's not easy making money as an actor. It's just not an easy thing to do. There's so many that want to…

— Kurt Russell

Normally, filmmakers would just write a script and cast people to act as certain characters in the story. But in my way…

— Wong Kar-wai

I'm never in Hollywood! I'm a theatre actor that lives in New York. I'm very seldom in Los Angeles. I don't dislike…

— Willem Dafoe

I consider myself as a character actor. I like the sports analogy, which I do all the time; I'm an avid sports…

— Clint Howard

I really like the way that Jack Nicholson [acts] in particular works. I like the fact that he takes enormous risks. He's…

— Tim Curry

We knew, very early on, that we had to be very, very clear that directors need to speak to actors and actresses…

— Michael Sheen

Every day on the set, things change. You move things around. The actors are creating the roles and bringing them to life,…

— Summer Glau

I just think it's really funny and entertaining. I mean, I don't necessarily take them really seriously - I don't even think…

— Liv Tyler

In the first place, I'm pretty thorough about whom I choose. I instinctively look for the kind of actor who is going…

— Mike Leigh

I think all actors have a sadomasochistic streak, because acting is kind of brutal, you know.

— Michelle Pfeiffer

[ Chadwick Boseman] is a remarkable actor, and he's a remarkable person.

— Harrison Ford

Whence are we, and why are we? Of what scene The actors or spectators?

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

I don't pay attention to what other actors are doing, or what their PRs are doing.

— Mallika Sherawat

It is about time that TV actors were paid as well as film stars.

— Mona Singh

I certainly don't approve of American actors who go to Europe and run down Hollywood.

— Van Heflin

I'm forever testing myself. As a person and as an actor, I have no sense of competition.

— Michael Caine

There isn't a switch that I turn on. I'm an actor. This is what I do.

— Anthony Anderson

I am the only actor who ever had to lose weight to play Orson Welles.

— Christian McKay

I'm an actor. I hate to blow everyone's illusions.

— Stephen Colbert

British actors are pretty good, by and large, at turning on at 'action' and off at 'cut.'

— James Purefoy

FDR used to say, 'You and I are the two best actors in America'.

— Orson Welles

Do we have good writers, producers and actors in the U.K.? Yes we do.

— Eric Fellner

It is easier to get an actor to be a cowboy than to get a cowboy to be an actor.

— John Ford

Method actors are absolutely terrible. They want to direct themselves, and it's a disaster.

— Michelangelo Antonioni

My father was an actor, and we have the most important theatre company in Montreal.

— Gilles Duceppe