Actors Quotes · Page 82

As an actor you're used to being the focus of attention.

— Yasmine Bleeth

There's a personal side to me of challenges as an actor that I like to take on myself.

— Ray Liotta

Uta Hagen would say, there's the representational actor and the presentational actor.

— Jake Gyllenhaal

Actors between plays are like ghosts looking for bodies to inhabit.

— Gail Godwin

At the end of the day, if you are an actor, you definitely know that you're just work-for-hire.

— Malik Yoba

My biggest fear as an actor is being involved in something mediocre, or being mediocre myself.

— Jonathan Brandis

I'm best known as a stand-up comedian, but I'm a good actor in the right role.

— Marcus Brigstocke

My experience has been that actors always want to be directed.

— John Wells

Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.

— Thornton Wilder

As a movie-goer, I really like to watch all different kinds of movies and, as an actor, I always feel like I…

— Luke Wilson

You cant be a casual observer of something humorous - you have to engage, you have to find it funny for the…

— Brendan Coyle

I also sort of find the idea that not only do actors want to please when they're onstage, I find actors really…

— Jeffrey Combs

Actors are accustomed to doing exactly what the director or writer requests us to do, and rarely get involved in that part…

— Catherine McCormack

I understand why the gay community wants to embrace actors who are out. People want to be represented.

— Cheyenne Jackson

As an actor, when you encounter a psychopathic personality, you naturally want to make him 'bigger than life,' as the Americans say.

— Antonio Banderas

From being a writer of plays, it was not that surprising that somebody thought of giving me a job as an actor.…

— Wallace Shawn

I think it's the same to be an actress anywhere because the profession is about attitudes towards events - it is a…

— Zhou Xun

It is in the irony of things that the theatre should be the most dangerous place for the actor. But, then, after…

— Minnie Maddern Fiske

I really think music and movement - dance, you know - and literature inform my visuals. I think film is also based…

— Christopher Doyle

I'd been an actor my whole life, since I was a kid. And then, I quit for awhile and went to university.…

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

At the moment, my trajectory isn't to think about acting. I'm absolutely devoted to The Imaginarium, our projects and directing. And watching…

— Andy Serkis

The best thing as an actor, the best tool you have is your imagination. That you kind of take things that have…

— Vince Vaughn

I know from my own experience that great films and great actors can have a really big influence on you. There is…

— Sally Hawkins

I love playing all kinds of roles. I hope it doesn’t sound too pretentious, but I always feel human nature is like…

— Tom Hiddleston

Paul Newman is simple not an actor and possibly not even alive.

— Dwight Macdonald

I have a lot of repression. So repression is what I make movies about.

— Ang Lee

I don't think there have been many alien movies where the actors have actually seen the aliens.

— Joel Kinnaman

I've always considered myself an actor, but I wasn't making a living as an actor.

— Alan Arkin

Actors don't like to read what they're supposed to do.

— Ewan McGregor

Actors don't request what scenes to be written in. That's just not how it works.

— Nicholas Gonzalez

“Hadn't the actors acted of their own volition?”

— Anthony Doerr

Directing has only increased my admiration and respect for what it is that actors do.

— Eric Stoltz

Actors are like race horses. They like to run - they don't like to be hanging about.

— Adrian Dunbar

If I wasn't an actor, I would probably be writing or doing something with psychology.

— Maddie Hasson

One of the things you can do as an actor, is compensate for the things you can't do in life.

— Dustin Hoffman

I have never ever hung out with actors and comedians. I can't stand it.

— Keith Allen

Good actors can make a huge difference to a scene that might sound or read flat.

— Karthik Subbaraj

Among the actors, I think my name has been misused the maximum number of times in the industry.

— Riya Sen

I'm an actor. I try to play a character in a really cool story, the very best I can.

— Matthew Fox

My favourite actors have always been the character actors.

— Matthew Gray Gubler