Actors Quotes · Page 9

Professional 'actors' tend to overact.

— Samuthirakani

Im a character actor at heart.

— Shuler Hensley

A lot of people don't like child actors.

— Peter Billingsley

Actors are a peculiar breed.

— Tituss Burgess

I'm just an actor, that's nothing special.

— Frankie Muniz

Both my parents are actors.

— Alice Eve

Dominic West is one of the greatest actors.

— Lexi Alexander

I was dissatisfied just being an actor.

— Stanley Tucci

Somewhere in the '60s, actors became wimps and basket-case psychotics.

— Paul Morrissey

[There's] nothing special about an actor's imagination, except that he uses it a lot.

— Ian Mckellen

Actors have far fewer choices than the public thinks they do.

— Powers Boothe

Actors are merely the medium through which a story happens.

— Ian Mckellen

Hamlet has been played by 5,000 actors, no wonder he is crazy.

— H. L. Mencken

I'm not in the loop; I don't know any actors, really, just the ones I work with.

— Denzel Washington

As an actor you have to wait for someone to cast you, so you're relying on the business.

— Mia Wasikowska

I haven't done any training. I come from a family of actors, but I haven't done any training.

— Eleanor Tomlinson

Living in somebody else's pain for an actor man, it's actually nice when you get to feel that kind of emotion. That's…

— Miles Teller

For me, as an actor, one of the biggest fears on a TV show is getting stuck in something where you end…

— Tyler Hoechlin

I'm an actor. Whether I'm on stage, in front of a camera or a microphone, what I do is the same -…

— Nolan North

I'm such a fan of actors, and also enjoy watching them work, so that I can help their acting in any way…

— Dito Montiel

It doesn't matter what people think about you, so long as they get the play through your performance. Only a few not…

— Prunella Scales

Actors are pretending for you, but they're not lying. They are not putting on a guise instead of themselves. They are finding…

— Mike Mills

Your primary tools, as an actor, are observation and imagination. You can pretty much get everything you need from that, and you…

— Stephen Lang

I fell in love with film. I didn't start out to be a film actor. I wanted to be a theater actor.

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

People always want to ask me about my dad. Which I get because he's a phenomenal actor, and that's for the world,…

— Domhnall Gleeson

There are not many things in my life I can be absolutely proud of or certain I got right, but one of…

— Ian Mckellen

But writers INVITE ghosts, maybe; along with actors and artists, they are the only totally accepted mediums of our society. They make…

— Stephen King

You never stop thinking about technique, but really, the reason we're actors is because of the sheer joy of those few moments…

— Caitlin Fitzgerald

I share with a lot of people who have seen The Green film at gay film festivals when you are the only…

— Paul Marcarelli

I'm Irish and very proud of being Irish, but as an actor, your extraction should be secondary, really. You should be able…

— Cillian Murphy

And, Bruce and I are pretty close as well. We're both from Texas and we both understand each other. When I'm having…

— Angie Harmon

It's important for a director to provide as much information, especially when we're working with things that we have to conceive out…

— Zoe Saldana

Some actors retire, and some don't.

— David Jason

Actors can't retire. What would they do?

— Larry Hagman

We actors are an especially superstitious lot.

— Jeff Perry

I'm not an instinctive actor.

— John Thaw

I'm an actor - I want to be known for that.

— Max Beesley

As an actor, you learn, every time you work.

— Mike Colter

“All actors are born comedians at heart.”

— Mwanandeke Kindembo

I don't admire actors so much, actually.

— Sobhita Dhulipala