Actors Quotes · Page 90

As an actor, all you want to do is to work and do good work.

— Michelle Fairley

I've had some great times with actresses, but that's in a movie.

— Clive Owen

I play a guy who is 40. And I am a very good actor, because I'm 41.

— Matthew Perry

I think the worst thing that can happen to a good actor is fame.

— Vera Farmiga

Television allowed me to kick the Hollywood habit of typing an actor in certain roles.

— Harry Morgan

I still have the actor's disease. I always think I'll never get another job.

— Roddy McDowall

Every actor who has done an action film has a little tiny scar somewhere from that.

— Maggie Grace

England is a mecca for actors who want to do the classics.

— Sam Wanamaker

Once asked if he felt wearied by the constant onslaught of autograph seekers, actor Gregory Peck replied that he would be more…

— Christopher Lee

Improv as an actor makes you present in the moment. You listen, you're attentive. You're not acting so much as reacting, which…

— Nathan Fillion

Many people with a wild desire to act prove failures on the stage, their inclinations are greater than their powers. Rarely is…

— Alec-Tweedie

It's frustrating sometimes for actors because you slam it out and you have a great time, you think it's funny, and then…

— Patrick Wilson

I think that the process of figuring out what kind of leader I wanted to be was challenging, because as an actor,…

— Gwyneth Paltrow

Also a good director and good dialogue. That's very important because you're bringing the words to life. So it's very important for…

— Julia Garner

An inebriated elderly gentleman in the last depths of shabbiness... played the calm and virtuous old men.

— Charles Dickens

I'm an actor. I've always been an actor. I've always approached all my comedy as an actor. I don't really care about…

— Brett Gelman

[There is] type [of actors ]a true thespian who doesn't give a flying rat's ass what it is as long as it's…

— Michelle Rodriguez

To be honest, I would have to say that there was a certain burden in working with Arnold, a big action star.…

— Kim Jee-woon

The truth is that filmmaking is not really an actor's medium; it's really a director's medium, so all I can really control…

— John C. Reilly

When a young woman tells me that she wants to become and actor, I say, 'No, be a writer. Or go to…

— Halle Berry

Hopping around time in a non-linear storytelling fashion (on 'Lost') allows you to bring back characters who are dead and, in some…

— Damon Lindelof

Actors are observers. They're trying to have an understanding of human sensibility. And how do you have that accurate observation if you…

— Hayden Christensen

You don't need great actors to do a 3D picture. All of this condescending stuff that they put out? "Oh, we will…

— William Friedkin

I can't actually read interviews with thesps now because they're almost always fantastically predictable, the men especially. Actors are forever stressing their…

— Peter York

Unluckily actors don't get much free time, they are demanded every time and everywhere.

— Amaal Mallik

It's a lot easier, I think, to be an actor in a movie than to spin a joke on a sitcom.

— Nicole Sullivan

Frankie [Avalon] ... was interested in eating everything so it didn't eat him first.

— Rona Barrett

I'm very much a jobbing actor who's still trying to find a place to rent down the road.

— Anonymous

There's an impression that actors make a lot of choices. I just take what's there.

— Christopher Walken

The process of doing plays will make you an actor.

— Stephen Collins

As an actor, I've been drawn to those characters that are further away from who I may be.

— Kurt Sutter

One of the wonderful things about being an actor is that every director is different.

— Jane Fonda

There are two types of actors: those who say they want to be famous and those who are liars.

— Kevin Bacon

When you're working with really good actors, it raises your own game and you get better.

— Richard Dormer

In my experience, it's usually up to the actor how a character is portrayed.

— Richard Dreyfuss

A lot of actors and actresses pull from past experiences.

— Maisie Williams

There's a fine line between the Method actor and the schizophrenic.

— Nicolas Cage

If there is one thing I object to, its actors talking about how tough their jobs are.

— Kevin Spacey

Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.

— Frances McDormand

We should create an award here in our country. Hollywood actors should crave to get that.

— Manoj Kumar