Actors Quotes · Page 95

So many actors have sheer guts, will, and determination; they just need some preparation.

— John Ratzenberger

I wanted to shoot the sex scenes unadorned so that the actors could really live in the moment.

— Seamus McGarvey

If I'm doing my job as an actor, the audience knows everything I know about the character.

— Liev Schreiber

Most actors want to sink their teeth into amazing material.

— Emmanuelle Chriqui

Now when I get auditions, I choose to believe that I am an amazing actor.

— Rachele Brooke Smith

I wanted to be an actor since I was nine years old.

— Ewan McGregor

My performance is totally dependent on what the other actors are doing.

— Stellan Skarsgard

People don't want their actors acting like musicians.

— Josh Homme

Most actors are either a shower of bloody scruffs or think they should dress like Hamlet off stage.

— Martin Freeman

"I've never see you do something like this before and I'd love to see you try." For a young actor, that's about…

— Dan Stevens

As an actor, it's your job to find the way to play a character. I think you can latch on to some…

— Justin Timberlake

It's really weird to be in more than one franchise because an actor's life is so nomadic, and so it's a real…

— John Cho

The thing about romance and romantic movies is that they can be somewhat melodramatic. For a lot of actors, there's a certain…

— David Lyons

“ Morris Weissman [on the phone, discussing casting for his movie]: "What about Claudette Colbert? She's British, isn't she? She sounds British.…

— Julian Fellowes

There's a lot of us idiot actors that get tattoos and they cover them with makeup when you do a film.

— Anonymous

There are two kinds of actors: those with one job too few, who have to take every one that comes along, and…

— Peter Stone

For me [being a kid actor], it's a bit like when you see your mom's friends, and they're like, "I remember when…

— Mara Wilson

Behind my work was ambition, behind my love was personality, behind my purity was fear, behind my guidance the thirst for power.…

— Swami Vivekananda

The first part of my life was to be an actor and maybe have some success at that. Then [it was time]…

— Michael J. Fox

Having seen Justin's work on Bleak House, I knew that he'd be incredibly well prepared and interesting stylistically for this and that…

— Eric Bana

Elizabeth Taylor is pre-feminist woman. This is the source of her continuing greatness and relevance. She wields the sexual power that feminism…

— Camille Paglia

Over time as an actor, your life with a project can be so short lived because you come on, you do it,…

— Maggie Siff

Sometimes you read a script, and it's like, 'You'll improv, and this is just a blueprint of what the scene could be,'…

— Paul Rudd

Movie acting is about covering the machinery. Stage acting is about exposing the machinery. In cinema, you should think the actor is…

— Michael Caine

In the 60s, if you wanted to be an actor, you couldn't do just one thing.

— Barry Bostwick

Unlike a lot of actors, my father encouraged all his kids to go into show business.

— Jeff Bridges

As actors we're supposed to be our character's advocate.

— Anna Chlumsky

We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold.

— Milan Kundera

I feel 'Tum Bin' is a franchise where fresh actors are appreciated.

— Anubhav Sinha

Personally, I wouldn't advise a gay leading man-type actor to come out.

— Richard Chamberlain

When I do a political movie, I do a political movie.

— Antonio Banderas

It was one of those plays in which all of the actors unfortunately enunciated very clearly.

— Robert Benchley

I always think that I would have become an actor if I hadn't been a soccer player.

— Pele

If you held a pistol at my head, I couldn't tell you who they're going to vote for Best Actor.

— Michael Caine

Actors don't have to be linked in real life for the chemistry to be translated on screen.

— Kriti Sanon

It's time for a trans hero in a mainstream comic.

— Gail Simone

Actors talking about themselves. Nothing better!

— Megan Mullally

I have a lot of respect for actors who do comedy. They do it naturally.

— Mahira Khan

I have worked with the best of actors and directors.

— Shefali Shah

If I work with a bad actor, my reaction is to immediately become worse than they are.

— Michael Caine