Movie actors Quotes

The advice you give to young directors for sure is to go out and become some version of a successful movie actor.…

— Sean Penn

As a movie actor, once you've become known, you're observed all the time so you don't get the chance to observe anymore.…

— Clint Eastwood

I don't answer fan mail. I don't have time for that. It's like hundreds of thousands of people who think they're going…

— Bill Murray

I understand the opposite side of the camera. I have a profound respect for that. I have worked with people who, when…

— Jake Gyllenhaal

Movie actors disappear - any young person wouldn't know Cary Grant. They're going to disappear. Fifty years ago, you thought film was…

— David Hockney

When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise. His whole behavior is so shocking.

— Lauren Bacall

Instead of being a theater actor who sometimes does movies I became a movie actor who sometimes does theater.

— John Lithgow

I was always the hero with no vices, reciting practically the same lines to the leading lady. The current crop of movie…

— Ramon Novarro

Marlon Brando is the most influential movie actor of the century.

— Roger Ebert

For a long time I was embarrassed to say I was a 'B' movie actor, ... But now that I see what…

— Bruce Campbell

The actors I was most impressed with and who were influencing my taste were all movie actors, so I always wanted to…

— Gary Sinise

That's why I like old monster movie actors, because they transform into different characters or creatures.

— Tim Burton

Movie actors earn their living and learn their craft through listening and reacting.

— Michael Caine

For some reason it gives people pleasure to equate the life of certain movie actors or actresses with their actual lives.

— Woody Allen

I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.

— Lou Gehrig

Doing [a relationship comedy] with Sam [L. Jackson] was exciting. I've done a lot of comedies with a lot of comedy people.…

— Samuel L. Jackson

I was always ambitious. I always wanted to be more than I was....I always wanted to be a movie actor.

— Morgan Freeman

There's a lot of great writing, and characters, and stories being told in television nowadays. And much more than there used to…

— Keanu Reeves

A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes - but a movie actor waits.

— Mary Astor

I definitely think of myself still as a writer first, and feel like - with the lucky exception of this - any…

— Tina Fey

Stage actors look down on movie actors, movie actors look down on TV actors, and TV actors look down on... mass murderers.

— George Clooney

There are different kinds of actors, and movie actors tend to be exceedingly precise and mechanical in a way that's really admirable…

— Ana Gasteyer

Movie actors are just ordinary, mixed-up people - with agents.

— Jean Kerr

I feel the need... the need for speed.

— Tom Cruise