Theatre Quotes · Page 217

I just love the process of working with other actors,

— John Cusack

They're a very strange lot actors, very strange people.

— Ben Kingsley

I was amazed by the kind of preparation Hollywood actors do for their roles.

— Shweta Menon

I like actors who, when you see them on screen, you sense a person, not just an actor.

— Alexander Payne

“each person has his own scenario, but only a few can be a good actor for his life scenarios”

— Lugas Anegah

David Cronenberg knows what we actors do as artists.

— William Hurt

We've had no problems with the actors, but we keep a really loose set.

— Peter Farrelly

As an actor, you always want to find a piece of who you are in every role you take on.

— Larenz Tate

Eventually I want to be a full-time mother who works occasionally - and being an actor you have that freedom.

— Carrie-Anne Moss

Most people don't think of Los Angeles as a theatre town, and that you have to go to New York to be…

— Susan Egan

If you want to deliver as an actor, you need to know the language. If you don't know what you are mouthing,…

— Raashi Khanna

I ventured into cinema after theatre because I didn't want to confine myself to just one auditorium. I wanted the whole world…

— Vijay Deverakonda

Being an actor, you go through this thing where you want to be the best, and I think, in life in general,…

— Justin Hartley

Oftentimes, actors are looked at as court jesters. They are not looked at as deep-thinking, smart people who do many other things…

— Anonymous

To my mind, the actor has this great responsability of playing another human being… it’s like taking on another person’s life and…

— Edward G. Robinson

Where every moment is about truth and I think it's a great challenge every night. That's what really drove me to wanting…

— Deborah Cox

But when you're a working actor - and that's what you keep saying in your head, how blessed you are to have…

— Christopher Meloni

You don't cast the animal, per se. You have an animal trainer who looks for several of them. That is a different…

— Ethan Coen

Culture has to be constantly on the vanguard, too. It should be educating people, as it does in Latin America: thousands of…

— Andre Vltchek

By 14, I had decided on three modest goals and repeated them often to everyone. I wanted to be a world-class filmmaker,…

— Sean Astin

As an actor, the ambition is to play interesting characters. And in the indie genre world, the budgets are low. That allows…

— A. J. Bowen

The main difference between the art of the actor and all other arts is that every other [non-performing] artist may create whenever…

— Constantin Stanislavski

In movies and TV, we tend to fall into tropes about how characters might get out of problems. But when you look…

— Matthew Weiner

People always think that I came from this dynasty of actors. But that's not true, because it was just dad. So as…

— Gustaf Skarsgard

I believe in doing roles that make me explore new terrain as an actor.

— Vatsal Sheth

Being an actor is like being a monk: you have got to be dedicated.

— David Jason

I'm not sure people even think of me as an actor at all.

— James Corden

The entire universe is a great theatre of mirrors.

— Alice Bailey

I used to do comedy during my theatre days, and I was good at that.

— Pankaj Tripathi

Guy Ritchie, he thinks going to drama school is the worst thing in the world.

— Jason Statham

I think that as actors age, the work becomes more organic to them.

— Ray Romano

People are ready to take good actors, irrespective of whether he is a TV actor or a filmstar.

— Hiten Tejwani

Off stage, Im very quiet and very reserved and kind of shy.

— Tessanne Chin

I'm not one of those actors who asks for too many favours. So when I do, people tend to listen.

— Ryan Kwanten

You can always tell an actor by the bored look in their eye whenever someone else is talking.

— Natasha Leggero

I never will believe there is such a thing as a great actor.

— Robert Mitchum

If an actor tries to understand too much, he will act in an intellectual and unnatural manner.

— Michelangelo Antonioni

I am just an actor, and this is my job. What I am doing is not extraordinary.

— Nithya Menen

I'm a director's actor; I'm a storyteller's actor.

— Michael Ironside

Generally speaking, actors are allowed NO input. Actors are dumb.

— Dirk Benedict