To be a good actor, you have to be very smart. But to be a great actor, you also have to have… — Lena Olin Copy Share Image
I've been training as an actor for six years. Nobody goes to acting school for six years. I mean, the college course… — LL Cool J Copy Share Image
When I moved to New York City in 1965, I wanted to be in theater. I was following my Ethel Barrymore dream.… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
People who call themselves actors and can't ever get work; they do need to get another profession. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am a director's actor. I love the environment of the set, I want to be there and I try to understand… — Jisshu Sengupta Copy Share Image
The play is done; the curtain drops, Slow falling to the prompter's bell A moment yet the actor stops And looks around… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Not many people know that I was one of the first few Indian actors to do a television show. I did the… — Sonali Bendre Copy Share Image
I'm looking into a different actor's eyes every couple days, and I'm learning so much just to see the different processes people… — Oren Moverman Copy Share Image
What's fun is watching actors of that calibre bring them to life. It's incredible. Christian Bale spent a day with the character… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
You have to get beyond your own precious inner experiences. The actor cannot afford to look only to his own life for… — Stella Adler Copy Share Image
I never make suggestions. I really don't. I know a lot of actors who get a part and then they dissect it… — Naomie Harris Copy Share Image
We actors are fortunate people, getting paid to do what we love - it's like getting paid to eat cake! There isn't… — Sriti Jha Copy Share Image
When you have to cast movies from a producer's standpoint - when you've been on the other side of casting sessions -… — Max Minghella Copy Share Image
Some actors are frightened and concentrating so hard on their own performance, you don't feel that anything you do makes any difference.… — Mark Rylance Copy Share Image
When it comes to thinking about how a character talks, there are literary and language considerations. For actors to be able to… — Mike Leigh Copy Share Image
I don't have any conscious memory of wanting to be an actor, but early on, there was something in my makeup that… — Martin Sheen Copy Share Image
I am an actor, I get really happy when people find me good looking but I am the happiest when people comment… — Karan Wahi Copy Share Image
If you are playing a character in a period drama or biopic, it gets tough to turn yourself into someone else. — Jackky Bhagnani Copy Share Image
I trained as an actor in London and went to Mountview Conservatory, as it was called then, and lived there for eleven… — Josh Dallas Copy Share Image
So what this is is us, our personalities refined down on to a stage performance. In other words, the way we play… — Alice Cooper Copy Share Image
Whenever an actor was going to die, I tried to help them understand not to take it personally. It wasn't about them.… — Wendell Pierce Copy Share Image
I love directing Shakespeare on film. It's fantastic that the actors would do exactly the same thing and be true to their… — Julie Taymor Copy Share Image
A huge part of my life as an actor has revolved around fashion and beauty - just by default. It's such a… — Skyler Samuels Copy Share Image
We started out as actors. When we were coming out of high school, we didn't want to be struggling actors, and -… — Jonathan Scott Copy Share Image
In opera, everyone's watching from a fixed viewpoint, and that really challenges you. Lighting, the sets, stage groupings, the music-but doesn't relate… — Bruce Beresford Copy Share Image
It is natural for the national audience to recognize me as an actor through 'Kahaani' because the film is in Hindi and… — Saswata Chatterjee Copy Share Image
The biggest challenge to being an actor is, when you're not working, just being unemployed: the downtime and not having anything to… — Alden Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to… — Gary Oldman Copy Share Image
I knew in my heart I wanted to do musical theater professionally. I just didn't know how to go about it or… — Vincent Rodriguez III Copy Share Image
Work is good when people are responsible, and in low-budget movies a lot of the actors don't want to be there. They're… — Sean Young Copy Share Image
“The Players are gentlemen,” he’d intoned, “pretending to be actors. The Lambs are actors, pretending to be gentlemen. And the Friars—the Friars… — Lawrence Block Copy Share Image
When you're a young actor, there's this pressure to rush. But I hope to be doing this into my sixties and seventies,… — Felicity Jones Copy Share Image
It's fun to look at people that are so good at acting that aren't actors, like David Bowie creating a mystique about… — Val Kilmer Copy Share Image
I think no actor should be ever satisfied because there is always something new to do, something fresh to get challenged by. — Amitabh Bachchan Copy Share Image
It was an outdoor Shakespeare theater that I grew up at. That feels like home, and the place I'm always trying to… — Hamish Linklater Copy Share Image
It's important to say that actors can't act alone, it's impossible. What we have to do is support each other. — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
When an actor comes completely locked in to what a character should be, that's the hardest thing to undo. — Kelly Reichardt Copy Share Image
I was a housepainter and a landscape nursery man, and all these various odd jobs I had, and started doing community theater. — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
Sometimes surprising an actor in a good way like that can actually create a response you're not expecting. — David Nutter Copy Share Image
An actor is at his best a kind of unfrocked priest who, for an hour or two, can call on heaven and… — Alec Guinness Copy Share Image
