Actors Quote by Al Pacino

As an actor, you're a color of paint on someone else's palette. But as a director, it's your canvas and you make the painting…

— Denzel Washington

I think I'm a much better painter than an actor.

— Sylvester Stallone

An actor should take lessons from a painter and a sculptor.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

— Mary Astor

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

— Constantin Stanislavski

An artist can go paint, and a writer can go write, but an actor needs to get hired, needs somebody to say, 'Here, come…

— John Glover

As a painter you're responsible yourself, 100 percent. In film, you have the editor, the director, the other actors. It has the advantage of…

— Sylvia Kristel

The lovely thing about being an actor is being anonymous, it's never having to explain yourself. And that's what I find interesting about actors…

— Matthew Macfadyen

A painter has his brushes, a musician his instrument and as an actor you use your body.

— Stacy Martin

An actor is an actor is an actor. The less personality an actor has off stage the better. A blank canvas on which to…

— Arthur Lowe

The way an actor is trained doesn't ultimately have much bearing on my work. I'm interested in the actor as artist.

— Mike Leigh

Actors work for many reasons. Sometimes you do it because the material is good. Sometimes you do it because the paycheck is good. We…

— Michael Cudlitz