Actors Quote by Ben Kingsley

Many directors try to direct things that are only going to make the actor uncomfortable. You tend to get more out of the actor…

— Neve Campbell

I'm sure there are directors who don't like to work with actors and don't know how to be sensitive to actors.

— Anton Yelchin

Unfortunately, in Hollywood, there are those directors that have some contempt for actors. We've all experienced that, in one way or another.

— Vin Diesel

As an actor, when you walk into a room to audition, you get five minutes with a casting director, who doesn't even look at…

— Mark Duplass

If you work in casting, it's sort of not cool to want to act. A lot of people think that casting directors are frustrated…

— Catherine Keener

I think actors get too comfortable. I like being uncomfortable as an actor because it keeps you alive. I don't know, I think it's…

— Peter Dinklage

As an actor, you do feel very powerless... you are at the whim of the agent who submits you for a project, and then…

— Donna Lynne Champlin

I think lots of actors are very nervous and shy. I know lots of them who are, and some who aren't of course.

— Maggie Smith

You spend enough time on set as an actor and it's great when a director was at some point an actor or understands acting.…

— Ian Somerhalder

There's a lot of directors who were actors, so they have the sensibility of an actor, which sometimes helps.

— Luke Evans

I think all actors should be made to feel somewhat uncomfortable. Because otherwise you're not learning anything or developing, and you're not pressing yourself…

— Adam Pearson

I do think that's so much a part of what being a director is - in working with actors - to really try and…

— Bill Condon