Actor Quotes

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When you are a character actor they trust you will go in and give them a full character and leave. — Vincent D'Onofrio
The most fun you can possibly have as an actor is to walk that line between what's real and what's interesting. — Vincent D'Onofrio
When you're a child you're able to assimilate so easily into any situation. You even start talking like the people you're around. I wasn't conscious… — Vincent D'Onofrio
What I promise to my actors, and to my director, is to give them the salary and everything they need. — Jean-Claude Van Damme
Acting is bad acting if the actor himself gets emotional in the act of making the audience cry. The object is to make the audience… — Rex Harrison
Actors often behave like children, and so we're taken for children. I want to be grown up. — Jeremy Irons
I think every American actor wants to be a movie star. But I never wanted to do stupid movies, I wanted to do films. — Kevin Kline
Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public. — Daniel Day-Lewis
A tin horn politician with the manner of a rural corn doctor and the mien of a ham actor — H. L. Mencken
Oh, man, pop singers are terrible actors. We're all bad. — Graham Parker
I like the sensibility of Australian film a lot and the crews are fantastic. Great characters, wonderful people and no line between - I think… — Barbara Hershey
I've always played the guy with the gun and the knife. That's how many actors start out, playing the bad guy. — Benicio Del Toro
I'm notorious for giving a bad interview. I'm an actor and I can't help but feel I'm boring when I'm on as myself. — Rock Hudson
I'm an actor. I hate to blow everyone's illusions. — Stephen Colbert
Essentially, I'm a small-part actor who's been lucky enough to play leading roles for most of his life. — Alec Guinness
I just would never go audition, and yet I was in very visible places where people would come looking for actors. I say I'm lazy,… — Ellen Barkin
I studied acting for 10 years before I went for an audition. I studied with Lee Strasberg and Actors Studio teachers, and went to the… — Ellen Barkin
Normal Heart' was my most transcendent moment as an actor. — Ellen Barkin
I believe you can't be an actor if you haven't had the feeling of being abandoned as a child. — Isabelle Adjani
I'm still trying to figure myself out as an actor. — Sean William Scott

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