Actor Quotes

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I loved IRON MAN: Robert Downey Jr. has been and probably will be my favourite actor for a long timeâ€¦but IRON MAN, THE INCREDIBLE HULK,… — Grant Morrison
I suppose it is submerged realities that give to dreams their curious air of hyper-reality. But perhaps there is something else as well, something nebulous,… — W G Sebald
You must become the producer, director and actor in the unfolding story of your life. — Wayne Dyer
Tunstell, this is your Alpha speaking. Do as I tell you. You must regurgitate now. Regurgitation is an involuntary action. You cannot simply order me… — Gail Carriger
I was never educated to be an actor. I went to a regular college. It was a great thing for me because I feel that… — Vincent Price
We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing - an actor, a writer - I am a person who does things… — Stephen Fry
The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when [Holmes] became a specialist in crime. — Arthur Conan Doyle
I'd swear to God, if I were a piano player or an actor or something and all those dopes thought I was terrific, I'd hate… — J D Salinger
Nobody is the author or producer of his own life story ... somebody began it and is its subject in the twofold sense, namely, its… — Hannah Arendt
No one has ever asked an actor, 'You're playing a strong-minded manâ€¦' We assume that men are strong-minded, or have opinions. But a strong-minded woman… — Meryl Streep
[on BBC's Sherlock] It's a rare challenge, both for the audience and an actor, to take part in something with this level of intelligence and… — Benedict Cumberbatch
I donâ€™t discount a magical hand of fate. I am an actor, after all, and a Shakespearian, no less. But it canâ€™t be the ruling… — Gayle Forman
I always think that I would have become an actor if I hadn't been a soccer player. — Unknown Author
I don't possess a lot of self-confidence. I'm an actor so I simply act confident every time I hit the stage. — Arsenio Hall
The dance, just as the performance of the actor, is kinesthetic art, art of the muscle sense. The awareness of tension and relaxation within his… — Rudolf Arnheim
Comedy holds the greatest risk for an actor, and laughter is the reward. — Cary Grant
I'm happy being an actor, it's what I have always wanted to do. I'm just lucky I got to do it so early. — Charlie Hunnam
Actors should be overheard, not listened to, and the audience is 50 percent of the performance. — Shirley Booth
Competition is healthy. Competition is life. Yet most actors refuse to acknowledge this. They don't want to compete. They want to get along. And they… — Michael Shurtleff
When [actors] are talking, they are servants of the dramatist. It is what they can show the audience when they are not talking that reveals… — Cedric Hardwicke

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