Actor Quotes

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I try not to have actors in mind when I write because the tendency then is to be influenced by either their last performance or… — Christopher Nolan
I really believe that, as an actor, you should be constantly studying other people, and celebrity had the absolute opposite effect on me. It made… — David Schwimmer
People who want to be a star get their teeth capped. People who want to be an actor get to work. — Gary Ross
I trained as a stage actor and was given a lot of technical tools to play with. — Alan Tudyk
As a director/writer/producer, all you ever want is to work with actors who make you look better, who make the work you do seem as… — J. J. Abrams
One of the great things about being an actor is that you have a completely different challenge every few months. — James Purefoy
I really do want to just be able to sit in the corner of the pub with my friends... to just be an actor and… — James Purefoy
As an actor you have to get used to receiving gentle little pies in the face. — James Purefoy
I think the business affairs people at the studios get some kind of perverse satisfaction in finding the worst hotels for actors to stay in. — James Purefoy
I hate the stereotype of the pitfalls of the child actor. There are so many amazing examples - Natalie Portman, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jodie Foster, Drew… — Jamie Bell
As far back as I can remember, these are the first movies, the Universal horror movies where I knew the title of the film and… — Benicio Del Toro
I rarely meet other young actors. — Mia Wasikowska
When the creator of the show is gone, the actors end up being the people who have been there the longest. — Lauren Graham
Being an actor, the less people know about my personal life, the more open-minded they can be about each role I play. — Sean Hayes
You know, my point in being an actor is to get people to believe that this is not about me, but something else. — Jim Caviezel
My whole thing is I just always wanted to be a working actor and I just wanted to stop waiting tables. — Rainn Wilson
To a certain extent I suppose all actors are big kids. — Dominic Cooper
Nobody should expect an actor to have these wonderful ideas and concepts about the world: they pretend to be other people for a living. — Dominic Cooper
One of the exciting and enjoyable aspects of acting is being in the environment with another actor. — Dominic Cooper
We want to pigeonhole things and people, but it is absurd to regard me just as a furry wig-and-britches actor. — Dominic Cooper

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