Actor Quotes

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An actor can remember his briefest notice well into senescence and long after he has forgotten his phone number and where he lives. — Jean Kerr
I'm into being a dad, that's where my focus is most of the time. I'm an actor that's my job, but it's not my life.… — Paul Walker
Most actors spend a lot of time training themselves to be an actor. And I kind of didn't do that. I just started doin' it… — David Carradine
We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. — Milan Kundera
I really have no ulterior motive in taking on certain roles. I have no larger issue that I really want to show people. I'm an… — Sally Field
Actors today go into TV, which I don't consider has a lot to do with acting. — Lauren Bacall
I came from a generation of actors for whom TV was taboo. — Alicia Silverstone
Whether it is the cavemen in the caves thousands of years ago, Shakespeare plays, television, movies and books, stories and characters take us on a… — Mark Burnett
I don't think I know a Scientologist except when I see one or two of their actors on the Hollywood screen. — Jerry Falwell
The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage. — Ethel Barrymore
I'm not a wealthy person because I was never a star. I was a working actor and a supporting actor. — Ed Begley, Jr.
I've been a very lucky actor. — Bob Newhart
The only thing I have never done is a Broadway play. I'm not sure I have the discipline necessary to do a Broadway play. I… — Bob Newhart
My ego's not the kind that says, 'I want to be an actor and be accepted as that. — Joe Namath
I was an actor before becoming a comedian. — Shelley Berman
When you're working on a film, it's almost like photographing paintings at a museum. You're photographing somebody else's world. I just try and interpret it… — Mary Ellen Mark
If there is something magic about the collaborations I have with actors it's because I put the character first. — Quentin Tarantino
I think every actor wants to be an FBI or cop at one point. — Aaron Eckhart
I would love to get great performances from actors as a director, because that's what I'm always looking for, a director that's going to help… — Aaron Eckhart
Some movies I see today have the most dramatic plot points but the actors are not playing them dramatically. — Aaron Eckhart

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