Actor Quotes
5575 Actor quotes by 2698 unique authors
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The Welsh are all actors. It's only the bad ones who become professional.
— Richard Burton
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Some people get into this business and they're so afraid to lose anything. They try to protect their position like clinging to a beachhead. These…
— Matt Damon
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So to answer your question, I'm not entirely sure how I ended up where I am today, in the sense that nobody in my family…
— Hugh Dancy
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It's incredibly moving to hear some of our greatest actors performing Shakespeare.
— Judi Dench
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Before there was any talk of a movie, people would sometimes ask me what actors I would imagine playing these characters. And the only thing…
— Michael Cunningham
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I didn't set out to make this kind of picture. It just came my way. But its been going on for me for 16 years…
— Peter Cushing
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So it's kind of nervous to be in this situation, but at the same time you look at all those actors and the work that…
— Shia LaBeouf
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The crossover wasn't happening. TV actors were TV actors, and film and stage actors were a whole different thing. And now there's just a lot…
— Christine Lahti
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I don't like to repeat myself as an actor.
— Joe Lando
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We are not the originators of the story. I think it's actually the opposite when you're an actor. You're telling somebody else's story.
— Jessica Lange
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It's developing a relationship with actors that makes it work.
— Richard Donner
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I think all those actors from that generation, like Bogart - they were wonderful actors. They didn't act. They just came on and they did…
— Anthony Hopkins
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The thing is, the studio then forget that you're an actor and that you can do other things, and so since they pay you for…
— Charles S. Dutton
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Seems to me that this business, for actors anyway, is not so much about whether or not you do good work. It's about whether or…
— Hugh Laurie
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It's certainly more interesting for me as an actor, but I think it's also more interesting for the audience to see three-dimensional characters, rather than…
— Nicholas Lea
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I've grown tremendously as an actor by being there. It is comic writing the likes of which I don't know that I'll ever see again…
— Matt LeBlanc
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I wasn't an actor. They they take the externals. Here I was, a kid thrown into Hollywood with a brand-new name, starring in motion pictures.
— Tab Hunter
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Yes, he wanted me to do Funny Games before, which I didn't want to do because the film was very theoretical - the way people…
— Isabelle Huppert
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If you're a kid who's not necessarily attractive, and you don't have money, and you're not hip and cool, chances are you're not going to…
— Jim McKay
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That's one of the reasons I wanted to be an actor, to be like them. And there they were at my table, all talking about…
— Gavin MacLeod
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You know, there was not much wire work for any of us actors to do because the extent of what they did was so huge.…
— Julian McMahon
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I had to think ahead. How much would I really enjoy committing five or seven years to working on this? When you're an unemployed actor…
— Gerald McRaney
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No matter what happens, we couldn't let people say Asian-American actors can't act.
— Unknown Author
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I didn't feel like going any further in this scene with the boy. He was not a professional actor, and if I had pushed the…
— Louis Malle
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For a child actor, it's a matter of listening, reacting, and being able to put yourself in a new place without being scared.
— Jena Malone
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