Actors Quotes

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When on the set of a film, you have to play natural for entire scenes in a very unnatural environment. You have to express emotions… — Helena Christensen
I shoot people in a way that makes the audience feel equal to them. And it's hard to express and it's hard to execute but… — Michel Gondry
I didn't understand how you could be an actor if you didn't also study philosophy and study political science, astronomy. And also just go out… — Brit Marling
To do a portrait today, I decide how close I can get to my subject. First, of course, mentally or intellectually, then in the viewfinder.… — Victor Skrebneski
Polly Findlay showed real insight and imagination in her production of my translation of Seneca's Thyestes at the Arcola. I enjoyed her use of the… — Caryl Churchill
Sightseeing was ... based on imaginative invention, like rehearsing your own play in stage sets from which all the actors had fled. — Paul Theroux
We salute her for a life of remarkable achievements as an actor, as a diplomat, and most importantly as our beloved mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and… — Shirley Temple
It is my hypothesis that the fundamental source of conflict in this new [post-Cold-War] world will not be primarily ideological or primarily economic. The great… — Samuel P. Huntington
I'm a frustrated actor. My ... goal is to beat Alfred Hitchcock in the number of cameos. I'm going to try to break his record. — Stan Lee
It's not my goal to be a famous actor — Gavin DeGraw
I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be. — Milan Kundera
I love involving actors at all levels - and they have to know that I want to hear their contributions, with dialogue, with story suggestions,… — Lasse Hallstrom
If you're not good looking, you're considered a good actor, you know what I mean? — Sonam Kapoor
Life actors never rehearse and need no script. A life actor uses only what is available, nothing more, nothing less. — Abbie Hoffman
Such is an actor's life. We must ride the waves of every film, barfing occasionally, yet maintain our dignity, even as the bulk of our… — Bruce Campbell
Actors who say they can dive inside a character are either schizophrenic or lying. — Bruce Campbell
It's definitely nerve-racking to be the center of attention. I'm not the kind of an actor that just craves attention 24-7 - but it's part… — Jon Hamm
I was very disappointed that Denzel didn't win Best Actor for The Hurricane because I thought he deserved it. — Norman Jewison
I believe that our world needs an instrument of global action as never before in history. I believe that the United Nations is the instrument… — Kofi Annan
You know the actor John Garfield? In one movie he walked up to this train station, the ticket booth, and the guy says, 'Yes, where… — Wayne Shorter
If you're going to be born ugly and be an actor - the least they can do is let you play Lincoln. — Sam Waterston
It can be very intense being an actor; it can be quite a small world. Then you speak to your friend who is a scientist… — Felicity Jones
So from an actor's perspective, you really have no idea how you're acting. — Ice T
I wanted to be like an actor or a comedian for a little while, because I was always wanting to make people laugh, and being… — Gemma Ward
I can't think of another actor who acquired stardom so quickly, who held it for such a short time, and then kept it for such… — Leonard Maltin

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