Actors Quotes

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As an actor, what's interesting is what's hidden away beneath the surface. You want to be like a duck on a pond - very calm… — Alexander Skarsgard
This was basically the first time I got to act in action scenes, with things blowing up all around me. It sounds corny, but I… — Lukas Haas
This is a dream come true. To wake up in a place that I own and go to work in New York City as an… — Christopher Meloni
The most important thing to do as an artist is to get out of your comfort zone and work with different people: people who can't… — Katie Noonan
Only a madman or an actor would want to be President of the United States. — Mick Jagger
The job is nothing but a twenty-ring circus-with a whole lot of bad actors. — Herbert Hoover
My sensitivity level is high, but I think that's one of my assets as an actor. — John Turturro
People sometimes forget how important #‎ Broadway is as a place for young actors to grow. — Hunter Parrish
I truly believe that the job of an actor and the drive of an actor is simulating the internal journey in life which is to… — Hugh Jackman
An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be. — Maggie Smith
Every animator is really an actor performing in slow motion, living the character a drawing at a time. — John Lasseter
I never dreamed of being an actor, but I'm beginning to love it more and more because I like challenging myself. When I feel like… — Kristin Kreuk
I don't know what its like for most actors, but really clearly for myself acting has always been the fulfillment of personal fantasies. It isn't… — Richard Dreyfuss
The thing about anything in life is you have to get ready for it. Study, learn and in terms of acting, there's a lot to… — Jacqueline Bisset
Trust...trust your fellow actors to support you; trust them to come through if you lay something heavy on them; trust yourself. — Del Close
For me, film-making is combining images and sounds of real things in an order that makes them effective. What I disapprove of is photographing things… — Robert Bresson
All human beings are Actors (they act!) and Spectators (they observe!). — Augusto Boal
When an actor is completely absorbed by some profoundly moving objective so that he throws his whole being passionately into its execution, he reaches a… — Constantin Stanislavski
Some of these guys... I've worked with Ice Cube, I think he's an immensely talented rapper and actor. — Anthony Anderson
Well, yes, as I was a rather bad actor then and I wasn't making enough money, I thought, to make enough money to not make… — Val Guest
The better the actor, the more stupid he is. — Truman Capote
You draw on your own childhood every time you tee it up as an actor. — Ron Perlman
A lot of directors are great and they are fine but you know I think that Harry really takes a special point to really engage… — Will Estes
It's kind of interesting to be a director who is all of a sudden being an actor playing an agent. This is my whole world! — Mark Rydell
Well, I think that there is a connection between being a lawyer and a doctor and an actor. They kind of, in some ways, have… — Jeffrey Jones

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