Actors Quote by Colin Firth

What's fascinating about acting is that you put yourself in somebody else's mind or in their shoes.

— Dermot Mulroney

Film is such a bizarre vehicle for acting. It's such a bizarre experience. I don't think you ever really get familiar with it. If…

— Liev Schreiber

If you know what it is before you even start, it's not as interesting. Central to being an actor is pretending, and the adventure…

— Willem Dafoe

The fun of directing for me, other than working with the actors, is trying to extract those ideas that you have in your head…

— Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

That's one of the really cool things about being an actor. You get to explore all different parts of yourself.

— Danielle Macdonald

I don't know if I have really made it as an actor. I don't even look at it that way.

— Naveen Andrews

There are a lot of actors who will sit here and talk to you about characters - 'He does this, and she's a really…

— Zooey Deschanel

Acting is a really strange thing to do; it's very strange.

— Parker Posey

As an actor, the only thing you have is your instinct and your imagination.

— Toby Stephens

The actor is concerned with his own bit of it, but the director's somehow trying to work the whole thing into a much bigger…

— Roland Joffe

I have only recently got interested in film, and it is a strange way of working in many ways. But actually, when it is…

— Dan Stevens

It's pretty boring, working by yourself. The scene happens in between the two of you, and then you don't know what it's going to…

— Julianne Moore