Actor Quote by Freida Pinto

When a doctor is performing an operation, his mind cannot be somewhere else.

— Freida Pinto

If you're going to play a brain surgeon, you just have to learn how to say the words. You don't have to go and…

— Morgan Freeman

Acting's entertainment. It's not brain surgery.

— Anthony Hopkins

With the acting, it's somebody else's brainchild, and I'm just sort of helping flesh it out. There's a special satisfaction to being the brains…

— Jack Black

When you play a doctor, you have to look like you can do it but you don't actually go and do it. It's not…

— Carrie-Anne Moss

Listen, acting is not surgery, it's entertainment. You're doing something to hopefully move people, to make them laugh, to transport them. But actors are…

— Eddie Redmayne

Let's not get too precious about it: actors are not heart surgeons or brain surgeons. We are just entertaining people.

— Malcolm McDowell

It is their job as actors to play different people. Should only a doctor play a doctor's role?

— Thiagarajan Kumararaja

In my experience, surgeons tend to need boatloads of attention.

— Ann Patchett

I hate those TV shows where characters talk about one thing, such as their patient on the operation table (let's say they're a doctor),…

— Jaclyn Moriarty

I think there's a very fine line between the type of performing that some actors do, and being in a state in your mind…

— Samantha Morton

Although surgeons know how to deal with bits of the brain, they don't really know how it works.

— James Nesbitt