Actors Quote by Gary Oldman

Acting is not that far from mental disease: An actor works on splitting his character into others. It is like a kind of schizophrenia.

— Vittorio Gassman

I think you have to be schizoid three different ways to be an actor ... You have to be a human being. Then you…

— George C. Scott

I think playing somebody who's schizophrenic is such a lesson as an actor. It gets you totally out of your comfort zone, because you…

— Matt Dillon

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

My view of actors is that basically they're all harmless lunatics who'd be on the psychiatrist's couch, except that we get this sort of…

— Michael Caine

Actors who say they can dive inside a character are either schizophrenic or lying.

— Bruce Campbell

My view of actors is that basically they're all harmless lunatics who'd be on the psychiatrist's couch.

— Michael Caine

There seem to be two sorts of actors. Some people play themselves marvellously, and others, like me, rather like to become someone else.

— Eileen Atkins

I've joked that I would have either become schizophrenic or an actress, but as an actress you can do both.

— Carla Gugino

I think a reason why actors get reputations for being crazy and neurotic is because your life task is constantly in flux.

— Ari Graynor

I don't suffer from what I believe a lot of actors suffer from, in that they have to do certain things to be an…

— Keith Allen

Where I come from, you don't just say, 'Oh, I'm going to become an actor.' Talk like that and they think you're crazy.

— Ellen Pompeo