Deserve Quote by Jacques Derrida

I really do think that if you're doing your job right, you're never gonna be what the other actor was, but you can be…

— Liev Schreiber

It is very satisfying for an actor to be able to play a historical personage.

— Sonu Sood

Contrary to the popular misconception, the actor is not necessarily a specialist in imitating or portraying what he knows about other people. On the…

— Wallace Shawn

It's important for me to not historicize. I work to diffuse the issue of identity and to intensify identification. You have to lose your…

— Elia Suleiman

As an actor, you tend to draw on your human instincts and your background, what you've gone through as an individual.

— Michael Ealy

I thought he was an interesting central figure, central character, one who is definitely not your typical central character figure in a film, who's…

— Patrick Warburton

You're in a very nice position as an actor when you're portraying a piece of history that actually happened and portraying characters that actually…

— Jamie Dornan

The actor has a constant problem of personal identity.

— Cyril Cusack

Through all permutations and youthful poetry, I came to believe that the film actor was the great "literateur" of his time.

— Jack Nicholson

I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I had to decide early on whether I…

— Robert De Niro

I learned then that an actor must always be himself, and must not be influenced by the people with whom he works.

— Lorne Greene

You couldn't escape the literary atmosphere in our home. I grew up as a Britisher. I played a protagonist of every nationality in stage…

— Satya Bhabha