Country Quote by Lara Pulver

Actors are players and if they're hot, or onto something, you let them go, or you and the actor can both get on to…

— William Monahan

Actors, you kind of have these ebbs and flows. These moments where you're in your glory - where you're really cracking - and moments…

— Mark Ruffalo

As an actor, you want to push yourself.

— Sarah Baker

Actors are like writers. They kind of use what's available, absorb it and make it their own.

— Amanda Bearse

Everybody's on their toes and focused on what we're about to do, and then there's this moment where you relax because you see that…

— Alan Alda

Actors want to surprise themselves. When it's really good, you kind of transcend yourself, and that happens infrequently. Very, very rarely.

— Claire Danes

You work with seasoned actors, and sometimes you realize that they phone it in.

— Oliver Jackson-Cohen

Actors like to know who they are playing, what they are thinking, feeling, meaning, intending at any one time.

— Sean Mathias

I insist that they do what they became actors to do. I want them to create something and not just hit marks and say…

— Robert Altman

Being an actor, you can get spoilt a little bit: car services come and pick you up, you get put up in nice hotels,…

— Neil Jackson

As an actor, you realize that your whole life is about arrivals and departures. You're always meeting people, you get really close, and then…

— Jane Levy

The funny thing as an actor is that you show up on the set, and your key goal really is to make the scenes…

— Benjamin Bratt