Actors Quote by Malcolm McDowell

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

Actors are athletes of the heart.

— Antonin Artaud

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

— Anthony Hopkins

Actors are people who are doing a job they want to do, which isn't the case for many of the people who watch what…

— Martin Freeman

I think I'm a good actor, but to replicate tens of thousands of man hours in surgery is really hard.

— Ato Essandoh

Some people get really worried about non-actors, but I think you can get brilliant performances out of people.

— Gareth Edwards

Great actors come with depth about how their character sees the world, and they completely defend it. They could defend it in a court…

— M. Night Shyamalan

I am not interested in entertaining people. I think being an actor provides an opportunity to give people an experience they can connect to,…

— Cory Michael Smith

Actors ought to be larger than life. You come across quite enough ordinary, nondescript people in daily life and I don't see why you…

— Ninon de L'Enclos

Actors in general are pretty good bullshit artists; we're good at just chewing the fat, interacting with people. So we're good ambassadors for movies.

— John C. Reilly

I sometimes do worry that actors are people's role models, you know. And doctors and teachers and people doing really important things just get…

— Rachel Weisz

It's not all about acting. It's about giving an art of entertainment to humanity.

— Sean Berdy