Actors Quote by Michael Shurtleff

As an actor, you never try to be someone else. You can't.

— Liam McIntyre

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

As an actor, you're always playing different people, so you yourself are always kind of going through an identity crisis.

— Josh Hutcherson

I like this other world, this forgetting of myself. The actor works in order to escape, not to find himself. You become an actor…

— Sylvia Kristel

Actors are exposed in a way that nobody else can understand. They are subject to the likes and dislikes of people their entire life,…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Sometimes you need to put your own characteristics into the actor, and you take different things from the character that you admire - sometimes…

— Bonnie Wright

Being an actor requires a lot of self-analysis and reflection. The better you know who you are, the better you are at becoming another…

— Mia Goth

As an actor, you always have to love who you are playing.

— Tahir Raj Bhasin

Actors use who they are to be someone else, but I would hate to ever think I'm playing myself. It's imagining being someone else…

— Ralph Fiennes

When you're an actor, you can be hindered by your own narcissism.

— Amanda Peet

You're not a star until you love yourself. Directors, yeah, they've got to love their own philosophies. But actors have to really love themselves.

— Shekhar Kapur

I suspect, for a lot of people who become actors, there's a feeling of wanting to be someone other than who they actually are.

— Ben Mendelsohn