Actors Quote by Sanford Meisner

Your duty as an actor is to try to make it as real as possible.

— Christopher Abbott

If you want to be an actor, you have to be serious about it. You can't be goofing around.

— Catherine Tresa

Trying to be a good actor has to be involved with placing yourself imaginatively in different people's circumstances.

— Paul Bettany

If I have anything to offer as an actor, it's only my ability to make the person real.

— Kevin Pollak

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

Part of being an actor is being susceptible to imaginary circumstances, so as soon as I'm on the set I feel like I'm actually…

— Y'lan Noel

Acting is the ability to live truthfully under the given imaginary circumstances

— Sanford Meisner

You have to be selfish to be an actor.

— Charles Dance

The problem with being an actor is that you have to be reactive to what other people want.

— Marisa Coughlan

As an actor, you ask yourself what you can do to put yourself in a position where you can play that role.

— Jeremy Northam

To be an actor you need four things: energy, concentration, a lot of luck and, of course, good roles.

— Charlton Heston

Remain true to yourself while practicing this business of being an actor. And it is a business.

— Carrie Preston