Great Quote by Sean Baker

Even in the early '90s, I was already starting to mix professional actors with non-actors. I always enjoyed working with non-professionals, because their performances…

— Tsai Ming-liang

Directors like Satyajit Ray, Rossellini, Bresson, Buñuel, Forman, Scorsese, and Spike Lee have used non-professional actors precisely in order that the people we see…

— John Berger

Professional 'actors' tend to overact.

— Samuthirakani

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

— Gareth Edwards

I've been an actor all of my life, but not professionally.

— Scatman Crothers

People are very uncomfortable when you call actors artists because there are a lot of actors out there that aren't artists - there are…

— Jordan Gavaris

In L.A., though, people get off busses calling themselves actors, so many are really not professionals.

— John Ratzenberger

So many people are called but few serve as actors, you know what I mean?

— Faye Dunaway

I've worked with non-professional actors, I've worked with movie stars, I've worked with kids, I've worked with older people, and I've found my job…

— Ira Sachs

I think there's that weird bastardization where musical theatre actors are treated as almost like vaudevillians or circus performers - that we're somehow not…

— Laura Benanti

There's a stigma attached to being an actor. People from 'Big Brother' call themselves actors. There's so much crap. It's not about appreciating that…

— Nathan Phillips

I think I've grown up in an era where character acting on film has become less desirable for the producers and directors and therefore…

— David Suchet