Acting Quote by Sharlto Copley

I've had some ambivalent feelings about being an actor. I don't know that I've ever been totally and completely comfortable with it.

— Don Johnson

I think the toughest thing about being an actor in a film is to be with a director who doesn't know what they want.…

— Ricky Jay

I'm always just drawn to those roles that present one way and have many other things going on underneath. It's just more fun to…

— Carrie Preston

Because acting was my only professional outlet, I put a ton of pressure on the roles that I did. I overstepped my bounds, I…

— James Franco

I think every character actor at some stage likes to carry a film. It can be extremely liberating to just come in for a…

— Brendan Gleeson

As actors you're always going to take certain roles that are in your comfort zone and take ones that aren't.

— Matt Bomer

Film has to be reflecting the world that we live in, and that's all you want to be a part of. Actors inhabit the…

— Alan Rickman

In the beginning, I aspired just to make a comfortable living in acting. I still feel the same - it's just that my standards…

— Michael Kelly

The problem with acting is that there's really no control. You're at the behest of others. Everyone else decides if you did a good…

— Leigh Whannell

Sometimes I don't feel like an actor. Sometimes I speak about it like it was another job, and then I go, 'Wait a minute…

— Michael Keaton

As an actor, we have to be so vulnerable that it's really hard to involve yourself with the other aspects of filmmaking.

— Regina King

Sometimes I'm playing somebody that I may have a problem with. Your job as an actor is not to go only play things that…

— Billy Bob Thornton