Able Quote by Tom Baker

I think all actors have a strange quirk about them. They're different than the usual run of people. They have a way of dramatizing…

— Agnes Moorehead

Most actors really love it, that's what they want to do. They burn to do it. And so they'll read a script and think,…

— Hugh Grant

Acting is a way of living out one's insanity.

— Isabelle Huppert

My view of actors is that basically they're all harmless lunatics who'd be on the psychiatrist's couch, except that we get this sort of…

— Michael Caine

To be honest with you, I get a little fed up with actors who act crazy to make themselves more interesting.

— George Eads

I think when actors run away from their work that they're slightly crazy, really!

— Andy Serkis

Actors want to surprise themselves. When it's really good, you kind of transcend yourself, and that happens infrequently. Very, very rarely.

— Claire Danes

I think there's a very fine line between the type of performing that some actors do, and being in a state in your mind…

— Samantha Morton

All the theories that acting is reacting to imaginary circumstances as though they are real, and directing is turning psychology into behavior, those are…

— Mike Nichols

You can make somebody bad for a long time, and people love it when they then do one good thing and it's almost like…

— Steven Knight

I've never so appreciated what actors do and how strange it is.

— Ira Glass

You see so many actors branching out into so many different things than just acting. It's so fantastic.

— Ayesha Takia