Actor Quote by Viola Davis

I don't want people to define me. That's the best way for an actor to grow.

— Raashi Khanna

In that way, as an actor in particular, you're powerless. And so in that way as an actor in particular you can't make mistakes.

— Jake Gyllenhaal

the one thing I've observed over the years is the best way to get an actor to not want to play a certain role…

— Wes Anderson

The only way to be an actor is to find ways to work as an actor, even if that means doing a one-man show…

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

The way you can see what an actor brings to a role is you turn the sound off. Everything else becomes subtext, the wink…

— John de Lancie

The way an actor is trained doesn't ultimately have much bearing on my work. I'm interested in the actor as artist.

— Mike Leigh

Direction is a thousand choices, a thousand decisions a day. And having a vision of what you want, and then knowing what you want…

— Sean Stone

The way I see it, when I go out as an actor, it should be on a type of film I'm never going to…

— Edward Burns

When you're making a show or a movie, there are a million people and things in your way. As an actor, you're like a…

— Penn Badgley

I think that anybody who says 'This is the one way to go about being an actor' has probably not done a lot of…

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I'm a guy who had to perform some way. I had to perform in some way. If not as an actor, I'd perform as…

— Jack Kirby

'GLOW' was the first time that, from head to toe, I was asked to use my body in a functional, powerful way as an…

— Betty Gilpin