List Of Actors Quotes

I Never Was Able To Do Karate. That's Calling Me A Good Actor. I Act Like I Can Do Anything.

Making A Movie Requires 20 To 500 People To Make And A Lot Of Money And The Stakes Are A Lot Higher.

Every Actor Knows That Tragedy, Being Linear And Inevitable, Is Taxing - But Comedy, Which Depends On The Element Of Surprise, Is The Hardest Act Of All.

An Actor Always Goes To The Safe Side.

As An Actor You Always Want To Be Challenged And You Always Want To Have Someone Tell You You Can't Do Something, Because I Always Want To Be Like "i Can Do It And I'll Show You I Can, And I'll Do It Better Than Anyone Can".

I Could Live Without Acting.... Acting Is A Gift I've Received. And I'm Grateful For It And I Enjoy It. But It's Not The Main Point Of My Life. It Never Was.

Acting Isn't A Profession, It's A Way Of Living.

There Are A Lot Of Actors That Are More Talented Than Me At Second City Who Quit It Before They Even Got To A Paying Status. Weird Luck. I Had No Other Option.

Chicago Actors Are Hard-nosed. They're Tough On Themselves And Their Fellow Actors. They're Self-demanding.

Whenever I Think Of The High Salaries We Are Paid As Film Actors, I Think It Is For The Travel, The Time Away, And Any Trouble You Get Into Through Being Well Known. It's Not For The Acting, That's For Sure.

I Don't Really Think Of Myself As An Actor.

Theres This Little Box That African-american Actors Have To Work In, In The First Place, And I Was Able To Rise Above That Box. I Could Have Done A Bunch Of Movies Where I Stayed As The Axel Foley Or Reggie Hammond Persona. But I Didnt Want To Be Doing The Same Thing All The Time. Every Now And Then, You Crash And Burn, But Thats Part Of It.

The Only Reason I Did Showtime Was Robert De Niro. I Definitely Consider Him To Be In The Top 5 All Time Actors.

I’m A Comedian Who Got Into Movies, So I Don’t Really Think Of Myself As An Actor.

Being An Actor You Have A Lot Of Expenses.

And As Much As I Love The Gritty Characters, I Like To Play All Sorts Of Characters. I'm An Actor. I Love To Create.

I Consider Myself A Character Actor.

I Don't See Myself As A 'black Actor,' I'm Just Shemar Moore The Actor.

It's No Good Being The Best Actor In The World If Nobody Sees You Because You Didn't Happen To Be There At The Right Day When A Part Was Being Cast.

I Enjoy Being A Highly Overpaid Actor.

The Fact Of The Matter Is That Most Actors Are Shy People.

I Used To Work For A Living. Then I Became An Actor.

I Wanted To Be An Actor And I Wanted To Be A Performer. Like Hugh [grant] Said Earlier, We Might All Have This Weird Gene. Hopefully I Will Continue To Have The Talent To Allow That Gene To Play Itself Out For As Long As It Can.

I'm Too Grateful That I Continue To Grow As An Actor. I Hope I Get Better. I Feel Like I Am. But It's A Roll Of The Dice Every Time You Make A Movie. Nobody Knows.

The True Determining Factor Of Our Belief System Is Not What We're Saying, But How We Are Living.

I Never Had Posters On My Wall And When I Meet Actors That I Really Admire, It's Exciting Because I Get To Work With Them.

It's Tricky Playing People That You Don't Like And Finding A Way To Empathise With Them. It's Challenging And Very Exciting For An Actor.

A Lot Of Actors Aren't Particularly Good Directors. And They're Not Particularly Good With Other Actors. That's Kind Of A Fallacy.

Nine Out Of Ten Delinquents Are Frustrated Actors.

A Script Is Utterly Useless In And Of Itself; It's Only Of Any Worth The Minute Your Actors, Your Designers, Your Directors Come Into Being.

I Started Off On Stage Because It Was The Only Work I Could Get. I Haven't Been Back For 11 Years. I Think Any Stage Experience Is Good Experience, As Far As Being An Actor Is Concerned.

I Think Filmmakers, In General... There Are Some Awesome, Really Great Filmmakers - But On The Whole, Filmmakers, Actors, I Think They Are The Biggest Bunch Of Whiny, Over-paid Babies On The Planet.

Horror Audiences Don't Need To See Some Tv Actor They're Familiar With.

The Primary Factor In A Successful Attack Is Speed.

Acting Is A Form Of Deception, And Actors Can Mesmerize Themselves Almost As Easily As An Audience.

Kurt [sutter] Is One Of The Few Showrunners That Actually Sits Down And Talks To The Actor Alone, And Then With All Of The Other Writers, And Basically Tells You What He Has In Mind And What's Going To Go Down.

When People See An Actor Speak, They Think They Know Him Or Her, Whereas I'm Just A Face Or A Body To Them.

Actors Do Like Watching Girls Parade Down The Runway For Some Reason.

Eventually I Want To Be A Full-time Mother Who Works Occasionally - And Being An Actor You Have That Freedom.

I'm An Actor. That's What I'm Gifted At. It's What Makes Me Breathe.

I Don't Get The Point In A Lot Of Biopics, They're Boring. You Know What's Gonna Happen. You're Just Watching Actors Show Off.

But History Is A Faithless Teller Whose Cruel Recourse To Hindsight Makes Fools Of Its Actors.

I Had Watched 'alfie,' But I Didn't Consider It A Prerequisite. Michael Caine Was Just Extremely Fabulous. He's One Of The Most Professional Actors I've Ever Worked With. I Guess After A Lifetime Of Doing It, You Know What You're Doing. He's Incredibly Uncomplaining, Undemanding.

You Are Exposing Yourself All The Time As An Actor. There's The Risk Of Being Thought Of As Bad Or Boring Or Unattractive.

Some Actors Learn The Habit Of Promoting Themselves As A Brand - By Dressing In A Certain Way, By Going Out With A Certain Person - It Gives Them What They Obviously Want, Which Is To Keep A Level Of Fame. I'm Not Putting It Down.

Sometimes You Look At A Movie And You Can See That The Actor Or Actress Said, 'i'm Taking This Onboard Because I'm Making A Ton Of Money, And Not Because It's Going To Be Something Special.'

I Have No Idea What 'method Actor' Means.

In The End, The Actor's Main Power Is The Power To Say, 'no.'

I Love Rehearsing, But A Lot Of Directors Don't, And Some Actors Don't.

Being An Actor, Imitating To The Point Of Inhabiting The Lives Of Others, May Simply Be A Way Of Continuing To Do What I Learned To Do As A Boy - To Travel, Mentally And Physically.

The Best Thing An Actor Can Be Is Flexible, Because All Directors Are Different And All Actors Are Different.

Most Actors Can't Make Any Kind Of Living.

If You Put Anger In The Writing, Then It's Like An Actor Crying On Stage. The Audience Will Not Cry With The Actor And In Some Way Inure Itself Against The Emotion.

The Displacement Of Scripted Series By Reality Programming Continues To Be A Severe Obstacle To A Working Actor's Ability To Earn A Living.

Actors Are Frightened Little Children.

An Actor Is Supposed To Be A Sensitive Instrument.

An Actor Is Supposed To Be A Sensitive Instrument. Isaac Stern Takes Good Care Of His Violin. What If Everybody Jumped On His Violin?

You're Always Running Into People's Unconscious.

I'm Going To Be A Great Movie Star Some Day.

I Always Felt I Was A Nobody, And The Only Way For Me To Be Somebody Was To Be - Well, Somebody Else. Which Is Probably Why I Wanted To Act.

When I Set Out To Become An Actor, I Had Set Myself A Standard.

Film Spectators Are Quiet Vampires.

I Can Easily Say "no" To A Project If The Script Isn't Great, But When The Script Is Good, Then I Start Asking The Other Questions. Who's Going To Direct It? Who's The Creator? Who Are The Actors? When Are We Shooting? Where Is It Shooting? All That Kind Of Stuff.

I Hope To Be An Actor And Never Retire.

I Get Involved With Projects Based On Three Parameters - The Script, The Actors Involved And The Director.

You Learn Early As An Actor That Creating Your Own Material Is The Only Way To Have Any Control.

I Also Think If You're An Actor And You Can Improvise, When You Go On An Audition And You Can Improvise You're Just A Genius. If You Can, You Know, Take A Tide Commercial And You Can Just Say One Funny Line That's Not In The Commercial They Think You're A Genius.

Seven Actors Have Played Batman On The Big Screen, And If You Can Name All Seven Without Reading Any Further, Your Youth Has Been Wasted.

The Worst Thing That An Actor Can Do Is Go Into Any Project With A Lack Of Respect For The Material. You Can Have An Opinion About It, But You Have To Respect Yourself In Doing It.

Screen Work Always Boils Down To That Moment Between The Camera And The Actor Or The Actors. It Always Boils Down To That, Ultimately. You Serve The Camera.

I Love Working Fast. I Don't Relish The Director Who Wants To Do 25 To 30 Takes, Or The Actors Who Insist On Doing 25 Or 30 Takes.

I've Worked With Actors Who Treat The First Two Takes Like Rehearsals. And That's Okay. If The Camera Is On You And We're Doing A Scene Where I'm Off Camera, I'm Treating That As A Rehearsal.

There Are Many Actors Who Have Inspired Me: Spencer Tracy For His Incredible Elegance And, Of Course, Cary Grant. But, There's Also An Italian Actor I Admire A Great Deal: Alberto Sordi.

Think Of Frank Capra And Preston Sturges. They Used The Same Actors Over And Over Again.

Actors Are One Family Over The Entire World.

There's Really No Reason For Any Musician, Writer, Actor To Ever Take Themselves Seriously. If You Work In A Needle Exchange, Take Yourself Seriously. You're Doing Good Work. If You're Involved In Hostage Negotiations And Saving Lives, You Can Have A Sense Of Entitlement.

Actors, They Come And Go, You Know.

Actually, The Most Entitled People I've Met Are Indie Rockers And Indie Actors, Because They Really Believe Their Press.

In The Theater, As An Actor, You're Welcoming People Into Your House.

I Am Not One Of Those Actors Who Believes He Has To Live The Part He Is Playing. I Can Turn It On And Off.

I'm The Sort Of Actor Who Likes To Talk About What We're Going To Do.

Some Of The Greatest Love Affairs I've Known Have Involved One Actor-unassisted.

I've Always Wanted To Act And I Grew Up A Little On Film Sets When My Dad Was Working As An Actor.

I Love A Lot Of Comedy Actors And Actresses Like Kristen Wiig And Tina Fey And All Those Women Who Are Really Brilliant And Funny.

I've Never Really Felt Like I Was A Child Actor. Just An Actor Who Happened To Be Quite Young.

I Never Will Believe There Is Such A Thing As A Great Actor.

The Only Difference Between Me And My Fellow Actors Is That I've Spent More Time In Jail.

Yeah, You Know, If I'm Having An Emotional Scene I Do Like To Go Off And Be By Myself; Not To Say That I'm A Method Actor Or Anything Like That, But For Scenes Like That That Are More Emotional, I Do Like To Take That Night Off And Not Be So Social.

But I'm Also A Vegetarian So There's Another Factor I Guess.

I Never Wanted To Be A Movie Star.

When Actors Give Their Input, It Can Be Very Ego-driven, And Directors Are Scared Of That.

I Don't Really Even Know What Twitter Is. I Know That Might Sound Wierd To Some People. I Don't Use Social Media. I Make Music, So I Use Social Media... It's More Helpful For Me When I'm Making Music Than As An Actor.

I Think It's Very Dangerous For An Actor To Take [shooting] Too Seriously Because I Think It Could Really Damage You If You Do That.

Anything That You [as An Actor] Can Change About Yourself For A Part Is Helpful.

Well, The First Thing I Wanted To Be Was A Carpenter. Then I Wanted To Be A Painter And Then A Singer. It Was When I First Saw 'lawrence Of Arabia' That I Wanted To Be An Actor.

I Got Into [producing] To Be Part Of Stories That Wouldn't Necessarily Be Right For Me As An Actor.

It's Hard To Be Surprised By A Film. It's Hard To Be Surprised By Another Actor Or By A Director When You've Seen Enough And Been Around. So When I Am, Or When I Forget That I'm Watching Someone's Movie, Or When I Don't Know How Someone Made A Certain Turn That I Didn't Expect... You Know, I'm In.

Given A Chance, I Would Like To Work With Aishwarya Rai Bachchan Because She's A Versatile Actor.

The Greatest Thing An Actor Can Experience Is Discovery. The Greatest Thing An Artist Can Walk Away With Is To Learn Something About Themselves And The World And This Was One Of Those.

Movie Making Is Really, It's A Director's Medium, It's Not Even So Much An Actor's Medium.