Actor Quotes
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Any actor or actress that tells you that they don't watch their stuff is lying.
Amy Poehler -
A fool cannot be an actor, though an actor may act a fool's part.
Sophocles
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Lately, I have realised that as an actor, I am representing certain aspirations to the world, and it's important that I respect the love people have for me.
Swara Bhaskar -
Don't worry about telling your actor what to do.
Ewan McGregor -
One guy told me I was a great actor, I just would never be on the cover of a magazine.
Ben Affleck -
I have to say from an actor's perspective, to work with a director who has been an actor through most of their career is a pleasure. They generally have a very deep understanding of the process of what you're doing, of how you are building and exploring the character.
Karen Allen -
I love working with actors, and it's great that I'm an actor myself. I know how I like to be directed and how I like to be talked to.
Courteney Cox -
Take it from a director: if you get an actor that Sandy Meisner has trained, you've been blessed.
Elia Kazan
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The only ambition I ever had going into and committing to wanting to be an actor was to live my life.
Harrison Ford -
As an actor, you always find your way. You have whatever preparation techniques you use, and you just go with the scene when you're on set. You can only plan so much when you're working, because things have to come naturally in the scene.
Alex Breckenridge -
I'm essentially a jobbing actor. If I'm out of work, I'll be the back end of a donkey.
Michael Gough -
I consider myself a method singer, not a method actor. I applied method acting to singing.
Tony Bennett -
To me, the responsibility of an actor is to recreate humanity honestly. I never feel like an actor, I always look at it from a blue collar perspective.
Michael Jai White -
Even though I never really had to pound the pavement as an actor, I always worked really hard. But, at the same time, I always felt like people thought that I didn't have to struggle even though I was struggling.
Winona Ryder
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I enjoy my work. I haven't been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession.
Bela Lugosi -
Bogart was like Henry Fonda - proud and happy to be an actor.
Katharine Hepburn -
Every actor is a character actor.
Harry Dean Stanton -
For an actor to remain a child is rather important. It's a childlike, dreamy thing, acting, if you think about it. It's the sort of thing children fantasise about, playing cowboys and Indians in the street. I think that acting is just a highly refined development of that.
Michael Gambon -
A vampire is very easy; you just take a very good-looking actor, put some teeth on them, make them pale, and you're there.
David Hayter -
As an actor, I look at scenes much differently than I would look at them as a director, and I never realized that until it actually happened.
Jensen Ackles
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It was difficult in India to find an eight year old who could play a widow. The reason for that is that most of the children in India are really exposed to Bollywood. It's commercial Indian cinema which is really over the top. To find an actor, or even a non-actor, who felt natural was difficult.
Deepa Mehta -
From my experience, I think that every actor has to make sure that they're in charge of their own career somehow or other.
Alan Rickman -
People need to realise what real happiness and success is, because success as an actor is fleeting. You can be up there one day and gone the next.
Chuck Norris -
The fame of an actor is won in minutes and seconds, not in years.
Bram Stoker