Actor Quotes
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Sometimes you can do Shakespeare and you're still not an actor.
Clark Gregg
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No actor wants to be typecast, so you always want to make good, careful choices.
Haaz Sleiman
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I want to cast correctly, and then I want them to live on screen. If I cast the wrong actor, I'm screwed. But, if I cast the right actor, it really works out. The casting process is so important.
Andre Ovredal
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For an actor, its great fun to play one of these hungry white sharks. Audiences love to hate them.
Michael Douglas
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If anything, as a general rule, the cheaper the movie the more creative the experience, generally speaking. Its not to denigrate expensive movies. I dont want to seem biting the hands that feed me, but with big movies, especially with a lot of effects, the role of the actor is somewhat diminished.
Alfred Molina
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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
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An actor gets to take a nap, but the director is working hard from dawn till midnight. I'm kind of lazy.
Michael Horse
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I'm not that complicated as an actor. I have a formula in which I work, yeah. But not like Sean Penn does. Sean is one of the few actors I know who can work like that, actually becoming the character he is playing, and get consistent results. I don't believe you can ever be someone else. You manifest different levels of your own personality to come up with a character.
Kiefer Sutherland
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I didn't grow up wanting to become an actor at all. I wanted to be a sports trainer and I was actually an aerobics instructor.
Eva Longoria
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Eventually, if something pops up, that's cool, but I still wanna continue the process of learning how to be a good actor.
Billie Joe Armstrong
Green Day
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It's difficult, if not impossible, to get away with anything false before the camera. That instrument penetrates the husk of the actor; it reveals what's truly happening - if anything, if nothing. A close-up demands absolute truth. It's a severe and awesome truth.
Elia Kazan
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I think you get the most honest performances when an actor shows up to set with their lines memorized. That's a very important thing that a lot of people seem to forget.
Shailene Woodley
