Actor Quotes
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What I've got to do now is let them judge me for who I am as an actor and not for my notoriety.
Mickey Rourke -
What really enthralls me is working with the actor and seeing where you can go with that. It's in that exchange and that relationship.
Abdellatif Kechiche
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I always set out to just work, as an actor, and try to do as many different things as I possibly could, and not be too selective or too careful. I think just working is fun.
Jason Lee -
When I was a young actress, I was called in just to do my part, and I didn't have any say or weight as far as any decisions go. But today, having worked as a producer and also having lived a little, I feel like I've found my voice more. I'm sure that it has influenced me as an actor and it will continue to do so.
Barbara Crampton -
It takes a good actor to sound excited every time.
Steven Ford -
It's been a lot of fun getting to work with Tracy Middendorf, who plays my mom. As an actor, it's always fun to have different parents and to create different familial dynamics than you have in your real life.
Willa Fitzgerald -
I'm still trying to figure myself out as an actor.
Sean William Scott -
I think that an actor is more likely to be forgiven in the public's eye than an actress.
Mila Kunis
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Being an actor, I never think I'm going to get the part. It's always a thrill when things go the way you hope they will.
Zoe Perry -
The out-of-work actor wears out more than shoe leather. The very sensibilities that make him an artist are shattered by the disregard he is shown as a human being.
Bette Davis -
One of the most empowering things about being a self-employed actor is also one of the hardest things; I get to set my own goals.
Benjamin Stone -
Supporting characters add depth to a story, and great actors leave their imprint with the audience.
Nicholas Lea -
When an actor is offered a role, more often than not - maybe 90 percent of the time - you read it and you say, "I'll take it."
Richard Kind -
I'm not interested in using my father's death as some touch point for why I've become an actor - it's grossly opportunistic.
Cate Blanchett
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From about ten, I knew I wanted to be an actor, and I started doing vocal shows and stuff.
Hale Appleman -
For me, the political part of being an actor is very tough. To sit somewhere and tell somebody why you should feel this way or that way about my character does not feel like my responsibility. It feels like the responsibility of the writer and the person who created it.
Emma Stone -
An actor wants to get up every day and they can't think of anything particularly more fun to do than getting into a made-up situation and living it out as if it's real.
Jeff Goldblum -
Seriously, I would go in a second. I'd be the first actor in space and I'd love to do it.
Tom Cruise -
Film is definitely a director's medium. They're responsible for the look and everything, and you're a part of that process as an actor, and you try to contribute to the story. But I think it might sound a little pretentious for me to say I think of myself as an artist. I think of myself as a creative person.
Owen Wilson -
As an actor, I endeavor to find the reason in the unreasonable. Because no one thinks they are being unreasonable or unrealistic or demanding or behaving madly. We all see ourselves as being justified.
Cate Blanchett
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Shakespeare is one of the reasons I've stayed an actor. Sometimes I spend full days doing Shakespeare by myself, just for the joy of reading it, saying those words... I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
Al Pacino -
I always go back and do theater. I love it. It keeps an actor improving in a way, it sort of keeps your craft alive, if that makes sense.
Matt Smith Poison -
You have to love, without judgment, every actor that you're working with to make beauty.
Nicole Kidman -
Never equate yourself with whatever success may be and how fleeting that is. The only thing you can do every day is become a better actor. That's the only thing I have control over.
Jonathan Banks