Actor Quotes
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My goal beyond being an actor, is just being an open channel.
Ezra Miller
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On being an actor ....nothing more than a worker in a service occupation . It's like being a waiter or a gas station attendant, but I'm waiting on 6 million people in a week if I'm lucky.
Harrison Ford
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As an actor you're only as good as the things you're offered. And there just weren't any female directors offering me things. So when you dissect that, you realize there aren't women offering you things because they don't have the opportunities. I work to raise money for women's cancers; I use my voice for violence against women.
Nicole Kidman
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I have to tell you, you can't have an ego when you're an actor. A lot of actors have them, but in reality most of those people are just sensitive artists dying for a hug and a compliment.
Josh Brolin
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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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Being an actor helps me direct a little bit, when I do that, which I haven't been able to do that much, but I plan to in the future. There are a lot of reasons for that, but certainly because I feel like you know how to talk to actors, and you know what they need from you if you've been one yourself.
Joseph Mazzello
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There is a need for aloneness... for an actor.
Marilyn Monroe
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Wrrite, wrrite, Lapochka, why you don’t wrrite?” and assure me that a horse, even with four legs, stumbles. I found it difficult to explain to her what I was writing. “It’s about Colley Cibber,” I said. “He was an actor, playwright and poet.” “Also poet?” Varya asked suspiciously. “Who he? Pushkin?”
Bel Kaufman
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My ideal would be to hop both sides of the Atlantic to work, as I'm sure every actor would.
Rachel Shenton
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The most complex challenge for an actor is the ability to give dimension to the story from the time that it happened, not from the present.
Benjamin Ávila
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I believe that a web series allows actors the freedom to express their views.
Rithvik Dhanjani
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As an actor, you get hired to repeat yourself. It wears you out.
Paul McGann
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Well, with each character that I play in my life as an actor, I try to figure out how to find the challenge.
Giancarlo Esposito
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As an actor, when you don't have a reference to pick from, you experiment, try out new things. And what comes of it eggs you on. You realize your capabilities and push your limits.
Sidharth Malhotra
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I love to sing. I don't think it's strange for singers to act, or painters to sculpt. I don't want to ever feel like I'm cornered into one expression of creativity because I'm successful at making films or being an actor. I guess it's best to not paint yourself into that corner.
Scarlett Johansson
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I'm not an actor who approaches films doing a lot of research. I do zero research, unless it's a film where I'm playing a mock version of someone who already existed. Then, you've got to do a lot of research.
Shailene Woodley
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To be a great actor you just need to comprehend, so that's why I became a writer.
Johnathon Schaech
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Things are changing. I've been training since I was 9 years old to stretch my wings as an actor dramatically, but have never really been afforded the opportunity to show that.
Anthony Anderson
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The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner.
Bela Lugosi
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Often you see a famous actor who says they produced something, when all they did was claim to have an idea at a dinner party and make three phone calls.
Ethan Hawke
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"You are the actor, and I understand we already had our sit down, you explained your concept, your view," so I said, "Okay, I'm in your hands." That means that if you've got to nudge me a little bit to the right I move to the right, just from the pressure, weight, but you won't have to touch me at all. You can come and go "Okay, you want me over here a little bit more," so no pressure on us at all that's easy to do.
Morgan Freeman
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I believe your thoughts are your thoughts, but are you a human being in front of the camera, or an actor? They are two different things.
Harry Lloyd