Actor Quotes
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As an actor, my No. 1 focus was to be on the same page with the writer, director, and producers.
Haaz Sleiman -
One of the great bonuses of being a film actor is that I get to go to different places, meet inspiring people and learn different things. So all those details add up.
Nicolas Cage
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I'm never going to be the lead actor guy. I'm real quiet and real happy and real fortunate to keep working. It's what I do. It's like the circus. I ran away and joined it a long time ago.
Michael Ironside -
I am an extremely selfless but, at the same time, supremely confident actor.
R. Madhavan -
Ever since I was a kid, I always wanted to be an actor.
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau -
The Actor should make you forget the existence of author and director, and even forget the actor.
Paul Scofield -
I wish that I had been in 'School of Rock' because, when I was younger, that movie was the movie. It really made me want to be an actor - that's so cheesy. But I remember seeing it when I was little and loving it so much, being like, 'I wish that I was in that.'
Miles Heizer -
I've always like sort of, as an actor, I'm drawn to exploring how we are as human beings in given situations and how we act and how we react and what makes us tick.
Ewan McGregor
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As an actor, the thing I want to do to an audience is always be ahead of them and always be surprising in the work without deviating from the writer's intention.
Steve Bisley -
If you feel uncomfortable on stage, you can very easily descend into a sort of abyss, convinced you're the worst actor ever, that you're a disgrace to the profession, that you're a disgrace to yourself. It's an awful feeling.
Stephen Dillane -
Hardly any actor objects to press. It's a question of it being done in the way they like to see it done, meaning to get down to the serious interview what the profession is so we can reach out to the people to help them get along.
Harvey Keitel -
The cool thing about doing a play is that the final interpretation of a piece is turned over to the actors.
Michael O'Keefe -
TV actors are doing great in Bollywood. We have our own market, our own fans, who love to see us on the big screen.
Mona Singh -
My mother implanted in me as a young girl...you can either be an actor in your own life, or a reactor in somebody else's.
Hillary Clinton
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You know, people make a lot of money talking about me, don't they? They just get on those shows, and they talk away. There's nothing I can do. And that's one of the great lessons I try to convey in my book, which my mother implanted in me as a young girl.. Is you can either be an actor in your own life, or a reactor in somebody else's.
Hillary Clinton -
I am a greedy, selfish actor, and for me, my role is important.
Swara Bhaskar -
As an actor, I'm limited to re-in acting someone else's vision or portraying a fictitious character.
Denzel Whitaker -
I have to work really hard, eight shows a week, to get a nice check as an actor. But when I write a play, and it's a - knock wood - hit, the checks come in for many years.
Harvey Fierstein -
I think every actor should direct at least once and vice versa.
Hart Bochner -
One of the best jobs for a mom is being an actor. I’m very fortunate that I work a lot, but there’s also a lot of down time. I’ve been really involved in my children’s education, doing stuff with their school.
Judith Hoag
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The least amount of info actors get, the better. Actors are always like, 'What is my motivation for this?' You didn't write it. Just say the lines.
Steve Howey -
As an actor, you don't want to know the beginning and end to your character's arc. It makes it more fun. You're not playing the end. You're playing it realistically. You don't know where this character is going to go and what's going to happen to him, which just makes it more interesting for the viewers to watch.
Jordan Gavaris -
Every once in a while as an actor, you do something that the kids really like.
Ernie Hudson -
People know you as an actor, and labels are so comfortable for people. That syndrome is always hard to get past.
Harry Dean Stanton