Actor Quotes
-
My favorite actors are actors who are enigmatic and mysterious and never make the obvious choice in terms of the projects they do or who they work with or their craft. But I think that the less I know about an actor, the more chance I have of allowing their own persona to kind of slip away so I can get completely lost in the character they're playing, and the more that people think they know about your personal life, the more difficult it becomes to preserve that.
Scarlett Johansson
-
I'm an actor, and I don't judge my parts.
Swara Bhaskar
-
Ever since I was a kid, I always wanted to be an actor.
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
-
If I don't have a script I adore, I do one I like. If I don't have one I like, I do one that has an actor I like or that presents some technical challenge.
Sidney Lumet
-
You can ask any Latin actor: inevitably, if they get a part meant for a white guy, producers will change the character's name to sound more Latin.
Nicholas Gonzalez
-
I like to be directed, it's true. If I didn't like that, I'd do something else. Being an actor means being an instrument for someone else.
Catherine Deneuve
-
Every actor and actress is possessed of the absorbing passion to create something distinctive and unique.
Hattie McDaniel
-
There is a lot of struggle in being an actor; you need so much emotional strength, no matter what level of stardom you have, that it's nice to have something steady.
Sanaa Lathan
-
I probably became an actor because of my vivid imagination, and doing voice-over really sort of takes me back to that.
Eric Stonestreet
-
What makes an actor, I think, is a combination of a deep curiosity about life and a case of the crazies.
Nina Arianda
-
I never did improv professionally, but that was certainly in my training as an actor. I like it. Actually, when I did theater, I used to have a partner, and that was the way we used to write a lot of our sketches, through improvisation. So it's something I feel comfortable with.
Steve Buscemi
-
My parents didn't want me to be a regular in a series. I was a working actor from time to time but they thought was a little too much being a star of a series. They wanted me to have a slightly more normal childhood.
Harry Shearer
