Actors Quotes

• I was a repertory actor, which meant that I did a play every week. I was a different character every week; for a year, I was doing 40 or 50 characters.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Different
  • Character
  • Play

• In England, I was a Cockney actor. In America, I was an actor.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Actors

• Models have a stigma that they can't act. You're also, to be quite blunt, you're tall and not a lot of actors are tall and when you are starting out you're obviously not the first one cast, so you're trying to fit into a mold. You're quite often not cast as the quirky best friend, but you don't have the experience to be cast as the lead. So it can be really tricky. One of the biggest things is just to get your people, so to speak, your agents and managers to take you seriously. That's one of the issues I had when I came out to LA.

  

  Tricia Helfer
  • Experience
  • Friend
  • Models

• When I grew up, the only way a lad like me would maybe escape was playing football. Not being an actor.

  

  Sean Harris
  • Football
  • Actors
  • Lad

• Actors have to stay optimistic. The moment we start thinking otherwise, we're dead.

  

  Peter O'Toole
  • Moments
  • Actors
  • Optimistic

• At the end of the day, what actors really want to do is act a lot and not wait around in the trailer.

  

  William H. Macy
  • Want
  • Waiting
  • Ends

• I love acting, truly my favorite people are actors.

  

  Sean Penn
  • Actors
  • I Love
  • Favorite

• Comedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Writing
  • Comedy
  • Difficult

• As actors, we want to challenges ourselves and put ourselves in different situations to see how we react and deliver a performance.

  

  Eric Stonestreet
  • Actors
  • Challenges
  • Performance

• Insecurity, commonly regarded as a weakness in normal people, is the basic tool of the actor's trade.

  

  Miranda Richardson
  • Weakness
  • Trade
  • Normal

• I believe in the time when we shall be able to create works of art in the Theatre without the use of the written play, without the use of actors.

  

  Edward Gordon Craig
  • Art
  • Create
  • I Believe

• There's nothing more boring than unintelligent actors, because all they have to talk about is themselves and acting. There have to be other things.

  

  Tim Robbins
  • Acting
  • Boring
  • Unintelligent

• I've always preferred actors who sing to singers who act in all the shows I've done.

  

  Stephen Sondheim
  • Done
  • Shows
  • Singers

• I'll tell you what I probably would prefer to happen less and less: actors that I know and respect in shampoo ads. Or modeling.

  

  Sean Penn
  • Respect
  • Prefer
  • Shampoo

• My circle of friends are not actors at all. None of them are actors, really, because they're are not available. They're always off somewhere.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Actors
  • Circles
  • Available

• I think a lot of actors, especially actors with a theater background, have a musical ear. A lot of actors just want to be musicians anyway, and a lot of musicians want to be actors.

  

  Cedric Yarbrough
  • Theater
  • Musical
  • Ears

• One of my favourite actors of all time, although he doesn't necessarily play villains, is Peter Lorre.

  

  Robin Williams
  • Actors
  • Favourite
  • Peter Lorre

• I have a passion for words. I love words. And I'm just learning and developing my skills for words. I do books and I do journalism and plays. I have a broad palette. I don't have a great eye for direction. I love working with actors and I work very well with them because I appreciate what they bring to the table. I'd never say never, of course, but I look at it and don't really fancy it. I want to try and master the word side of it first.

  

  Geoff Thompson
  • Words
  • Actors
  • Direction

• I don't really even know what Twitter is. I know that might sound wierd to some people. I don't use social media. I make music, so I use social media... it's more helpful for me when I'm making music than as an actor.

  

  Michael Pitt
  • Sound
  • Media
  • Social

• I love the work, I love being in front of the camera and working with actors and directors and creating something. For me, it's like learning everyday.

  

  Estella Warren
  • Learning
  • I Love
  • Camera

• The actor has the advantage - or the liability - of knowing, "It's going to be my face up there on the frickin' screen, so I better keep my wits about me. Nobody's going to care that I was bad because I was not happy. They're only going to know I'm bad."

  

  William H. Macy
  • Care
  • Advantage
  • Wit

• I never understood actors who could just wait around.

  

  Scott Eastwood
  • Actors
  • Wait

• For the actors, there's something very important about that first showing of the scene to the crew, becomes like a little performance.

  

  Ewan McGregor
  • Important
  • Actors
  • Performance

• The way an actor is trained doesn't ultimately have much bearing on my work. I'm interested in the actor as artist.

  

  Mike Leigh
  • Way
  • Artist
  • Actors

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