Actors Quotes

• Actors are such an insecure breed.

  

  Joshua Leonard
  • Actors
  • Insecure

• If you are asking whether states and state actors can only respond through revenge, then you are suggesting that diplomatic solutions are hopeless.

  

  Judith Butler
  • Actors
  • Revenge
  • Respond

• There are some actors who are rehearsal actors, and some who are not. I am not. Having said that, I don't know what I am talking about.

  

  Michael Gambon
  • Know
  • Said
  • Talking

• Actors say they do their own stunts for the integrity of the film but I did them because they looked like a lot of fun.

  

  Steve Coogan
  • Fun
  • Actors
  • Stunts

• I'd like to think I'm an actor who leaves things at work.

  

  Michelle Forbes
  • Thinking
  • Actors

• Actors are observers. They're trying to have an understanding of human sensibility. And how do you have that accurate observation if you regard yourself as someone of great importance? When you're the one constantly being observed, because they view you as a celebrity? It's all wrong.

  

  Hayden Christensen
  • Actors
  • Observers
  • Human sensibility

• There are many actors who, whatever they do, they pretty much play themselves.

  

  Rena Sofer
  • Pretty
  • Play
  • Themselves

• It was when I was on the set of Dead Poets Society.There was actor,his name was Norman Lloyd. One day he took us all aside and said, "You guys don't even understand what a powerful experience you're having. You don't really understand what a gift this is." We were going, "What does he mean?" It was that really wonderful opportunities aren't to be taken for granted. I often found that it had embedded itself in my memory.

  

  Ethan Hawke
  • Experience
  • Memory
  • Gift

• There are many, many, actors with whom I'd like to share a stage or a set.

  

  Joshua Malina
  • Actors
  • Stage
  • Share

• Theres just a big group of actors in London. There are new ones coming in all the time, who are looking for work, and established actors who are interested in working and like to work. To be a working actor in England is a life.

  

  Rebecca Eaton
  • Actors
  • England
  • Groups

• I'm a much better singer than actor, which doesn't really say a whole lot.

  

  Sean William Scott
  • Actors
  • Singers

• I've always seen myself for who I am, which is a lot of things. So, I guess that when I walk into a room, I bring all those things to a role, and I've always just simply seen myself as an actor.

  

  Viola Davis
  • Roles
  • Rooms
  • Walks

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

  

  Michael Caine
  • Writing
  • Comedy
  • Difficult

• It's a phenomenon that I see with young actors - a lot of American speaking parts going to British actors.

  

  Michael Douglas
  • Phenomenon
  • British actors
  • American speaking

• Actors - we're selfish, but we can't think about the work in that kind of selfish manner. I think that you have to step away from yourself, if you're going to do it. Otherwise don't do it; otherwise why do it?

  

  Charlize Theron
  • Actors
  • I Think
  • Selfish

• It is interesting just generationally that you see that people are much more comfortable, and that's part of life now for this next generation of actors and just people in the world. But for those of us who were living when it didn't exist, being in social media feels like the last thing you want to do.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Generation

• 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

• My approach to the work is the same, whether I had the lead or a supporting role. I consider myself a character actor in the true sense of the word. Unless I'm doing my autobiography, I'm playing a character.

  

  Ving Rhames
  • Character
  • Approach
  • Autobiography

• I don't think Indian actors are good. A couple of them are, like Anupam Kher, but not many are there like him in the industry. There are thousand of actors and actresses in the industry, but you can count on hand how many of them are really good; the rest of them are just pretty faces.

  

  Russell Peters
  • Couple
  • Faces
  • Actresses

• I try to be a good, diligent actor.

  

  Moon Bloodgood
  • Actors
  • Actor
  • Diligent

• I dont think any actor has the luxury of knowing exactly what scripts are going to turn out well and what ones arent. It would be wonderful to have that particular skill, and maybe people like Tom Cruise have it more than most, but you go into each project hoping that a good, if not great, film will come out the other end.

  

  Jonny Lee Miller
  • People
  • Film
  • Wonderful

• I think if you're a competent actor with a good imagination, and if it's on the page, it makes your job a lot easier.

  

  Miguel Ferrer
  • Imagination
  • Jobs
  • Easier

• David Cronenberg knows what we actors do as artists.

  

  William Hurt
  • Artist
  • Knows
  • Actors

• Me being an actor was an accident, and not something I wanted to do, because I knew what happened eventually. Yeah, maybe you'd get famous, but then you wouldn't be famous anymore. Then you'd have to scramble to get back to where you were, and chances are, you wouldn't.

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • Chance
  • Actors
  • Accidents

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