Actors Quotes

• All my characters are me. I'm not a good enough actor to become a character. I hear about actors who become the role and I think 'I wonder what that feels like.' Because for me, they're all me.

  

  Ryan Gosling
  • Character
  • Wonder
  • Feels

• My goal is to work. That's the goal of most actors or performers: to work and keep working, and do the best you can, and keep growing and changing, trying to improve your craft.

  

  Michael Ian Black
  • Trying
  • Goal
  • Performers

• If you have a great part, you have the opportunity to give a good performance. The greatest actors get the best parts, and the best parts make the greatest actors. There are plenty of people who are as talented, who just never got the part.

  

  Tom Hollander
  • Opportunity
  • Performances
  • Plenty

• I am a great admirer of other actors, but I never compete with other actors. I always compete with what I did last, and I'm my own most vicious critic. So I'm always trying to do it better.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Trying
  • Lasts
  • Critics

• And to be honest, most actors are incredibly solipsistic.

  

  Molly Ringwald
  • Actors
  • Honest

• My experience over the years with working with people who are not actors or not trained actors is that you have to get to know them well enough to see what they have that's translatable onto the screen.

  

  Steven Soderbergh
  • Experience
  • Actors
  • Screen

• As a working actor, all I want to do is work. That's it. It's terrifying when you don't work. It's very hard when you don't work. There have been times when I've been out of work for like six months. I feel theatre to me is like manna.

  

  Sandra Oh
  • Feels
  • Actors
  • Months

• I love exploring in a rehearsal room with other actors, scenes and you know, stuff you are scared of.

  

  Ewan McGregor
  • I Love
  • Scared
  • Exploring

• I enjoyed meeting Emma Watson. I have a soft spot in my heart for child actors growing up. I know how hard that is. Having gone through that experience myself, I have a lot of sensitivity to it. For lack of a better word, I just feel like I love these kids, and I want them all to grow up and love themselves, and not get caught up in the wrong things, and to learn all the different things this profession has to give, and to understand it.

  

  Ethan Hawke
  • Child
  • I Love
  • Growing Up

• I love working with actors. If you cast the right person in the right part at the right time, they make you look like a better writer and director than you really are.

  

  Todd Solondz
  • Person
  • Looks
  • Directors

• I'm not a movie star. People know me, but they don't necessarily know what they know me for. I get recognised, but it's not like Justin Bieber. It's a nice thing, people are cool.

  

  Harry Connick, Jr.
  • Movie
  • Actors
  • Stars

• I love working with actors. I do.

  

  Todd Solondz
  • Actors

• I want to aspire to something like what Denzel Washington does, which is try to find scripts written for white actors - or Jodie Foster, who reads scripts for male actors.

  

  Wentworth Miller
  • Trying
  • Actors
  • Denzel

• There are a lot of people who want to be famous nowadays: singers, actors and, you know, it's like a roller-coaster. And when you are very sensitive - I'm very sensitive - you have to be very strong... You have to just not pay attention to the people who hate you, you know?

  

  Eva Green
  • Actors
  • Singers
  • Pay Attention

• I don't think anybody planned for me to be an actor. I didn't. I didn't know this was what I was going to do.

  

  Missy Peregrym
  • Thinking
  • Actors

• Living as an actor is rather like living life on the trapezes in a circus. Every time you jump on, you have to pray that, when the time comes for you to jump off, there is another trapeze swinging your way.

  

  Celia Imrie
  • Way
  • Praying
  • Circus

• I would love to play an unexpected character. Really raw and simple and not a cliche - something rugged. People like to put actors in boxes.

  

  Eva Green
  • Love
  • Character
  • Boxes

• Everybody in L.A. wants to be an actor. I just wish I could meet somebody who doesn't act or sing.

  

  Miranda Cosgrove
  • Want
  • Wish
  • Actors

• I don't think you can discriminate against budgets, you know? I'm an actor, I guess, so I'm just trying to play as many characters as I can. If there's a character I think I can play, and they're going to let me do it, I'll do it whether it's $10 or $1 million or more.

  

  Ryan Gosling
  • Character
  • Play
  • Budgets

• Sometimes, when people use too much blue screen in movies, the actors don't look credible, because they have their own opinion of what the thing will look like, and each person has a different opinion.

  

  Michel Gondry
  • People
  • Different
  • Opinion

• Comedians... they're different from actors. There's more ego there. They create the whole thing, I guess, so they're more precious.

  

  Sharon Horgan
  • Actors
  • Precious
  • Comedians

• You know, a lot of actors I think go into acting for therapy from whatever trauma has affected them as children. But for me, I think I sought out the drama. That's why I like doing what I do.

  

  Michael Ealy
  • Children
  • Drama
  • Acting

• What I learned about acting, from my experiences directing, is why so many producers and directors don't like actors. You go through all of this work securing a location, figuring out how to get electricity there, how to get trucks parked where they need to be, and where catering is going to come from. And if the actors don't come up with some magic, it actually didn't matter. That creates a lot of animosity towards the actors.

  

  Ethan Hawke
  • Learned
  • Experiences
  • Creates

• I know a lot of actors who started out as musicians and have very successful careers as actors, but most people don't know them as musicians.

  

  Richard Lewis Springthorpe
  • People
  • Knows
  • Successful

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