Actors Quotes

You can always pick out stage actors at the Oscars: they know how to walk.

I never wanted to become an actor. I always wanted to be a farmer and dreamt of owning half an acre of agriculture land.

Nobody is the author or producer of his own life story ... somebody began it and is its subject in the twofold sense, namely, its actor and sufferer ... but nobody is the author.

A successful swindler has to be a great salesman even more than a great actor.

All great men are play actors of their own ideal.

I have lost someone I loved as a brother, as a closest friend, and a remarkable human being. We have also lost one of the best damn actors we'll ever see.

To me, it's the kiss of death when you start winking at the audience as an actor. I just never liked it. I don't like it when we do monologues, looking into the character.

For as long as I can remember, the thing that gave me a sense of wonderment and renewal... has always been the work of other actors.

I told my parents I wanted to be an actor and they were getting ready for a life of unemployment so they're just happy I'm in work!

Some people think it is difficult to be a Christian and to laugh, but I think it's the other way around. God writes a lot of comedy, its just that he has so many bad actors.

The best actors instinctively feel out what the other actors need, and they just accommodate it.

You act with your soul. That's why you all want to be actors, because your souls are not used up by life.

In the middlegame, the king is merely an extra, but in the endgame, he is one of the star actors.

I have a bit of an obsession with the 1950's and all those actors from Montgomery Clift to James Dean and Anthony Perkins. Just that whole era of Tennessee Williams to Elia Kazan.

I think the toughest thing for me to figure out, as an actor, was how to translate all those layers that are in there and that history that the writers have done such a great job at forming.

Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.

Bill Powell is the only intelligent actor I've ever met

I always tell actors when they go in for an audition: Don't be afraid to do what your instincts tell you. You may not get the part, but people will take notice.

I was getting to perform with an actor with whom I had never interacted before

I'm much more proud of being a father than being an actor.

There is no pure success. I am action actor. I have broken almost every piece of my body.

As an actor you have one great fear: pimples!

Actors are very good at not revealing anything, so they're safe.

Actors fall into this trap if they missed being loved for who they really were and not for what they could do - sing, dance, joke about - then they take that as love.

I love to take actors to a place where they open a vein. That’s the job. The key is that I make it safe for them to open the vein.

The art of persuasion. The actor persuades himself, first, and through himself, the audience.

Take it from a director: if you get an actor that Sandy Meisner has trained, you've been blessed.

Once I found out how much an Off-Off-Broadway actor makes, I was whoring myself out the next day.

I always feel like I have to prove myself as an actor, otherwise you get lazy if you're not slightly terrified that you're going to fail all the time.

Change is vital to any actor. If you keep playing lead after lead, you're really gonna dry up. Because all those vehicles wean you away from the truths of human behaviour.

Writers, Composers, Painters, - also artists like directors and actors fall into the same category. They have to be handled with kid gloves, mentally and physically

The virtue you would like to have, assume it is already yours, appropriate it, enter into the part and live the character just as the great actor is absorbed in... the part he plays.

Most rappers these days is actors, And I can't keep watching the same movie.

I couldn't remember ever having seen a young man with such power, so many facets of expression, so much sheer invention as an actor.

You have to be selfish to be an actor.

I became an actor so I didn't have to be myself.

Every scene is a love scene. The actor should ask the question: 'Where is the love?'

Homelessness is the actor's fate; physical incapacity to attain what is most required and desired by such a spirit as I am a slave to.

You know I am an actor, and I have medals for diction.

To grow: that is your deepest and truest need when you say, 'I want to be an actor.'

I used to joke I was a point-and-click actor. My whole process has been about trusting your instincts and hitting your mark.

[As an actor] I have ideas, but things should always be fluid. You should always be ready to follow an instinct. Something might reveal itself on the day.

Basically I am just another actor who loves his work and this thing about age only exists in the media.

It's the actors who are prepared to make fools of themselves who are usually the ones who come to mean something to the audience.

I think the actor or performer should be - to touch that truth inside of a person. Touch that reality so much that they become a part of what you're going and you can take them anywhere you want to.

Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.

It is a common perception that actors don’t get along.

I am a huge Bollywood fan, and my favourite actor of all time is Shah Rukh Khan.

Being a celebrity has taught me to hide but being an actor has opened my soul.

The point is the doing of them rather than the accomplishments . There is no actor but the action; there is no experiencer but the experience.