Actors Quotes

I'm a young actor and I haven't learned everything there is about acting.

I think that's part of the fun of being an actor - you get to not be normal all of the time.

It takes a minute to get use to the TV thing, and I have so much more respect for TV actors now.

With Southern actors you always think you're from the same place. Even if one is from Texas, one is from Georgia, you're like, "oh, you're just down the street, man."

All the hard work means something. That's all you can really ask for, as an actor.

You respect all of these people that you know in the business as actors. And they sort of turn around and say, we really like your work. It's a nice acknowledgment.

I always find it funny when I watch actors talking about, "I chose to do this part." A lot of times it's you're lucky to get the job. We're like, "Thank you so much."

The actors I admire, like Ben Kingsley or Daniel Day-Lewis, they totally reinvent themselves in every part. I hope I get a chance to do that.

To tell a strong story with real taste of an epic tragedy needs great actors.

If you work with amazing actors, you've got a master class happening in front of you. But [also] it's just acting at the end of the day.

It's quite clear if you look at the actors in film right now, some of them came from theater but they didn't come from musical theater. There's still a bit of a stigma attached to it I would say.

It's just nice to do something a bit different, and I guess when you're an actor, you have the license to do that.

And I knew that, being an actor, you have to take the rough with the smooth and the highs with the lows. That's how it is.

I'm not jumping into anything fast. I'm an actor that likes to choose my work and there's an element of good taste to my work.

You have a lot of stages as an actor.

A lot of my mates are actors and it's lovely to be able to work with friends.

I'd always envied actors who got to play real people or got to do research. I've always just had these scripts where, I mean not in a bad way, but it was right on the page.

I always love to learn new things. That's the reason I like being an actor.

My immediate family was always very supportive. It was my own fear of the rest of the world not accepting me, the rest of our society not accepting my wish to be an actor.

Drama is my sweet spot, but the thing about being an actor is that you want to do a variety of things. I definitely love fantasy and would want to be in a fantasy project.

I pray to be of service to the playwright, the audience, the other actors and my character.

I feel like part of your job as an actor is you're going to get noticed, and the more successful you get, the more noticed you are. It's kind of like a Catch-22.

I had a background in theater as an actor, and then a photographer, and then as an experimental filmmaker and editor.

I feel like this is the way I was meant to interact with acting. Which is as a director, and helping, working with actors to find their way. Facilitating their performances is so satisfying for me.

But I'm an actor and I like to just keep working.

It's pretty rare that I watch a movie now without seeing the script in a way that I hate, where I can see the stage directions and the choices that the actors are making.

If I wasn't an actor, I would probably be writing or doing something with psychology.

I love the life of an actor because you spend brief amounts of time with other people and then you just leave. I need to be alone a lot, and I need the outdoors.

Every actor wants to get their two cents in about a scene at the end of the day.

I'm in a very lucky position. You have to remember that 95 percent of all actors aren't working. I'm actually able to go to France and work. It's a situation I couldn't have dreamt up.

I became a dancer late and an actor late.

Every actor who has done an action film has a little tiny scar somewhere from that.

I put Liam at the top of the list, the male actor list, because I had just seen Schindler's List again and Michael Collins, and I was just like, 'God, what an incredible actor.'

Every actor has to find space where they are free, in order to do good work.

I think, as an actor, theater is like one of the things that you feel most in control of and in charge of.

As a theater actor I always wondered, 'Is there a place for me in Hollywood?

I like to think that I've grown as an actor and things have changed, and I think so.

It's so funny, actors usually have a directing ambition. I've got no ambition for directing.

I spent a lot of time taking acting lessons Actors have no inhibitions, and Im inhibited by everything. To be able to make fun of yourself is a skill and a liberating experience.

My favorite is Deepika Padukone. She is amazing and is a brilliant actor. She is fantastic and has come a long way

An actor cannot be a censor. I'm there to interpret.

At the end of the day, if you are an actor, you definitely know that you're just work-for-hire.

I love seeing when actors go from one genre to the next because I feel like most of them can pull it off.

Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd are really amazing, lovely people and really great comedic actors.

So I'm truly an actor who sings, and not a singer who acts.

I'm just an actor. I am nothing special.

When you're an actor, your body isn't your own. Your body is part of a tool that you use. Everybody else there is using you as a tool, so they have access to those things, too.

People view child actors the same way that girls treat their Barbie dolls.

Probably the biggest challenge is actors, no matter how talented the actor is they don't have the capability of being in more than one place than one particular time, which is very vexing.

All those [events in history] were such dramas as we see now, only with different actors.