All Quotes

Actors always talk about taking their work home and I always think: 'What are you on? You just turn it off. You are at work and then you go home.'
‐‐ Bill Nighy

Actors always think that others are getting more work than them. In my case, they usually are.
‐‐ Richard E. Grant

Actors always want to be musicians, and musicians want to be actors.
‐‐ Marilyn Manson

Actors always want to play the villain role at least once in their life.
‐‐ Lee Byung-hun

Actors and magicians are both performers, and they represent things that are not necessarily who they are.
‐‐ Steve Carell

Actors and singers share common ground in that they both express something.
‐‐ Andra Day

Actors and writers need to come back to the theater because it's a place where you can learn. You have to pay your dues, and people who haven't paid their dues in the theater, I think, have a hard time creating a whole career.
‐‐ Joanne Woodward

Actors are a lot like professors on dissertation committees - it's a lot of ego, a lot of rallying for position, there is a lot at stake in every single interaction.
‐‐ Mayim Bialik

Actors are a race.
‐‐ Mads Mikkelsen

Actors are able to trick themselves into treating anything as if it's fantastic. It's a kind of madness really.
‐‐ Tom Baker

Actors are accustomed to doing exactly what the director or writer requests us to do, and rarely get involved in that part of the process.
‐‐ Catherine McCormack

Actors are actually very supportive of each other.
‐‐ Alan Rickman

Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world.
‐‐ Alan Rickman

Actors are all different. They're not all volatile. Some are sweet, some are volatile, but what is fundamentally in there is something that has to be paid attention to, in that they are, I would say, needy.
‐‐ Ridley Scott

Actors are all narcissists.
‐‐ Gillian Jacobs

Actors are always grabbing each other on stage, looking in each other's eyes, making a moment so private, the audience doesn't know what they're doing.
‐‐ Edward Herrmann

Actors are always looking for actor-proof parts. A part so good you can't screw it up!
‐‐ John Rhys-Davies

Actors are always looking for the eyes of the other actors because you need help and you need connection.
‐‐ Javier Camara

Actors are always nervous about not only hurting each other, but maybe perhaps hitting each other's face and ending one's career.
‐‐ Bryce Dallas Howard

Actors are always the last to see what they have created.
‐‐ Caleb Landry Jones

Actors are an insecure breed. It's hard to have your career depend upon other people's opinions of what you do.
‐‐ Alyssa Milano

Actors are born, good actors are trained. Dancers are born, good dancers are trained.
‐‐ Mithun Chakraborty

Actors are con men and con men are actors.
‐‐ Edward Burns

Actors are conditioned to develop a system for expressing as much as they can in the shortest amount of time because you're going to get all cut up in a movie.
‐‐ Campbell Scott

Actors are crazy or we wouldn't be doing this.
‐‐ Eileen Brennan

Actors are excused from a lot of things, and we get away with a lot... I find it equally interesting and exciting as it is disgusting and bizarre.
‐‐ Joel Edgerton

Actors are exposed in a way that nobody else can understand. They are subject to the likes and dislikes of people their entire life, no matter how successful they are. At the same time, in order to be liked, you have to not be yourself. So it's a very complicated human exercise - an alchemy that I have never understood.
‐‐ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Actors are frightened little children.
‐‐ Alan Rosenberg

Actors are good liars; writers are good liars with good memories.
‐‐ Daniel Keys Moran

Actors are greedy. They can never be satisfied. I want praise as well as box office returns.
‐‐ Kareena Kapoor Khan

Actors are hard to photograph because they never want to reveal who they are. You don't know if you're getting a character from a Chekhov play or a Polanski film. It depends what mood they're in.
‐‐ David Bailey

Actors are inherently self-centered.
‐‐ Bryan Cranston

Actors are intelligent. Yet, many of them do not communicate well. That's what makes it so hard to have a relationship with one.
‐‐ Omari Hardwick

Actors are investigators.
‐‐ Philip Seymour Hoffman

Actors are just entertainers, even the serious ones. That's all an actor is. He's like a serious Bruce Forsyth.
‐‐ Bob Hoskins

Actors are just soldiers who follow commands.
‐‐ Om Puri

Actors are like magicians. They'll sit there and do all their tricks to each other. It's very competitive, and the goal is to get them bonding, to get them to know the real person as quickly as possible.
‐‐ David Ayer

Actors are like Swiss Army knives - we're ready to use any lever at any moment. But I learned long ago that, unfortunately, this industry only sees the one thing sticking out that they know us from, and that's the only thing they can imagine.
‐‐ Allison Williams

Actors are no strangers to self-doubt, fear, and rejection.
‐‐ Monica Raymund

Actors are not a great breed of people, I don't think. I count myself as something of an exception. I grew up in the theater, and my values were about the work, and not being a star or anything like that. I'm not spoiled in that way, and if I fight for something, it's about the work, not about how big my trailer is.
‐‐ Amy Irving

Actors are not all there when it comes to things like relationships. The thing about us is we still greatly enjoy each other. If it weren't for her support it would be hard for me to do what I am doing now.
‐‐ Mark-Paul Gosselaar

Actors are not always the best judges. We have a peculiar idea of what we think we are, and sometimes it's best left to others to decide what we play.
‐‐ John Hurt

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 are one family over the entire world.
‐‐ Eleanor Roosevelt

Actors are part of a certain percentage of people on this planet who have an emotional vocabulary as a primary experience. It's as if their life is experienced emotionally and then that is translated intellectually or conceptually into the performance.
‐‐ Mary McDonnell

Actors are people who are doing a job they want to do, which isn't the case for many of the people who watch what we do.
‐‐ Martin Freeman

Actors are pretending for you, but they're not lying. They are not putting on a guise instead of themselves. They are finding things inside that they have experienced.
‐‐ Mike Mills

Actors are programmed to see the worst. If you're talking about an actor's TV series, you say, 'I loved you last night.' And they go, 'What about the week before?' They immediately worry.
‐‐ Tom Hooper

Actors are really working with bodies, with their minds, and with their emotions. Feelings, basically. That's what movies are about, going from one feeling to another.
‐‐ Nick Nolte