An actor finds things in the moment with a director and other actors that you don't have time to hand-draw or animate with a computer.
‐‐ Andy Serkis
An actor has no more right to be temperamental than a bank clerk.
‐‐ Fredric March
An actor has power, and their power is very simple: it's the power to say no.
‐‐ Ken Stott
An actor has to be very, very careful, as one of the most wonderful props - and actors love props - is a cigarette. There's so much to do with it: you can bring it up to your face, play with the smoke. It's just the greatest - ever since I was 16 and in acting school in England, I've been playing around with cigarettes.
‐‐ Melissa Leo
An actor has to embody a role.
‐‐ Taylor Hackford
An actor is a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, he ain't listening.
‐‐ Boy George
An actor is an actor is an actor. The less personality an actor has off stage the better. A blank canvas on which to draw the characters he plays.
‐‐ Arthur Lowe
An actor is an impersonator; he plays many different roles. If you played the same role all the time, God - that'd be a boring career. When you take on different roles and become a different person, that's called acting... It's a challenge.
‐‐ Robert Loggia
An actor is an instrument. One needs to control them.
‐‐ Bruno Dumont
An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer.
‐‐ Marlon Brando
An actor is like a piece of clay: you just keep moulding me. Even people who work with you every day want to put you in a little box.
‐‐ Erika Eleniak
An actor is never so great as when he reminds you of an animal - falling like a cat, lying like a dog, moving like a fox.
‐‐ Francois Truffaut
An actor is only a part of the film, not the whole, and very often, he is moulded by the director. That is why a good director can make so much difference to a film.
‐‐ Anupam Kher
An actor is only merchandise.
‐‐ Chow Yun-Fat
An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be.
‐‐ Maggie Smith
An actor is someone who pretends to be somebody else. A movie star is somebody who pretends that somebody else is them.
‐‐ Nicholas Meyer
An actor is something less than a man, while an actress is something more than a woman.
‐‐ Richard Burton
An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument.
‐‐ Marilyn Monroe
An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What if everybody jumped on his violin?
‐‐ Marilyn Monroe
An actor is supposed to emulate life. Instead, alas, many are imitating other actors. You don't fashion your knowledge of theatre or your approach to a role on the basis of what other actors have done. This kind of thinking is a great danger, especially in dealing with TV producers who frequently say things like, 'This is a Sean Connery type.'
‐‐ Theodore Bikel
An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In short, his ego.
‐‐ Alec Guinness
An actor is working steady if he's active four to six months a year.
‐‐ Zach Galligan
An actor matures with experiences, and the more the emotions he/she has been through, the greater the intensity of performances.
‐‐ Indira Varma
An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences life has to offer. In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet.
‐‐ James Dean
An actor puts himself in the hands of a director. And the director's first responsibility, obviously, is to tell the story, but the smallest thing that's not true reads on the screen. So if a director sees that an actor is not believable, he needs to help him become believable.
‐‐ Tobin Bell
An actor really is a kind of intermediary between an audience and the piece, whether it's a play or movie.
‐‐ Christopher Walken
An actor really suffers when the director isn't prepared because you start running out of time for the shoot and then have to do it fast.
‐‐ Carol Kane
An actor remembers his first piece of published praise. It is written on his heart.
‐‐ Conrad Veidt
An actor's a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, ain't listening.
‐‐ Marlon Brando
An actor's body should be full of emotions, whether it is happiness or sorrow, pain or joy, enraged or elated.
‐‐ Sonny Chiba
An actor's career doesn't feel like just one career to me. It feels like about five or six. Because every six or seven years, you look in the mirror and you have a completely different product.
‐‐ Ron Livingston
An actor's job is about putting across the author's intention; I don't think of myself on the same level as a creator.
‐‐ Jane Asher
An actor's life is all about rejection. It's you they don't want; it's you who's too tall or too short or too fat. With stand-up, it doesn't matter what you look like.
‐‐ Mark Billingham
An actor's life is fairly lonely.
‐‐ Melissa Leo
An actor's life is like a series of - it's like the first day of school happening over and over again.
‐‐ John C. Reilly
An actor's most important responsibility is to know lines well.
‐‐ Harry Morgan
An actor's popularity is fleeting. His success has the life expectancy of a small boy who is about to look into a gas tank with a lighted match.
‐‐ Fred Allen
An actor should always let humility outweigh ambition.
‐‐ Anna Kendrick
An actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand.
‐‐ Laurence Sterne
An actor should be judged by his performance only.
‐‐ James Dean
An actor should be ready to play any role within reason. For example, I think the most ridiculous thing for me to do would be to try and play Shakespeare.
‐‐ Glenn Ford
An actor shouldn't undergo psychoanalysis, because there are a lot of things you're better off not knowing.
‐‐ Paul Lynde
An actor who is good at comedy can also be very good at drama, but not necessarily vice versa.
‐‐ Desi Arnaz
An actor who knows his business ought to be able to make the London telephone directory sound enthralling.
‐‐ Donald Sinden
An actor will use every piece of information at their disposal, or a good actor will.
‐‐ Jessica Pare
An actor without a playwright is like a hole without a doughnut.
‐‐ George Jean Nathan
An actor without an audience is rehearsing.
‐‐ Sarah Wayne Callies
An actor works with their soul and their thought.
‐‐ Monica Bellucci
An actor would be foolish to do something that might hold up the picture, or more importantly incapacitate him. If an actor does do a stunt he needs to make sure a stunt man stands by to see that it's done correctly.
‐‐ Glenn Ford
An actors' tribute to me is in his work.
‐‐ Lee Strasberg