All Quotes

As an actor, as much as I'm interested in how you make movies and TV shows, even as a kid, I've always hated making of featurettes and special features on DVDs. I think it breaks the spell.
‐‐ Francois Arnaud

As an actor... at some point you've got to forget that the crew's there in order to do your job.
‐‐ Cliff Curtis

As an actor, being on autopilot is the worst thing possible.
‐‐ Matthew Perry

As an actor, I always feel you basically have to be able to delude yourself.
‐‐ Paul Dano

As an actor I am always waiting for my luck to run out.
‐‐ Tom Hanks

As an actor, I am meant to dabble with different themes and genres.
‐‐ Sanjay Dutt

As an actor, I am only excited about doing good work - be it in mainstream Hindi cinema, Hollywood, a French film, or a Marathi movie.
‐‐ Deepika Padukone

As an actor, I can still play a cop, but the bullets are fake, I don't have to get injured, and I'm not faced with the day-in-day-out of what cops have to deal with, which is tragic and dangerous.
‐‐ Titus Welliver

As an actor, I don't really think you find yourself. I mean, once you find yourself, I think it becomes boring and you become set in your ways. I think, as an actor I think it's not a bad thing but more of a gift. It's something you're always doing as an actor. You're adjusting constantly.
‐‐ Justin Chon

As an actor, I endeavor to find the reason in the unreasonable. Because no one thinks they are being unreasonable or unrealistic or demanding or behaving madly. We all see ourselves as being justified.
‐‐ Cate Blanchett

As an actor, I enjoy variety. That's a big thing for me. So, if I'm going to put my name to something and commit to something that's going to take up a lot of my time, it has to be something that I know is going to be enjoyable and worth my while. Otherwise, what's the point?
‐‐ Tom Ellis

As an actor, I felt I couldn't compete. I wasn't as cute as the leading man; I wasn't as brilliant as Robin Williams.
‐‐ Phil Hartman

As an actor, I go where the good writing is. That's the bottom line.
‐‐ Glenn Close

As an actor, I had noticed very vividly that very few directors know how to direct actors because they haven't done it.
‐‐ Robin Wright

As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.
‐‐ B. D. Wong

As an actor, I have to be fulfilled in the roles that I play; it has to be a journey for me to learn something or involve myself.
‐‐ Juliette Binoche

As an actor I kind of do. I started out doing voice overs in the mid 80s when I was in grad school.
‐‐ Thomas Haden Church

As an actor, I like as much time with the material as possible and given the opportunity, time spent with the other actors in the scene. But that is a rare luxury in working in any TV series.
‐‐ Vincent Piazza

As an actor, I like to get a bit of momentum going with a character and kind of work a bit quicker. I mean, not crazy-fast, but, you know, five or six pages a day is a nice pace.
‐‐ Colm Meaney

As an actor, I'll play anything.
‐‐ Michael Caine

As an actor, I love working with directors. As much as I love working with other actors.
‐‐ Ray Stevenson

As an actor, I'm always critical watching others; it's just the nature of the beast. For me, any performance that doesn't cause my ego to say, 'I can do that' really signifies that it's spectacular.
‐‐ David Alan Basche

As an actor, I'm always just so pumped when I get any job. To be a working actor takes a lot of luck.
‐‐ Elden Henson

As an actor, I'm always playing solitary characters. But as a director, I'm always making ensemble movies, which focus on lots of people's lives and how they intertwine.
‐‐ Jodie Foster

As an actor, I'm always so excited about those things that I get to stretch my legs and really get to do something that's hard to do.
‐‐ David Lambert

As an actor, I'm always up for exploring and trying new things.
‐‐ T. V. Carpio

As an actor, I'm attracted to drama; as a director, it's humor - because it's the story of my life, and I can't be that serious about it. Being alone is a big theme in all my movies, both as a director and as an actress.
‐‐ Jodie Foster

As an actor, I'm constantly striving to find the darkness in the lighter characters and the lightness in the darker characters.
‐‐ Joel Edgerton

As an actor, I'm familiar with having bursts of energy, where you're giving things a try, and then you have down time.
‐‐ Iain Glen

As an actor, I'm in such a privileged position because my work is job by job. If something doesn't fit in with family life, there's more flexibility.
‐‐ Natasha Little

As an actor, I'm my own worst critic, but after awhile, really, when you watch 'Moonrise Kingdom', it's such a fantastic film that you sort of get sucked into the story, and then you kind of forget about everything else.
‐‐ Kara Hayward

As an actor I'm part of a long line of character people you can take back to the silent movies. There's always the little guy who's the sidekick to the tall, good-looking guy who gets the girl.
‐‐ Curtis Armstrong

As an actor, I'm rather hit and miss; I throw a lot out there, and some of it works and some of it doesn't.
‐‐ Christopher Walken

As an actor, I'm very much a company person. And this also goes through my life: I have a dread of responsibility. I like someone else to be in charge.
‐‐ Ian Holm

As an actor, I never go back and look at my work, anyway. The satisfaction comes in the doing.
‐‐ Hart Bochner

As an actor, I really like Philip Seymour Hoffman. I think he's a genius.
‐‐ Simon Cowell

As an actor, I still don't really know exactly what I am doing most of the time.
‐‐ Sam Riley

As an actor, I tend to enjoy going to the dark side.
‐‐ Dean Winters

As an actor, I think a mistake that any storyteller can make is to play the ending.
‐‐ John Hawkes

As an actor, I think it's always important to separate yourself from your characters because, when you include yourself in a character, you're taking a liberty that you don't really have unless you're life is that incredibly close to the character.
‐‐ Ashley Rickards

As an actor, I think it's really important to be as anonymous as possible. It's your job to convince people that you are somebody else, and so any recognition I'd get away from the screen - well, it's not something I actively seek. To be honest with you, I'm surprised anybody does.
‐‐ Jodhi May

As an actor I think sometimes producers need a little bit of encouragement to see you in a particular role, they may not have as much imagination as you would expect.
‐‐ Steve Kanaly

As an actor, I think you should always disappear a little. I act in order to lose myself.
‐‐ Vincent Cassel

As an actor, I travel around a lot and live in a lot of hotels, and many times I've been in a town where the only entertainment to be had is what you find in the hotel bar or lobby.
‐‐ Beau Bridges

As an actor, I've always been interested in making sure I can perform the role and the lines in the way the writer intended.
‐‐ Jennifer Westfeldt

As an actor, I've always found that my job is not to judge the content in which I've agreed to perform in. What I try to do is just find the truth in every moment that they've written.
‐‐ David Zayas

As an actor, I've always said, half the audience is going to love you, half is going to hate you so just live with it. It's easier that way.
‐‐ Ioan Gruffudd

As an actor, I've always wanted to do characters that would help me find my connection with others and connect all of us together. You always want the energy of the character, the spirit of the person, to enter you. I've been doing this for 26 years and some of the things I've done are always with me.
‐‐ Forest Whitaker

As an actor, I've been all over the map, but since I've moved to Hollywood, people tend to cast me in these more imposing characters, which is actually really fun for me. I've always been way more attracted to playing that than the hero.
‐‐ Kevin Durand

As an actor I've been attracted to the sort of films that I want to go and see. That tends to usually be drama-related.
‐‐ Eric Bana