All Quotes

As an actor, I've given up judgement of evil, as long as it's human evil - we have to see ourselves for what we really are, and we're capable of horrific things.
‐‐ John Carroll Lynch

As an actor, I've grown considerably. For example, it's taken me years to get comfortable doing a romantic scene and dancing on stage in front of a live audience. I do it a lot better than I ever did. I've really opened up a lot. And I'm glad I have because I'm being appreciated for it.
‐‐ Sanjay Dutt

As an actor, I've grown considerably. It's taken me years to get comfortable doing a romantic scene and dancing on stage in front of a live audience. I've really opened up a lot.
‐‐ Sanjay Dutt

As an actor I want to do as many takes as I can. I wanna shoot the scene... or shoot the shot 'til they make me quit.
‐‐ Tommy Lee Jones

As an actor, I was a fantastic rebel. Then I became a directorial rebel and understood rebels from both sides. So now I am a friend who gives advice - not one who knows more, necessarily, but who shares ideas.
‐‐ Maximilian Schell

As an actor, I was just satisfied to work.
‐‐ Thayer David

As an actor, I was not accepted for the longest time. But it did not deter me, as the audience had accepted me. I never compared myself with any other actors. I never had any game plan and took whatever came my way.
‐‐ Emraan Hashmi

As an actor I worked for seven years with a community theater company based in London. We used improvisation techniques to take stories to young people who wouldn't normally have access to them - in prisons, hospitals, young offender's units, youth clubs and housing estates.
‐‐ Jenny Downham

As an actor, if I just did sci-fi, I think it would get limiting, like if you just play lawyers or doctors, over and over. It's a lot more fun, if you get to play lots of different types of characters.
‐‐ Tricia Helfer

As an actor, if I show up late somewhere or I say something that's eccentric, it's totally acceptable - not only that, it's lauded in some perverse way.
‐‐ Jesse Eisenberg

As an actor, if you decide that someone is bad... you can't play bad, because even the worst person doesn't think what they're doing is bad.
‐‐ Jaime Murray

As an actor, if you're just sitting and staring and you don't know who you are in your own mind, it's vacant. And sometimes the camera is an X-ray machine, it can pick it up.
‐‐ Albert Brooks

As an actor, if you want to while shooting, you can run back to your trailer and take a nap. But you cannot do that while directing.
‐‐ Misha Collins

As an actor, if you were to simplify what acting really is, it's about letting go.
‐‐ Derek Magyar

As an actor, it easy to be so self-critical, saying to yourself, 'Am I good enough? Am I good looking enough? Am I smart enough?'
‐‐ Chris Pine

As an actor, it's a very strange adjustment to start playing the father. I was used to playing a kid my whole life, and then all of a sudden, it's like, boom. I guess when I let my hair go grey, things changed.
‐‐ Kerr Smith

As an actor, it's amazing to get to create different characters.
‐‐ Brandon T. Jackson

As an actor, it's fun to play guys who aren't just locked into a male pattern, but a lot of guys you're asked to play are fairly macho and have a certain rigid standard they're living by.
‐‐ Fred Ward

As an actor, it's great to play a strong leader with a heart of gold.
‐‐ John C. McGinley

As an actor, it's hard to direct because, suddenly, you're not around. The thing which I hate about directing is the waiting game, but you've really got to wait it out and be resilient and keep it going and keep everybody motivated.
‐‐ Danny Huston

As an actor, it's more interesting to play a nerd than anything else. It's a lot more fun - you don't worry about 'what's my hair like?' in the morning or 'which is my great angle?'
‐‐ Nicholas Brendon

As an actor, it's much easier for me to get work in the movies because nobody knows who I am except for the work that I've done in another movie. I really enjoy that.
‐‐ Simon McBurney

As an actor, it's my job to make everything interesting and exciting and new. If I'm not doing my job well, then I'm stealing.
‐‐ Allison Mack

As an actor, it's my job to prepare myself for a role. If the character is realistic, one can't go wrong.
‐‐ Arjun Rampal

As an actor, it's so, so rewarding and so pleasing to not be reprimanded.
‐‐ Joshua Sasse

As an actor it's your job to empathise with your character regardless of whether they have a different sexual orientation, spiritual beliefs, or anything.
‐‐ Darren Criss

As an actor, my background is in the theater and I feel that my strong suit is period work, but I actually didn't do much of it at all, until the last three or four years. I'm loving it!
‐‐ Colm Meaney

As an actor, my main focus is finding good writing and attacking a good role.
‐‐ Amanda Peet

As an actor myself, I know we go where the work is, but I think it's sad the Lyric haven't found any homegrown talent.
‐‐ Ian Beattie

As an actor, of course, you want to be in something that's successful.
‐‐ Marina Sirtis

As an actor on sets, I've always clocked how hard the crew works, how much longer their days are, how much lesser their glory is - and the fact that their commitment to the work and project is unwavering, no matter the budget.
‐‐ Jennifer Westfeldt

As an actor, one of my greatest fears is losing my memory.
‐‐ Michael Learned

As an actor, one's role is very much to respond and react to the situation within the context of the character and his world.
‐‐ Satya Bhabha

As an actor, or as a person, I like to do things that are challenging.
‐‐ Joanne Froggatt

As an actor, our very palette is one of imagination. So it is a walk onto an empty space and then imagine the world beyond it is what we do.
‐‐ Rhys Ifans

As an actor, particularly because I'm - I would call myself a character actor. I change my look, my physical appearance and my body, my hair color, my whatever all the time for a role.
‐‐ Lynn Redgrave

As an actor, particularly in theatre, you're trying to get jobs on TV; but you're also losing jobs in theatre to people who are on television.
‐‐ Andrew Rannells

As an actor, secrets and obstacles fuel the character.
‐‐ Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

As an actor, some of my favorite things to work on are night exterior scenes. Any time that we're on location and shooting at night, it's just magic. I got to do that so many times working on 'Vampire Diaries' that it filled my hat.
‐‐ Taylor Kinney

As an actor, some of the most fun days I've had on set have involved shooting blanks all day - or better yet, on a micro-budget indie shoot in Texas, shooting live ammo. I feel guilty admitting this, but make-believe beating a man half to death for nine hours can also be strangely satisfying and, dare I say, good fun.
‐‐ Trieste Kelly Dunn

As an actor sometimes we sit and wait for projects to be handed to us and we don't really work. We expect our agents and managers to know who we are and to see who we are and offer us a part or send us out and submit us.
‐‐ Navid Negahban

As an actor sometimes you can be a bit emotional and forceful, and that's not always the way to be.
‐‐ James McAvoy

As an actor, sometimes you feel a pressure to change yourself from time to time.
‐‐ Charlie Day

As an actor, sometimes you've gotta take the jobs that you may not want to do. It's so hard to work as an actor.
‐‐ Travis Fimmel

As an actor, that's the best thing you can do, really take people along on a story and tell them something.
‐‐ Austin Peck

As an actor, that's the most that you can hope for - not only being part of a story, but being part of a story that matters.
‐‐ Melissa Ponzio

As an actor, the ambition is to play interesting characters. And in the indie genre world, the budgets are low. That allows me, as an actor, not to have a financial value behind my name, to justify me being in these bigger parts for these types of movies.
‐‐ A. J. Bowen

As an actor, the biggest compliment you can get, in my book is for someone to believe that you're the character.
‐‐ Matt LeBlanc

As an actor, the first thing you learn in drama school is you never judge.
‐‐ Jason Clarke

As an actor, the first thing you're taught is, 'Don't look into the camera; ignore it.'
‐‐ Yael Grobglas