All Quotes

As an actor, the minute you start getting real in interviews, you lose mystery.
‐‐ Shia LaBeouf

As an actor, the second and last ones were interesting for me. Because those parts had the most change in playing someone who was both light and dark, sort of Jekyl and Hyde.
‐‐ Sigourney Weaver

As an actor, the thing I want to do to an audience is always be ahead of them and always be surprising in the work without deviating from the writer's intention.
‐‐ Steve Bisley

As an actor, the toughest thing is being subject to circumstance. Meaning: What scripts are out there that are available?
‐‐ Paul Dano

As an actor, the training I received was that I walk through the world as an observer of life and of people. My job is to actually be looking out all the time and watching people.
‐‐ David Schwimmer

As an actor, there are many confusing factors that can make you take or not take a decision. It becomes difficult. Your first and last checkpoint should be the story. I always read a script as an audience.
‐‐ Nimrat Kaur

As an actor there are no drawbacks.
‐‐ John Malkovich

As an actor, there are places you can live, and when I graduated from school, it was either New York or L.A., and I liked the East Coast. That's why I ended up in New York.
‐‐ Julianne Moore

As an actor, there are so many different people to hide behind.
‐‐ Kevin Connolly

As an actor there are times when you're sitting around and wishing you were working, so you've got to just take it when it comes.
‐‐ Rosario Dawson

As an actor, there is always an opportunity to learn from the other actors you work with.
‐‐ KaDee Strickland

As an actor, there is room for a certain amount of creativity, but you're always ultimately going to be saying somebody else's words. I don't think I'd have the stamina, skill or ability to write a novel, but I'd love to write short stories and poetry, because those are my two passions.
‐‐ Daniel Radcliffe

As an actor, there's a bit of you that's decided you want to be looked at and watched, but there's a paradoxical bit that wants to run away.
‐‐ Ralph Fiennes

As an actor there's a lot of scrutiny and, even when you've had success, it becomes about sustaining that success. A friend of mine described it as a peakless mountain. Even for De Niro there's Pacino and for Pacino there's De Niro.
‐‐ Eddie Redmayne

As an actor, there's always that fear. You don't know where the next job's coming from, so you say, 'I'll do that, I'll do that, I'll do that'. Your choices are not always clearly thought out, and you can end up taking mis-steps.
‐‐ Dexter Fletcher

As an actor there's no autonomy, unless you're prepared to risk the possibility of starving.
‐‐ Ben Kingsley

As an actor, there's very little you can do if people don't want to see you. Just getting yourself into the room to audition is tough.
‐‐ Domhnall Gleeson

As an actor, to do all sorts of different films is great.
‐‐ Hugo Weaving

As an actor, to go and see those shows - great plays like 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' and Clifford Odets's 'Golden Boy' - it's so exhilarating. I'd personally love to perform the role of Jerry in Edward Albee's 'The Zoo Story.' He's a transient, lost soul, and an example of humanity at its rawest.
‐‐ Keegan Allen

As an actor, to have achieved financial stability is amazing. But I always have this weird fear that I'm not going to get any more work; it's about not having enough money.
‐‐ Paul Giamatti

As an actor, to play someone who's at war with himself, that's so interesting.
‐‐ Hugo Weaving

As an actor to watch an audience of people howl together in a single mind as a result of work you've done together with friends is a privilege.
‐‐ Tommy Lee Jones

As an actor, we always want people to write about us and talk about us. And when they are actually writing, then we say, 'Don't write about this.' I am an actor; I am a public property. I don't own myself; public owns me.
‐‐ Ranbir Kapoor

As an actor, we are, in a way, a mirror of other people.
‐‐ Chris Sarandon

As an actor we're just like workers in a factory, we provide our services to directors.
‐‐ Chow Yun-Fat

As an actor, we're unemployed a lot, so I'm familiar with the stress of trying to get a gig, and sometimes you take shows that you don't really want to do to keep the money coming in.
‐‐ Aaron Douglas

As an actor, we spend so much putting the mask on and trying to be someone you're not.
‐‐ Russell Hornsby

As an actor, what I'm finding is that I really like the extremes. I think that's really fun to play with.
‐‐ Taylor Schilling

As an actor, what's interesting is what's hidden away beneath the surface. You want to be like a duck on a pond - very calm on the surface but paddling away like crazy underneath.
‐‐ Alexander Skarsgard

As an actor, what you dream of is being able to portray people that people empathize with and understand and really feel for.
‐‐ Daniel Sharman

As an actor, what you really want to do is communicate with people - this is my aim, my principle aim.
‐‐ Pierfrancesco Favino

As an actor, whatever I get the opportunity to do, if it has a good story then I'm in. I thought 'Dead End' had a great story; 'Nightmare on Elm Street,' of course, was probably the first real horror film I was in.
‐‐ Lin Shaye

As an actor, when you are called upon to do a job, you are oftentimes convinced you can't do it. You say to yourself 'I don't have the talent for this; they are going to figure out I'm a fraud.' And then you watch how the others do it, and fake your confidence.
‐‐ Erich Bergen

As an actor, when you encounter a psychopathic personality, you naturally want to make him 'bigger than life,' as the Americans say.
‐‐ Antonio Banderas

As an actor, when you go for auditions, there are certain roles that come along and you think, 'I really want that one,' and Prince Arthur was definitely one of those.
‐‐ Bradley James

As an actor, whether you look good or you don't, it's still about what you look like: Whether you are heavy enough to play this part or thin enough to play that part. The fact of the matter is, you can add a little weight with some extra padding, but you can't shave it off.
‐‐ Cherry Jones

As an actor who has spent twenty years trying to crack America, the day I reached the 'Bloodline' set and found my name on a chair next to Sissy Spacek's was the happiest of my working life.
‐‐ Ben Mendelsohn

As an actor you accept that you have to publicise what you do, but as for the whole personal life thing that people sometimes choose, no, that's not for me.
‐‐ Michelle Fairley

As an actor, you act in order to make a living. Then, when you can make a living, you start acting because you want to do what you love to do. I need to remind myself of that a lot.
‐‐ Ty Simpkins

As an actor, you always dream of having material that showcases what you can do.
‐‐ Michael B. Jordan

As an actor, you always have to reinvent yourself or you end up in the gutter somewhere. It's my job to always change people's minds. I've known that for a long time and I've had to do it.
‐‐ Dylan McDermott

As an actor, you always think that whatever job you have is going to be your last. In some way, shape or form, you think you're going to screw it up and you're never going to work again.
‐‐ Ian Somerhalder

As an actor, you always think your last job is your last job, and you're always doubting yourself and worried that people will see you're a fraud.
‐‐ James Marsden

As an actor, you always want to feel like what you're doing is making a difference to the story.
‐‐ Matthew Lewis

As an actor, you always want to find a piece of who you are in every role you take on.
‐‐ Larenz Tate

As an actor, you always want to keep it different, change it up, and, you know, just to keep yourself inspired and work with interesting characters.
‐‐ Kelly Reilly

As an actor you appreciate the security of a job. But I don't ever want to get too comfortable.
‐‐ Chris Noth

As an actor, you are always looking for roles that will challenge you, and when I came upon Aung San Suu Kyi, it wasn't just about that but also about stepping into the shoes of someone who means so much to millions of people.
‐‐ Michelle Yeoh

As an actor, you are always looking for something fresh and interesting and not ordinary.
‐‐ Megalyn Echikunwoke

As an actor, you are always looking for subtext, for layers, for what's going on underneath.
‐‐ Antje Traue