As an actor, you are aware of how a role can seep into your real life.
‐‐ Benedict Cumberbatch
As an actor, you are in a unique position because you're not only memorizing dialogue but really embodying it. You naturally feel the rhythm of good writing.
‐‐ Jesse Eisenberg
As an actor, you arrive most of the time at the last minute. You arrive at the end of the process, but you don't realize it.
‐‐ Karine Vanasse
As an actor, you ask yourself what you can do to put yourself in a position where you can play that role.
‐‐ Jeremy Northam
As an actor you become that lighting rod between the person who made the play and the audience.
‐‐ Christopher Walken
As an actor, you can believe that you are the reason for a show's success, but these things are a brand name now. They're like Coca-Cola. It's like, with or without you, people are still gonna drink it.
‐‐ Rocky Carroll
As an actor, you can certainly, at any moment and at any time, discover 400 people who think you're stupid, fat and ugly.
‐‐ Amy Poehler
As an actor, you can do everything. I grew up in the theater, and you could do a musical, a comedy, a tragedy.
‐‐ Mark Ruffalo
As an actor, you can do what you want with your role. That's why they hire you; to take the role and make it real.
‐‐ Ice T
As an actor, you can play different age ranges and different ethnicities.
‐‐ Justin Chon
As an actor, you can steer a scene in another direction by playing it a little differently. And honestly? I like being an actor, and I want to keep having a career.
‐‐ Ben Affleck
As an actor you can't build up proper relationships with the people you work with, because after six months, you're done.
‐‐ Dakota Blue Richards
As an actor, you can't just imitate someone. You have to get under her skin.
‐‐ Michelle Yeoh
As an actor, you can't think about the end result or the fame; you just have to focus on the day you're in. You have no control over the finished product, what people will think of it, so all you have is the experience of making it, and you have to stay focused on that.
‐‐ Orlando Bloom
As an actor, you can think your way out of a lot of good things sometimes. I trust my instincts as an actor, and I trust the instincts of the creators, so it's a good combination.
‐‐ Rocky Carroll
As an actor, you come in contact with so many different people and cultures. It makes you a more accepting person.
‐‐ Taylor Spreitler
As an actor, you don't have control over what you do, whom you work with.
‐‐ Scott Ellis
As an actor, you don't have much choice about your appearance. It's a good excuse for looking ridiculous.
‐‐ Kit Harington
As an actor, you don't know what is going to come next.
‐‐ Andie MacDowell
As an actor, you don't often get a chance to know exactly the impact of what the audience is seeing, even though you can ask where the frame is. A move that feels tiny can be huge, and vice versa.
‐‐ John Hawkes
As an actor, you don't want to be typecast, because Hollywood is so quick to put you in things that you've succeeded in before.
‐‐ Danny McBride
As an actor, you don't want to know the beginning and end to your character's arc. It makes it more fun. You're not playing the end. You're playing it realistically. You don't know where this character is going to go and what's going to happen to him, which just makes it more interesting for the viewers to watch.
‐‐ Jordan Gavaris
As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
‐‐ Olga Kurylenko
As an actor, you express certain things because they need to be expressed, and then you don't really feel a need to do it again. I want to feel something else, you know?
‐‐ Chiwetel Ejiofor
As an actor, you generally don't get to choose what projects you are part of, so I've been very fortunate that 'The Book of Mormon' was something I got to be part of. I don't want to be lofty, but it was groundbreaking, in many ways, for musical theater, so that was really thrilling to be part of.
‐‐ Andrew Rannells
As an actor, you get a bit itchy to do something entirely different.
‐‐ Lily James
As an actor you get categorized by other people, but it's not like I arrange myself into comedy mode or serious mode. If it's good writing you just have to play it true - if it's funny, it's funny. But obviously you don't want it to be amusing if you're playing Hedda Gabler!
‐‐ Sophie Thompson
As an actor, you get hired to repeat yourself. It wears you out.
‐‐ Paul McGann
As an actor, you get humbled all the time. Everyone is a critic.
‐‐ Joe Regalbuto
As an actor, you get to sort of bounce back and forth in terms of the age range you play and the life experience that your characters have.
‐‐ Jonathan Keltz
As an actor, you have an accumulated knowledge base. But there's also something about it that every time you really feel like you're doing it for the first time; you have no idea whether you're capable of it.
‐‐ Brit Marling
As an actor, you have many tools - your body, your voice, your emotions, mentally. In film, you have your eyes because they communicate your thought process. In fact, generally in film, what you don't say is more important than what you say. That's not so much the case for stage.
‐‐ Hugh Jackman
As an actor you have one great fear: pimples!
‐‐ Jonathan Brandis
As an actor, you have to be open to doing things where you look stupid, to be experimental.
‐‐ Jesse Eisenberg
As an actor, you have to get used to being told no, develop a thick skin, and just keep persevering.
‐‐ Emun Elliott
As an actor you have to get used to receiving gentle little pies in the face.
‐‐ James Purefoy
As an actor, you have to give up all control to the director. He's the boss, and has all the power. I'm a control freak, so that's really hard for me.
‐‐ Ebon Moss-Bachrach
As an actor you have to have a strong vivid imagination as you're working and when the camera's rolling, but there's certainly a part of you that is aware of real life, that you're making a movie.
‐‐ John Hawkes
As an actor, you have to have your history.
‐‐ Nora Dunn
As an actor, you have to understand how you are seen and then play with that. Otherwise, my looks are not important.
‐‐ Greg Wise
As an actor you have to wait for someone to cast you, so you're relying on the business.
‐‐ Mia Wasikowska
As an actor, you hope to find roles that are challenging to you as an artist. Then if you are truly blessed, you will find that it also carries a message that you can impart to your audience.
‐‐ Michelle Yeoh
As an actor, you just want to continue to work on things that you like. You can be in this business a long time and consistently working and just be totally artistically unfulfilled.
‐‐ Mike Colter
As an actor, you just want to work, and then you just want to be on a show or have a job that you love, and you hope that job will last - those things have happened. To have that platform to then talk about something that is very personal to me like marriage equality, it feels like a gift. I try and really respect that voice and not abuse it.
‐‐ Jesse Tyler Ferguson
As an actor, you know, I love not being pigeonholed, which is great. No one really knows who I am. So that's a positive.
‐‐ Kathryn Hahn
As an actor, you know there are things you get asked to do that you do quite well, with less effort.
‐‐ Martin Freeman
As an actor, you know when you've got great material in front of you. When you're working, you think, 'Is this the one? The one that everyone will respond to and be moved by?' You pray that you have told the story well... that your peers will see it and audiences will love it.
‐‐ Demian Bichir
As an actor, you look for roles that can constantly challenge you and you can learn from.
‐‐ Talisa Soto
As an actor you make choices that are either right or wrong, and you find the ones that are right for you. As an understudy, the choices have been made, so you have to make those choices right. Going into the role, you can't really question it.
‐‐ James Lecesne
As an actor, you may do things that aren't politically correct. Unless you're an actor who only does things for political reasons. I believe if we don't do the good, bad, and the ugly, we're not going to progress.
‐‐ Rosie Perez