All Quotes

As an actor, you most often play relatively average parts, so to get to play extreme versions of anything, those are the most exciting parts.
‐‐ Neil Patrick Harris

As an actor, you need everything you can get to be truly scary and truly memorable.
‐‐ Robert Englund

As an actor, you need to be versatile. You need to challenge yourself.
‐‐ Colin Morgan

As an actor, you never know where the work's going to come, so you have to be flexible about it.
‐‐ Lesley Nicol

As an actor, you never try to be someone else. You can't.
‐‐ Liam McIntyre

As an actor, you pay attention very closely to everything that happens to you, and you're constantly watching others as well, trying to just find out where everything comes from.
‐‐ Caleb Landry Jones

As an actor, you put yourself out there. You put yourself in the arena as an easy target.
‐‐ Katee Sackhoff

As an actor, you're always at the service of somebody else's vision. In a play, it's more of the director's vision, and he or she's got their hands on you all the way up to opening night, and if it's a film, there are even more people.
‐‐ Jeff Daniels

As an actor, you're always changing.
‐‐ Charlie Weber

As an actor, you're always nervous as to what a director will do with something.
‐‐ Kevin Spacey

As an actor, you're always playing different people, so you yourself are always kind of going through an identity crisis.
‐‐ Josh Hutcherson

As an actor, you're always worried about getting stuck on a show that's not good because working actors need the paycheck. So being cast on a regular procedural, where everything gets wrapped up by the end of the episode, was always a fear of mine because that doesn't really test you as an actor.
‐‐ Manny Montana

As an actor, you're constantly looking to be pushed.
‐‐ Maisie Williams

As an actor, you're constantly riddled with self-doubt. You are your own worst critic.
‐‐ Michelle Fairley

As an actor, you're in the hands of producers and directors. It's important to find out who you're working with.
‐‐ Sean Bean

As an actor, you're like, 'Yeah, I want that phone call from Peter Jackson saying, 'You're my first choice for Thorin Oakenshield.'
‐‐ Richard C. Armitage

As an actor, you're listening to the other person and always trying to be present and take everything they're giving you, but when they're not there, you have to produce that yourself.
‐‐ Tatiana Maslany

As an actor, you're lucky if you get a month before a project starts. There are times when you get a day before a project starts. So to be able to really sit and inhabit that mind and the story is really beneficial, and it really helps for me to be able to then compartmentalize as we're shooting and detach and go somewhere else.
‐‐ Katie Aselton

As an actor, you're naked emotionally; you're revealing yourself emotionally.
‐‐ Carla Gugino

As an actor, you're never busy enough.
‐‐ Bryan Callen

As an actor, you're never really in control of the product. I think the goal is to create what you want. And if you can get as close as you can get to the creation of something, it starts with development.
‐‐ Scott Cohen

As an actor, you're pretty much a hired gun. You are reading other people's words off of a page and doing what they want you to do.
‐‐ Corey Feldman

As an actor, you're sort of the court-appointed lawyer for the character.
‐‐ Vera Farmiga

As an actor, you're supposed to take jobs that will challenge you or force fans to see you in a different light. By the '90s, I wasn't really an actor anymore. I was someone who went on the road with these gigantic concerts.
‐‐ Bette Midler

As an actor, you're tied to the writing. You live and die by what's written for you. And you can elevate that to a certain extent, but really, that's your blueprint.
‐‐ James Wolk

As an actor, you're trained to do the right thing, be politically correct, say your lines, say the right thing about the people you're working with.
‐‐ Idris Elba

As an actor, you're trying to capture the nuances of real life, but voice work is almost over-acting.
‐‐ Mike Colter

As an actor you're used to being the focus of attention.
‐‐ Yasmine Bleeth

As an actor, you read so many scripts and parts written for Asian-specific characters, and you see a lot of stereotypes and a lot of one-note characters, especially in comedy.
‐‐ Randall Park

As an actor, you really want to respect and honor the script. You want to try to be in the moment and you also realize that you're one part of a bigger picture and when they call action, you have your dance.
‐‐ Carrie-Anne Moss

As an actor, you see a sliver of how the show is made, but to see the actual writing process and the re-writing process and the casting process and art direction and set design - all of this is happening in a very intense period.
‐‐ John Slattery

As an actor, you spend a lot of your life in hotel rooms.
‐‐ Natalie Dormer

As an actor, you tend to live in a really small world, which is not very healthy. It is enriching to go to new places, meet different people know and learn about things which you didn't know about.
‐‐ Shahid Kapoor

As an actor, you try and be cool, but one of the reasons you become an actor is because you're a film fan. And then you're like, 'Oh my God, Ridley Scott just spoke to me!'
‐‐ Rafe Spall

As an actor, you try to bring as much of yourself to a part to try and create a feeling of authenticity and emotional truth and resonance.
‐‐ Jesse Eisenberg

As an actor, you try to put a little bit of yourself in everything you do.
‐‐ Michael Cudlitz

As an actor, you usually live your life with faith.
‐‐ Molly Parker

As an actor, you've got to have faith in the director's vision, that the director has a vision for this that is greater than the critics say.
‐‐ Cliff Curtis

As an actor, you've worked very hard, and you've been doing this for 20-some years, and William Morris was never interested - or any studio, either - in your company or as an actor, and then 'God's Not Dead' happens, and now everyone calls you.
‐‐ David A. R. White

As an actor, you want a director who makes you feel comfortable in a place that you can really create and try a lot of different things.
‐‐ Ansel Elgort

As an actor, you want as much variety as you can muster up. Otherwise you just keep playing the same chord over and over again.
‐‐ Michelle Forbes

As an actor, you want new challenges. U.S. TV can be very formulaic. So when something gets a reaction, as 'The Slap' has, that's great. The sense I get is that it's not about me or my performance. More than anything it's the subject matter that people are focused on.'
‐‐ Jonathan LaPaglia

As an actor you want people to know you and there are times you want your pictures taken, but it's unnerving to walk out of a venue with friends and there are 20 people flashing lights in your face. Do you know how bright those lights are?
‐‐ Ashley Greene

As an actor, you want to be able to move your character forward into new ground, but also it's really interesting to go backwards and unpeel those layers and the interesting elements of what your character is and what informs the decisions that you make so that you can have as much meat to work with.
‐‐ Jesse Williams

As an actor, you want to do the best job possible, and you want the best scripts possible because it makes life more interesting.
‐‐ Mark Strickson

As an actor, you want to keep your demons to some extent, but you also have to exorcise them so you can use them instead of them using you.
‐‐ Skeet Ulrich

As an actor, you want to push yourself.
‐‐ Sarah Baker

As an actor, you work to the script: that's our main priority. But you have to be aware and look around for things that help you bring that little bit extra, that touch of realism that rams the point home.
‐‐ Jason Statham

As an actor, you wouldn't be able to play a character if you were worried about the reaction to what you're doing.
‐‐ Jessica Capshaw

As an actor, your life experience is just as important as studying.
‐‐ Jane Badler