Actors Quotes

Becoming an actor is like becoming a father. It's not hard to become one. Making a life of it is the challenge.

I'm an actor who believes we all have triggers to any stage of emotion. It's not always easy to find but it's still there.

I don't see myself as a 'black actor,' I'm just Shemar Moore the actor.

An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer.

As an actor, I look at scenes much differently than I would look at them as a director, and I never realized that until it actually happened.

A conservative frame of mind is very limiting for an actor, and a human being, too.

I've always played the guy with the gun and the knife. That's how many actors start out, playing the bad guy.

In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator.

There are no small parts. Only small actors.

Improv as an actor makes you present in the moment. You listen, you're attentive. You're not acting so much as reacting, which is what you're doing in life all the time.

I like actors who, when you see them on screen, you sense a person, not just an actor.

You know, young actors say all the time, 'Should I use my own life experience?' And my response is, 'What choice do you have?'

I think that with any emotion - fear, love, nervousness - if the actor's feeling it, then the audience feels it.

Independent film is for actors that love to act.

As far as being an actor is concerned, you have to have passion. If you're not bringing the passion of the character into the room with you, you might as well not come into the room at all.

I find that actors who are wanting to pursue tv or films don't seem to have much interest in classical theatre.

I have to tell you, you can't have an ego when you're an actor. A lot of actors have them, but in reality most of those people are just sensitive artists dying for a hug and a compliment.

One of the best things about being an actor is that it's a meritocracy.

I have been a depressed kid. I wanted to lead a quiet life, never wanted to be an actor.

When I walk into a screening, I'm nervous in a different way than I am as an actor. But the response is ultimately I know how I feel about it and that's what matters to me the most.

I think actors have a choice of drawing attention to themselves or living on the outskirts.

Every actor has a natural animosity toward every other actor, present or absent, living or dead

I'm just back in line with every other actor looking for a job right now and keeping my fingers crossed.

Don't pretend to know everything. I've been blessed to work with a lot of veteran actors, and I soak up lessons from them like a sponge.

Acting is the use of human experience with talent added.

However, I hope I am also judged on my accomplishments as an actor and not just on my pretty face!

Somebody did an article in one of the newspapers saying that at that time I had the most visibility of any actor around. Kind of nice, you know, when that thing was happening.

I am very much a seat-of-the-pants actor. I will prepare when I have to. But I like being unprepared.

Ninety per cent of how you learn is watching great people. When you are surrounded by good actors it lifts your performance.

What I find sometimes that is tricky is if actors are using too much of their own life in a picture, in a scene, they get locked into a particular way to play the scene, and it lacks an immediacy.

Actors cannot work against each other. It's totally impossible.

Actors are an insecure breed. It's hard to have your career depend upon other people's opinions of what you do.

The public must suffer untold pangs from the stiffness, the deliberate stifling of emotion, on the part of many British actors.

In a sense, I think a movie is really a little like a question and when you make it, that's when you get the answer.

Acting itself is quite scary. Some people say that actors are show-offs, very egotistical and all that kind of stuff, but it is quite scary.

The role of an actor is to make every character believable.

I am the most fortunate self-taught harpist and non-speaking actor who has ever lived.

An actor who is good at comedy can also be very good at drama, but not necessarily vice versa.

I am admiring of my fellow peers, black filmmakers and black actors and actresses.

Most writers write haphazardly. The actor is fighting unjustified words all the time.

I believe that God felt sorry for actors so he created Hollywood to give them a place in the sun and a swimming pool. The price they had to pay was to surrender their talent.

Speaking as an actress, I wish all actors would be more like Duke Wayne. And speaking as a person, it would be nice if all people could be honest and as genuine as he is. This is a real man.

Fifteen years before I became a screen actor, I was in the theatre. A lot of my work was comedy, which I loved doing. It's harder.

Filmmaking for me is always aiming for the imaginary movie and never achieving it.

I always felt I was a nobody, and the only way for me to be somebody was to be - well, somebody else. Which is probably why I wanted to act.

I'm Godless. I've had to make my God, and my God is narrative filmmaking

It is all about marketing; that is where the real craft comes in. The best actors do not necessarily become the biggest stars. And vice versa.

Actors and magicians are both performers and they represent things that are not necessarily who they are.

As an actor, you're used to putting on characters, taking them off, becoming someone else, doing your research, and working on that.

I like actors that are good with pantomime and that can transmit a lot by their presence and attitude more than through their dialogue