Actors famous quotes

I'm an actor and it happened to go my way that day.
-- Aaron Eckhart

#Actors #Way #My Way

It makes me feel good that I can now sit there and go, I've worked with Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, all the great actors that I've worked with... Sir Ben Kingsley.
-- Aaron Eckhart

#Feel Good #Actors #Als

Some movies I see today have the most dramatic plot points but the actors are not playing them dramatically.
-- Aaron Eckhart

#Plot #Actors #Today

I think every actor wants to be an FBI or cop at one point.
-- Aaron Eckhart

#Thinking #Actors #Want

I would love to get great performances from actors as a director, because that's what I'm always looking for, a director that's going to help me go places I've never been before.
-- Aaron Eckhart

#Directors #Actors #Helping

I've grown so much, not just as an actor, but as a human being.
-- Aaron Paul

#Actors #Humans

I'm a character actor.
-- Aaron Paul

#Character #Actors

I consider myself a blue-collar actor, just chugging away.
-- Aaron Stanford

#Blue #Actors #Blue Collar

You have to find it in the moment, and that's one of the challenges of being an actor - especially a film actor - is that you have to maintain these heightened emotions for long periods of time. There's no trick to it. You just have to do.
-- Aaron Stanford

#Long #Challenges #Actors

I'm constantly trying to find something that's different from me, whereas some actors do the same thing, again and again. That's not for me.
-- Aaron Taylor-Johnson

#Trying #Different #Actors

You always have to make positive choices as an actor, even when you're playing someone who may not be doing the best things.
-- Aaron Tveit

#Choices #Actors #May

It's every actor's dream to work in a hit show on Broadway and also shoot a television show.
-- Aaron Tveit

#Dream #Broadway #Actors

I'm a bit hyperactive as an actor, I like to keep moving.
-- Abbie Cornish

#Moving #Actors #Keep Moving

Life actors never rehearse and need no script. A life actor uses only what is available, nothing more, nothing less.
-- Abbie Hoffman

#Needs #Use #Actors

Certain actors wanna get paid, they think working in a low-budget movie is being ripped off. But for others it's like, 'Yes, let's do it.'
-- Abel Ferrara

#Thinking #Actors #Lows

The actors that I love to work with, they're hard on me. They're pushing me.
-- Abel Ferrara

#Actors #Pushing

Every actor has his own identity. I don't aspire to be Bond. My quest is to do something new, something different.
-- Abhishek Bachchan

#Identity #Different #Actors

The only fear I have is that I will wake up one day and nobody will allow me to do films. This is a fear every actor has.
-- Abhishek Bachchan

#One Day #Wake Up #Actors

It helps if you don't date other actors, but actresses are beautiful. How can you say no?
-- Adam Brody

#Beautiful #Actors #Actresses

Transitioning to being an unemployed film actor is different, but it's fun and I've been looking forward to it for a while.
-- Adam Brody

#Fun #Different #Actors

It was very clear to me I wanted to be an actor when I got out into civilian life.
-- Adam Driver

#Actors #Clear #Wanted

Girls' feels very active and stirring a conversation and controversial, and you can't really ask for more as an actor.
-- Adam Driver

#Girl #Actors #Controversial

I'm not an acting monk or anything. I'm not, like, the most well-adjusted actor.
-- Adam Driver

#Acting #Actors #Monk

I get why certain actors want to stay in the closet.
-- Adam Lambert

#Actors #Want #Closets

I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.
-- Adam Pascal

#Actors #Gifted #Feels

I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.
-- Adam Sandler

#Guy #Comedian #Actors

How many actors have a shot at being a part of something that became a part of pop culture? It's been very rewarding. I'm not getting the 20 million bucks for the new movies, but at least I'm getting warmth and recognition from people wherever I go.
-- Adam West

#People #Culture #Actors

I never consciously set out to be an actor. I just kind of did whatever acting I could do.
-- Adelaide Clemens

#Acting #Actors #Kind

I live in L.A. and I do have wonderful friends; I moved there when I was 19 so I developed a close knit group of friends, none of whom are actors, none of which are Australian, but I couldn't do it long term.
-- Adelaide Clemens

#Long #Groups #Actors

I really like being thrown into the works. Many actors, I have found, have this as a common trait. We had to, as children, adapt to various situations with either a military family or things like that.
-- Adelaide Clemens

#Children #Military #Actors

My main goal as an actor, with my craft or whatever poncy way you want to say it, is to always take the audience with me. To make them feel for me, or to make them hate me, I want a reaction. I want their emotions. The worst reaction someone can have is, "eh."
-- Adelaide Kane

#Hate #Goal #Actors

Auditioning is extremely bizarre. Just being an actor is extremely bizarre, but I wouldn't have it any other way.
-- Adelaide Kane

#Actors #Way #Just Being

You ask any actor - they'll tell you they'd rather shoot on location because you don't have to invent the energy, the energy is there.
-- Adrian Grenier

#Energy #Actors #Location

I've always been interested in films where you can identify with the actors. Where you can be in their shoes and therefore be more involved if they're people that you recognize.
-- Adrian Lyne

#Shoes #People #Actors

If you are prepared to make a fool of yourself for them then you usually get that back. I think that there are points where you become so close to an actor, you know them so well, almost as well or better than their spouse. You have to know them, warts and all.
-- Adrian Lyne

#Thinking #Actors #Fool

The hardest thing as an actor is that you work really hard constantly for these roles, and you invest so much in it. And when they don't come to fruition and nobody sees them, there's a part of you that dies a little bit. It's like, 'Ah! But I worked so hard!' But that's the business.
-- Adrianne Palicki

#Roles #Fruition #Actors

I always had an actor within me.
-- Adrien Brody

#Actors

You see some of these actors, they have a permanent smile on their face. How can they do that? It really fascinates me.
-- Agnes Bruckner

#Actors #Faces

Every actor wants to change things up a bit. You don't want to be pigeonholed, and not just because of what the industry might think.
-- Aidan Turner

#Thinking #Actors #Want

On general principle, I boycott shows that don't employ actors.
-- Aisha Tyler

#Principles #Actors #Shows

Today I divide my day between being actor, producer and distributor, and the monotony is broken.
-- Ajay Devgan

#Broken #Promise #Actors

Earlier, I used to charge territories instead of my fees as an actor, but I realised it was better to keep the two apart. Now, I take my fees in cash, for acting, and keep the distribution thing separate.
-- Ajay Devgan

#Two #Acting #Actors

We make a contract within ourselves as actors or directors or writers about how much of ourselves we let into projects. You can actually figure out before you work on something how much blood you will have to let emotionally.
-- Ajay Naidu

#Blood #Directors #Actors

Part of the work is determining through what instrument you are playing. Actors are physical, olympian storytellers and we should be able to create entire landscapes with nothing.
-- Ajay Naidu

#Landscape #Able #Actors

I'm glad that I'm being acclaimed as an actor. Today, when my hard work has paid off I can chill out about it.
-- Akshay Kumar

#Hard Work #Actors #Today

My love for sports will never die. I love martial arts and I want to promote it in whichever way I can. I am a fighter first, then an actor.
-- Akshay Kumar

#Sports #Art #Actors

[Marlon] Brando's a giant on every level. When he acts it's as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors.
-- Al Pacino

#Giants #Actors #Levels

The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
-- Al Pacino

#Athlete #Emotional #Actors

I hope the perception is that I'm an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.
-- Al Pacino

#Stars #Perception #Actors

I want to be a great actor someday, and I've decided there's no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.
-- Al Pacino

#Acting #Use #Actors

When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies. It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I'd go home and act all the parts. It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
-- Al Pacino

#Mother #Home #Actors

When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I'm going to do a big scene that's dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.
-- Al Pacino

#Trying #Actors #Serious

I've often said there's two kinds of actors. There's a more gregarious type and the shy type.
-- Al Pacino

#Two #Shy #Actors

As an artist, as an actor, as a writer, you have to use what's personal to you. You have to be personal about your work; otherwise, it doesn't ring true.
-- Alan Alda

#Artist #Use #Actors

I've been nominated twice before as actor in a leading part. Now I'm nominated as actor in a supporting part. If I don't win, I'll just wait until I'm nominated for being in the theater during the show. Do they have one like that?
-- Alan Alda

#Winning #Waiting #Actors

I know that if I can't move people, then I have no business being an actor.
-- Alan Arkin

#Moving #People #Actors

I'm an actor. My life as an actor depends on who sends me what. I'm just taking the best stuff that I can find that's sent my way, regardless of how big or little the paycheck is. I don't want to work for scale anymore. I'm at a point now where, no matter how good something is, I'm not going to kill myself and end up in the hole.
-- Alan Arkin

#Actors #Want #Littles

I think American actors are much more intimidated by Shakespeare.
-- Alan Cumming

#Thinking #Actors #Intimidated

Actors aren't stupid, mostly, and if there's a sensibility and an aesthetic that a director's going for, if you're aware of that too, you can do things to help that.
-- Alan Cumming

#Stupid #Directors #Actors

Making a film is so hard that if you don't have your main actors going along with the ride with the rest of the crew it can make your life very difficult.
-- Alan Parker

#Actors #Film #Crew

Actors are actually very supportive of each other.
-- Alan Rickman

#Supportive #Actors

I think every English actor is nervous of a Newcastle accent.
-- Alan Rickman

#Thinking #Actors #Nervous

Parts win prizes, not actors.
-- Alan Rickman

#Winning #Actors #Prize

What is it about actors? God knows I get bored with actors talking about themselves.
-- Alan Rickman

#Talking #Bored #Actors

From my experience, I think that every actor has to make sure that they're in charge of their own career somehow or other.
-- Alan Rickman

#Thinking #Careers #Actors

I'm a quite serious actor who doesn't mind being ridiculously comic.
-- Alan Rickman

#Mind #Actors #Serious

Film has to be reflecting the world that we live in, and that's all you want to be a part of. Actors inhabit the same planet as everyone else. It's a weird thing that happens when you're an actor because people hold you up because you somehow embody in parts groups of people or people's hopes or something.
-- Alan Rickman

#People #Groups #Actors

All I want to see from an actor is the intensity and accuracy of their listening.
-- Alan Rickman

#Listening #Actors #Want

Actors are frightened little children.
-- Alan Rosenberg

#Children #Actors #Littles

The displacement of scripted series by reality programming continues to be a severe obstacle to a working actor's ability to earn a living.
-- Alan Rosenberg

#Reality #Actors #Obstacles

I trained as a stage actor and was given a lot of technical tools to play with.
-- Alan Tudyk

#Play #Tools #Actors

Once you sign on as an actor, you know, you don't go to the editing room, you don't see how they cut, you don't see how they score, you don't see how they cast the rest of the movie.
-- Albert Brooks

#Cutting #Editing #Actors

It's true that old actors don't die, their parts get smaller. You're less likely to get the part, many parts, if you're playing people your age as opposed to people who are younger. There are fewer parts around.
-- Albert Finney

#People #Age #Actors

When I told my parents, 'I'm going to be an actor,' they screamed and wept and freaked out.
-- Alec Baldwin

#Parent #Actors

Let's face facts, this is visual medium, there's a very high premium put on people who are good-looking. But the minute you rely on that you get yourself in trouble. You certainly don't make a career out of that anymore as an actor.
-- Alec Baldwin

#Careers #People #Actors

I don't know what else I could do but pretend to be an actor.
-- Alec Guinness

#Actors

Many people with a wild desire to act prove failures on the stage, their inclinations are greater than their powers. Rarely is it the other way ...
-- Alec-Tweedie

#People #Desire #Actors

Your crew becomes your family and you trust the director and the other actors on the set, and it's a very safe place.
-- Aleksa Palladino

#Directors #Actors #Safe

I guess Ive always wanted to push the boundaries as an actor.
-- Alessandro Nivola

#Actors #Boundaries #Wanted

The thing with being able to do accents is that it's still completely separate from being an actor.
-- Alessandro Nivola

#Actors #Able #Accents

I'm a good actor in that sense for directors because I always do what they say.
-- Alex Cox

#Directors #Actors

I was a professional dancer before I was an actor.
-- Alex Meraz

#Dancer #Actors

I can be a horrible actor, but I make a move that makes a money I'm secured a job.
-- Alex Meraz

#Jobs #Moving #Actors

Im a career actor. And I question this constant reliance on TV fame and celebrity.
-- Alexander Hanson

#Careers #Actors #Tvs

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

#Actors #Persons

The actors are the greatest executors of tone in a film. They're the most important cinematic component.
-- Alexander Payne

#Important #Actors #Tone

I'm not necessarily a good actor, but once people start saying you are, you are. And I know that that's a truism, and there's obviously nothing important in that particular statement, but it's really about the fact that people create you as a good actor.
-- Alexander Siddig

#People #Important #Actors

My plan was never to be an actor like my father.
-- Alexander Skarsgard

#Father #Actors #Plans

By the time I had finished my studies at St. Paul's School, I knew I wanted to be an actor.
-- Alexis Denisof

#School #Actors #Study

Contrast of emotions is definitely something interesting that you like to do as an actor.
-- Alfie Allen

#Interesting #Actors #Emotion

What I've been noticing is people coming up to me and going, 'Are you an actor?' which is cool. That's ultimately what I want.
-- Alfie Allen

#People #Actors #Want

I used to be very controlling with visuals and editing, and I would pretty much craft the performances; now I have learned to trust the material and the actors.
-- Alfonso Cuaron

#Editing #Crafts #Actors

If you want to be an actor, you have to do it because you love acting, not because you want to be a celebrity.
-- Alfonso Ribeiro

#Acting #Actors #Want

After 9/11 and the impending actors' strike of a few years ago, roles dried up for everyone.
-- Alfre Woodard

#Years #Roles #Actors

Disney has the best casting. If he doesn't like an actor he just tears him up.
-- Alfred Hitchcock

#Tears #Actors #Casting

Screen work always boils down to that moment between the camera and the actor or the actors. It always boils down to that, ultimately. You serve the camera.
-- Alfred Molina

#Cameras #Actors #Moments

The worst thing that an actor can do is go into any project with a lack of respect for the material. You can have an opinion about it, but you have to respect yourself in doing it.
-- Alfred Molina

#Actors #Opinion #Respect Yourself

I love working fast. I don't relish the director who wants to do 25 to 30 takes, or the actors who insist on doing 25 or 30 takes.
-- Alfred Molina

#Directors #Actors #Want

I think it would be a problem if Hollywood was casting British actors only as villains; if that were the case, then certainly there would be cause for concern.
-- Alfred Molina

#Thinking #Would Be #Actors

I've worked with actors who treat the first two takes like rehearsals. And that's okay. If the camera is on you and we're doing a scene where I'm off camera, I'm treating that as a rehearsal.
-- Alfred Molina

#Two #Cameras #Actors