Best Actors Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I think film is a world of directors. Theater is a world of actors.”

Thinking World Film Actors Directors Theater

“In theater, you are there, you have a character, you have a play, you have a light, you have a set, you have an audience, and you're in control, and every night is different depending on you and the relationship with the other actors. It's as simple as that.”

Different Play Character Light Night Actors Simple Audience Theater Every Night

Author:Diego Luna

“For me, one of the most important things I look for in an actor is whether we can converse. Do we have a similar ability to discuss a character?”

Looks Important Character Actors Ability Important Things Converses

Author:Jennifer Lynch

“Although filmmaking is collaborative and involves trust, ultimately it is the director who holds the whole picture together in their head.”

Whole Together Actors Directors Movie Filmmaking Whole Picture

Author:Julia Leigh

“It's dangerous to think too much about how a film will be received. Filmmaking is not a popularity contest. Some would disagree.”

Thinking Film Actors Too Much Dangerous Movie Disagree Filmmaking Popularity Contests Popularity Contest

Author:Julia Leigh

“The point is the 'me' that you see before you is not the 'me' in my private little space, shape-shifting into the writing role, nor is it the 'me' that works with the actors. Here, at the end of the film doing interviews, I feel like I'm in disguise.”

Feels Writing Littles Ends Film Actors Space Roles Shapes Interviews Disguise Shifting

Author:Julia Leigh

“I got my first job when I moved to Los Angeles. I worked at a coffee shop for five years and it was one of the best experiences I ever had. It was a bunch of actors covering shifts for each other and becoming great friends.”

Years Firsts Jobs Actors Five Becoming Moved Coffee Bunch Five Years Shops Los Angeles Covering Great Friend Coffee Shop Best Experiences Becoming Great

Author:Katie Leclerc

“I'm a character actor; that's my skill set.”

Character Actors Skills Character Actors

Author:Kristin Lehman

“I'm a journeyman actor. My experience as a journeyman actor is that you have to go where the work is. I've never been the lead; I've never been in that position.”

Actors Position

Author:Kristin Lehman

“I appreciate film actors who respect the film making process.”

Film Actors Process Appreciate Film Actors

Author:Logan Lerman

“I want to be a good actor more than anything - someone you can respect.”

Want Actors Good Actors

Author:Logan Lerman

“I'm very self-conscious as an actor, with performances and things, and I don't like watching my own stuff.”

Self Actors Stuff My Own Conscious Performances Self Conscious

Author:Matthew Lewis

“The great thing as an actor is that I don't know what my agent is going to call me with next.”

Knows Next Actors Great Things Agents Call Me

Author:Matthew Lewis

“Most actors will tell you that it takes a while to figure out what you want to be because we just want to do everything we see on TV and don't know that 'actor' is a job yet.”

Knows Want Jobs Actors Figures Tvs What You Want

Author:Rachelle Lefevre

“I don't want to be an actor, but why not take these opportunities when they come to you? I'm not killing myself auditioning, chasing that dream.”

Want Dream Actors Opportunity Killing Why Not Chasing Killing Myself

Author:Adam Levine

“My favorite actor who played villains - who could play anything, really - was Jimmy Cagney.”

Play Actors My Favorite Villain Jimmy

Author:Malcolm McDowell

“An actor cannot be a censor. I'm there to interpret.”

Actors

Author:Malcolm McDowell

“When I was 18, I joined the Screen Actors Guild, and after college I came to New York.”

Actors New York College Screens Guilds

Author:Marla Maples

“Adolescence is a tough one to be a child actor.”

Children Actors Tough Adolescence Child Actors

Author:Jodie Foster

“It's really important for actors to feel that they're more than something for hire.”

Feels Important Actors

Author:Mary McDonnell

“Actors are part of a certain percentage of people on this planet who have an emotional vocabulary as a primary experience. It's as if their life is experienced emotionally and then that is translated intellectually or conceptually into the performance.”

People Ifs Life Is Certain Actors Emotional Planets Performances Primaries Vocabulary Percentages

Author:Mary McDonnell

“I don't feel like a romantic lead; I guess I feel more like a character actor.”

Feels Character Actors Character Actors

Author:Matthew Macfadyen

“I think it sits quite happily with me, the condition of being an actor. I see some people getting quite eaten up with it, with the insecurities. There are times when I long for continuity and stability, but I also love the idea of not knowing what I'll be doing next - or even if I'm going to work.”

People Ifs Thinking Long Ideas Next Actors Knowing Conditions Insecurity Stability Not Knowing Going To Work Continuity

Author:Matthew Macfadyen

“People like to think that actors are terribly worried about ghosts of other actors in the parts they play. But you just have to get on with it.”

People Thinking Play Actors Ghost Worried

Author:Matthew Macfadyen

“There's always a concern as an actor that you'll be boring unless your character is swinging from a chandelier.”

Character Actors Concern Boring Chandeliers

Author:Matthew Macfadyen

“I just loved the whole idea of being an actor.”

Ideas Whole Actors

Author:Matthew Macfadyen

“Some British actors are snobby about telly, and I don't understand that.”

Actors British Snobby

Author:Matthew Macfadyen

“I did four or five years in telly, and by the end of it was drained. I was a bit sick of myself. I didn't feel like an actor anymore. That sounds silly, but when you're doing a play you're using different muscles, and it blew all the cobwebs away.”

Feels Years Different Ends Play Actors Bits Sound Five Four Sick Silly Muscles Five Years Drained Cobwebs

Author:Matthew Macfadyen

“Think of Frank Capra and Preston Sturges. They used the same actors over and over again.”

Thinking Used Actors Frank

Author:Matthew Modine

“I'm a rapper trying to be an actor.”

Trying Actors Rapper

Author:Method Man

“Actors will change their face, will change their hair, will change their voice, will disappear into the role. A movie star doesn't disappear.”

Faces Actors Stars Voice Roles Hair Disappear Movie Star

Author:Nicholas Meyer

“I really believe great actors, even with disease and age, can be great.”

Believe Age Actors Disease Great Actors

Author:Olivier Martinez

“I'm not a movie star like other actors in the way that I need to walk with a bodyguard.”

Way Needs Actors Stars Walks Movie Star Bodyguard

Author:Olivier Martinez

“I like most of the Humphrey Bogart movies because they had to act then, and they acted very well. Edward G. Robinson is probably the best actor I've ever seen on the movies.”

Wells Actors Bogart

Author:Patrick Macnee

“So I find the fascination, the love, the incredible skill and everything to do with acting, writing plays, and doing them, just darling. Lovely. I love actors.”

Writing Play Actors Acting Skills Incredibles Lovely Fascination Darling

Author:Patrick Macnee

“Being on a Paul Thomas Anderson film, the best decision an actor can make is to listen to Paul Thomas Anderson. Because he's probably not going to steer anyone in the wrong direction. I would always say go with your gut on any other movie set, but with Paul, I would say go with Paul's gut.”

Film Actors Decision Guts Steers Wrong Direction Movie Sets

Author:Rami Malek

“It's nice to have recognition for doing a good job, but at the end of the day, I'm just an actor and I'm doing my job and I'm always trying to get better at doing that job.”

Trying Ends Jobs Actors Nice Recognition Get Better The End Of The Day Good Job Always Trying

Author:Richard Madden

“Most actors don't really have a director's sensibility. They have an actor's sensibility.”

Actors Directors Sensibility

Author:Jodie Foster

“I'm an actor and my job is to interpret.”

Jobs Actors

Author:Richard Madden

“Doing jobs that are completely different to the last thing I did pushes me as an actor to change as much as I can. It would be easy for me to stay in a similar vein of characters or jobs, but I'm drawn to challenging myself.”

I Can Different Character Would Be Jobs Lasts Actors Easy Challenges Veins Challenging Myself

Author:Richard Madden

“I think often I learn the most from other people's mistakes. If I'm in the audience watching an actor and thinking, 'I don't believe you,' I spend the rest of the play working out why I don't believe them.”

People Ifs Thinking Believe Play Actors Mistake Audience Don't Believe Work Out I Don't Believe You

Author:Richard Madden

“I can't say I was unhappy as a child actor in films. I had a particularly wonderful time.”

Children I Can Film Actors Wonderful Unhappy Wonderful Times Child Actors

Author:Roddy McDowall

“I started to study, because I knew I had to learn a lot about myself as an actor; you can't act the same as you did as a child.”

Children Actors Study

Author:Roddy McDowall

“I still have the actor's disease. I always think I'll never get another job.”

Thinking Stills Jobs Actors Disease

Author:Roddy McDowall

“I always wanted to be an actor, but I was always fighting it. It never seemed that honorable to me, and I guess I was always afraid that I might fail.”

Might Wanted Fighting Actors Failing Honorable Always Fighting

Author:Rooney Mara

“I think there's a very fine line between the type of performing that some actors do, and being in a state in your mind where you actually believe what's going on. If we weren't actors, what would we do with that ability? Would we not be slightly insane? Mentally ill? I don't know.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Mind Believe States Actors Lines Ability Fine Type Ill Insane Performing Fine Lines Mentally Ill

Author:Samantha Morton

“Any actor working a long time should know how a shot is set up, where to place themselves, how to handle the lines. I'm a member of the crew, like the best boy, the electrician. What I'm good at is making eyes at the camera.”

Knows Should Long Eye Actors Lines Boys Know How Members Long Time Shots Cameras Handle Crew Electrician

Author:Jodie Foster

“I'm an actor. That's what I'm gifted at. It's what makes me breathe.”

Actors Breathe Gifted

Author:Samantha Morton

“As an actor, I'm always playing solitary characters. But as a director, I'm always making ensemble movies, which focus on lots of people's lives and how they intertwine.”

People Character Actors Focus Directors Solitary Ensemble

Author:Jodie Foster

“As an actor, I'm attracted to drama; as a director, it's humor - because it's the story of my life, and I can't be that serious about it. Being alone is a big theme in all my movies, both as a director and as an actress.”

I Can Stories Bigs Actors Serious Drama Directors Actresses Theme Story Of My Life

Author:Jodie Foster

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