Top actors Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of actors quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Shelley Winters
The trouble with marrying an actor is they grab you in their arms, hold you close and tell you how wonderful they are.
- Shelley Winters
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Image of Kimberly Elise
Unfortunately, when you're an actor you're like 'Ah, if the only knew.'
- Kimberly Elise
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Image of Anna Neagle
The most brilliant actor that I have ever worked with. I've liked others very much more.
- Anna Neagle
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Image of Chris Pine
I don't actually drive trains. I'm an actor.
- Chris Pine
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Image of Jerry Stiller
Would you go to see a brilliant actor who's been framed for something that he didn't do, and put him on a stage and say he's going to do Hamlet for you, and why don't you enjoy it? That's a hell of an analogy, but it's about the same thing.
- Jerry Stiller
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Image of William Petersen
I know a lot of actors who've just gotten bitter because they did something and then nobody ever saw it or whatever.
- William Petersen
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Image of Obie Trice
I don’t want to be an actor or nothing but if I have to, I’ll act if it’s the right thing.
- Obie Trice
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Image of J. D. Salinger
The world is full of actors pretending to be human
- J. D. Salinger
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Image of Mark Webber
Be in the moment as an actor and as a human being, and you're going to be happy.
- Mark Webber
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Image of Mickey Rourke
Actors should shut up about politics. They tend to be ill-informed finger-pointers who just cosy up to some flavour of-the-month liberal.
- Mickey Rourke
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Image of Deepika Padukone
I was getting to perform with an actor with whom I had never interacted before
- Deepika Padukone
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Image of Roger Moore
I used to work for a living. Then I became an actor.
- Roger Moore
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Image of Donnie Wahlberg
It's rare that I come across actors who are willing to work as hard on the material as I am
- Donnie Wahlberg
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Image of Clive Owen
You won't find a better young actor than Jaeden Lieberher. I ended up having one of the best times with him, really. Going to work with him every day was a treat.
- Clive Owen
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Image of Alia Shawkat
As an actor you want to just like, act as much as possible.
- Alia Shawkat
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Image of Hilary Swank
There's so much I want to do as an actor. I feel like there's so much more that I want to achieve and that I can achieve.
- Hilary Swank
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Image of Rob Reiner
With the films I've done, I've written on them, I've acted in some of them. And even ones I haven't acted in, I've acted them out just to be sure another actor can do them.
- Rob Reiner
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Image of Simone Signoret
I want only dead actors. That way there'll be no jealousy.
- Simone Signoret
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Image of Patrick Warburton
There are actors that are really fine actors but not good auditioners. There are really good auditioners that may not be great actors. There are great actors that are really good auditioners, too. I happen to be someone who's not a great auditioner, but usually on a set can hold my own.
- Patrick Warburton
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Image of Louise Brooks
Every actor has a natural animosity toward every other actor, present or absent, living or dead
- Louise Brooks
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Image of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Because ultimately only the witness -- and not the actors -- knows the truth (Vyasa to Draupadi)
- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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Image of Joel Silver
There are a lot of times where actors can be a little precious sometimes, and then it's difficult to put them in a situation where there is true hardship.
- Joel Silver
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Image of Eddie Redmayne
Actors who perhaps are super-confident and have absolute belief in themselves I always admire, because I can't really be like that.
- Eddie Redmayne
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Image of Tom Berenger
I guess if I weren't an actor, I'd be a history professor
- Tom Berenger
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Image of Sanford Meisner
Don't be an actor. Be a human being who works off what exists under imaginary circumstances.
- Sanford Meisner
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Image of Linda Gray
We're actors, we have to do what we have to do, and you have to be really solid within yourself.
- Linda Gray
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Image of Jimmy Cannon
England produces the best fat actors.
- Jimmy Cannon
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Image of Bryan Singer
I love Hugh Jackman. Love Hugh Jackman. He's the coolest. He's one of the coolest actors I've ever worked with, and I'll do anything with him.
- Bryan Singer
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Image of Alan Arkin
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
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Image of Emilia Clarke
I came out of my mum's stomach going, 'I want to be an actor!'
- Emilia Clarke
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Image of James Stewart
Mr. Hitchcock did not say actors are cattle. He said they should be treated like cattle.
- James Stewart
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Image of Michael Shurtleff
Every scene is a love scene. The actor should ask the question: 'Where is the love?'
- Michael Shurtleff
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Image of Michael Shurtleff
The life of an actor is a bit easier to take if you admit you're bonkers.
- Michael Shurtleff
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Image of Augusto Boal
Anyone can do theater, even actors. And theater can be done everywhere. Even in a theater.
- Augusto Boal
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Image of Augusto Boal
All human beings are Actors (they act!) and Spectators (they observe!).
- Augusto Boal
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Image of Steve Carell
Actors and magicians are both performers and they represent things that are not necessarily who they are.
- Steve Carell
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Image of Jonathan Rauch
Many actors, I've read, are introverts, and many introverts, when socializing, feel like actors.
- Jonathan Rauch
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Image of Thomas Jane
Most actors have a process that they can go through, that they rely on, or that they've discovered, and that can evolve from project to project.
- Thomas Jane
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Image of Erin Gray
Every actor has their stalker.
- Erin Gray
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Image of Christian Finnegan
Basically, I got into stand-up because I'm too egocentric to be an actor and not disciplined enough to be a writer.
- Christian Finnegan
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Image of Melanie Griffith
There are many ups and downs in everyone's life and when you're an actor usually you're a very sensitive human being.
- Melanie Griffith
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Image of Emile Hirsch
Shooting in 3D hasn't really affected the way I work as an actor that much. Maybe that's not a good thing. Maybe I'm not being diligent enough.
- Emile Hirsch
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Image of Alan Tudyk
Gareth [Edwards] was very open to just shaping the performances and the scenes to fit what was happening with the actors and the storytelling that was emerging.
- Alan Tudyk
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Image of Shane Smith
I am a human being. I am not an actor.
- Shane Smith
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Image of Shane Smith
All I know is that when I go somewhere, I'm not an autobot. I am a human being. I am not an actor.
- Shane Smith
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Image of Josh Peck
The best notes are action-based and less, I don't know, heady, theoretical, because, as actors, we're too much in our heads anyway.
- Josh Peck
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Image of Michelle Fairley
As an actor, all you want to do is to work and do good work.
- Michelle Fairley
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Image of Rock Hudson
The most dangerous thing for an actor is to refuse to listen to anyone else, to feel you know more than anybody.
- Rock Hudson
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Image of Rona Barrett
Frankie [Avalon] ... was interested in eating everything so it didn't eat him first.
- Rona Barrett
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Image of Jane Krakowski
When I do scenes with Alec Baldwin, he just stares at my boobs. That's how good of an actor he is, he finds a way.
- Jane Krakowski
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