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Image of Viola Davis
Denzel [Washington] just knows the actor. He knows the process, and you don't often get that.
- Viola Davis
Collection: Actors
Image of Paul Newman
An actor has to evaluate his own abilities and be honest with himself.
- Paul Newman
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Image of Cinda Williams Chima
Both Averill and Bayar were like actors speaking lines for their audience and not to each other.
- Cinda Williams Chima
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Image of Al Pacino
Actors are always outsiders. It's necessary to be able to interpret - and that gets distorted when you become famous.
- Al Pacino
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Image of Eddie Murphy
The only reason I did Showtime was Robert De Niro. I definitely consider him to be in the top 5 all time actors.
- Eddie Murphy
Collection: Actors
Image of Meryl Streep
When you're an actor and there's no music, you have to sort of bring it all yourself.
- Meryl Streep
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Image of George Bernard Shaw
An actress is not a lady; at least, when she is, she is not an actress.
- George Bernard Shaw
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Image of Clive Owen
I'm one of those actors where usually I'll read a script, and then I'll have a flurry of notes. I'll ask a hundred questions about things, and really get in there and examine it.
- Clive Owen
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Image of Clive Owen
I certainly am not a great believer in over-rehearsing between actors, and certainly not doing the dialogue too much.
- Clive Owen
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Image of Julia Stiles
Theater is like going to the gym for actors.
- Julia Stiles
Collection: Actors
Image of Carroll Quigley
When we approach history, we are dealing with a conglomeration of irrational continua. Those who deal with history by nonrational processes are the ones who make history, the actors in it.
- Carroll Quigley
Collection: Actors
Image of Marlon Brando
Working with any actor is like working with a monkey.
- Marlon Brando
Collection: Actors
Image of Zoe Saldana
There was this book that Judi Dench wrote that said there was a moment where, before an actor can be this or be that, the actor must simply be. I thought that to have absolute presence was to absorb everything that’s thrown at you.
- Zoe Saldana
Collection: Actors
Image of Jessica Alba
It's really, really, really difficult to have the same occupation as the person you're with - especially when you're both actors.
- Jessica Alba
Collection: Actors
Image of Susan Sarandon
Sometimes what happens is that, when you micromanage actors and moments, it just doesn't quite live.
- Susan Sarandon
Collection: Actors
Image of Kevin Spacey
If youre not concerned about maintaining an image, you can pursue roads that another actor might not take.
- Kevin Spacey
Collection: Actors
Image of Kate Morton
But history is a faithless teller whose cruel recourse to hindsight makes fools of its actors.
- Kate Morton
Collection: Actors
Image of Christopher Walken
I became an actor by accident.
- Christopher Walken
Collection: Actors
Image of Martin Short
I'm an actor who loves doing comedy.
- Martin Short
Collection: Actors
Image of Gil Scott-Heron
Well the first thing I want to say is mandate, my ass... We've been convinced that 26% of the registered voters is actually a mandate. We're all actors in this I suppose.
- Gil Scott-Heron
Collection: Actors
Image of Julie Benz
The hardest thing to do as an actor is to be simplistic, and to just be.
- Julie Benz
Collection: Actors
Image of Liev Schreiber
Actors are as good as they allow themselves to be, and to portray life, you have to have as broad an experience of it as you possibly can, so everything's worth it.
- Liev Schreiber
Collection: Actors
Image of Stephen Sondheim
I've always preferred actors who sing to singers who act in all the shows I've done.
- Stephen Sondheim
Collection: Actors
Image of Sinclair B. Ferguson
Regeneration, however it is described, is a divine activity in us, in which we are not the actors but the recipients.
- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Collection: Actors
Image of Warren Beatty
I always feel that I'm sort of co-directing with my fellow actors. And you can tell when something's going on that really interests them and they approve of. And then you can sort of tell when there's not.
- Warren Beatty
Collection: Actors
Image of Warren Beatty
I've never been one to shortchange the importance of actors.
- Warren Beatty
Collection: Actors
Image of Kevin Spacey
Being an actor sometimes requires that you ask yourself questions youd rather not know the answers to.
- Kevin Spacey
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Image of Reese Witherspoon
I thought I was going to go back to Stanford, and then I got Election. I loved being an actor.
- Reese Witherspoon
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Image of George Bernard Shaw
The stock actor is a stage calamity
- George Bernard Shaw
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Image of Antonio Porchia
I began my comedy as its only actor and I come to the end as its only spectator.
- Antonio Porchia
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Image of Constantin Stanislavski
In the language of an actor, to know is synonymous with to feel
- Constantin Stanislavski
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Image of Kristen Stewart
You're literally being an actor - you're pretending - and that's not what I like to do.
- Kristen Stewart
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Image of Harold Ramis
When someone's an actor and you're an actor, you meet them and you feel like you know them. We're in the same business, and we all speak the same comedy language.
- Harold Ramis
Collection: Actors
Image of Christopher Walken
One of the difficult things about being an actor is to stick around.
- Christopher Walken
Collection: Actors
Image of Percy Bysshe Shelley
Whence are we, and why are we? Of what scene The actors or spectators?
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Collection: Actors
Image of Daniel Radcliffe
I thought I was an actor playing a wizard. But really, I was a wizard playing an actor.
- Daniel Radcliffe
Collection: Actors
Image of Bruce Willis
Have you heard anything useful come out of an actor's mouth lately?
- Bruce Willis
Collection: Actors
Image of Bruce Willis
I'm always excited to be around other actors. I sometimes only get to work with myself, and it's so tedious. I was so excited to go to work every day, and we ran into work every day.
- Bruce Willis
Collection: Actors
Image of Marilyn Monroe
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.
- Marilyn Monroe
Collection: Actors
Image of Joyce Carol Oates
All actors are whores. They want only one thing: to seduce you.
- Joyce Carol Oates
Collection: Actors
Image of Elizabeth Olsen
Living in L.A., I was embarrassed to say that I wanted to be an actor.
- Elizabeth Olsen
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Image of Octavia Spencer
As an actor, you don't become Meryl Streep by doing the same type of comedy. You get there by being challenged.
- Octavia Spencer
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Image of Jason Schwartzman
I admire the actors that truly can impersonate someone - become someone, inhabit someone. It's amazing when you see it done.
- Jason Schwartzman
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Image of Theodore Bikel
Every actor wants to direct and produce, but I made a conscious decision when I was in college to understand the 'business' of 'show business.'
- Theodore Bikel
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Image of Orlando Bloom
I feel really privileged to be an actor, to be paid to do something I love
- Orlando Bloom
Collection: Actors
Image of Robert Benchley
If there is a streak of ham anywhere in an actor, Shakespeare will bring it out.
- Robert Benchley
Collection: Actors
Image of Joaquin Phoenix
The offers were, like, a lot of money - maybe not for other actors, but definitely for me. But I don't want that power. I don't want $20-million power.
- Joaquin Phoenix
Collection: Actors
Image of Emmy Rossum
I'm an actor, so I love to be degraded!
- Emmy Rossum
Collection: Actors
Image of George W. Bush
Tommy (Thompson) is a good listener, and he's a pretty good actor, too.
- George W. Bush
Collection: Actors