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Quotes About Actor

Every actor in the room honored Sidney for being there so many years before. And everybody was so moved to be at a place where history was being made again. It was tangible.
~ Lee Grant
The world can make an actor feel overly important. What I do isn't hard work. It's not ditch digging - which I have done, for one summer. Of course there are times when your fuel tank's low, but even on the hardest days, you are on a film set. You are doing something creative.
~ Ty Burrell
Back at Santa Anita, a five-year-old boy, George Takei, who later became a famous actor, was fond of the searchlights. He thought they were there to help him find his way to the latrine and back—rather than to prevent him from escaping.
~ Richard Reeves
Similarly, the Russians discovered, in the 1920s, that an actor ordered to show no emotion as he looks out a window will seem to show any emotion the director wishes, if in the editing we, the audience, see something outside the window. Do we see a dying child? The expressionless actor seems to project grief so deep it cannot find expression yet. A dog playing? The same actor with the same non-expression seems to project quiet amusement . . .
~ Robert Anton Wilson
AESTHETICS OF AVANT-GARDE THEATRE Make the stage an actor Make an actor the stage.
~ Kenneth Koch
Our demands are simple, normal, and therefore they are difficult to satisfy. All we ask is that an actor on the stage live in accordance with natural laws.
~ Konstantin Stanislavski
If you play a real character who's famous and still alive, it makes things easier if you have the luck to have a good relationship with them.
~ Daniel Bruhl
What really enthralls me is working with the actor and seeing where you can go with that. It's in that exchange and that relationship.
~ Abdellatif Kechiche
Way too high maintenance to be in a relationship with an actor. I don't need a man who spends as much time in front of the mirror as me.
~ Jessica Alba
I feel so lucky to have a mom who is not only an extraordinary actor but someone who is game enough to not worry about our relationship versus what we play in movies or television.
~ Laura Dern
I want to do entertaining films, where a woman gets the respect of being an actor.
~ Bipasha Basu
It would be great to be able to follow in the footsteps of Bill Murray. I really respect his ability as a comedian, obviously, but even more so as an actor.
~ Will Ferrell
I saw and I met a lot of people who were in the field. It also provided a context in which I came to respect what the actor did, because I saw how difficult it actually was to do.
~ Ron Silver
I see my job as an actor to be as good a channel as I can be. Acting is a gift, and I have respect for it.
~ Lili Taylor
My thing is to gain the respect as an actor, as a professional, and the friendship and everything else will happen from there.
~ Michael K. Williams
Working with Ty Power was exciting. In those days, he was the biggest romantic swashbuckler in the world. Murderously handsome! But what I loved most about Ty Power was his wicked sense of humor.
~ Maureen O'Hara
I don't feel like a romantic lead; I guess I feel more like a character actor.
~ Matthew Macfadyen
Hugh Grant is the main man. He's the number one romantic comedy man in the world.
~ Sam Elliott
Um onnagata é uma criança nascida da união ilícita entre sonho e realidade.
~ Yukio Mishima
I find that communication as an actor and person is an important part of who I am. And I'm really drawn into the psychology of those dynamics.
~ Zachary Quinto
Life is a wave of love for a lover, a gift for a giver, a drama for an actor, and a canvas for a painter.
~ Debasish Mridha, M.D.
It's a miracle to be an actor and to know that you have a job to go to a year from now is a rare thing, so I think peace of mind and financial stability come with that. Hopefully I'm a little wiser and have a little more perspective in my life than I did then.
~ Debra Messing
Ask everyone whether they're an actor or a doctor or a teacher or whatever is entitled to his or her opinion. But unfortunately, because actors are in the public eye, whether we want it or not, sometimes our opinions carry more weight or influence than they deserve.
~ Debra Messing
Some languages, unlike the Indo-European ones, do not separate subject and verb so that an action is never seen as distinct from the actor.
~ Deena Metzger